Oh, incidently, I thought I read that Alan's DMI stuff writes stuff to .config? It might be much easier to use DMI if we can read his results instead of doing the horrible copy-and-paste stuff which was done in drivers/char/i8k.c. Phil -- Philip Edelbrock -- IS Manager -- Edge Design, Corvallis, OR phil at netroedge.com -- http://www.netroedge.com/~phil PGP F16: 01 D2 FD 01 B5 46 F4 F0 3A 8B 9D 7E 14 7F FB 7A