I hope the folks here can lend a hand, or, at least, an opinion or two. I took advantage of the sales tax holiday to replace my rusting laptop with a state-of-the-art model (HP Pavilion ze5470). Unfortunately, it may have been a little TOO state-of-the-art for Linux (SuSe 8.2). It has an internal wireless card; sadly, it's 802.11g from Broadcom, which, I understand means it's rather unlikely I'll be using it under Linux any time soon. Thank goodness I kept my old wireless PCMCIA card.
Of greater concern is getting power management working. I get the ususal partial ACPI message when I try to do anything with it, so I figured I would simply add acpi=off apm=on to the boot parameters. This is what got APM working on my old laptop. On this one, however, when I do this, the boot process locks up when it gets to the hotswapping devices piece. Does anyone have a suggestion to help me identify what's going wrong here? The other problem (more an annoyance, really) is that the internal Ethernet connection is not getting recognized on boot up. eth0 and eth1 both fail initialization. When I get logged on, I go into Yast and touch the network card section to get network services initialized. That brings the network online. I'm sure there's a simple fix for this and that the folks here can contribute to my education. TIA, Robert Floyd Durham, NC -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
