Rudy Ruessel wrote: > make LINUX_SOURCE=/usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-20a ... > Makefile:494: .config: No such file or directory You failed to "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" beforehand. BTW this is not a "problem with make for loop-aes", please read a good tutorial on building your own kernel. Here is a generic but up-to-date HOWTO: http://tinyurl.com/3sybt Here is a guide specific to Suse: http://tinyurl.com/8zqr9 You can probably find better ones, these come from a 3 minutes Google search. Toby - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/