Hi all, I had no problems in converting my Toshiba Satellite 4060XCDT laptop from 6.4 to 7.0. The PCMCIA ports were set up all in its stride - I was pleasantly surprised to insert in my modem card, and to be able to dial out immediately with wvdial... :-) Best regards, Des Aubery... (East London, E. Cape, South Africa) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Lenton" To: Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Upgrade Notebbok to 7.0

Hi,

I had the same problem trying to put 6.4 onto a Toshiba. When I got 7.0, it went onto a Carrera notebook very smoothly - I had the pcmcia network card running within a couple of minutes of completing the installation.

There were so many things involved in getting the Toshiba up and running that I abandonned it and gave the machine back to the people who lent it to me...

Alan

----- Original Message ----- From: "Kaare Rasmussen" To: Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 10:04 AM Subject: [SLE] Upgrade Notebbok to 7.0

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Before I upgrade my notebook from 6.4 to 7.0, I'd like to know if the same problem as in 6.3 and 6.4 exists.

When upgrading from 6.2 to 6.3 and again from 6.3 to 6.4, my notebook hung during initialization of the PCMCIA functionality.

It turned out that I had to get a newer version of kernel_modules (if I remember correctly), compile and install.

I hope that this defeciency is corrected now, as I can't find it in the support database with the keyword "7.0", but I'd like to know for sure.

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I've installed the APM kernel. When I close the notebook, it goes into suspend mode. When I open it again, the computer comes alive again. Everything fine so far. But if the computer stays closed for several hours, it will not start new processes when woke up. I can switch between the processes, swith to and from screen 7 (X), but no new processes. A 'ls' just hangs, if I try to login, it never asks for password and so on. The only way to proceed is to hit the power switch, giving a hard log off :-(

Do you mean suspend mode or standby mode? Standby mode does different, often "odd" things to some laptops. It crashes my Dell hard as soon as I use it (which I don't!). If you normally suspend, try going into standby, and vice versa. See if that helps. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

Hi, On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:

What does APM do when I close the lid of my notebook? Can I configure APM somewhere??

This is configured in the BIOS. the default behaviour is "suspend", IIRC. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany What comes around goes around. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

Hi all,

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:

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I've installed the APM kernel. When I close the notebook, it goes into suspend mode. When I open it again, the computer comes alive again. Everything fine so far. But if the computer stays closed for several hours, it will not start new processes when woke up. I can switch between the processes, swith to and from screen 7 (X), but no new processes. A 'ls' just hangs, if I try to login, it never asks for password and so on. The only way to proceed is to hit the power switch, giving a hard log off :-(

Has anybody experienced this before?

i don't have a notebook, but had a problem similar to this, when i went home and tried to access my computer at work, i could connect, but it would never give me a login prompt... it was suspended by the bios, and the HD would not wake up with the nic interrupt maybe your system is not enabling all the interrupts when you reopen the notebook, or not waking up your hd regards, Adilson -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

Hi SuSE: Any news about this? It's really a big annoynace for me. Normally I never turn off my notebook, but now I have to do this every time. :-(

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After upgrading my notebook to 7.0 I have a problem. In fact I had it before too occasionally, but now it's permanent, alas.

I've installed the APM kernel. When I close the notebook, it goes into suspend mode. When I open it again, the computer comes alive again. Everything fine so far. But if the computer stays closed for several hours, it will not start new processes when woke up. I can switch between the processes, swith to and from screen 7 (X), but no new processes. A 'ls' just hangs, if I try to login, it never asks for password and so on. The only way to proceed is to hit the power switch, giving a hard log off :-(

Has anybody experienced this before?

More about this - A suggestion (sorry, don't have your name here)was to look into the difference between suspend and standby. So i tried to look at the apm utility. apm -s turns off power nicely, and restores it when something happens. -s means suspend. apm -S gives the behaviour described above. -S means standby.

So it seems my notebook hangs on standby. But why does it enter standby mode? It seems that when I close the lid, it suspends, but later it must go into standby -- why???

Looking at kernel configuration, there are a number of options to configure APM. But none of these are obvious choices for this problem.

Help, someone! Lenz, another, ??

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