Re: HP Pavillion Woes

2008-04-20 Thread Larry Finger
On 4/18/08, *Robert Williams* [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All! Been trolling for couple months trying to learn...just when I think I know what to do in what sequence you guys change everything! I've an HP Pavilion dv9310us w/bcm4311 rev 2 mini-pci. temp dual-boot

Re: HP Pavillion Woes

2008-04-20 Thread Stefanik Gábor
An omission: after step 8, you need to generate an initial ramdisk. Simply issue the command mkinitrd (or mkinitramfs if it doesn't work). On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/18/08, *Robert Williams* [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All! Been trolling for couple

Re: HP Pavillion Woes

2008-04-20 Thread Larry Finger
Stefanik Gábor wrote: An omission: after step 8, you need to generate an initial ramdisk. Simply issue the command mkinitrd (or mkinitramfs if it doesn't work). Not an omission if you are running openSUSE as he is. It makes initrd automatically; however, for other distros, this step may be

Re: HP Pavillion Woes

2008-04-18 Thread Stefanik Gábor
Kernel 2.6.22 doesn't yet contain the newer b43 driver (only the old bcm43xx), so that won't really work. On the other hand, openSUSE 10.3 has quite a bit of problems with kernels 2.6.24 and up. Your best choice is to wait until openSUSE 11 comes out (or if you aren't afraid of pre-releases, you

HP Pavillion Woes

2008-04-17 Thread Robert Williams
Hi All! Been trolling for couple months trying to learn...just when I think I know what to do in what sequence you guys change everything! I've an HP Pavilion dv9310us w/bcm4311 rev 2 mini-pci. temp dual-boot xp(sp2)/opensuse 10.3. works on xp(ugh!) did work on suse for 2 weeks, added security