On Friday 23 July 2004 03:32 pm, Jose Moreno wrote: A bit more description of it's behavior would be useful... To give us more info.. as root, type "tail -f /var/log/messages" Then plug your card in... and send the output to us. Quick and dirty that helps a lot of newer laptop owners (at least on FC1 on 2.4 kernel) is to.. from the GRUB boot menu... hit "A" to append the boot kernel option: acpi=on Then do the same "tail -f ..." trick and see if it's different. Tweeks p.s. this (and more) is all covered in our new book: "Linux Troubleshooting Bible" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/076456997X/