A while back I was expressing interest in writting a watchdog driver. What really slowed me down was trying to find an actual watchdog that doesnt already have drivers written for it. I did find a microcontroller with a watchdog onboard. Basicly... I need a little information. http://www.national.com/parametric/0,1850,3474,00.html That is the link to the microcontroller. What I was wondering is, what is a microcontroller? what are they used for? can linux even be used on this thing? and who has one of them? Thanks alot -Dan Erickson- -ColdOneKnight@rogers.com- -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/