Hi Here's what I did: Download kernel in my home /home/gena/ Untarred it, tar -xzf linux-2.6.24.4.tar.gz Get speakup, git clone http://linux-speakup.org/speakup.git Moved into kernel tree, cd linux-2.6.24.4 Then prepaired kernel, make mrproper Moved toa root console, or you could use sudo. As root make the symlink, ln -s /home/gena/linux-2.6.24.4 /usr/src/linux Back to my account, cd speakup Now patch kernel source, ./install Then returned to kernel tree, cd ../linux-2.6.24.4 Then run, make menuconfig All went well! Gena