Apparently Mandrake has I2C packages for the Alpha, so I'm in business. I have worked out my build issues with my distribution(Gentoo) by way of an additional patch. Apparently 'i2c-velleman.c' needs a bit like this... +#include <asm/param.h> Can this be included in 2.9? There is some variation within Gentoo regarding where the kernel modules go when done. Canonically, should they be in misc/ or drivers/i2c/ ? I have seen both.