Hi, I have an Acer Aspire 3000 with Windows XP pre installed... I have installed SuSE 10 (Boxed version) on a second partition (Duel Boot)... The problem I have is I can't seem to get either the LAN or the wireless cards to work... SuSE seems to detect the LAN card, but not the wireless card... At the moment I'm consentrating on getting the LAN card working first... I have the card connected to my Linksys router using a cable that I know works... If I boot the laptop into windows I can use this cable and the LAN card works fine. I have disabled IPv6 incase there was a problem with my Linksys WRT54G wireless router not supporting IPv6, but I still can't get the LAN card to pick up an address via DHCP... I have also tried setting the IP address manually, but it doesn't seem to work... I can't ping anything and if I do a ifdown eth0 then a ifup eth0 it does not get issued an IP address... Here is my config KDE 3.4.2 Level b Release 2.6.13-15-default Machine I686 Cards BCM4318 AirForce one 54g Wireless Card SIS900 Intergrated LAN Card If you could give me any help or point me in the right direction that would be great. Thanks in advance for your help. Martin
On Saturday 10 December 2005 2:34 pm, Martin Love wrote:
Hi,
I have an Acer Aspire 3000 with Windows XP pre installed... I have installed SuSE 10 (Boxed version) on a second partition (Duel Boot)...
The problem I have is I can't seem to get either the LAN or the wireless cards to work... SuSE seems to detect the LAN card, but not the wireless card...
At the moment I'm consentrating on getting the LAN card working first... I have the card connected to my Linksys router using a cable that I know works... If I boot the laptop into windows I can use this cable and the LAN card works fine.
I have disabled IPv6 incase there was a problem with my Linksys WRT54G wireless router not supporting IPv6, but I still can't get the LAN card to pick up an address via DHCP...
I have also tried setting the IP address manually, but it doesn't seem to work... I can't ping anything and if I do a ifdown eth0 then a ifup eth0 it does not get issued an IP address...
Here is my config
KDE 3.4.2 Level b Release 2.6.13-15-default Machine I686
Cards
BCM4318 AirForce one 54g Wireless Card SIS900 Intergrated LAN Card
If you could give me any help or point me in the right direction that would be great.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Martin
Check Tuxmobile.org in their Acer section: http://tuxmobil.org/acer.html. Check Linux On Laptops' Acer section: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html Even though you probably won't find anything on SUSE 10.0 there is plenty to learn from the other distro's mentioned. Stan
On Saturday 10 December 2005 15:34, Martin Love wrote:
Hi,
I have an Acer Aspire 3000 with Windows XP pre installed... I have installed SuSE 10 (Boxed version) on a second partition (Duel Boot)... [...] If you could give me any help or point me in the right direction that would be great.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Martin ========= Have you tried turning ACPI off? This seems to be the main cause of many problems on laptops.
Lee
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, BandiPat wrote:
On Saturday 10 December 2005 15:34, Martin Love wrote:
Hi,
I have an Acer Aspire 3000 with Windows XP pre installed... I have installed SuSE 10 (Boxed version) on a second partition (Duel Boot)... [...] If you could give me any help or point me in the right direction that would be great.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Martin ========= Have you tried turning ACPI off? This seems to be the main cause of many problems on laptops.
On my Acer Aspire 3500 I get lots of ACPI messages with the original kernel, but everything (except maybe the battery stuff which is what the messages are about) seems to work. Mine's SIS chipset (like the 3000), Celeron M (3000 has Sempron), Atheros (Broadcom), SIS 900 (ditto). Turning off ACPI might help, but I wouldn't expect it.
Lee
On Saturday 10 December 2005 23:34, BandiPat wrote:
On Saturday 10 December 2005 15:34, Martin Love wrote:
Hi,
I have an Acer Aspire 3000 with Windows XP pre installed... I have installed SuSE 10 (Boxed version) on a second partition (Duel Boot)...
[...]
If you could give me any help or point me in the right direction that would be great.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Martin
========= Have you tried turning ACPI off? This seems to be the main cause of many problems on laptops.
Lee
Hi Lee, Thanks for the advice... I turned off the ACPI and I now have the LAN card working... I'll have a look at the wireless stuff when I get a bit more time... Thanks, Martin
Martin Love wrote:
On Saturday 10 December 2005 23:34, BandiPat wrote:
Hi Lee,
Thanks for the advice... I turned off the ACPI and I now have the LAN card working...
I'll have a look at the wireless stuff when I get a bit more time...
Try the updated kernel.
