After seeing a lot of praise for 11.2, and not having seen the early complaints about its killing Intel networking, I decided to upgrade. I followed the instructions provided on the "Upgrade/Supported" page of the wiki. Things went pretty well, I think. One hitch is that I needed two iterations of zypper dup after I'd done all the preparatory actions. When I did the first dup it crunched for 2-1/2 hours installing thousands of packages. I got some warnings about running processes that needed to be restarted. Since there had been a kernel upgrade, I simply restarted the computer. Panic followed :-). Several blank dialogs popped up. Worse yet, when I started yast to do an online update the progress box was blank. So I went back to the command line and did a zypper up Nothing to do. Meantime more blank dialogs popped up. Willing to try anything, I did another zypper dup It installed hundreds more packages. One of the messages mentioned a 2.6.29... kernel, which I recalled was in 11.1. So I rebooted again. Now uname -a says Linux embelex 2.6.31.5-0.1-pae #1 SMP 2009-10-26 15:49:03 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux so I guess I'm ok. I tried embelex:~ # zypper up Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Nothing to do. then embelex:~ # zypper dup Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Computing distribution upgrade... 3 Problems: sesam_srv-3.0.1-171.1.1.i586 kdm-branding-upstream-4.3.1-7.5.i586 kio_sysinfo-branding-upstream-11.2-3.2.noarch (above slightly edited for clarity). I skipped all of them since they don't appear to be particularly useful (except possibly sesam -- I don't know what it is). I had installed the branding-upstream to see if kde looked better than suse, which i suppose is the reason for the upstream branding warnings. Now I can't get rid of them without downgrading dozens of other packages. So far things look good. Firefox is up to 3.5.6 and seems to work well; Tbird is up to 3.0 and looks good; skype still appears to work (can't test it on people at 0200, but the test call was good :-). Oh yeah. wifi doesn't work any more. One of the 11.1 updates broke it, and I was hoping 11.2 would fix whatever that was. It's still doing the same thing it was before: knetworkmanager shows me my SSID, I click on it, it churns for a while, and comes back asking for my passphrase. I give it, and {repeat ad infinitum}. Earlier in 11.1, knetworkmanager simply connected and after a few seconds, I was online again. I didn't need to do anything manually. So I'm still on ethernet. John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org