Hi Pat, On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:39:02 -0800, "Pat Young" <patyoung13 at hotmail.com> wrote: >I have downloaded the patch but must admit I am new to the use of the patch >command. I have read the man page and am not sure as to what the -p<num> >should be. I receive the following: You want to apply a patch to the kernel source? cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc1 cat linux-2.6.12-rc1-i2c-w83627ehf-rc1.diff | patch -p1 is the standard place from which to apply patches to kernel source Cheers, Grant.