[Novices] I am very new at this so...

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I am running Suse 10 on a HP zd7058cl laptop and I have been trying to get the 
> following working to no avail....
> 1.  BCM4306 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (talking to a Lynksis 802.11B 
> Wireless Router)

This is what lspci reports the device as?

> Apparently Suse has no clue just what type of Controller is installed.  I have 
> tried everything in YAST and downloaded software...nothing works.
> 2.  My installed DVD Player to play all the movies (encrypted and 
> nonencrypted) in my collection.  Right now it plays no movies of any kind 
> using xine or kaffine.  I know about the licensing problem and I know there 
> is a solution out there but I cannot get the downloaded stuff (MPlayer) to 
> work either.

What problems have you encountered installing MPlayer?  Have you tried
adding the pacman install source to Yast and installing it that way?
Was totally painless for me and it plays *everything*.  It is
frustrating that the whole multimedia thing is still such a mess.