Cisco VPN Client on SuSE 9.2

I did the following to get the Cisco VPN Client V4.8 working on SuSE 9.2

Download and install the kernel source using YaST2
cd /usr/src/linux (or the location of your kernel source)
make mrproper
make cloneconfig
make prepare-all
Download and extract the VPN client software
Download the source patch for the VPN client (why patch?)
cd to the VPN client software directory (e.g. /tmp/vpnclient)
copy the patch to the vpnclient directory
patch < vpnclient-linux-4.7.00.0640-k9_kernel-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4.patch (you'll see 2 errors)
./vpn_install and use all the defaults
Start the service: /etc/init.d/vpnclient_init start
If you have a .pcf file, copy it to /etc/CiscoSystemsVPNClient/Profiles/
Connect by doing the following: vpnclient connect (do not include the .pcf extension)

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