My new Toshiba A200 (PSAF1A) works beautifully after a week of hard work getting opensuse 10.3 to work. It has Atheros AR5BXB63 AR5006EG wifi and an 82801G intel-hda ICH7 ALC268 sound card. I wanted to put down a few solutions I found for the benefit of others:
1. Atheros wifi sprung to life after I installed this Madwifi patched driver provided by Atheros and described well down this support ticket, removed the Madwifi rpms (and, I am not sure this made any difference, reinstalled HAL via Yast/Software Management). No special settings were required ecespt of course for my WPA essid and password.
2. Sound sprung to life like Pallas Athena bursting forth from the forehead of Zeus after using Yast to configure the sound card 82801G (ICH7) and enter the word toshiba as the model (note: 3stack, auto and basic didn't work). The word toshiba appears to be an undocumented feature. No other setting changes were required.
3. Spell check didn't work in OpenOffice until I installed MySpell for my language (English -Australian) via Yast / software Management
4. Screen 3d wasn't initially enabled until I ticked the box in Yast / Graphics Card and now there is no problem running 3d
5. The system was very unstable and kept freezing while the Wifi and Sound drivers were not working. The Caps Lock led was blinking and the only solution was to reboot. This doesn't happen now that everything is installed ok.
6. At one point the freezes led me to try an option in Grub, which was a big mistake and prevented me from logging-on. Suse's rescue system on the DVD doesn't work (as is commented upon in other places). After many failed attempts I found the way through was to use the DVD to start a New Installation, go through the introductory screens until the screen with another choice for New Installation/Update/Other Options where I chose Other Options > Boot. This starts the file system. After logging on as root, Yast2 can be run to edit the BootLoader settings. I also took the opportunity to click the box that copied Grub to the MBR (master boot record). This is because I could not fix Grub using SuperGrub as described in SDB:Howto repair boot manager Grub on opensuse 10.3. I also edited Yast > System > /etc/Sysconfig Editor > System > Bootloader > LOADER_LOCATION to boot.