Kent West wrote: <snip about a 486 laptop "respawning too fast" I don't use the laptop enough to diligently search for an answer. > I did post on this list about it some weeks ago, but didn't get > an answer. (I'm not trying to get an answer now either; just > wanted to let Koyote know my experience in case it offers him a > clue.) Oh, and when I stop the PCMCIA service, the getty line disappears out of my /etc/inittab, and the "respawning" errors stop occuring.