There is no 64bit package for sensors-applet on OpenSUSE x64.

You can install the i586 package, but this will not show up in your list of applets to add to the panel.

The below commands will symlink the 32bit packages into the 64bit directories causing your 64bit gnome packages to be able to detect and run this applet.

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cd /usr/lib64/bonobo/servers/
ln -sf /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/SensorsApplet.server
cd /usr/lib64/
ln -sf ../lib/libsensors-applet-plugin.a
ln -sf ../lib/libsensors-applet-plugin.la
ln -sf ../lib/libsensors-applet-plugin.so.0.0.0
ln -s libsensors-applet-plugin.so.0.0.0 libsensors-applet-plugin.so
ln -s libsensors-applet-plugin.so.0.0.0 libsensors-applet-plugin.so.0
– snip –

To get my Audiophile 2496 working with pulse audio I had to change my /etc/pulse/default.pa like so:

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### Load audio drivers statically (it’s probably better to not load
### these drivers manually, but instead use module-hal-detect –
### see below — for doing this automatically)
#load-module module-alsa-sink
#load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0
#load-module module-oss device=”/dev/dsp” sink_name=output source_name=input
#load-module module-oss-mmap device=”/dev/dsp” sink_name=output source_name=input
#load-module module-null-sink
#load-module module-pipe-sink

load-module module-alsa-sink sink_name=M2496_out device=hw:M2496 format=s32le channels=10 channel_map=left,right,aux0,aux1,aux2,aux3,aux4,aux5,aux6,aux7
load-module module-alsa-source source_name=M2496_in device=hw:M2496 format=s32le channels=12 channel_map=left,right,aux0,aux1,aux2,aux3,aux4,aux5,aux6,aux7,aux8,aux9

### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
#.ifexists module-hal-detect.so
#load-module module-hal-detect
#.else
### Alternatively use the static hardware detection module (for systems that
### lack HAL support)
#load-module module-detect
#.endif
– snip –

m4r3k was kind enough to compile packages and post them on his blog:

http://www.m4r3k.org/english/opensuse-linux/madwifi-driver-for-opensuse-110/

direct URL to his RPMs: http://www.m4r3k.org/storage/madwifi/

This worked for me, where compiling them from source did not. And the Madwifi 11.0 repository is not updated for 11.0 release.

Interesting read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvestman