I'd rather recoomend you to switch to SuSE 8.1 or 8.2, because sice 8.1 everything is compiled with GCC 3.2 or higher, as well as mantel's kernels now. so when you will attempt to install the new kernel on your machine -- it will work fine for you, but installing some additional drivers (like NVidia, vmware or conexant modems) can fail or have some difficulties. besides -- new SuSE linux will certainly have more possibilities for handling all that USB and 1394 stuff, especially when hot-plugging. On Tuesday 11 March 2003 13:46, Agustin Lobo wrote:

Hi!

I'm runing suse 7.3 but need usb2 or firewire support. Should I upgrade to kernel 2.4.19 and keep suse7.3 or should I get suse 8.1 (or wait for 8.2)?

Thanks

Agus

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