I have Mandrake 8.0 on my Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop, recently upgraded from 7.1. During shutdown it hangs shutting down eth0. The typical message is shutting down eth0 dhcpcd[nnn]: terminating on signal 1 I can press Ctl-Alt-Del to "restart" the reboot, but since I'm actually wanting to shut it down I have to time my press of the on/off switch properly (the on/off switch appears to be disabled during most of the boot/shutdown sequence) so that the disks have been dismounted but the system hasn't actually started to reboot. Configuration-wise, the only add-on to the laptop is a 3Com 589 PCMCIA ethernet card. Nothing like this happened when I was runnin 7.1, so I sort of assume it's not a hardware problem. Any ideas? -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098