Installed suse 9.2 pro on my new computer. It went ok, but NOT the installation of the internet. Suse said at that point "interface is not available”. The installation of my windows 2000 on the same pc however posed no prob at all. The internet works just fine on windows. If not, I would have a major problem asking you this question.
I have a 3com ethernet XL 10/100 PCI for complete PC management ( = 3C 905C-TX etherlink XL) card and a ASUS P4x533-VM (or is it -xm ?)motherbord.
As you asked before on this forum , I can give you the sbin and dmesg thing.
Thanks for any help, but please try to explain me things as simple as possible, i use linux for a year or so (started with mandrake on my previous computer) because I do not like windows policy, but i remain a newbee in linux land.
I asked this also at suport suse a few days ago but receaved no answer yet. Maybee because of the feasts thes days ...

linux:~ # /sbin/lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 651 Host (rev 01)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS962 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 04)
0000:00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter

linux:~ # dmesg
Linux version 2.6.8-24-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809)) #1 Wed Oct 6 09:16:23 UTC 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000dffc000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000dffc000 - 000000000dfff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000dfff000 - 000000000e000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
789MB vmalloc/ioremap area available.
0MB HIGHMEM available.
223MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 57340
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 53244 pages, LIFO batch:12
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS ) @ 0x000f57e0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS P4S533VM 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x0dffc000
ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS P4S533VM 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x0dffc0b2
ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS P4S533VM 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x0dffc030
ACPI: MADT (v001 ASUS P4S533VM 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x0dffc058
ACPI: DSDT (v001 ASUS P4S533VM 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xe408
ACPI: local apic disabled
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x31a selinux=0 resume=/dev/hda2 desktop elevator=as splash=silent
bootsplash: silent mode.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes)
Detected 1792.998 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 222156k/229360k available (2074k kernel code, 6688k reserved, 782k data, 212k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 3555.32 BogoMIPS (lpj=1777664)
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.80GHz stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Looking for DSDT in initrd ...No customized DSDT found in initrd!
Freeing initrd memory: 1182k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf1150, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040715
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Enabling SiS 96x SMBus.
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:02.5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.1[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.5[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.7[C] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.1[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.2[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.3[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
TC classifier action (bugs to netdev@oss.sgi.com cc hadi@cyberus.ca)
Simple Boot Flag at 0x3a set to 0x1
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1104660904.4294966647:0): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf0000000, mapped to 0xce880000, using 10240k, total 32768k
vesafb: mode is 1280x1024x16, linelength=2560, pages=2
vesafb: protected mode interface info at cb18:0004
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 47601 bytes,<6>...found (1280x1024, 24984 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 158x57
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Using anticipatory io scheduler
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:02.5
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.5[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
SIS5513: chipset revision 0
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa400-0xa407, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa408-0xa40f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 6E030L0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX230ED, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide3...
ide3: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide4...
ide4: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide5...
ide5: Wait for ready failed before probe !
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 60058656 sectors (30750 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=59582/16/63, UDMA(133)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
input: PC Speaker
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
PM: Reading pmdisk image.
swsusp: Resume From Partition: /dev/hda2
<3>swsusp: Invalid partition type.
pmdisk: Error -22 resuming
PM: Resume from disk failed.
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
ACPI wakeup devices:
PCI0 PCI1 PS2K USB0 USB3 USB1 USB2
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
ReiserFS: hda3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda3: using ordered data mode
reiserfs: using flush barriers
ReiserFS: hda3: journal params: device hda3, size 8192, journal first block 18,max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda3: checking transaction log (hda3)
ReiserFS: hda3: Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
Unmounting old root
Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed
Adding 449812k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:42 extents:1
reiserfs: enabling write barrier flush mode
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com
NTFS driver 2.1.17 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.0.
subfs 0.9
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
0000:00:0e.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0x8400. Vers LK1.1.19
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected SiS 651 chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 176M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe8000000
ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: irq 10, pci mem ce850000
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
usb usb1: Product: OHCI Host Controller
usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.8-24-default ohci_hcd
usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:00:03.0
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.1[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.1: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.1: irq 11, pci mem cf62a000
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
usb usb2: Product: OHCI Host Controller
usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.8-24-default ohci_hcd
usb usb2: SerialNumber: 0000:00:03.1
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.2[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: irq 10, pci mem cf62c000
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
usb usb3: Product: OHCI Host Controller
usb usb3: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.8-24-default ohci_hcd
usb usb3: SerialNumber: 0000:00:03.2
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 2
usb 1-2: Product: DeskJet 916C
usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
usb 1-2: SerialNumber: HU21U6N0PN1K
usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using address 2
usb 3-2: Product: PS2/USB Browser Combo Mouse
usb 3-2: Manufacturer: Cypress Sem
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.3 (0004 -> 0006)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.3[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: irq 11, pci mem cf62e000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:03.3
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10
usb usb4: Product: EHCI Host Controller
usb usb4: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.8-24-default ehci_hcd
usb usb4: SerialNumber: 0000:00:03.3
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: wakeup
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 3
usb 1-2: Product: DeskJet 916C
usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
usb 1-2: SerialNumber: HU21U6N0PN1K
usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using address 3
usb 3-2: Product: PS2/USB Browser Combo Mouse
usb 3-2: Manufacturer: Cypress Sem
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
SCSI subsystem initialized
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x1804
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Cypress Sem PS2/USB Browser Combo Mouse] on usb-0000:00:03.2-2
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
st: Version 20040403, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
evdev_connect: evdev cde93380 handle cde9339c name event0
evdev_connect: evdev cde93280 handle cde9329c name event1
evdev_connect: evdev cde93180 handle cde9319c name event2
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c037f6a0(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device cc92ac00(sit0)
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1791 buckets, 14328 max) - 336 bytes per conntrack
ip6_conntrack version 0.1 (1791 buckets, 14328 max) - 208 bytes per conntrack
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:02.7 (0004 -> 0005)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.7[C] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49217 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1)
powernow: This module only works with AMD K7 CPUs
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
usbcore: registered new driver usbserial_generic
usbcore: registered new driver usbserial
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core v2.0
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
linux:~ #

Yeah, i'm having an issue with a Tornado as well...still searching for the correct module to use when in Gentoo.

Hi, my problem was solved long time ago. Just bought another card, for almost no money. After that i bought another computer and installed suse 10.0, and that went easy and fast. No problems any more. I hear the new suse 10.1 does not install that easy ...
grtz axel