This is what I have done using a suse 7.3 install (2.4.12 kernel) got my kernel source is from kernel.org, version no 2.4.19 I sucessfully completed these steps: (ie. no errors) make distclean make menuconfig make dep make vmlinux make modules when I did the make modules-install I encountered Error 1 and 2 it lookied like the following: cp: cannot stat `ipt_mark.o´: No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `ipt_tcpmss.o´: No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `ipt_tos.o´: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [_modinst__] Error 1 make[2]: leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19/net/ipv4/netfilter´ make[1]: *** [modinst_ip4v/netfilter] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19/net´ make: *** [_modinst_net] Error 2 Is somthing wrong with the kernel source or the settings in my menuconfig? In the ipnetfilter config I have almost all modules activated as modularized features. Hope this is sufficient info to help me out ;-) Stephan