On Tuesday 15 December 2009 18:34:24 James Knott wrote:
lynn wrote:
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 13:51:35 James Knott wrote:
Well, you're well aware of OpenSUSE and I suppose you may have a spare computer handy. Why not just give it a try as a desktop OS. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Hi James, Hi everyone. I use desktop computers at work so I know they work on a network. The three laptops I tried: eeeps, acer one and hp pavillion would not connect to Internet with opensuse even after several hours downloading with a wired connection and booting from the 11.2 kde live usb memory stick. Pull the wire and the wireless is useless unless you have several more hours to search how to do it. I can get a wired connection to a Desktop computer on the network in a few minutes by setting the squid port on the client using Yast. I suppose that's what prevents many from using it at home. But I've not given up yet. L x
Curious. I've had no problems at all with WiFi or ethernet on any computer I've worked on. I regularly use WiFi on my ThinkPad and my Eee PC came with Linux already installed. I also have a Nokia N800, which runs Linux and WiFi works fine with it too (no wired ethernet on that device).
Also, I upgraded the WiFi NIC on my ThinkPad from one that only did 802.11b and replaced it with one that does b & g. Linux had no problem recognizing the new card, but I had to download a driver to get XP to use it.
You've been lucky. All have them had wifi that opensuse recognised. That's not been the case with me. Nor many others I think. Lynn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org