I'm installed the Suse 9.2 version on a notebook, and can't get the peripheral devices to work. The drive is partitioned for Windows XP (eXperimental Program?) and Linux. The peripherals work fine in the XP mode, and the system boots from GRUB into either Linux or Windows.

In Linux mode, I am able open programs, create files, in short to do everything you would expect in Linux, except get the peripheral devices to work. I am able to correctly read the all devices with the hardware monitor (thank you Suse 9.2), including my Linksys 2.4Ghz wireless G notebook adapter. The peripherals that work include the USB bus, PS mouse and sound. I can't get the ethernet, the modem, the PCMCIA bus, or the serial bus to the PDA to work. I haven't tried the parallel printer connector or InfraRed bus to see if they work.

One other anomoly. When rebooting to Windows after Linux, the peripherals don't work unless the system is cold started (disconnecting the power cable and battery pack for about 30 seconds, then reconnecting before starting). I suspect that cold starting clears any Linux data stored in the peripheral registers, so Windows is forced to set up the peripheral database. I've tried cold starting Linux without successfully waking up the peripherals.

I suspect that either Suse 9.2 isn't setting up the peripheral database correctly, or my BIOS is incompatable with Linux. I had the same problems getting the peripherals to work with Redhat 9.0, although XP rebooted w/o a cold start. Note: I was able to get the peripherals to work in a 4 year old desk system with Suse and Redhat.

Any help would be appreciated.

looks like you need some modules from the kernel to me...

getting your peripherals to work may take you some time.
you need a module for your ethernet card.
You should use google to find out which module your ethernet card requires
You should try to load the module (for example, to load the 8139too module, type "lsmod 8139too")
If the module doesn't load, then your kernel is not providing the module and you'll need to customize your kernel to change that.

The modem -do you really need it? IF it is a winmodem then it will be a huge pain getting it to work.

You need to make sure that you're kernel is including support for PCMCIA bus.

I've never configured a PDA

I hope that this is a legitimate post. Your profile shows that you come from Redmond Wash. You have PDA and wirless internet, but you are bothered that your modem and parallel printer port (which ancient printers use) aren't working. Suse cannot detect and address your ethernet or pcmcia?

what notebook are you using?

Yes this is a legitamate post. Just because I live about 2 klicks from the dark empire's citadel does not mean that I work there.

Modem: My wireless connection is at work, at home I'm stuck with dialup.

I will attempt the Ismod and look for other kernal issues. The notebook I'm using is from PC Club, its a ENP34104.

From the reply, it appears that I don't have a problem with my BIOS.

what kind of modem is it? for example, on my notebook I have a Connexant winmodem...if yours is the same I can give you guidance and yes it is a pain to get it to work

I don't think that there is a problem with your bios. I see why you would need the modem.
I did a google search on your laptop and only found less than two pages of useless links.

post the result of "dmesg" if you can (this will sometimes yield specific and helpful information about your hardware).

here is what I am thinking...

things will be a bit difficult for you because there is not very much info about your computer on the net and you won't be able to find many people using linux AND using your computer.

Option 1)
Try some more different linux distributions.

most linux distributions differ in the sophistication and range of their hardware detection capabilities. Try using Mandriva and Fedora. I don't have too much experience with these types of distributions, but I had success with Mandriva once where Redhat failed me.

Option 2)
you should try getting a knoppix livecd and booting your computer up with that. If things are working from your knoppix environment, then there is a good chance that you will be able to get everything working. use the lsmod command to see what modules knoppix used. Google those modules to understand what each module is doing. Make sure to load those modules in whatever linux distribution is on your hard drive.

If neither of those things work for you and you are not a computer guru, you are probably going to be unable to fully configure everything on your notebook with linux.

but post your dmesg if you can...

Here is the result of dmesg:

