Hello listmates, Yesterday, I got my hands on a new HP 6730b laptop. A nice machine, which came pre-installed with Vista. So I decided to upgrade it to openSUSE 11, which works very nicely on this machine. Even the built-in webcam was immediately usable. I haven't tried the fingerprint reader yet, because I have one problem with this machine. The WLAN card is unfortunately not recognized at all. I tried the following to shed some light on the mystery: # hwinfo --netcard 10: PCI 8500.0: 0200 Ethernet controller [Created at pci.310] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_1693 Unique ID: rBUF.I2GkBn4M7J3 Parent ID: HnsE.Gg7kbdesig6 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.5/0000:85:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:85:00.0 Hardware Class: network Model: "Broadcom NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express" Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom" Device: pci 0x1693 "NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express" SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company" SubDevice: pci 0x30dd Revision: 0x02 Driver: "tg3" Driver Modules: "tg3" Device File: eth0 Memory Range: 0x98600000-0x9860ffff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 217 (3654 events) HW Address: 00:22:64:5d:34:81 Link detected: yes Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d00001693sv0000103Csd000030DDbc02sc00i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: tg3 is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe tg3" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #19 (PCI bridge) 11: PCI 200.0: 0280 Network controller [Created at pci.310] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_4237 Unique ID: B35A.EAbIDTXUmt1 Parent ID: qTvu.8Makl3iDVc3 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:02:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:02:00.0 Hardware Class: network Model: "Intel Network controller" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x4237 SubVendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" SubDevice: pci 0x1211 Memory Range: 0x98700000-0x98701fff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 11 (no events) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00004237sv00008086sd00001211bc02sc80i00" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #22 (PCI bridge) The card at the bottom is the WLAN card, I think. I did some checking on the internet, and at the HP site I actually found a comment for this machine, that installing the kernel 2.6.26 or higher enables the WLAN. (Dutch: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/nl/nl/sm/WF05a/321957-321957-64295-89315-8931...) Apparently openSUSE 11 comes with kernel 2.6.25, so I'd like to upgrade my kernel to 2.6.26 or 2.6.27. Of course I could "roll my own", but then I'd miss out on the things that openSUSE does with the kernel (like apparmor). Is there a way I can easily upgrade my kernel to a new version, and still get all the openSUSE goodness/updates etc.? Joop ------------------------------------------------------------ Dit bericht is gescand op virussen en andere gevaarlijke inhoud door MailScanner en lijkt schoon te zijn. Mailscanner door http://www.prosolit.nl Professional Solutions fot IT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org