Hi, On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
I have a IBM Thinkpad 760XL. I also have problems installing S.u.S.E. Linux on it.
We are still investigating the problems with the ThinkPads. I did lots of tests in the past but there is no common pattern on which machines it works and on which it fails. I have feedback that sometimes the RedHat kernels work (more often than the S.u.S.E. kernels), but there are machines on which even RedHat's kernel fails. One thing in common: On every machine it seems to be possible to successfully boot the kernel using loadlin.exe (this is what setup.exe does).
First problem is to install from CD through setup.exe. I choose this because I can't have both CD and Floppy in the thinkpad simultaneously. When I get to mounting the CD from setup, it tells me that it fails. As I know, it's a standard ATAPI drive, but also trying to manually load any of the CD-ROM drivers with any of the EIDE kernels fails.
I think this is another problem: Some thinkpads have a special sleep/suspend mode for their CD-ROM drives the linux kernel doesn't know about. Loading the DOS driver in the config.sys file with the "/S" switch cured this problem in many cases. Maybe you could give it a try...
I believe I can copy the CD to harddisk and install from there, but I would like to know if there is a better way.
Next question if I get past this: Any hope for support for my two PCMCIA cards: Lasat Credit 336 faxmodem and IBM Turbo 16/4 Token Ring?
Never heard about the Lasat card. The Token Ring card should work out of the box. The "SUPPORTED.CARDS" of the PCMCIA package explicitly lists these cards. Hubert -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e