Damn... gotta find something else to bitch about. I've been complaining about not being able to find a copy of the slamr.ko module which is needed to drive the winmodem in my Thinkpad X30. Never did find one but I found a solution... much better too. Having spent two days on this project and googling at least 20 times for "slamr Suse" and such, I finally came across someone who tried a different approach, and although in what I read he still had a minor problem, I thought I would give it a go. The old solution was to: modprobe slamr slmodemd & where slamr was the module that access the hardware (low-level) and slmodemd is the piece that provides the high-level functions of the modem. The solution (at least for me?) modprobe snd-intel8x0m slmodemd -alsa -c USA hw:1 & which accomplishes the same thing and is used in the same fashion. Works like a charm. And I suspect it might work for winmodems from other vendors too if you first load the appropriate module for that vendors chipset and then run slmodemd. Can't prove that but it seems reasonable. In any event, this is a much better solution than the original. But I still think Novell pulled the plug too soon on a lot of people with similar or other problems with non-gpl code and with no notification of what was going to be happening. I've spent at least 5 full days shooting problems with 10.1. No one can tell me that it is a super, easy thing to install. It's been a lot of dog-work and sleuthing from someone who has 45 years of computing experience and it took far too much work to accomplish. So there..... BLEAH!!!!