I was able to solve my problem with booting, concerning my machine named "spacewalker".
It was because WatchDogTimer was enabled. It was configuring itself to use io=240,irq=14. I have no watchdog hardware board installed on this computer. Once I compiled with WDT support, everything works ok... and the new kernel is nice and fast, and just what my box needs. :) no extra fluff. I'm still puzzled about the network connection problem, (diald runs my connection) which is: local ethernet only accessible if I am connected to Internet via PPP. I was also wondering if I could one could run diald on a machine that is also a IP MASQ'ing firewall, so that diald would dial out if a machine on ethernet wants to get on the Internet... TIA -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.southeast.net/~servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]