sleep manager will not work on a fat32 partition. that is probably your problem. repartition a fat 16 partition just large enough to hold the sleep manager data file (about 65 megs on my machine) BRad ----- The Linux ThinkPad mailing list ----- The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp_mailing.html