On Saturday 10 December 2005 02:34 pm, BandiPat wrote:
On Saturday 10 December 2005 15:34, Martin Love wrote:
Hi,
I have an Acer Aspire 3000 with Windows XP pre installed... I have installed SuSE 10 (Boxed version) on a second partition (Duel
Have you tried turning ACPI off? This seems to be the main cause of many problems on laptops.
Lee
Lee, I know your intentions were honorable, but your solution is never any good in the modern era. ACPI is absolutely necessary for modern laptops, without it virtually everything stops working. Far more likely, the cause is a driver related or bios related to plug and play. But turning off acpi never works on laptops made after about 2000. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Monday 12 December 2005 2:37 am, John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 10 December 2005 02:34 pm, BandiPat wrote:
On Saturday 10 December 2005 15:34, Martin Love wrote:
Hi,
I have an Acer Aspire 3000 with Windows XP pre installed... I have installed SuSE 10 (Boxed version) on a second partition (Duel
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Have you tried turning ACPI off? This seems to be the main cause of many problems on laptops.
Lee
Lee, I know your intentions were honorable, but your solution is never any good in the modern era. ACPI is absolutely necessary for modern laptops, without it virtually everything stops working.
Far more likely, the cause is a driver related or bios related to plug and play.
But turning off acpi never works on laptops made after about 2000.
I beg to differ on acpi=off on laptops. It should be used as a troubleshooting step when things aren't working. The goal should be the default of acpi=on but when your laptop doesn't have all its components working then acpi=off is one of the better troubleshooting steps you can use to narrow down what needs to get fixed. Tuxmobile.org and Linux-Laptop.net have tons of examples where acpi=off results in a working laptop. Once specific drivers are updated or workarounds are perfected, acpi=off can be removed. Does acpi=off also turn off battery indicators and other nice-to-have features? Yes. So the goal is to get acpi turned on as soon as possible. Stan
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, John Andersen
Lee, I know your intentions were honorable, but your solution is never any good in the modern era. ACPI is absolutely necessary for modern laptops, without it virtually everything stops working.
Strange. I had to turn off ACPI for my laptop (Acer Aspire 3002) when I installed 10.0, and also with each of the 10.1 alpha versions, and either I'm imagining it working or it's working just fine without it[0].
Far more likely, the cause is a driver related or bios related to plug and play.
But turning off acpi never works on laptops made after about 2000.
It did with mine and, both with SUSE 10.0 and 10.1alpha[1-3], it was the only way for the network card work properly[1]. [0] Well, I don't get a warning about low battery but, since I rarely use it without access to a mains power supply for more than 90 mins, I don't need to worry too much. [1] Although alpha3 requires me logging in as root and issuing "rcnetwork restart" to get it working properly. Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD1800 1Gb WinXP/SUSE 9.3 | AMD2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 AMD2400(32) 768Mb SUSE 10.0 | RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02 AMD2600(64) 512Mb SUSE 10.0 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 | STE 4Mb TOS 1.62
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Martin Love wrote:
Hi,
I have an Acer Aspire 3000 with Windows XP pre installed... I have installed SuSE 10 (Boxed version) on a second partition (Duel Boot)...
I nearly bought one, decided to get a 3500 when I discovered the 3000 probably had broadcom wireless. The 3500 has Atheros.
The problem I have is I can't seem to get either the LAN or the wireless cards to work... SuSE seems to detect the LAN card, but not the wireless card...
At the moment I'm consentrating on getting the LAN card working first... I have the card connected to my Linksys router using a cable that I know works... If I boot the laptop into windows I can use this cable and the LAN card works fine.
I have disabled IPv6 incase there was a problem with my Linksys WRT54G wireless router not supporting IPv6, but I still can't get the LAN card to pick up an address via DHCP...
I have also tried setting the IP address manually, but it doesn't seem to work... I can't ping anything and if I do a ifdown eth0 then a ifup eth0 it does not get issued an IP address...
Here is my config
KDE 3.4.2 Level b Release 2.6.13-15-default Machine I686
Cards
BCM4318 AirForce one 54g Wireless Card
I believe this is the dreaded broadcom. For the moment I think your only choice is ndiswrapper with the Windows driver. I tried to set up ndiswrapper on Mandriva, gave up when I didn't know _where_ the Windows drivers are, but SuSE might do that better. I'm a little surprised yast doesn't olffer to install ndiswrapper when you try to configure it; that's consistent with what id did when I tried to configure the internal modem. The modem doesn't work though, I get "no dial tone." The good news for Broadcom users is that the hackers have just announced a working driver is available.
SIS900 Intergrated LAN Card
This well-supported in Linux and should "just work." It's what I have, in my Aspire and several other machines, and for me it does.
If you could give me any help or point me in the right direction that would be great.
Run the command lspci and post the results. It will more clearly identify your hardware.
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