On Tuesday 18 November 2003 11:44, Michael James wrote:
Saying just "apic" on the boot line seemed to get vmware working for me,
But as you say, only time will tell.
Time told a painfully silent story, I've been in no-network purgatory for 2 days. I must admit, I'm completely confused between "apic" and "acpi". In /var/log/messages it says: <5>ACPI: Skipping APIC setup <4>Building zonelist for node : 0 <4>Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x31a desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 splash=verbose So they're related but ??? Anyway, whichever I had in my boot line it kills the network card. Things look OK, the computer boots fine, the link lights come up green on card and switch. The network even works for a while, then goes flakey, until if I try to do anything, even a ping, the switch drops back to re-negotiating the link. (Orange status light instead of green) This is with Intel cards both Pro1000T and with Pro100T. Using YaST chosen e1000 and e100 drivers respectively. Motherboard is Asus P4 with a SIS chipset. The switch is a Cisco. OS is, of course, Suse 9.0 A Suse tech note suggests I may be unable to run VMware. http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/10/fhassel_vmware_segfault81.html It says, "In some cases in connection with certain hardware, the use of the kernel parameter 'apic' may result in an unstable Linux system. In these cases, you will not be able to use the application VMware with kernels included in SuSE Linux version 8.1 or higher." Other people report VMware running with "noapic". Let's hope my mileage varies. I need to do a presentation, in Powerpoint cos the lecture theater computer will be windows. Am I better pushing to get vmware back or using Open Office? Can Open Office write a powerpoint readable document reliably? michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166