I hope someone can help me, I am a looking around to replace my current distro (FC2) with something a little better, I don't yet no all the ins and outs of Suse so bear with me. Suse looked good.....until.... I've put it onto a test laptop an IBM R40e, which has a Broadcom network interface (out of box kernel module tg3). The system refuses to connect to the network, an lsmod shows the tg3 module in place, but unused. I read some notes that seemed to tell me to install the bcm5700 module from Broadcom, and rmmod tg3, but I can't get the new module to load. I have added the line : alias eth0 bcm5700 to the /etc/modules.conf, then I found /etc/modprobe.conf.local and tried that as well, with both when the system reboots the old tg3 modules is loaded. I have tried rmmod tg3 and then modprobe bcm5700, this loads the module, but the ethernet adapter is still an unknown device and fails to work. (insmod does not work - it can't find the file) Any ideas on what I am doing wrong? Also would this possibly have anything to do with the Laptop locking when it boots normally? The only way I can get it to run at present is to load in failsafe mode, when booted normally it locks in the blue load screen with 'Press F2 for details'. Thanks, Neil. -- Neil Marjoram. Systems Manager University College London Adastral Park Campus Martlesham Heath Ipswich Suffolk IP5 3RL