On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Shaun Oliver wrote: > how can I make the kernel think that > its an Athlon. > the answer is simple. > You need to recompile the kernel. However, if you've had no experience > ... Or even simpler. Just install the athlon kernel Red Hat provides: kernel-2.4.18-3.athlon.rpm from the CD (out of date, insecure) But you need the updated version anyway: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/athlon/kernel-2.4.18-10.athlon.rpm It used to be traditional to recompile your kernel with each new patchlevel, from the beta kernel version 0.99 days, when I started, but now I have better things to do with my time: Red Hat maintains it for me, with all the hundreds of modules (drivers). You may need speakup: see the speakup site about that (still not complicated -- just follow the recipe). And what will you get for your trouble? You will NOT be rewarded with a noticeable performance difference, unless you are operating a heavily loaded server, not the personal home machine you have. So the reason for the upgrade is primarily for security and bug fixes. Note that installing an athlon optimized kernel WILL NOT make your modem work (but your driver module package architecture must match if you download the right binary package -- among many other more important things). Oh, and be sure to read the Red Hat advisory about the kernel upgrade, and carefully follow the procedure they direct you to -- or your system will be bootable only with a rescue disk. You should be subscribed to the RH mailing list for announcements (and probably their help list, too), so you get these advisories, and know where to get the previous ones. LCR -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html