Personally I turn kudzu off untill I am ready to add a card. It takes up to two seconds to look for new hardware every boot. I rarely add or change my hardware so it seems superfolous to me to have it run. In RedHat this is easy to turn on and off. As root run setup. Then arrow down to system services and hit enter. Here you can turn services on and off. -- Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net ------------------ It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.