Hardware Recognition

I am new to linux and just installed SUSE 11 after putting in a brand new Western Digital Raptor hard drive. It’s my only hard drive and no other OS has ever been installed on it. The installation finished fine, but I noticed that the installation summary read that I only have 3GB of RAM even though I’m sure I installed 4 GB. Is this normal? Also, my network port isn’t working and I’m not sure where to turn first. It’s an on-motherboard ethernet port on the ASUS p5QC motherboard. Should I be going to ASUS for help or is there a defacto standard I can try implementing first that both the device and SUSE should recognize?

I’m running Gnome 2.2 and looking through the system information, I’m surprised that RAM size, hard drive usage, processor speed, and related stats aren’t more easily recognized. Where should I look for this type of reporting?

Thanks,

Kyeohti

If you used 32 bit install (x86) you need to use the PAE kernel. You can add it from software management in yast. Once you have that booting correctly, you can remove the default kernel.

If you are not sure what you installed
open a terminal and do

uname -a