Hi, I may have to call/e-mail SuSE on this, but before I tried that I thought I'd ask here. I've installed 8.0 on a Sony PCG-F370 laptop with not much trouble. The problem is that it doesn't seem to like my D-Link PCMCIA network card, and so I can't get the laptop on the internet (via my home lan). The laptop connects fine when in Windoze 98, so hardware issues are mostly ruled out. After boot-up ifconfig shows that only the local loopback 127.0.0.1 is up and eth0 isn't even listed. If I do 'ifconfig eth0 up' then it will list it but it is not assigned an ip address. It should receive ip via dhcp and is set to do so via YAST2. DNS servers, domain, and hostname are correct in YAST2. (Actually the server's dhcpd.conf file is set to assign a static address to this laptop based on its MAC address, but this shouldn't matter, eh?) If I ping the server's internal address 192.168.0.1 then the laptop comes back with "Network is unreachable". Finally, on bootup there is a TERRIBLY long wait after it says "Hardware scan on boot" and then after nearly 2 minutes it says something about loading kernel pcmcia and finishes booting up. Do I have an IRQ conflict or something? Another funny thing is that I thought I got this same laptop working with the SuSE live eval 7.3 once, but maybe not. On a side note, I'm using a USB mouse with the laptop and was wondering if there was a way to also simultaneously make the touchpad mouse on the laptop work. I have both available in Windoze, so surely SuSE will allow me that same flexibility, no?! Thanks for any ideas on all this. -- Brian W. Carver