Hi, all: The corner of my eye saw "Seven Brides to Five Brothers." What? No: "Seven Kernels on Five Systems." " ... I have four different distros running seven different kernels just on the five systems I have at home. ... Mandrake 8.1, which has a lot of bells and whistles, didn't include wireless utilities or support for CardBus or my ORiNOCO card ... Caldera has a nasty habit of providing upgrades, such as those to the kernel, but not upgrading the kernel version itself ... leave the source as 2.4.2. Needless to say, some software refuses do build when 2.4.4 or better is required. ... I'm afraid I don't have [a solution]. But I do know that what I consider only niggling annoyances can become show- stoppers for newbies. And, NO AMOUNT OF SUPPORT WILL PUSH LINUX INTO THE MICROSOFT STRONGHOLDS IF THESE PROBLEMS AREN'T RESOLVED. " [the capitals are mine for emphasis] Newbies? What's that? "Seven Kernels on Five Systems" by David A. Bandel [david@pananix.com], page 58, March 2002, www.linuxjournal.com. Regards, gr (today: raining, warm Florida) **"In war, it counts not who's right, but who's left."** /Ann Landers/