Dear Rudolf, dear listmembers, thanks for replying - and take your time. I only had had the impression that I possibly misinterpreted something / did not catch some hints you folks gave. Nevertheless, because I did not get any more erratic behaviour right now - this is always happening if you wait for something - I removed the 83627hf driver once again, nevertheless leaving the lines in /etc/modprobe.conf.local as they are. lsmod | grep 83627 yields nothing, so I think the 83627 is not loaded. Nevertheless there are many address accesses: =0040, =0042, =0044, =0046, =0048, =004a, =004c, =004e, =0050, =0052, =0054, =0056, =0058, =0059, =005a, =005b, =005c, =005e, =0091, =0093, =0095, =0097, =00a0, =00a1, =00a2, =00a3, =00a4, =00a5, =00a6, =00a8, =00a9, =00aa, =00ac, =00ae, but (until now) the SMB-access reports do not state any more errors in /var/log/messages. Currently loaded: i2c-amd756 i2c-isa w83781d eeprom Thanks so far - take your time, I can wait if I know that nothings gone wrong. Take care Dieter Jurzitza -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | \ /\_/\ | | ~x~ |/-----\ / \ /- \_/ ^^__ _ / _ ____ / <??__ \- \_/ | |/ | | || || _| _| _| _| if you really want to see the pictures above - use some font with constant spacing like courier! :-) -----------------------------------------------------------