Hi Frank, I ended up replacing that red hat standard issue kernel with Bill Acker's kernel. Just copying over the original file didn't work. I had to rm the original kernel file in /boot and then mv the kernel from Bill Acker to that original name and then run lilo to get the system talking. I think I'll do some reading before actually attempting a real kernel patch, don't want to get caught unprepared. Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>