Freude schoner Gotterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmliche dein Heiligtum! SuSE 8.0 arrived on my front porch last night. In honor of the fine folks who labored so long and hard at Software und Systementwicklung, I fired up Beethoven's Ninth and started installing it on my new Dell Inspiron 8200. Setup took no time flat. I had previously saved my /etc and /home directories, so I did a new install, creating a 200 MB root volume (ReiserFS) and making an LVM partition for the rest. (What can I say - I think LVM is the greatest thing since sliced raisin bread.) Everything went fine until the reboot. When the boot process got to "loading kernel PCMCIA," it locked up solid. A quick search of the SuSE Support Database gave some good hints. They put PCMCIA in the kernel for 8.0. Powered off machine, restarted with "linux NOPCMCIA=yes" at the lilo prompt, and the system came right up. Edited /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia, changing PCMCIA_SYSTEM= to "external". Rebooted - yeah! SuSE rules! I already had a properly working XF86Config file from SuSE 7,3, so I really didn't do anything except run Sax2 so it would link the right X server, then replaced the resultant config file with my old one. The built-in Ethernet and sound chip were detected immediately and have no problems. I also like the default security - no Telnet, no FTP, no Sendmail. The only ports that show up on an nmap scan are SSH, RPC, and X11. I liked the old default SuSE wallpaper, but this new pattern is even nicer. Kudos to all at SuSE! Bill Sheehan Postmaster 617-373-7927