Ok, heres the problem. I am going to SANS Fire next month, and they strongly recommend Redhat 8.0 or less for a common model during the course. I went out and got Redhat 9.0, figured close enuf, but I really hate it. For one thing I cant get my PCMCIA NIC to load. So, I am planning on reloading SuSE 8.1 but wondering if that cud cause me problems. I did run into one problem with SuSE 8.1 and Yahoo messesgner. Instructions from teh Yahoo site, I d/l the rpm, but had to do a syslnk to a crytpo file to get it to work. No problem, but they did give me advice, I might not get that support as SANS. Shud I try and make Redhat work with my NIC, or chance SuSE? I am far more comfortable with SuSE, I know where things are, no need to hunt as with Redhat. I think any problems I might run into are slight, and problably do better with a distro I know. I have to learn Win2000, enuf new crap to worry about.... -- Best Regards, Bruce "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety". Benjamin Franklin