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Actually, I'm now struggling with the fact that after doing the 2.4.2 binary update, the network driver (8139too.o) can't detect the network card, and so I've lost my network connection. (I'm sending this very post from a different machine.) And so far I haven't succeeded in reverting the binaries to 2.4.0 either, so my next tack is to work from the kernel sources and recompile. That has the advantage of stripping out lots and lots of unneeded stuff, since the default kernel is configured to include almost everything at least as a module.

I think I know where this comes from. Your network card driver was loaded as a module. I guess the module was in initrd. Here is how recreate the initrd file everytime you install a new kernel : 1. Install the new kernel. 2. Go into /boot. There you must have vmlinuz_24 and initrd_24. 3. Type the following : mk_initrd -k vmlinuz_24 -i initrd_24 4. Rerun LILO with the command "lilo" and reboot. That's it ! By the way, can the SuSE developers add a post-install script to the RPM file to run mk_initrd automatically ? - -- Thibaut Cousin email : cousin@in2p3.fr web : http://clrwww.in2p3.fr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6+Vbjv1vqsTa1E4oRAsJwAJ9JWnbC6sxedEdXR5yFb4DKy1DQDwCglUsS RiwxOPIC3Wy/WsJ7kMdrL24= =RGks -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----