I finally got a low profile pci usb 2.0 card for my dual xeon 2.2 server. I installed the version of asterisk/zaptel from the files.tar.gz no errors. asterisk starts, app_rpt module loaded fine. however any audio has a horrible mr roboto sound. the CW ID is at best 5wpm, even though its supposed to be 18. its like there is a 30hz modulation/irq being applied to everything audio wise. tones were off. I am assuming some timer/IRQ issue. the server has 1 usb 1.1 port so I put the fob on there and same thing happens. running gentoo (latest, patches, updates...etc) kernel 2.6.27 (gentoo-r10) the pci card showed up fine and my usb-serial dongle is working on it great. here are the kernel modules running. am I missing anything important. I normally compile in most everything. Module Size Used by ztdynamic 12140 0 zttranscode 9484 0 ztdummy 6992 0 zaptel 185636 3 ztdynamic,zttranscode,ztdummy keyspan 32772 1 usbserial 28904 3 keyspan w9drr ~ # any ideas? Don W9DRR _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_BR_life_in_synch_052009