Hello JeeBee, Yep.. your kernel needs to be updated. See the how-to: http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html if you haven't done this before. The first link I referred you to about the patch was just a submission of corrrections to be compiled into the kernel. These corrections weren't actually implemented in a public release candidate until 2.6.18-rc1. See http://lwn.net/Articles/190305/ and search for alc883 in the text. -- This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=103440&topic_id=24243&forum=10#forumpost103440