I, too, have been seeing some problems with SuSE 6.4. The first one is relatively minor, and was easy to track down. If you install both pdflib.rpm and python.rpm, you'll get a Warning: could not rmdir /usr/lib/python: Directory not empty when you install the python.rpm script. This is due to the fact that the pdflib.rpm installs a file in /usr/lib/python, and the python rpm installs to /usr/lib/python1.5 and then symlinks to /usr/lib/python. But since pdflib.rpm installs *before* python.rpm, this doesn't work and you have to go fix it yourself. The second one is pretty major. This involves PCMCIA and networking on my laptop. The short form is, DHCP doesn't work, and static IP addressing only works if I immediately log in and run a tcpdump (thereby enabling promiscuous mode on my eth0 interface.) I've got a Xircom CardBus combo ethernet/modem card, which is supported just fine under RedHat. I've tried several things, including recompiling the PCMCIA package, recompiling the kernel, downgrading to the SuSE 6.3 PCMCIA package...none of them fix the problem. SuSE tech support referred me to an upgrade which fixes Toshibas (didn't work, unsurprisingly), three SDB articles that had nothing to do with my situation, and that was about it. Has anyone else tried to install 6.4 on a laptop? Can anyone confirm that 6.3 works on a laptop? I'll downgrade if I can get my hands on a copy of the 6.3 CDs. -tara -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi! I haven't got my hands on neither of them (6.3 or 6.4, but I am running SuSE 6.2 on a Toshiba Satellite 100CS laptop with pcmcia without any problems with suse or hand build pcmcia progs&modules - the kernel on that machine is currently 2.2.14 (non suse, but it worked just fine with suse's 2.2.10). Th reason I havent installed a newer version of suse is that I am waiting for a stable xfree 4 and a 2.4 kernel ;) - since I don't have a lot of time to reinstall the whole system (upgrades are kind of messy - at leas in my opinion). Bostjan * On 05-05-00 at 20:00 T L Andrews (tla@akamai.com) wrote: +----Here quoted text begins----+
Has anyone else tried to install 6.4 on a laptop? Can anyone confirm that 6.3 works on a laptop? I'll downgrade if I can get my hands on a copy of the 6.3 CDs. +----and here the quote ends----+
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I have it running well on my laptop. PCMCIA does fail on boot. I do a "rcpcmcia start" and it works. PCMCIA has never worked twice the same way with any distro. I had Four on at once and it only worked on SuSE and Turbo but not Corel or Redhat.. Seems every new pcmcia that comes down the pike is different. The only thing I don't like about it is the default patched up kernel. I do too much HW development to be able to work with the SuSE kernels. But the "pristine source" or whatever kernel is just a Yast away. One weirdness is when I install over RedHat I end up with a "linux" and a "suse" in Lilo.conf, and there is only one os on the box. Seems to not happen if installed on a clean HD. T L Andrews wrote:
The second one is pretty major. This involves PCMCIA and networking on my laptop. The short form is, DHCP doesn't work, and static IP addressing only works if I immediately log in and run a tcpdump (thereby enabling promiscuous mode on my eth0 interface.) I've got a Xircom CardBus combo ethernet/modem card, which is supported just fine under RedHat.
I've tried several things, including recompiling the PCMCIA package, recompiling the kernel, downgrading to the SuSE 6.3 PCMCIA package...none of them fix the problem. SuSE tech support referred me to an upgrade which fixes Toshibas (didn't work, unsurprisingly), three SDB articles that had nothing to do with my situation, and that was about it.
Has anyone else tried to install 6.4 on a laptop? Can anyone confirm that 6.3 works on a laptop? I'll downgrade if I can get my hands on a copy of the 6.3 CDs.
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I had 6.3 running perfectly on an IBM 600e laptop. I have since upgraded (?) to 6.4 and it still works with the exception of susefax and sendfax (Hylafax is on another 6.3 server). I had several small problems that wre easily handled. I followed instructions posted on the IBM website on getting the 600e working with Redhat. Actually, there was nothing specific to Redhat. Gerry "The lyf so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
OK, I've have a look into this. I got the latest pcmcia from sourceforge and plugged it in. It didn't help. A little more wandering around the web site and I found this in the BUGS file: --- o Xircom CBEM support in the tulip_cb driver seems to be extremely unreliable. A wide range of symptoms are reported, ranging from no packet reception, to correct operation at certain speed/duplex combinations but not others, to frequent missed interrupts. Also, some people have reported kernel faults when a Xircom card is shut down with "ifconfig down". Prognosis: there seem to be multiple revisions of the (apparently) not-quite-tulip-compatible chipset in the Xircom cards, and fixes that seem to help for some cards, break other cards. Until someone can try to characterize what the revision differences might be, this is not going to get fixed. Setting the card to promiscuous mode ("ifconfig eth0 promisc") seems to help in some cases. --- Which just about sums it up. I put an 'ifconfig eth0 promisc' (I didn't know you could do that!) in my /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and rebooted, and the problem has gone away. Or a least, it's been side stepped.
The second one is pretty major. This involves PCMCIA and networking on my laptop. The short form is, DHCP doesn't work, and static IP addressing only works if I immediately log in and run a tcpdump (thereby enabling promiscuous mode on my eth0 interface.) I've got a Xircom CardBus combo ethernet/modem card, which is supported just fine under RedHat.
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