[Lancaster] Re: Lancaster LUG

[Ken Hough]

John R Alderson wrote:
> I note from one of your postings that you use SuSE v9.1.
> I have 9.1 Personal on a laptop partition (the other partition being W98SE). 
> broadband connection is through a D-Link DSL-504T Ethernet Route, then a
> D-link Ethernet PCMCIA Adaptor on the laptop.  This works fine with the 
> W98SE but I don't seem to be able to get the SuSE connecting.
> If I call in at one of your Folly meetings would you or one of your 
> colleagues please be able to give me some suggestions.
> My main computer is an eMac running Mac OSX 10.3.4 - I'm a recent convert 
> to Unix after many years of Microsoft, being retired I no longer need to 
> conform ;-))
> I hope you don't mind me coming to you "out of the blue"
> Regards
> John Alderson

John,

Yes, I use SuSE 9.1 and have it running on a Thinkpad T21. Very good it 
is too!
I haven't tried using PCMCIA cards on this machine, because NIC, modem 
and USB 2 are all built in and all work 100% (including the Lucent 
winmodem!).

In the past I've had SuSE 8.2 running on an AJP laptop which required 
PCMCIA NIC and modem cards. I never discovered why, but although the 
network card driver was loaded during initial installation, it did not 
load on subsequent reboots. I had to load manually via 'modprobe <module 
name>. I eventually wrote the instruction into one of the startup 
scripts, then all was well. Can't remember which script. If you pop 
along to the Folly this coming Wednesday (28th), I'm sure we can sort it 
out.

Ken Hough