Well, I am not yet a kernel newbie and I have very litle knowledhe about programming at best but there is somethonh in the kernel which bothers me). The network interface card of the Sun Ultra 1 (Happy Meal) is very unstable unless you apply a patch: http://www.mindcrime.net/~niehaus/hardware/U1-hme-lockup.patch (No, I am *not* its author.) What I would like is to patch the kernel sources so that I can chose in the kernel configuration whether I want to build a kernel for use on a maschine with this (br0ken) NIC. Is there anyone to provide hints where I need to go? Thanks in advance, Sebastian Excuse my english, I am not a native speaker/writer. Thanks. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/