Spell checking problems

[RyanC]

Hello,

LyX 1.5.3 on Mepis Linux does not seem to be able to make use of any of 
my spell checking libraries. I'm pretty sure I have them all installed - 
ispell, aspell, etc; American and British English. With ispell I get:

The spellchecker could not be started
Can't open /usr/lib/ispell/english.hash

I think this may be because the file is not called "english.hash", but 
"british.hash". Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Ryan