Hi Suleiman, > Apparently, it doesn't even make it that far. > You can find the packet capture at > http://reffie.segfaulted.com/stuff/cap.txt Thanks for that. I just noticed that there wasn't 7457 support in powerpc/cpu.c - that could have an effect. Try: www.freebsd.org/~grehan/kernel.kauai ... and see if the CPU type is recognised. later, Peter.