In the spirit of continuing threads I start... I finally found a reason to upgrade to suse 11.0. Having bought a wireless N access point I wanted to have high speed wireless on my laptop (cause constantly switching on and off my wired network causes a lot of nfs mount problems, and running on wireless G has latency and pause problems). Initially I attempted to get wireless N working on suse 10.3 but failed. I tried using kernel 2.6.25.10 and the latest firmware, but the interface wouldn't come active. So I offlined my user partitions and upgraded to suse 11 (on the theory that I could always go back :) The install process is easy, probably the best in business, though I had a hard time tracking down a net install for x86_64 cause the opensuse link is broken. Once i did the install I had two problems: -installed driver wouldn't work with my nvidia card (quadro fx 570m in a lenovp T61p) -wirless wouldnt work at all! (not really where you want to be when you upgraded for improved wireless :) The symptom is that I dont' see any wirelss networks in the list. iwllist shows none either. The fixes: -I downloaded the latest 64 bit driver from nvidia and installed it. -I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.25.10 After that video, wireless both work. It even suspends and resumes. It also seems to perform marginally better thant 10.3, but I've gone 64 bit and that could explain it. The last problem is that the screen saver won't let me log back in if it locks me out. It says the permissions on the password database are too restrictive? Not. I disabled it for the time being... wcn Wendell Nichols wrote:
I'm normally all over a new distro by now but I just got my T61p laptop working properly with Suse 10.3 (video drivers for nvidia that work with suspend resume were hard to find). I've trolled through the enhancements etc and just can't find any compelling reason to think that laptop support has improved in 11.0. Indeed there seem to be lots of people complaining about knetworkmanager, and no one raves about its bluetooth support. These are not the sort of things you can test in a VM... so what say you? What are the absolutely great things about 11.0? wcn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org