Hi, Yes, Ben You have right, Tulip needs to be patch for kernel 2.6.11, Spend this night to implement a patch from kernel tree 2.4.x, and it work very well in 2.6.11-rc4-bk11. Thanks a lot for your help Ben to point out that. Do you know way other patches I found not being accepted for include in kernel ? regards Jan Holmberg, sysadm artech