> I purchased an AMD-Duron based motherboard with built-in LAN, soundcard and > oddball little modem (Unimodem?) that came with. When I installed Suse Linux > 6.4 on it, none of these were recognized, I'd suggest getting a more recent distro than SuSE 6.4. it's positively ancient. (over a year old, I think). my advice would be to try RedHat 7.2; or Debian. Some will advise Mandrake 8.1 or something similar. here's my take on the tradeoffs: RedHat/Mandrake -- easy to install, easy to use. Debian -- easy to update and find/install new software. RedHat/Mandrake are good distros for first-time users; they do a lot of hand-holding stuff. (downright insipidly so in the case of Mandrake). Once you learn how linux works, tho; Debian's package management/installation tools (apt -- Advanced Package Tool) makes it the easiest distribution (of any OS!) to install/update software for. (of course, many will disagree with this). Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700