[TriLUG] New notebook woes

[Gnu Man]

I've had a Suse 8.2 system for quite a while, and on boot-up the NIC
won't grab an IP with DHCP.  After boot-up is complete, I login and my
eth0 has an IP.

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 11:22, Robert Floyd wrote:
> I hope the folks here can lend a hand, or, at least, an opinion or two.
> I took advantage of the sales tax holiday to replace my rusting laptop
> with a state-of-the-art model (HP Pavilion ze5470). Unfortunately, it
> may have been a little TOO state-of-the-art for Linux (SuSe 8.2). It has
> an internal wireless card; sadly, it's 802.11g from Broadcom, which, I
> understand means it's rather unlikely I'll be using it under Linux any
> time soon. Thank goodness I kept my old wireless PCMCIA card.
> 
> Of greater concern is getting power management working. I get the ususal
> partial ACPI message when I try to do anything with it, so I figured I
> would simply add acpi=off apm=on to the boot parameters. This is what
> got APM working on my old laptop. On this one, however, when I do this,
> the boot process locks up when it gets to the hotswapping devices piece.
> Does anyone have a suggestion to help me identify what's going wrong
> here?
> 
> The other problem (more an annoyance, really) is that the internal
> Ethernet connection is not getting recognized on boot up. eth0 and eth1
> both fail initialization. When I get logged on, I go into Yast and touch
> the network card section to get network services initialized. That
> brings the network online. I'm sure there's a simple fix for this and
> that the folks here can contribute to my education.
> 
> TIA,
> Robert Floyd
> Durham, NC