First, I have to say that it took entirely too much to get this working. I'm a long-time SuSE user, and I do love it, but they get no bouquets from me for this one. Fortunately, SuSE enjoys the most dedicated crew of fanatically devoted users here in the suse-e mail list. With the help of several people, I finally have SuSE 8.0 running on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop. Here's how I did it. Preliminaries: using Partition Magic, I had reduced my XP (hawk, spit!) partition down to 9 GB and added a 1 GB FAT32 partition in case I wanted to move files between the two operating systems. My first attempts to install SuSE 8 had failed, so I had installed RedHat 7.3. Booted with SuSE 8 DVD, wiped out old Linux partitions, create a 300 MB root partition and devoted the rest of the disk to LVM (God, I love LVM!). Created usr, var, opt, and home partitions and installed just about everything (except StarOffice 5.2 - I use OO1.0). At first reboot, entered "NOPCMCIA=yes" argument. I did not create XFree86 configuration. For some reason, SuSE thinks this is a multi-processor system with up to 64 GB of RAM. Created swap partition in LVM. Ran YOU from YAST (the text mode isn't that bad, by the way). This got me the latest nVidia drivers. Set up X with my existing XF86Config file. Downloaded the zoz PCMCIA package as per Henne Vogelsang's email. Here are his directions: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/zoz/pcmcia/8.0/pcmcia-3.1.31-0.i386.rpm Update the package with rcpcmcia stop rpm -e pcmcia rpm -ihv pcmcia-3.1.31-0.i386.rpm rcpmcia start Recompiled kernel. Could not get sound card recognized as module; compiled it in kernel. Edited /etc/pcmcia/config.opts per Robert Sweet's post in suse-e (uncommented first include, commented out second. Uncommented and edited Lucent Wavelan settings for my card. Edited /etc/pcmcia/wireless opts to include my card's settings. Added pcmcia Ethernet card in YAST. Voila! I have lights, sound, and networking with either my built-in Ethernet or my Lucent wireless card! Linked /dev/sr0 to /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrecorder, and /dev/dvd. Added "alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi" to /etc/modules.conf. CDs now play triumphal music. That's it for the major problems. I'm sure I'll come up with a few minor ones, but that's the subject for another email. Once again, thanks to everyone! -- Bill