On Tuesday 04 July 2006 22:20, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Fred A. Miller wrote:

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Soon, SUSE SHOULD have a NEW kernel for update! There are some nice things in it, like performance improvements. But, for laptop users, for the first time, and FINALLY, there is some Broadcom wi-fi support.

Fred

Any progress on this that you are aware of Fred?

Cheers.

-- "It is well known that among the blind, the one-eyed man is king".

Desiderius Erasmus The latest that I know about is 2.6.16.20-2 I have been running it for about a week without problems. It seems to be a bit faster. I tried it on my laptop as well but I use a lan connection there so I can't let you know if the wi-fi support works also. The kernel in its various forms in available at:

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/

Happy tinkering Ralph Ellis

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Just looked at the souce rpm for that kernel and the bcm43xx support is not in that kernel. Clark -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

On Wednesday 05 July 2006 18:06, James Knott wrote:

Ralph Ellis wrote:

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On Tuesday 04 July 2006 22:20, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Fred A. Miller wrote:

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Soon, SUSE SHOULD have a NEW kernel for update! There are some nice things in it, like performance improvements. But, for laptop users, for the first time, and FINALLY, there is some Broadcom wi-fi support.

Fred

Any progress on this that you are aware of Fred?

Cheers.

-- "It is well known that among the blind, the one-eyed man is king".

Desiderius Erasmus

The latest that I know about is 2.6.16.20-2 I have been running it for about a week without problems. It seems to be a bit faster. I tried it on my laptop as well but I use a lan connection there so I can't let you know if the wi-fi support works also. The kernel in its various forms in available at:

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse /

Happy tinkering Ralph Ellis

How'd you manage to install it? I get this error, when using "Open with > Install software". And, of course, the :new and improved" Yast wants to install the original version, from the CD. I'm frunning 64 bit SUSE 10.1.

"Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Public.ZenException: Failed to lookup resolvable with id '0'

Server stack trace: in <0x0019f> Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.RedCarpetBackend+SqlTransaction:GetResult () in <0x000a8> Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.RedCarpetBackend:ResolveDependencies (Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.IResolvable[] installs, Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.IResolvable[] upgrades, Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.IResolvable[] removals) in <0x00042> Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.PackageManager:Resolve (Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.IResolvable[] installs, Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.IResolvable[] upgrades, Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.IResolvable[] removals) in <0x0005b> Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.RemotePackageManager:ResolveDependencies (Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.Public.ResolvableInfo[] installs, Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.Public.ResolvableInfo[] upgrades, Novell.Zenworks.Zmd.Packaging.Public.ResolvableInfo[] removals) in <0x00000> <unknown method> in (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingServices:InternalExecute (System.Reflection.MethodBase,object,object[],object[]&) in <0x00265> System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingServices:InternalExecuteMessage (System.MarshalByRefObject target, IMethodCallMessage reqMsg)

Exception rethrown at [0]:

in <0x00a63> System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy:PrivateInvoke (System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy rp, IMessage msg, System.Exception exc, System.Object[] out_args)"

The easiest way is to use Yast with Online Update. Set up the factory repository that I listed above as an Installation Source under Yast. After the source has been recognized, in Online Update do a search for "kernel". Select both the default and source kernels and Yast should pick up the rest of the required files automatically. Keep in mind that if you use ATI or nVidia proprietary drivers that you will have to uninstall and reinstall them. Zen is a bit of a pig for this process unfortunately. It can work if you have already listed the factory repository as an Installation Source and you only select the default and source kernels to be installed. Good luck Ralph Ellis -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

James Knott wrote:

Ralph Ellis wrote:

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The easiest way is to use Yast with Online Update. Set up the factory repository that I listed above as an Installation Source under Yast. After the source has been recognized, in Online Update do a search for "kernel". Select both the default and source kernels and Yast should pick up the rest of the required files automatically. Keep in mind that if you use ATI or nVidia proprietary drivers that you will have to uninstall and reinstall them. Zen is a bit of a pig for this process unfortunately. It can work if you have already listed the factory repository as an Installation Source and you only select the default and source kernels to be installed. Good luck Ralph Ellis

I've never had much luck configuring that. You'll have to specify *EXACTLY* what you put in the server and directory boxes. No matter what combination I try, it doesn't like it. It sure would be nice, if it would allow you to examine an existing network source, so you could figure it out.

Finally figured it out. It sure would be nice if it were documented somewhere. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

Peter Van Lone wrote:

On 7/5/06, James Knott wrote:

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James Knott wrote:

Finally figured it out. It sure would be nice if it were documented somewhere.

of course, you could document it, by simply posting here what you figured out ...

:-)

Is documenting stuff in Linux allowed? ;-) I was trying to use the server and directory boxes, which no matter how I tried, simply wouldn't work. I then noticed an option for using the URL, which does work. I had searched the on line help for installation source and nothing close turned up. Now, if they'd only fix Yast, so that it's not so d*mn slow. When I was finally able to add in that source, it took several minutes to complete, with top showing the process using up to 87% of CPU and almost 30% of memory. There's absolutely no excuse for such horrible performance that renders my computer useless for almost 15 mins. This is on my ThinkPad, with 1.13 GHz P3 and 384 MB. On my AMD 64 system, it is of course faster, but still unacceptably slow. I certainly hope they fix Yast soom, because the current version is a real piece of sh*t. How could they take something that worked well in previous versions and turn it into such garbage??? -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

Ralph Ellis wrote:

On Tuesday 04 July 2006 22:20, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Fred A. Miller wrote:

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Soon, SUSE SHOULD have a NEW kernel for update! There are some nice things in it, like performance improvements. But, for laptop users, for the first time, and FINALLY, there is some Broadcom wi-fi support.

Fred Any progress on this that you are aware of Fred?

Cheers.

-- "It is well known that among the blind, the one-eyed man is king".

Desiderius Erasmus The latest that I know about is 2.6.16.20-2 I have been running it for about a week without problems. It seems to be a bit faster. I tried it on my laptop as well but I use a lan connection there so I can't let you know if the wi-fi support works also. The kernel in its various forms in available at:

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/

Happy tinkering Ralph Ellis

Many thanks, Ralph. I have now installed this latest kernel. It seems to me that it now works a bit faster than the earlier versions - but I may be wrong. Cheers. -- "It is well known that among the blind, the one-eyed man is king". Desiderius Erasmus -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

Ralph Ellis wrote:

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Ralph Ellis wrote:

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Fred A. Miller wrote:

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Soon, SUSE SHOULD have a NEW kernel for update! There are some nice things in it, like performance improvements. But, for laptop users, for the first time, and FINALLY, there is some Broadcom wi-fi support.

Fred Any progress on this that you are aware of Fred?

Cheers.

-- "It is well known that among the blind, the one-eyed man is king".

Desiderius Erasmus The latest that I know about is 2.6.16.20-2 I have been running it for about a week without problems. It seems to be a bit faster. I tried it on my laptop as well but I use a lan connection

On Tuesday 04 July 2006 22:20, Basil Chupin wrote: there so I can't let you know if the wi-fi support works also. The kernel in its various forms in available at:

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse /

Happy tinkering Ralph Ellis Many thanks, Ralph. I have now installed this latest kernel.

It seems to me that it now works a bit faster than the earlier versions - but I may be wrong.

Cheers.

-- "It is well known that among the blind, the one-eyed man is king".

Desiderius Erasmus I have found that most of the updates from the factory area have both increased speed and stability. However, installing from there is a gamble. I am fortunate that I have disk imaging software so if I do mess things up, I just blow away the installation with the last saved disk image. I do find

On Friday 07 July 2006 01:44, Basil Chupin wrote: that anything to do with the kernel or xorg requires a re install of the video drivers but other than that everything is working well. Ralph Elllis

So far everything is working AOK, and the kernel does make things run faster. Reinstalling the video driver is the norm; I'm used to it and now it only takes me just a couple of minutes to have a new (nvidia) driver compiled. I back only a select list of "criticals" to an external HD and if things do go wrong I simply reinstall the complete system and use the backed-up bits. But I must consider doing what you are doing (a disk image) as I do have the capacity to do it. Cheers. -- "It is well known that among the blind, the one-eyed man is king". Desiderius Erasmus -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com