Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3625 mails)

[Joe Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry Houston wrote:
> Mike McMullin wrote:
> > > If you are using the new kernel based atheros wireless driver, you
> > > will very likely get lots of error messages.  I ended up compiling the
> > > madwifi driver from source to fix that(they do have a repository for
> > > it now).  What exactly is in the logs.
> > >     
> >
> >   Can you expand that please, 11.0 broke my wireless, and i think it's
> > the atheros driver at primary fault?
>
> I finally gave up and upgraded to XP-Pro on my Toshiba laptop (with 
> Atheros wireless card).  Works great.
>
> I haven't given up on SuSE Linux -- I still have a desktop workstation 
> and a domain controller running on v11.0, with KDE4, no less.  But I had 
> to admit that the support just isn't there for this laptop.  After 
> fussing and fighting with it for a week or so, I'd finally had enough.
>
> What I mostly use are Thunderbird, Firefox, Sunbird, and OpenOffice.  
> They all run just fine on XP-Pro, and my smb server works way better 
> than nfs ever did on this machine.


Just as an FYI there are other linux distros. If suse doesn't work well 
on a particular machine, if it were me, I'd try ubuntu or something, 
rather than throw in the towel and retreat to ms windows.

I have a laptop that was something of a struggle with suse 10.3 and 
11.0, but ubuntu 8.04 ran perfectly out of the box. Not to say that I 
don't like suse, it's great in the server room, and despite the overall 
buginess of 11.0 (esp. with gnome) it makes a good kde workstation.

Joe

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