Hello, added to kernel config: device iic device iicbus device ic and these in case: device iicsmb device iicbb device smbus device smb I made and installed world and kernel last night from freshly cvsupped source. grepping dmesg for 'ic' 'iic' or 'i2c' produces no output. I'm not sure what to try next, as I don't get any sort of error message afaict. fwiw, Knoppix (cd-bootable linux with lots of hw detection code) loads up i2c just fine on the same machine. I need to run FreeBSD though! I can post the full kernel config or the dmesg from either OS if that will help. any ideas or pointers to documentation will be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- </jcr>