hi, guys, i am using "OpenSuSE 10.0" on my ' HP zv5000 Pavilion ' , Everything is fine except...

1. Battery : - It seems My Battery Daemon doest not work,Because, The Battery icon on My Taskbar Panel does not show any kind of status; Means, NO AC Power Status when Running on AC Adapter, NO Battery Status when running on Battery, NO Battery Remanining percentage or TIME SHOW. Battery works fine, and AC ADapter also.

So what should i do about it.

2. Second, My laptop has " Broadcom Wireless Adapter b/g " Installed but it does not work.

How can i find out where is something wrong .and what steps i should i do.

Thanks......... &.......Regards.

GSingh.Bedi

For the built-in wireless visit; http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

As far as the DSDT part (the no battary status etc) visit the acpi page;
http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ and check at the HP's site for a possible BIOS upgrade.
Also check here at the HCL.

Hi, Lenard, THANKS A LOT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Problem sorted out. Infact, my system was booted into Fail Safe, in which ACPI Does not load itself. But i configured my Boot loader option to ACPI = on. That's It. Second problem, still persists, it seems it is very difficult to get Wi-Fi working in Linux. Any Way, Your post helped me a lot to take a start up.

Regards...

- GSingh.Bedi

Getting the wireless working is not really that hard, the ndiswrapper site does a very good job at explaining it. The only thing to you need to watch out for is to use the 64-bit drivers for the 64-bit OS and the 32-bit drivers for the 32-bit OS.

ok i went into terminal and with the lspci command i discovered fedora did in fact recognize my wireless nic, correct brand and all. but how do i enable it so i can use it?

The wireless nic for my laptop was also known in Linux. But I had to download/install/configure and use ndiswrapper in order for the built-in wireless to work in Linux.

But as I understand it openSuSE already comes with ndiswrapper so you should only need the correct driver and follow the "Install Windows driver" section from the Installation guide;

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...Windows_driver

Which driver to get;
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...index.php/List

is there a difference between opensuse and the suse9.3 that im downloading now? I played around with 9.2 livecd and it was freaking awesome. Esp the configuration setup for hardware.

I really do not know, I use CentOS as my base OS. Try asking in the SUSE forum here.