Vmware surprised me this morning by not working, so I went about trying to recompile it and it turns out I must recompile my kernel because the last Etch upgrade upgraded the compiler. The problem is that when I run 'make oldconfig' I get this: slider:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15# make oldconfig .config:1: *** missing separator. Stop. make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2 slider:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15# What exactly is the source of this ? thanks