SUSE 9 and 8887 Install Success

Thank you for the info, Phar. Any kind of committment to our SAGER "Linux User Group" is always greatly appreciated.

Mikhail

SuSE is good for 8890 too!

I just wanted to let 8890 owners know that the default SuSE 9.0 intalls and works perfectly from the get go. I had no troubles at all, one install (all using the defaults) and all has worked perfectly. The internal bluetooth did not get detected, but I don't care at the moment, becase I am not using it anyway. I only installed the personal edition, figuring that I would just do FTP installs of any packages that were not included in the personal edition from a friendly mirror site, which was indeed the case. I wanted to install KDevelop for KDE and that went totally smoothly after the fact.

One thing tho, I have no idea if the internal USB wireless works under SuSE because I had removed it and am using an old D-Link DWL-650 pcmcia card. This card works fine as long as WEP is disabled on the access point. I am still trying to track down the reason for that, but I haven't had much luck. No biggie for me, WEP is kind of lame anyway and I am using MAC address access lists, which are, of course, just as lame.

Anyway, just wanted to report another SuSE sucess!

On a side note, I must say that I really like linux as a desktop OS so far. It feels much more lean and mean. I don't feel like there is a ton of ugly stuff like Microsoft spyware running in the background. The font antialiasing is not quite as nice as Cleartype but it is totally usable. All in all, very nice and I hope to be developing KDE apps in the near future!

As far as partitioning my 60gb drive goes, I used a copy of Partition Magic 8 running under XP to resize my XP partition. I left the space for the linux partitions unallocated. YaST totally figured out what I wanted and "did the right thing"(tm). The default boot loader (grub?) is working fine and is totally adequate for my needs.

I am a happy linux/Sager camper!

phar,
Have you used you wireless to connect? I have just installed suse 9 and everything is going very well. YaST detected my wireless card (it is the prism 802.11b) and seemed to install it correctly. In fact after looking in the control center it seems that everything is ready to go. However I am unable to connect with it.

I'm sitting here next to the access point and I have to plug in the network cable because the wireless isn't getting the job done.

Do I somehow need to turn the card on? Is there a control panel for the card somewhere, or can I check its settings in a config file? I'd sure appreciate any help. Thanks,
Mike

I am having the same problem. When it boots it even gives an ip address to the wireless card. Tells me WEP isnt enabled and everything. But it just will not go out to the internet

what does dmesg say? does ifconfig show you having a gateway? As to the wep not working. Check the firmware version. My netgear MA401ra would puke on wep until I updated the firmware.