Having had a very pleasant surprise at the ease with which SuSE 8.0 installed
onto my latest PC tower (Pentium III 1000 Mhz + etc etc.) I thought that
getting it setup on my older Toshiba Notebook would be just as easy, but soon
found that I was mistaken!
In short these were the problems more or less in sequence:
1 - Installation freeze up at 'partition' check
2 - Installation freeze up at 'Starting kernel PCMCIA'
3 - Video card driver S3ViRGE detected did not work, hence no X-Server
4 - Modem not detected (Winmodem)
Bypassed 1 by 'ide=nodma' on Linux command line
Bypassed 2 by 'PCMCIAYES=no' on Linux command line
Fixed 3 by changing to SVGA driver and adjusting Hsync and VRefresh
Fixed 4 by downoading ltmodem rpm from listed URL and configuring
I later discovered that I could get rid of 'PCMCIAYES=no' on the command line
by changing one variable in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia, namely PCMCIA_SYSTEM.
By default it was = "kernel" and changing to "external" worked.
However my Sitecom Fast Ethernet PCCARD is still inop, with a cryptic message
I dont understand after the following line:
Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt Pin A of device 00:13:0 Please try using pci
=biosirq
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt Pin B of device 00:13:1 Please try using pci
=biosirq
I referred this to support@suse.de who promised to reply shortly, but in the
meantime am referring it to the Panel hoping this might help someone else and
me at the same time.
Any clue why