Greetings Nox, Thank u very much for the advice. I recently tried checking out what this POM stuff was all about and to see if I could apply any patches. Well I did according to what the Netfilter Extension HOWTO instructed, namely: 1). Get the latest CVS tree, by doing (taken from HOWTO).. # cvs -d :pserver:cvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvspublic login (When it asks you for a password type `cvs'). # cvs -d :pserver:cvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvspublic co netfilter/userspace netfilter/patch-o-matic 2). Second I did the following to state my kernel src dir.. # export KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8 3). # cd /usr/src/linux/ # make dep 4)# ./runme extra Actually my problem is at stage 4, the output says.. Do you want to apply this patch [N/y/t/f/a/r/b/w/q/?] y Testing patch submitted/03_2.4.21.patch... Failed to patch copy of /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/ TEST FAILED: patch NOT applied. [Press enter to continue].... As u can see somethng is wrong, even worse when press return it just keeps cycling thru the same above entry :( . Is the patch number somehow related to my kernel version number??. What can I do from here I would really appreciate any help on the above. Thanking u for ur time Stack.. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com