I was doing a top to see what was going on, and I noticed chipcard4. 9460 chipcard 20 0 6136 1768 1148 S 1 0.1 94:25.74 chipcardd4 what is it?? google wasn't much help, it just showed Debian packages that don't have man pages.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459