I have installed a DEC PC card in a Celeron system running Slackware 11.0 and kernel 2.4.33.3. I have recompiled the kernel to include the decpc module as well as to make it more specific for the Celeron CPU. I downloaded the dtload.tgz package and installed it. Without dtload, modprobe reported the decpc address as 0x250, so I changed the address in the dec_pc.conf file to match this value. Running 'dtload -v' indicates that the card is found and that the software is loaded into it. Running 'modprobe speakup_decpc' produces no errors, and /proc/speakup/synth_name contains the name decpc as expected. No matter what volume setting I put in /proc/speakup/vol, the DECpc card remains silent. Any suggestions which might help me get this card talking would be appreciated. Thanks, and have a great day. -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid ...passing through The City of Internet at the speed of light... COSEC (x) / SEC (x) = (COTAN (x) / TAN (x)) ^ 2