Earlier this weekend I installed SuSE on an old computer my dad brought home. The computer wasn't extremely old-- a 450MHz Pentium III Gateway.

This is the first time I had worked with SuSE, normally I use RedHat or SlackWare. My brother David had purchased the professional version of the operating system on CD and DVD so I though I'd give it a try. Installation went very smoothly, it detected the video card, sound card, and ethernet card. Unfortunately, I didn't want it to use the ethernet card, I wanted it to use a Siemens 1022 USB wireless adapater.

I tried to configure the 1022, but I couldn't find any drivers for it, even after searching the web. What do you do when you have a working ethernet card and an unconfigured usb adapter? You wire the first floor with ethernet cable.

My dad and I spent hours getting it all set up and in the end our work paid off. I can access the intranet and the web and using LinNeighborhood and Samba, I can also access the other Windows hard drives in the house.

I added a few packages and programs, and now my sisters are even using the SuSE box. An extra laser printer we had was attatched through LPT1.

The KDE GUI (xmms pictured)

The Gateway setup