Horea, Do not use the PCMCIA included with the RedHat 7.0 distribution if it is pcmcia_cs-3.19.1. Go to www.sourceforge.org and get a newer pcmcia_cs. Burt ----- The Linux ThinkPad mailing list ----- The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp_mailing.html