FC2: very nice, installed without a hitch on Inspiron 8100. Some small warts remain. The logs keep showing the following: 1) kernel: hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} kernel: hdb: packet command error: error=0x50 kernel: cdrom: open failed. No problems working with cdrom drive however. 2) sshd[1821]: Server listening on :: port 22. sshd[1821]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use. I remember seeing something about this on the mailing list but can't remember answer. 3) yenta_socket still not loaded. Have to solve this by hand by editing modprobe.conf to add line with 'install driver, modprobe yenta_socket, --ignore install'. The pcmcia card is an Intel EtherExpress PRO/100. Also networking keeps getting started before pcmcia. Is there a reason for this or can the sequence be changed without problems? Alexander