I have kismet installed and working, and flite also is installed and working (tested with a small text file).

My problem is that
1) I'm not getting any alert sounds from kismet. and
2) I'm not sure how to get kismet to use flite to speak.

I gather from the kismet docs that I need to modify the kismet_ui.conf file (which I found in /etc/kismet), but I'm not sure what mods to make to it.

For alert sounds the .conf currently says:
# Path to sound player
soundplay=/usr/bin/play

Is that correct for maemo (N800)?

And for using flite, the .conf has a section for using Festival/Flite, but again I'm not sure exactly how I should be modifying that section to make it work.

I'm new to the N800 (and to Linux) but I've already gotten pretty far in my first 2 days with it. I'll try to get back to hacking away at it tomorrow, but if anyone already has the answers you'd save me a lot of time.

And is there an easier file editor than "vi" available in a maemo repository somewhere?

Thanks!