I have just put together a new home server, good hardware is a relatively cheap item to buy these days.

A bit of Info 

Intel Core Duo E2200

Asus P5KPL-CM motherboard

4GB RAM

 It wont set any world speed records but it is sure going to be good for doing test installs of software

I have set it up with OpenSuse  11.0 64bit and it is real sweet

There was a gremlin it has a Altheros Network card on it, these are not as yet supported of the OpenSuse distro, and apparently Altheros was a little slow off the mark previously with drivers for Altheros WiFi cards

So what did I do

Firstly installed the Suse Distro, but without networking fully functional

attached a USB disk with the drives unpacked on it

I foound some info on the web about setting up the althers drivers on Ubuntu http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=770173

From that adna  note I did the following

I installed the kernel source

As root I did the following

Then I went to the alteros source dir and ran a make and make install

It complained about CFLAGS issues and would not make just like Ubuntu did

I then as per this article ran KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make

and then KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make install

I noticed a little error but followed on and went to the /lib/modules/2.6.25.5-1.1-default/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e/
directory and ran insmod ./atl1e.ko

I tried configuring but it didn;t seem to work,

a little investigation lead to a note with the source that mentioed some things to try with a 64 bit version of Suse

 1. cd /usr/src/linux
  2. make cloneconfig
  3. make dep

did that 

went back to the source for the driver

make clean and then followed the step above and rebooted so it would pick up the new driver copy on reboot

All up and running

I hope this helps someone else

See ya round

Peter