Having had a very pleasant surprise at the ease with which SuSE 8.0 installed onto my latest PC tower (Pentium III 1000 Mhz + etc etc.) I thought that getting it setup on my older Toshiba Notebook would be just as easy, but soon found that I was mistaken! In short these were the problems more or less in sequence: 1 - Installation freeze up at 'partition' check 2 - Installation freeze up at 'Starting kernel PCMCIA' 3 - Video card driver S3ViRGE detected did not work, hence no X-Server 4 - Modem not detected (Winmodem) Bypassed 1 by 'ide=nodma' on Linux command line Bypassed 2 by 'PCMCIAYES=no' on Linux command line Fixed 3 by changing to SVGA driver and adjusting Hsync and VRefresh Fixed 4 by downoading ltmodem rpm from listed URL and configuring I later discovered that I could get rid of 'PCMCIAYES=no' on the command line by changing one variable in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia, namely PCMCIA_SYSTEM. By default it was = "kernel" and changing to "external" worked. However my Sitecom Fast Ethernet PCCARD is still inop, with a cryptic message I dont understand after the following line: Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt Pin A of device 00:13:0 Please try using pci =biosirq PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt Pin B of device 00:13:1 Please try using pci =biosirq I referred this to support@suse.de who promised to reply shortly, but in the meantime am referring it to the Panel hoping this might help someone else and me at the same time. Any clue why is needed for this Notebook? and in which script does belong? and although the Winmodem works it does not make any sound, in spite of configuring kppp Modem setting <volume slider> to max. Frankly am also a bit confused trying to figure out how configuring wvdial kppp and kinternet each in its own way does not cause conflicts! kinternet seems to be very nice as you can select with more than one <Provider> but modifying this kinternet context-menu is also a puzzle e.g. how do you edit <name> in the menu item? Greetings from a SuSE fan (tried RedHat, Caldera , Corel, etc but keep coming back to SuSE)