Having just got a cheap iBook from my work (500MHz G3), I decided to install OpenSUSE on it, and it went fine. Boots, runs KDE, no worry. Score one for the community version of OpenSUSE-PPC! I've used SuSE for years (since 7.3) on x86 but this is my first venture into the Linux-on-PPC world. There are, however, a few outstanding problems with this setup that I was hoping someone could help with. First, my wireless network. I have just bought a wireless 802.11g router and dongle (matched pair from Buffalo) to allow the new laptop to connect to the wide world. The hardware basically works fine (at least, in unencrypted mode, a WinXP laptop can connect and browse; encryption is a whole other story). However, in SUSE, there are problems. The dongle is labelled on the box as a Buffalo USB AirStation G54 (WLI-U2-KG54). YaST recognised the dongle during installation and set it up as a MELCO WLI-U2-KG54 (Buffalo's website seems to call this device a WLI-U2-KG54-AI). The settings are: Device Name: wlan-bus-usb-2-1:1.0 IP address assigned using DHCP [the DHCP server of the router is enabled] Started automatically at boot However, if I use any of the tools that seem to be available to find a WiFi network (e.g. KWiFiManager), they say that there is no wireless interface, and hence cannot find the router. Any ideas on how to make this work? I'm fine with wired LANs (at home network level, anyway) but have never delved into wireless before. Second, the iBook won't make any sound in KDE. The hardware is fine - I get the Apple chord when the machine first boots, but nothing thereafter. Again, YaST says that the sound card is recognised and supported, listing card number 0 as Integrated Sound (awacs), with the driver snd-powermac. But sounds don't make any noise. Volume is set to 80%, and none of the settings in the mixer are at zero. At least, none that I can change. AlsaMixerGUI shows several settings that won't produce a bar when I drag in them, including PC Speaker, which is worrying. Once more - any ideas about this one? Third, the iBook won't suspend. If I select "Suspend to disk" from the KPowersave icon in the system tray, I get an error message: The kernel version "vmlinuz" in /boot does not match the running kernel version "2.6.13-15-default". Resuming with this kernel will not work. If you know what you are doing, you can override this in /etc/sysconfig/powersave/sleep with the variable SUSPEND2DISK_IGNORE_KERNEL_MISMATCH=yes What's the best way to fix this and allow the machine to enter suspend mode (I do, BTW, have the resume option in lilo set to my swap partition, following the advice in the PPC pages on the website). Finally, I understand that there is no official Macromedia Flash player for PPC linux. However, I've heard of a few open-source ones. Can anyone make a recommendation? Basically, I want my son to be able to use the Flash games on the BBC website, so sound and interactivity are a must if he's to be able to use the iBook. Thanks in advance for any help! John -- John Pettigrew http://john.pettigrew.org.uk/ http://john.pettigrew.org.uk/blog/