Martin, I forgot to attach the actually patch file in my last mail. It's attached this time with a copy of my previous email below: Hi Martin, To overcome a problem with my laptop cardbus not being assigned the correct bus number in 2.4.29 (I originally did this change for 2.4.27) I backported a portion of the code in the 2.6 kernel drivers/pci/pci.c file. I did this because I noticed that only 2.6 assigned the correct bus number and I specifically need to run 2.4.X because of a driver I need that is not 2.6 compatible. Basically without this change on my laptop (Thinkpad 240) both the main PCI bus and cardbus bridge both get assigned bus#0 and as a result any cardbus devices present are not correctly detected and allocated any resources, in addition the /proc/bus/pci contains two '0' entries and tools such as lspci fail to work. I am aware of people overcoming this problem (with my model of laptop) by setting defining pcibios_assign_all_busses() as 1. But this backport is a superior solution to the problem. The few small changes are isolated to pci_add_new_bus and pci_scan_bridge. I hope you will be able to incorporate them into the next 2.4 kernel release. If there is anything else I need to do please let me know. Regards, Paul Marrons.