[Lincs] SuSe 9.1 Personal. My experiences so far.

[Chris Lingard]

On Thursday 01 July 2004 13:31, Dennis Wilson wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm new to Linux having got sick of Win XP. Bought SuSe
> because the ease of installation (according to the adverts).
>
> First problem I encountered was it couldn't partition my drive
> because it was a Maxtor and had been set up using their
> utilities. I had to reformat it using the low level? quick
> format Maxtor utility and then it installed.
>
> I managed to get the printer/scanner (Epson CX3200) working
> and my Digital camera and card reader.
>
> The one big problem I'm having is that I cannot get my
> broadband working, I think it's because I can't get the
> drivers to load. The pci card is listed but no driver. I have
> read the instructions for installing the linux drivers and
> many HOWTOs, but just get lost. I have no grounding in
> programming or linux.
> I'm not even sure what it is classed as, on the box, MegaSpeed
> ADSL PCI Modem, is it (a) a modem (b) dsl (c) network or a
> combination of all these?
>
> It works in Windows.

See if you have the program lspci from the pciutils package.

If you have do lspci -v -v -v

Cut and paste the relevent output.

Chris