Installed 6.4 on a Toshiba 430CDT Satellite Pro. (3 years old) APM is working, working with pc card modem. At 01:54 PM 5/5/00 -0400, you wrote:
I, too, have been seeing some problems with SuSE 6.4.
The first one is relatively minor, and was easy to track down. If you install both pdflib.rpm and python.rpm, you'll get a Warning: could not rmdir /usr/lib/python: Directory not empty when you install the python.rpm script.
This is due to the fact that the pdflib.rpm installs a file in /usr/lib/python, and the python rpm installs to /usr/lib/python1.5 and then symlinks to /usr/lib/python. But since pdflib.rpm installs *before* python.rpm, this doesn't work and you have to go fix it yourself.
The second one is pretty major. This involves PCMCIA and networking on my laptop. The short form is, DHCP doesn't work, and static IP addressing only works if I immediately log in and run a tcpdump (thereby enabling promiscuous mode on my eth0 interface.) I've got a Xircom CardBus combo ethernet/modem card, which is supported just fine under RedHat.
I've tried several things, including recompiling the PCMCIA package, recompiling the kernel, downgrading to the SuSE 6.3 PCMCIA package...none of them fix the problem. SuSE tech support referred me to an upgrade which fixes Toshibas (didn't work, unsurprisingly), three SDB articles that had nothing to do with my situation, and that was about it.
Has anyone else tried to install 6.4 on a laptop? Can anyone confirm that 6.3 works on a laptop? I'll downgrade if I can get my hands on a copy of the 6.3 CDs.
-tara
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