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By harishankar at 2005-12-23 09:22
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Today I finally managed to get WLAN to work through SUSE Linux with my HP nx6110 laptop. Although the WLAN controller was detected earlier, it didn't work until I installed the Windows driver from the manufacturer's CD using ndiswrapper.
Not sure which one did the trick - the default kernel device driver for the chipset or the ndiswrapper driver, but it works now so that's all that matters.
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By harishankar at 2005-12-22 21:06
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I just noticed that I had completed two years at LQ recently (2 years 5 days as of today).
It's been a long journey since I first installed a magazine distro based on RedHat 6.1 to now when I multi-boot 4 distros on my machine (Debian, Gentoo, Arch and Suse) and I have a laptop with Suse as well. Linux has become second nature now. I hardly ever use Windows at all.
I've also made a lot of friends on this forums, had a few flame wars here and there, picked up a few fights  and also had some good learning moments, especially with relation to hardware and kernel modules/device drivers.
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By harishankar at 2005-12-18 21:57
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SUSE Linux is probably the most ideal distro for a laptop. I recently acquired a HP nx6110 laptop and I installed SuSE without a problem. As I had mentioned in my SuSE 10 review at LQ recently SUSE is quite a polished professional distro.
I was impressed by the way SuSE autodetected most of the settings required for a laptop including power management as well as USB device auto-detection. SuSE was minimal fuss and the post-install configuration was limited to merely setting the system date and time and a few locale-specific settings.
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By harishankar at 2005-12-09 10:32
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I have always criticized people who complain about Linux on forums and while I do think that some of them do troll for the sake of trolling, I think I can relate to some of the sufferings of other Linux users which I think we tend to forget once we smooth over all the configuration of the system and get it to work the way we want it.
I recently changed my ISP from a cable provider to a DSL one. Getting it to work has taken me a long time, not because Linux could not get it to work, but because I had a difficult time figuring out how to configure the connection to work properly with the router.
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