First, I am very interested in all this talk about any alternative way to continue to use ISA devices, such as the USB interface. I would imagine the Doubletalk, and DecTalk ISA cards are not that intensive with what they have to do so designing any USB interface would be more straightforward, than, say, other more demanding ISA cards. I see no reason why it couldn't work. Affordability is another issue. On the subject of getting Speakup Modified working for me: Someone suggested that perhaps I might be able to download a Fedora Core 5 Kernal update package, and use something like RPM -Uvh to replace/update the existing FC-5 Kernal with the Speakup one. Is that really possible? And I have not been able to find the proper download page for such a RPM for Fedora Core 5. Please note I am saying 5 and not the newer version 6. If I can just perform this simple kernel installation over the existing default FC-5 kernel, I would try that, not expecting to do any recompiling. I await your comments. I am delighted how well my DoubleTalk card is now working in FC-5. Thanks again everyone. //Rich// ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com