Jerry Kreps wrote: ...
Sound and the Zip drive work well. The ip config settings were default and never changed. ipchains and ipmasq were automatically installed by YaST2 when I installed 7.1
installed but not activcated (unless you say yes to personal-firewall when setting up a modem internet connection with yast2)
It's disconcerting that, for my hardware, it doesn't work.
I don't believe you. The network code has nothing whatsoever to do with any hardware. That's purely the device layer.
.... When I took a look at the /usr/src/linux symbolic link I found it pointing to the 2.4.0 kernel even though I had installed the 2.2.18 kernel. AND, in looking at the /lib/modules/2.2.18 directory I noticed another symbolic link in it that was NOT pointing to the 2.2.18 kernel but was cross-linked to the 2.4.0 kernel. THIS CAN'T BE RIGHT.
You installed 2.2.18 but 2.4 sources. Install 2.2.18 sources (package lx_sus22) instead.
Basically, when 7.1 installs on my old Sony it slides on like a silk purse (except of the ip forwarding thing). However, getting
What on earth do you need FORWARDING for on a notebook???? Do you use it as router for other machines??? A notebook?
it to go onto the Beast has been a beast of a fight. It might be worth it to swap the ATPI CDROM for a scsi version and ditto for the Zip250.
Another thing I found was that the USB is installed in the kernel even when I have disabled it in the BIOS. SuSE should honor the BIOS settings and not install any software for hardware that the BIOS has disabled.
The kernel code is always there of course, at least the small part that's not a module. What do you care? If it's disabled in the BIOS it won't do anything. If you're talking about usbmgr, well, set /etc/rc.config START_USB="no". But if it's disabled in the bios it won't do anything anyway.