Text 2184, 81 rader
Skriven 2005-01-26 20:45:26 av Robert Comer (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 2181 av John Oellrich (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: John's Not So Grand Linux Adventure
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From: "Robert Comer" <bobcomer@mindspring.com>

How's the speed of SUSE 9.2 on that machine?  I've heard strange things about
9.2 on some hardware...

- Bob Comer <I prefer Mandrake>


"John Oellrich" <john@oellrich.us> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.01.27.00.40.55.538774@oellrich.us...
> Bunkies,
>
> I'm on vacation this week so I decided to try my luck at Linux again.
> Recently read that Novell was making Suse 9.2 Professional a free download
> so I thought I would go that way.
>
> As my ThinkPad 600X has been idle for quite some time I decided it would
> be the sacrificial goat. Did a thorough backup of all the data on it to
> DVD.
>
> Try the CD/FTP route for installing Suse. Burn the CD but the FTP never
> connects. I'm sure there was something missed here, so I just said screw
> it and downloaded the full DVD ISO image from a mirror. Only took a couple
> of hours, not bad.
>
> Then I go to burn the image and Nero V5 is unhappy about the image size.
> Dick around for a while and then just download a freeware DVD burner.
> Problem solved.
>
> The initial install goes pretty well, except....
>
> Yeah there had to be an except. This time it was the video display. It
> recognized the video chipset correcty but would only allow a display of
> 800x600x16. As the native resolution of the LCD is 1024x768 that looked
> real yucky! Reset it to the correct resoultion/depth, tested it within
> YAST, and away we went.
>
> The, on reboot, once the system went in to graphics mode I just got this
> very pretty rainbow affect on the display. Not what I was looking for.
> Booted in to a command prompt (so much for this being your grandma's OS)
> and ran YAST to reset the video to exactly the same parameters I did
> before and it worked! sigh, it's a good thing I already drink ;->
>
> But compared to previous Linux installs I have done this was a piece of
> cake. OTOH most of the others were on DEC Alpha systems, not a mainstream
> IBM laptop. In fact that is one other reasons I choose the ThinkPad,
> mainstream and mature. The problems with the video actually surprised me.
>
> Had enough for one evening at that point. Had one more hardware issue in
> front of me, weaning the system from its PCMCIA/Ethernet card and then to
> a PCMCIA 802.11 wireless card.
>
> Tonight I tackled the wireless networking issue. Of course which wireless
> card did I try first? A Linksys 802.11G. It wasn't recognized. Tried to
> manually configure it, hit both the Suse and Linksys FAQs, no joy. But at
> least Linksys had instructions on how to configure their older 802.11B
> card for Linux and I knew I had one of those somewhere.
>
> Yep, Suse 9.2 recognized the card and it installed. But it wouldn't
> connect. But at this point it wasn't a Linux problem. I had forgotten that
> I had configured my WAP for 802.11G only, change it to mixed mode.
>
> Still no happiness. Then I'm watching the boot messages (something I'm
> sure your grandma dotes on<g>) and I catch an error message about wpa.....
> something or another not loaded, network unsecure. Great. I have the
> wireless network setup as WPA-PSK, which is as secure as it gets, and
> Linux hasn't installed the package for it even though YAST allowed me to
> set the parameters for it. Reset my WAP for no security, I'll just have to
> set it to filter on MAC addresses when I get around to it. I can still be
> sniffed then, but at least no one can actually use the network.
>
> So I am basically up and running. This message was composed and posted
> using the PAN Newsreader. Tomorrow I will start from scratch. YAST kept
> way too much of the old WinMe on the hard drive. I wanted to nuke it
> completely, so I'll hook up the floppy, boot DOS and blow everything away!
>
> john
>

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