Friends, Well it would seem by removing the linux, asm, an scsi directories in /usr/include and making symlinks to those directories in the kernel source has fixed my problem. I hope someone can shed some light on this. I've bene generally using this practice for some time, but forgot this time when making up the new kernel after my dist-upgrade. This is odd, but I am sure someone will know why. I have some vage memory that doing all this directory removing and symlinking isn't necessary any longer, but perhaps I'm suffering from brain loss. tnx Scott