My fears were groundless. SuSE 9.2 upgraded from a clean install of a prior 9.1 flawlessly (they say one should upgrade one point at a time). kernel 2.6 is tougher on modems and I am at this moment writing from a 9.1 box with an Intel 536ep for which there is a package. By the way, the clean install for 9.1 after the upgrade from 9.0 failed because I could only enter the graphics as 'root' for user bart I got X server not installed' which was nonsense. The new desktop was corrupted and there were /dev/null permission denied messages. They mention this on their note on the support data base which is indeed still open and available and which indeed i have bookmarked. Thank you all for the vigorous finger wagging in my direction. N. B. The list of fixes in 9.1 is inordinately long; 9.2 seems better, at least so far.
Bart Alberti
