Hi. I get the following error when trying to use speakout with kernel 2.6.36 Jan 15 20:36:40 ccs kernel: Ports not available, trying to steal them Jan 15 20:36:40 ccs kernel: Unable to allocate port at 3f8, errno -16 Jan 15 20:36:40 ccs kernel: Speakout: not found Now if I take out the (comment out) the return NULL statement immediately following, it actually works. Should we test for this error or what? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com