I am having many module problems. It started with my sound card. /var/log/messages says "au88xx: unable to register sndstat device". The sound card works, but "cat /dev/sndstat" returns nothing. It is a modular driver put out by the manufacturer. Any ideas on why it can't register sndstat? Second I re-compiled my kernel with printer support and my NIC card compiled into the kernel vice as a module (it is modular by default in Mandrake 7.0). When I did that both of them faild to work. I then re-compiled again with them as modules and all worked fine again. Question is what is the fasination with modules in Mandrake 7.0? and why will it not allow me compile these two drivers into the kernel. 6.0 worked fine that way. I did not do an upgrade from 6.0 to 7.0. I formated and re-installed the whole thing. Thank you in advance for any help you can give me on this. John