Linux version 2.6.8-24-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809)) #1 Wed Oct 6 09:16:23 UTC 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000cc000 - 00000000000d0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000dff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000dff0000 - 000000000dff8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000dff8000 - 000000000e000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
789MB vmalloc/ioremap area available.
0MB HIGHMEM available.
223MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 57328
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 53232 pages, LIFO batch:12
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI ) @ 0x000fa4e0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K7 0x00000010 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x0dff0000
ACPI: FADT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K7 0x00000011 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x0dff0030
ACPI: BOOT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K7 0x00000009 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x0dff00c0
ACPI: DSDT (v001 VIA TwisterK 0x00001000 INTL 0x02002024) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
ACPI: local apic disabled
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x314 selinux=0 resume=/dev/hda4 desktop elevator=as splash=silent
bootsplash: silent mode.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes)
Detected 1600.053 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 222156k/229312k available (2074k kernel code, 6652k reserved, 782k data, 212k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 3170.30 BogoMIPS (lpj=1585152)
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff c1cbf9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383f9ff c1cbf9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff c1cbf9ff 00000000 00000020
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: AMD mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP-M 1900+ stepping 00
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Looking for DSDT in initrd ...No customized DSDT found in initrd!
Freeing initrd memory: 1147k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb51, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040715
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 5)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 5 *9 10 11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 5 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 5 9 *10 11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 5 9 *10 11 14 15)
ACPI: Power Resource [FN10] (on)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.2[D] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.3[D] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.6[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
TC classifier action (bugs to netdev@oss.sgi.com cc hadi@cyberus.ca)
Simple Boot Flag at 0x7c set to 0x1
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1118822129.017:0): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
Applying VIA southbridge workaround.
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xce880000, using 3750k, total 31680k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=32
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:804e
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 24323 bytes,<6>...found (800x600, 13475 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 99x33
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.0.
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Using anticipatory io scheduler
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8231 (rev 10) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: IC25N040ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: Slimtype COMBO LSC-24081M, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide3...
ide3: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide4...
ide4: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide5...
ide5: Wait for ready failed before probe !
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/1740KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda3 hda4
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
Firmware: 4.1
Sensor: 8
new absolute packet format
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio2
input: PC Speaker
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
PM: Reading pmdisk image.
swsusp: Resume From Partition: /dev/hda4
<3>swsusp: Invalid partition type.
pmdisk: Error -22 resuming
PM: Resume from disk failed.
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
ACPI wakeup devices:
EC0 USB USB1 AC9 MC9 VT94 ILAN LID SLPB
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
ReiserFS: hda3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda3: using ordered data mode
reiserfs: using flush barriers
ReiserFS: hda3: journal params: device hda3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda3: checking transaction log (hda3)
ReiserFS: hda3: Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
Unmounting old root
Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed
Adding 265064k swap on /dev/hda4. Priority:42 extents:1
reiserfs: enabling write barrier flush mode
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0xd000, 00:a0:cc:d1:3b:78, IRQ 9.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7849 advertising 05e1 Link 0000.
NTFS driver 2.1.17 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.
subfs 0.9
evdev_connect: evdev cdea2aa0 handle cdea2abc name event0
evdev_connect: evdev cdea29a0 handle cdea29bc name event1
evdev_connect: evdev cdea28a0 handle cdea28bc name event2
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:08.0 [1584:3000]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0020, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000007
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[dffff800-dfffffff] Max Packet=[2048]
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected VIA Twister-K/KT133x/KM133 chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 176M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
NET: Registered protocol family 23
via_ircc: unsupported module, tainting kernel.
IrDA: Registered device irda0
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00030d433413e0ad]
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.2[D] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: irq 10, io base 0000d400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
usb usb1: Product: UHCI Host Controller
usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.8-24-default uhci_hcd
usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:00:11.2
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.3[D] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: irq 10, io base 0000d800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
usb usb2: Product: UHCI Host Controller
usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.8-24-default uhci_hcd
usb usb2: SerialNumber: 0000:00:11.3
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using address 2
usb 1-1: Product: Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)
usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Microsoft
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c037f6a0(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1791 buckets, 14328 max) - 336 bytes per conntrack
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0820-0x08ff: excluding 0x828-0x87f
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x080f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x03e0-0x04ff: excluding 0x400-0x40f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x03af: excluding 0x378-0x37f
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
SCSI subsystem initialized
st: Version 20040403, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
evdev_connect: evdev cddb0e60 handle cddb0e7c name event3
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb-0000:00:11.2-1
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
ip6_conntrack version 0.1 (1791 buckets, 14328 max) - 208 bytes per conntrack
eth0: link down
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device ccf4a400(sit0)
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC0] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Fan [FAN1] (off)
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1 C2)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (41 C)
powernow-k8: Processor cpuid 680 not supported
powernow: PowerNOW! Technology present. Can scale: frequency and voltage.
powernow: SGTC: 13333
powernow: Minimum speed 800 MHz. Maximum speed 1600 MHz.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
usbcore: registered new driver usbserial_generic
usbcore: registered new driver usbserial
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core v2.0
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
mtrr: 0xd0000000,0x2000000 overlaps existing 0xd0000000,0x1000000
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.6
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
usb 2-1: Product: Cruzer Mini
usb 2-1: Manufacturer: SanDisk Corporation
usb 2-1: SerialNumber: SNDK1EDA752C44309807
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: SanDisk Model: Cruzer Mini Rev: 0.2
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 1000944 512-byte hdwr sectors (512 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
FAT: unable to read boot sector
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
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floppy0: probe failed...
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floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
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floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 2
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
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floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
floppy0: probe failed...
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 2
MINIX-fs: unable to read superblock
subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256)
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

modem is a: Uniwill Intell 537 (AC97 modem)
It is curious that YaST identifies components as Uniwill Corp and Windows XP IDs them as VIA Corp.

check this driver
you have to extract it from the zip file then extract it again from .tgz then there is a readme which tells how to install (very simple installation)

oh, generally Linux identifies the chipset and windows the manufacturer

Hi
I am installing Suse linux 6.4..the problem i am facing is that when i boot from the cd1 the installation starts but after initializing it gets stuck at ide0 at 0x1f0,0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14..
whats the problem i couldt understand..one more thing i have 2 hard disks on my computer..is this making this problem..if yes what should i do..please reply urgently if anyonw knows...
thxs