Syd:

Earlier this evening I got off my arse and searched a little harder and found what I needed on one of the mandrake support sites. All working now.

Glad to hear it!

Essentially, there is a file /etc/rc.d/rc.local which is the last init file to be loaded - therefore various useful bits and bobs can be stuck on the end and they will over-ride what has gone before.

Not elegant but it works. Not the debian way I assume :)

Not the Mandrake way either, I suspect. I assume that you're getting one of the hisax errors still? Adding a correct options line to modules.conf will solve that.

I did ned to edit some of the other files as well and I was particularly pleased to see that according to the hardware database on the mandrake web site, my card should not work. So one up!

Hehe... time for you to go and correct their database, then. Well done!