Ok the box arived today (at last!!!!!)
Install on my main laptop went very smoothly. The packages are much better organized in this version than they were in 7.3.
Now the only problem I am having is with my lucent orinoco gold wireless card. I can't for the life of me get it setup. Yast2 has ALWAYS been useless for this task. But in the past it was a trivial manual setup. Set eth0 up with pcmcia modual. Then edit /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file to the ESSID, MODE and KEY values that I use here at the house. Do a depmod -a then a ifconfig eth0 up and all was good from then on out.
With SuSE 8.0 there are many more config files and none of them seem to help in any way. Setting up /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts as always only gets me errors in boot.msg as it tries to configure "lo" as a wireless card. No luck in the docs on setting up wireless cards in the new boot system.
Any ideas?
Charles Hutchinson
P.S. GIVE ME BACK YAST1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think this problem goes beyond just the wireless opts. It appears that several of the pcmcia card drivers were not matched up with the card services version. Like the prism2_cs driver comes back saying that there was a version mismatch which means I can't use my wireless card at all without recompiling the kernel. Recompiling the kernel is not a viable option since
On Wednesday 24 April 2002 01:53 am, Geek Boi wrote: the kernels shipped with 90% of the distributions out there can't compile to match what was installed in the first place. Excuse me for venting but I spent 4 hours installing SuSE 8.0 as an upgrade, getting no where, reinstalling it by erasing all my partitions only to find out that the problem was related to a version mismatch. Now I have to find out if anyone has bothered to build a new kernel and modules for this beast so I can maybe get my wireless card to work again. Which means I also have to crawl under a desk and pull wires so I can use a wired connection in my house. GRRR. Check to make sure that the orinoco module will actually load on your system, perhaps you have hte same issue I do.