Chuck Hast wrote:
> On 7/23/06, Robin 'Roblimo' Miller <robin@roblimo.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Hmm, that well may be. I had a similar issue with a packet switch I
>> built
>> > up, it was trying to load some stuff before other stuff that needed
>> to be
>> > up and running first. Once I moved things around that fixed it.
>> Will have
>> > to check that one out. You maybe on to something as it has to load
>> ndis-
>> > wrapper first in order to hear the dhcp server, and get a IP. I will
>> > have to
>> > look there.
>>
>> I just went through SUS 10.1 wireless setup fun myself. Everything
>> looked like it was working but no connection. Finally clicked on the
>> little (not intuitively obvious) knetwork manager, noticed that when I
>> clicked on "linksys" it was not activated. I activated it. Now I have
>> wireless.
>>
>> W00t! A cloak of poweruserness descends onto my shoulders.
>>
>
> I clicked on that little bugger right out of the box and it did
> nothing for
> me. Honestly I want my IP stack to come up BEFORE the gui starts, I
> am going to have to look at this and see why all of this gui crap needs
> to be running to get the comms going. I want to be able to ping, ftp,
> use LYNX or whatever else CLI that happens in my head before the
> gui is running, not after, if I wanted that I would run the W word...
>
>> Now I'm trying to do patches/updates. Gawdawful slow. And ran into
>> some login stupidity while trying to do the autoupdate thing, too. I am
>> not impressed with this version of SUSE so far.
>>
>
> Yea, someone needs to take that one out behind the shed and shoot it,
> it was slow under 10.0, but now it is like watching glass drip (remember
> glass IS a liquid, just real thick) I hope that they get that fixed as
> it is
> way too slow now. If you are not logged in as root it YaST will ask you
> for root login, once that is done it gets into the SLOW part.
>
FYI - YaST is much faster from the command line than that the gui,
I have been running 10.1 on a laptop for about a month now. Internet
installed without a hitch, 3 wireless networks. The only problems I
encountered were multimedia stuff , - ie playing windows media in
webpages, DVD's, etc.. Let me know if you need to compare a file or
two. .-
../Todd
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