Since most of my requests for help have thus far been ignored...a few have replied and I thank them for their input. ( I wonder if most people have consigned me to their email bitbucket???) In NONE of the distro's that I have installed (RH5.0, Slackware, MDK 6.0/7.02) has the MIC worked. I know the sound card works as I get the correct sounds during/after SNDCONFIG. The MIC remains "red" in the Sound mixer. Is there a box I click to enable, or something in the sound setup? My sound card is integrated (Cyrix 233 kit board) but recognised as SB compatible. I know Linux doesn't like the DialPad.COM web site, as I guess Linux Nutscrape is not supported there. As a side note...has anyone tried and was successful getting PHONEFREE.COM to work on MDK 7.02? I have other problems also...but that can wait till I get this one fixed. TIA Jaguar ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.