On Monday, September 05, 2005 @ 4:47 AM, Jos van Kan wrote: <snip>
You'd say it can't find the driver. You first could try to reinstall the card under Yast. Maybe the driver got updated or been put somewhere else in the new release. Is it native linux or ndiswrapped?
The usb thing has been discussed on this list. Can you hook up an ordinary keyboard to the box? If you can you could lsusb to see if any usb device is being seen.
One possibility is a faulty line in /etc/fstab like usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 that should be something like usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0
But there could be other things. Check the system for configuration files that didn't get upgraded. (The upgrades typically end in conf.SuSE). This shows that the matching conf files haven't been touched by the upgrade (because at some point in time you changed them) and you are invited to inspect them yourself and decide what must happen. There is a list in /var somewhere of those config files.
If all that does not help try to locate that old usb thread in the archive.
Regards, -- Jos van Kan www.josvankan.tk
Never mind Jos. I got a wild hair and decided to just try upgrading to 9.3. Lo and behold, that solved all of my problems except 2 (which I quickly fixed) - 1) boot loader was messed up. I tweaked grub, reinstalled the boot loader, and solved that 2) I still couldn't user Oracle Apache, so I copied over a module I had saved off from 9.0 called libdb.so.2 into /lib and /usr/lib. Voila, Oracle Apache now works. I sort of hate to put things in these libraries but that's where they were in 9.0 and it does work. That's it. Right now, my system seems to be working fine - 1) The network is back 2) Samba is working again 3) Oracle Apache is working As far as 9.3 itself, I'm pretty darn impressed by what I've seen so fat. I know some people have had problems with it but looks great to me. Response time is awesome! Color on my screen seems improved. Best of all, I'm now current on my SusE installation (for a month or so, anyway). Sorry about your having to spend all of that effort sending me a response, but I hadn't thought about trying an upgrade until a while after I sent you that note. Thanks for your efforts. Greg Wallace