I rebuilt my kernal again, and now uname -a returns what I expected: FreeBSD shf102158.dom.not.shown 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #2: Tue Mar 1 12:29:36 HST 2005 root at shf102158.dom.not.shown:/usr/src/sys/compile/SUBARU i386 Yes, I call this one Subaru, after .Net/hack. How could I resist? Gary Dunn knowtree at aloha.com