On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Michael Schmidt wrote: > Have you looked to see if your using the same kernel version that the > cdrom uses? Also have you tried installing the latest kernel? yes, sadly all exactly the same in rescue and normall installed version. Then upgraded to the latest (2.6.10-1.766), but that also didn't make a difference (i believe the tg3 driver was the same version). Also tried a few things like without acpi,but nogo. so,still stuck. I might be some magic incantation of insmod, but i doubt that anaconda controls things that closely. So, i suspect it's something already running on this laptop that makes an insmod fail on tg3. peter