I have been a new Suse user for a year or so, but fairly experienced with computers, now using AMD 2.4G and an internal Conexant HCF56k modem (14F1 1036), on an Asus A7S333 mb with 512 MB ram. Everything was going well with my dual-boot W98se/Suse 8.0 until the latest Suse kernel security update (0004) and a new driver (4363) for my NVidia GeForce2MX400. Had a lot of problems, sound and modem mostly. I had to go back to Win98 since August '03 to reach Internet. Big frustration...hate M/S arrogant junk. I goofed: it was wrong to try the NV 4363 (Suse rpm) update using Yast2/Sax2, and not first going into runlevel 3/(no Gui) state. I only saw that warning later! Now my modem won't work despite redoing Yast2 config ( Kinternet logerr: no such dev/modem, but ok in Win98), and re-installing Conexant driver ..beta030427..rpm. My computer works so-so but i'm not sure how to restore it without a complete re-install of 8.0 (or a new 9.0), and thus lose all the patches, updates etc.? I think links got messed up but i'm lost. I could send error logs as needed for any kind help you could offer. My thanks to all the great people on this helpful list. Should i just start over? BrianB.