Hi, according to ftp.suse.com the newest update kernel is: Linux version 2.2.16 (root@Pentium.suse.de) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Sun Jul 9 17:51:02 GMT 2000 IIRC this version has some problems with 3com 509c (??) network cards (and vmware?). An update was announced to come up soon (IIRC). Is that update still not available, or did we looked wrong? Second, the latest freeswan.rpm we found on ftp.suse.com installs a module into /lib/modules/2.2.14 which couldn't be load with 2.2.16, so an update for freeswan should be neccesary. Where can we find that? Third, we had trouble updateing the kernel itself. We updated the RPM (rpm -U k_deflt.rpm). After a problem with initrd I executed /sbin/mk_initrd. At boot, kernel said "uncompressing initrd" and showed that dots, but don't stopped drwaing dots (we rebooted a backup kernel after two screens of uncompressing dots). I have no idea what the problem was; finally I made /boo empty, reinstalled the rpm, re-run mk_initrd (and of course lilo if somebody wonders :)), and rebooted - this time with success. Any ideas? oki, Steffen -- Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt, es trägt daher weder Unterschrift noch Siegel.