After fighting with For 9 months I am exhausted. I had to get the sound card to be recognized, to get the machine to shutoff when I shut it down, etc it has finally almost defeated me. It has worked for 6 months or more but suddenly during a yum update last week the network slowed down to a crawl. I did not update anything for awhile but now to use the web browser to load the web page of the local lan's router takes maybe 5 minutes if it loads at all. I can ping the router with out problem but yum actions just slow to a halt, going to an external web page is impossible. The resolv.conf has not changed, neither has the hosts file. Right now I am stumped any other suggestions out there. Since I am heavy into F7 I am the point of thinking of giving the machine to Goodwill. Any help would be appreciated. -- ======================================================================= Whatever doesn't succeed in two months and a half in California will never succeed. -- Rev. Henry Durant, founder of the University of California ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx