[opensuse] 13.1 on ThinkPad X60s
Hi everybody, I'm trying to install openSUSE 13.1 on a ThinkPad X60s (CoreDuo, Intel 950 graphics, Intel 3945ABG wifi, SanDisk 128GB SSD). The installation goes through mostly fine, all hardware is detected correctly but I'm not able to establish a wifi-connection (shows SSIDs fo available APs, but does not get an IP), so I went for cable to finish the installation including all updates. On next reboot, it takes quite long (>60s) to go over the Grub showing the boot menu and the system is not booting into runlevel 5 at all, last message seen is "Started SuSEfirewall2 phase 2". I can change to an other console, after connecting a cable I have working network and I can start XFCE4 manually from there. I can get over the "Started SuSEfirewall2 phase 2" if I switch the network from NetworkManager to ipup, but then I'm not able to get a Wifi connection anymore (only SSIDs viewable, but no IP-connection). Finally the system shutdown takes too long it shows "Started Show Plymouth Power Off Screen" (after pressing ESC) for about 90s and then shuts down very fast. Any ideas for this? I'm using 13.1, because it should be a "evergreen" version, while I was a SuSE user for long time, I stopped using it some time ago, because I was not willing to do frequent distribution upgrades, so "evergreen" seems to be a good option for me. -- kind regards, Thorolf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
This may have changed but IIRC, installation over WiFi is/was not recommended. In the past, I did it anyway and ended up with an unusable installation. So I started over with a wired connection. That worked. YMMV, Jeffrey Quoting Thorolf Godawa <nospam@godawa.de>:
Hi everybody,
I'm trying to install openSUSE 13.1 on a ThinkPad X60s (CoreDuo, Intel 950 graphics, Intel 3945ABG wifi, SanDisk 128GB SSD).
The installation goes through mostly fine, all hardware is detected correctly but I'm not able to establish a wifi-connection (shows SSIDs fo available APs, but does not get an IP), so I went for cable to finish the installation including all updates.
On next reboot, it takes quite long (>60s) to go over the Grub showing the boot menu and the system is not booting into runlevel 5 at all, last message seen is "Started SuSEfirewall2 phase 2".
I can change to an other console, after connecting a cable I have working network and I can start XFCE4 manually from there.
I can get over the "Started SuSEfirewall2 phase 2" if I switch the network from NetworkManager to ipup, but then I'm not able to get a Wifi connection anymore (only SSIDs viewable, but no IP-connection).
Finally the system shutdown takes too long it shows "Started Show Plymouth Power Off Screen" (after pressing ESC) for about 90s and then shuts down very fast.
Any ideas for this?
I'm using 13.1, because it should be a "evergreen" version, while I was a SuSE user for long time, I stopped using it some time ago, because I was not willing to do frequent distribution upgrades, so "evergreen" seems to be a good option for me. --
kind regards,
Thorolf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Hi Jeffrey, thanks for the answer.
On next reboot, it takes quite long (>60s) to go over the Grub showing the boot menu and the system is not booting into runlevel 5 at all, last message seen is "Started SuSEfirewall2 phase 2". ... I can get over the "Started SuSEfirewall2 phase 2" if I switch the network from NetworkManager to ipup, but then I'm not able to get a Wifi connection anymore (only SSIDs viewable, but no IP-connection). ... This may have changed but IIRC, installation over WiFi is/was not recommended. In the past, I did it anyway and ended up with an unusable installation. So I started over with a wired connection. That worked. Well, while this sounds "stupid" (because there are users who only have wifi), the first installation was done directly with a wired connection because the Atheros wifi was not recognized.
Anyway I had the same problem, with the non-starting system, decribed above. So I changed from the NetworkManager to "ifup" too and replaced the Atheros with an Intel. Then the system started into runlevel 5, I got the wifi recognized, could select a wifi ap but never got any connection to my network. Finally I reinstalled everything again, this time wifi was available during installation, but again could not connect to my network, so I selected the wired network to finish the installation. But even with this second try it hangs during startup ... What can I check, because this just is a "show stopper" for me :-( -- kind regards, Thorolf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Hi everybody, some time ago I had quite much problems, getting openSuSE 13.1 running on a THinkPd X60s. The last days, I had an other X60s I installed with 13.1, mostly the same specs including CPU, graphics and SSD, didn't checked which wifi is in and I installed with a newly created USB-stick instead of using a DVD.
I'm trying to install openSUSE 13.1 on a ThinkPad X60s (CoreDuo, Intel 950 graphics, Intel 3945ABG wifi, SanDisk 128GB SSD).
The installation goes through mostly fine, all hardware is detected correctly but I'm not able to establish a wifi-connection (shows SSIDs fo available APs, but does not get an IP), so I went for cable to finish the installation including all updates. I didn't tried this, I just connected a cable, so no problems here.
On next reboot, it takes quite long (>60s) to go over the Grub showing the boot menu and the system is not booting into runlevel 5 at all, last message seen is "Started SuSEfirewall2 phase 2". But this one I have in exactly the same manner, even after the latest "zypper up":
I power on the laptop, BIOS shows up, I see "GRUB loading, Welcome to GRUB" (sometimes for less than a second, sometimes the whole minute) and around a minute later I get the SuSE-bootloader to start the system. And after booting, I still get the same last message in the console, without XFCE (I'm using as default desktop) will ever come up. But I can change to an other console, login as root, I can start XFCE with "startx" and everything seems to be fine. I have my "Network_Manager-Applet" (v0.9.8.4) in the taskbar and it finds my wifi.
I can get over the "Started SuSEfirewall2 phase 2" if I switch the network from NetworkManager to ipup, but then I'm not able to get a Wifi Finally the second problem could be "solved", by removing the NetworkManager from the services, rebooting the laptop and starting it manually from a terminal with "service ... start". After adding the NetworkManager back to the services, now the system comes up including wifi - no idea what this caused :-(
But the boot-delay is still there, always around a minute and I have no idea what the reason for this can be and how to solve it. Normaly a SSD should be quite fast in this ... Any ideas? Thanks a lot, -- kind regards, Thorolf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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