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Suse Linux 64-bit on eMachines M6811

post #1 of 13
8/10/04 at 9:37am
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Hi
Anybody installed Suse 9.1 Professional 64-bit on a eMachine M6811?
I tried to install yesterday, but it looks like it is 10 times slower than windows 64 bit!!
Looks like Suse didn't recognize the monitor?
Is any body has a successful installation?
Please help me to make this work.

Thank you
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post #2 of 13
8/10/04 at 12:12pm
Hm... I read on the gentoo installation notes that the emachines 64 laptops required a different kernel on boot. I assume that it requires a different kernel config too, so I guess Suse didn't package the optimized config.
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post #3 of 13
9/14/04 at 7:31pm
I installed it no porblem on my m6811 standard kernel and all everything worked fine except my wireless. i have an old 16 bit wireless card and it will work fine if i use a 2.4 kernel if i boot with a 2.6 kernel it will not though.
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post #4 of 13
9/14/04 at 8:48pm
i dont have SUSE Pro nor M68xx to test. If that doesn't work, you might want to try the BETA version of the Mandrake 10 for AMD64 distro, or FC2 perhaps.
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post #5 of 13
10/9/04 at 3:27pm

Your problem is ACPI / Any help with WiFI or PCMCIA???

64-bit runs VERY slow, unless you disable ACPI (acpi=off kernel parameter for GRUB). With ACPI off, it responds as expected. The only real headache I have with this is power state is reported as "plugged in - fully charged" regardless of actual state....

I am just doing this install this weekend, but have not been able to activate either the builtin WiFi nor have I been able to recognize a D-Link DWL-G650 PCMCIA WiFi card. This is a serious problem for me that will lead me to return the machine if I can not get it working, as I use WiFi for connection both at the office and at home.

Any thoughts or recommendations???

My machine came with what appears to be the latest bios version (0F07P00).
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post #6 of 13
10/9/04 at 5:19pm
Don't personally have that WiFi card, but this person seems to have found salvation. You can read about it here http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/232994. Also check out http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=357, links from D-Link to Linux drivers for their products. Looking it over, the second link is a lot more helpful than the first.

Regards,

zakaluka2.
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post #7 of 13
10/9/04 at 9:24pm

Wifi Card is not the Issues, 6811 won't recognize the card

I have previously had the same WiFi card working with the standard Suse 9.1 distro without any problems on a Sony Vaia PCG-FRV37 (2.8 GHz P4). I had no hassles up through WEP, but did end up having to download the madwifi and wpa_supplicant sources to get WPA working.

I am migrating to the Emachine 6811, prompted by the CD burner failing on the Sony along with the need for improved 64-bit floating point performance.

The issue I am facing with the Emachine is the failure of the Suse hardware detection to even recognize the presence of either the builtin Broadcom Wifi or the PCMCIA Wifi card (when it is installed).

Has anyone been able to use either the builtin Wifi or a PCMCIA card under Linux on this box (or one of the earler and apparently closely related models)?
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post #8 of 13
10/13/04 at 5:44pm

Wifi and the m690x Emachines

I am running SUSE 9.1 Pro x86-64 and have been able to use the Cisco 350 PCMCIA card in my M6807 with good results. I was able to download all the
updates from one of the SUSE servers. I just setup the wireless card with
YAST and the card worked right off.

I wish I could get the internal Broadcom PCI wireless card to work as it seems to be a better radio.

Jim
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post #9 of 13
10/18/04 at 10:45pm
I just spent an entire weekend trying to get Suse 9.1 Pro to run on my eMachines 6811. I could get it to install but never at a native resolution other than 1024x768 which looks horrible on the screen.

Further, I could never get the Broadcom wireless functioning. Oh, and if you try to install with ACPI turned on it runs like molasses in the Arctic.

I even tried the 32-bit version with no luck. I'm very curious how some of us with identical hardware and OS'es could get it to work while others of us could not.

I finally ran out of patience and ideas and used my restore DVD.

Wayne
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post #10 of 13
10/19/04 at 12:34pm

Suse Pro 9.1 and the M68XX

Wayne,
The bios supplied by Emachines is very sick as far as acpi goes.
You must boot with acpi turned off. As far as the internal pci Broadcom
Wi-Fi card. I'm using the 64bit OS and the Broadcom windows driver is a 32bit driver so I must wait for the 64bit version Broadcom is working on and then
the developers of ndiswrapper must aslo provide a version for 64bit OS. Them maybe I can use the internal card.

In summary my system runs at a good clip with acpi turned off.

regards,
Jim
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post #11 of 13
10/19/04 at 3:15pm
Thanks! By the way, were you able to get the sound working? When I tried installing it found the sound but could not initialize it and therefore I never got a peep out of the speakers.

Also, how did you get it working at 1280x800?

Thanks again!

Wayne
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post #12 of 13
11/4/04 at 7:37pm

Sound on M6807

Yes, the sound worked right off. It's not very loud even with earphones but,
that may be the sound card itselt. Its not a boom box

Jim
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post #13 of 13
11/29/04 at 12:20pm
So what is the exact model of this broadcom wireless device? Broadcom might have linux drivers for it?
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