good day all ... did a clean install of 8.1 onto my home box. vmware now segfaults when poweron is clicked. i've tried combinations of vmware 3.1.1 and 3.2 and the athlon kernel and the default kernel. the trace from the messages file is: /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 3050 (vmware) bridge-eth0: set IFF_PROMISC /dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffe350 printing eip: d1a32cba *pde = 00004063 Oops: 0000 2.4.19-4GB #1 Fri Sep 13 13:14:56 UTC 2002 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<d1a32cba>] Tainted: PF EFLAGS: 00213286 eax: ffffe350 ebx: d1c8fb20 ecx: ffffe350 edx: 000000d0 esi: c0008000 edi: d1c8fb20 ebp: d0e07e08 esp: d0e07e08 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process vmware (pid: 3050, stackpage=d0e07000) Stack: d0e07e28 d1a32d06 ffffe350 00000000 00000000 00000000 000000d0 cf0098a0 d0e07ea8 d1a32dc8 d1c8fb20 d0e07e7d d0e07e7e d0e07e7f 00000001 00000000 000047a5 00000000 d14e1a20 c1b8aaa7 d0e07e68 d7e8a000 00000001 00000000 Call Trace: [<d1a32d06>] [<d1a32dc8>] [<c1b8aaa7>] [<c0135830>] [<d1a322e9>] [<c012ef8f>] [<d1a30799>] [<c011a78d>] [<c1b8b852>] [<c0143a97>] [<c1b8b830>] [<c01517d5>] [<c0108e63>] Modules: [(vmmon:<d1a30060>:<d1a353b4>)] [(reiserfs:<c1b80060>:<c1babd50>)] Code: 8b 11 89 d0 25 00 07 01 00 3d 00 04 00 00 74 06 31 c0 5d c3 <5>bridge-eth0: clear IFF_PROMISC any idea if this is a suse problem or a vmware problem? thanks --- michael