Oops! I keep sending these to the old clug addy. --------------- Jesse wrote: > > Laptops often use wierd hardware, so it is possible that some of your > hardware just isn't supported. It is also possible that it isn't supported > under 2.4, but there is support in 2.6. It is also possible that you need > to d/l 3rd party drivers. I know that with the nforce chipsets you need to > d/l the nvidia driver to use the sound/NIC. Again, http://www.linux- > laptop.net/ is the best source of information for this type of stuff. > Worse comes to worse you could always buy a cheap PCMCIA NIC that you > know is supported by Linux. I may even have an extra one that I can > sell you.
Jesse; Thanks for the pointers. The linux-laptop.net URL will come in handy. Re; SPM the kernel states that it has it - "2.4...SPM" as the default kernel installed by the Suse ftp setup. For a new twist, I was fiddling with the laptop last night and this morning and on a hunch I tried booting into failsafe mode (from memory = no acip no apm no spm maxcpus 0 3 plus a few other "no"'s in there. While watching the bootup log, eth0 went through its ".........." routine and then popped up an IP 64.185.202.211 (also from memory). X was not set up to start immediately, but the command prompt was something like "h68.185.202.211#". So now I know I can get dhcp to work and the onboard NIC does work. Unfortunately, right after that my time ran out and I had to head out to the office. So now it is a matter of figuring out which of the "no"'s (or what combination of no's) from the failsafe mode allows the machine to grab an IP #. Once I have that, I can recompile the kernel without it. Then I can d'load the nVidia driver for the sound and then set up the other rpms and programs. [newbie question] Also, when I go to kernel.org, the site notes that the latest stable kernel is 2.6.3. But when I click on it to d'load it, the file to download has "patch" in the filename. This is not the full kernel correct? Where would I find the full kernel then? Thanks! ------------------------ Jason Hayes - Principal Hayes Holdings Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.hayz.ws Blog: www.hayz.ws/blog #1936 - 246 Stewart Green SW Calgary, AB, Canada T3H 3C8 ------------------------ _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
