i had a simular problem with my old litetalk but it would start speaking after a minute of waiting. just to see if it will work you might want to try the bns driver how old is your transport? can you get it to work in just plane dos? you might have someone run the command dmesg to see if linux shows to have a com1 port if it does it will showup as ttyS0 com2 showsup as ttyS1 another question is, do you have to load anything before speakup before the transport will work? i don't have a transport so i am assuming that it is just like a doubletalk as far as what to load first. i have read the speakup doc and it appears that it should work if you have a standard serial port built on to the mother board things should work out ok it might not work out if you are using a pci serial card. so next step is to tell me if you have a device ttyS0 and we can go from there. randy turner
