[TriLUG] Problems with SuSE 9.3 on IBM Laptop

[David B. Rankin]

Thanks for the positive thoughts.  I've been using SuSE for years (since
9.0) but when the kernel changed from 2.4 to 2.6 I saw strangeness on
the 600x with networking. 9.0 runs GREAT. AS I recall 9.1 would work
with tweaking. I am going to 9.2 again and try to recall what the
problems were with that. Any SuSE help would be appreciated.

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 10:21 -0400, Israel J Pattison wrote:
> David,
> 
> I hate reading messages to the effect of "mine works fine, what's your 
> problem", but I've been running SuSE 9.2 and upgraded to SuSE 9.3 on my 
> Thinkpad T22 for over a year, and have had almost no problems at all. 
> 
> At the worst I have to restart my network sometimes if I move between 
> wireless access points. I didn't do anything special, just installed. I'm 
> using a Linksys 802.11a/b/g PC Card (I think that's an Aironet card).
> 
> SuSE 9.3 added some really nice features like support for suspend to disk. I 
> love that I can close my laptop and take it some where and then start it up 
> right where I left off.
> 
> I wish you good luck with your 600X. When you get it working properly I 
> think you'll have a great time with it.
> 
> Israel
> 
> On 8/17/05, David B. Rankin <drankinn at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I just loaded FC3 on the same box with the D-Link with no problems. I 
> > would
> > like to get the SuSE 9.3 to work. If anybody has any ideas, I'll pop 
> > another
> > HDD in the box and give it a try.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On 
> > Behalf
> > Of nroskam
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 9:20 PM
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Problems with SuSE 9.3 on IBM Laptop
> > 
> > unctux wrote:
> > 
> > >>On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:03:02 -0400 "David B. Rankin" <drankin at nc.rr.com>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >wrote.
> > >
> > >
> > >>All,
> > >>
> > >>I am having networking problems with SuSE 9.3 and a old IBM Thinkpad.
> > >>I've tried three different PC cards (IBM, D-Link and 3Com) with the same
> > >>results. SuSE appears to install and configure the PC Card properly but
> > >>never gets a DHCP address. ifup-dhcp eth0 says ".....no IP address
> > >>yet....backgrounding."
> > >>
> > >>A closer look at ifconfig shows:
> > >>
> > >>RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:551
> > >>TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0
> > >>
> > >>Can anybody point me in the right direction to start troubleshooting?
> > >>
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> > >
> > >What kind of ibm laptop is this. typically ibm tends to use intel or
> > >broadcom cards.
> > >MICHAEL MASSEY
> > >BIOS TEST DEPT
> > >IBM/LENOVO
> > >
> > >Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat 
> > you
> > with experience.
> > >
> > >
> > When I was using pc cards and suse 9.0 there was a bug where you had to
> > modprobe the yenta module by hand to force it to load.
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