I wrote >Any suggestions about how to stop pcmcia loading? I have not selected it as a module to load in the initial configuration. It never fails. You can spend an hour looking for the answer to a problem and 5 minutes after emailing the list you find the answer. Of course pcmcia is not loaded as a module it is loaded through a script in init.d. I was also looking at the wrong site for laptops and have now found the guide for my particular laptop at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop regards Steven -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug