Mark, Dmesg reveals that my parmfile is being processed. The chandev statement is included. "After you did the insmod, what, if anything, showed up in the kernel ring buffer, as shown by the dmesg command? That's the only place you're going to see any error messages." The only dmesg entry that is generated after insmod is: "CTC driver Version: 1.51 initialized" I'm obviously missing something, I'm just not sure what. Michael Lambert