How should I rebuild the Kernel
 

I am having problems with my Toshiba Laptop. When I use the wireless with ndiswrapper on my atheros wireless card it runs real slow. I think I found the answer in this thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...iswrapper+slow

But it suggests to reuild the kernel and disable an option. Ok that is fine and good. I have recompiled the slackware kernel 50 times by now. But can I follow the same directions with opensuse? Or does suse have some other way to deal with this. Thanks.

Take a look in the Suse system admin guide - /usr/share/doc/manual.

I think rebuilding the kernel should be about the same as in Slack...
su
cd /usr/src/linux
make clean
make [xconfig|menuconfig] (Your current kernel config will be used as a base, then make changes, save, exit)
make
make modules_install
make install (Suse will update grub for you. Nice)
Reboot.

I have done it several times now, and as long as you use the current config as a base, you should have no problems. Of course some of your modules/apps may need to be recompiled - ndiswrapper is one...

Good luck

On a slight side note, what does
do? I've compiled a few kernels using that but I never knew what that actually does. Thanks!

If I recall correctly "make clean" gets rid of all the old object code and other miscellaneous files that are created when you run "make".

I assume you could probably do without it - but it is just a good idea for housekeeping purposes. Why have all those extra files there taking up space?

Great, thanks!