you missed something important in the kernel build and installation procedure (or did you compile everything into the kernel not making any modules? not necessarily a good idea, especially not on a laptop with not too much memory):
> cd /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17 > make xconfig > make dep > make clean > make bzImage > cp /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /vmlinuz make modules make modules_install > lilo > cd /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs > make config > make all > make install heby -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christoph Hebeisen Graduate Student Department of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Phone +1 604 291-5924 Canada Fax +1 604 291-3592 --------------------------------------------------------------------------