2009.09.05 I had some version trouble between 2.2.17 and 2.2.19. The boot kernels have the following versions: linux 2.2.19 came with the system install linux-test 2.2.19 recompile of the source code linux-debug 2.2.17 recompile of the source code with syscall changes I change /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h to be 2.2.19 in an attempt to make everything consistent. 2009.08.21 Ported from Mandrake 7.2, Linux 2.2.17 Check /var/log/syslog instead of /var/log/messages. 2009.07.02 insmod ./hello-mod.o rmmod hello-mod Then check /var/log/syslog for kernel messages. 2009.07.02 Learned kprint, include files, Makefile, prototypes, insmod and rmmod actions.