Hi, I recently installed SuSE 9.1 on a Samsung P30 laptop. Initially everything worked fine, I was able to run YOU, browse the web etc. However, In the process of installing one of the patches (?kernel patch), support for the centrino wireless networking, etc, the normal LAN networking has stopped working. I can't say which one caused the problem, but I'm in a Catch22 now - I can't get on the network to see whether there are updates to the kernel or network card support, to fix this problem. The laptop's LAN chip is a realtek 8139, and is correctly identified by Yast, but neither auto config using DHCP or manual config with static IP address will bring up the network. I have tried removing then re-adding the network card with Yast, no joy. Removing the WLAN card doesn't help either. I even removed the module that was installed for the centrino wireless card (ipw2100.o). On the advice of a friend I tried adding pci=noacpi and noapic to the linux boot line, no joy. There is one weird message in the logs, when dhcpd is trying to get an IP address for the machine I get something about a kernel module being missing: hw_random.o - but I don't know how to rectify this by hand - or even if it is relevant to the problem. Has anyone got any suggestions? This is driving me crazy.....! >:( Cheers, Jon -- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Dept of Human Anatomy & Genetics & FMRIB Centre, University of Oxford tel/fax: 01865-282675 http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~jon