I'm about to declare that windows is the only OS for laptops.

This is an inspiron 9300, so it's got the intel centrino wired networking and wireless.

1. Wired networking doesn't work. It gets a dhcp address, but it seems confused as to what to do with it. I can't find any files to see what's happening, SuSE keeps everything in strange places. On the init load, you can see that it doesn't get a response real fast, so it backgrounds it. Then almost immediately it gets an address (192.168.1.113 atm), but says that something fails. I'm trying to catch that so I can see what's up.

2. Wireless is a lost cause as well, no connectivity or anything else. Then again, I can't tell since I can't FIND anything either. I'll pass on this for now, I really want the wired up first.

3. How the hell do I tell it that a 1920x1200 LCD STILL only has a refresh rate of 60hz? It thinks it should be 75hz (no such thing exists), and even if I change it to something else and force it, it hard locks (as in pull the battery) the system on test. This could be because I don't have the Nvidia drivers, but since I have no networking working, I'm kinda stuck there.

Where do I begin? This is such a mess, and SuSE was SUPPOSED to be the EASY laptop distro.

I'm not sure window is an OS, but this ain't the subject here...
Some DSL modems needs to be rebooted if you wire them on another machine.
Did you tried to run xorgconfig?

Xorg only breaks it farther. No screen at all after using that.

As for the networking, we've narrowed it down to the thing only being willing to accept a IPv6 address. How do I permanently remove everything related to IPV6 networking, or at least disable it? I only use IPv4, like most sane people...

Why do you think this? I mean, yes, SUSE has ipv6 support, but ipv4 woks fine on a default system. Here is a link how to deactivate ipv6: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/1...illa_ipv6.html

BTW, about which SUSE version are we talking?

I see that it may be a little confusing to find files in other places and with other names than in RH7.2, but I would have the same problem the other way round. It is simply something you need to get used to. Most log's are in /var/log. Especially useful are /var/log/boot.msg and /var/log/messages.

No, IPv4 doesn't work at all (for me) in the default system. If you look at the logs on the internet test during install, it complains that it can't find any IPv6 routers, and that DHCP is already up. It only configures anything with IPV6. If I statically assign the name servers/ip address, it can't resolve anything DNS wise.

We're talking about 9.2, the latest release out.

And I don't use RH7.2, I just never bothered updating that. I use OpenBSD 3.6, Solaris 10, and Gentoo (latest). OpenBSD just works, and never tries the IPV6 crap, same with solaris. Gentoo you have to fight to get IPv6 to work, if you ever wanted it. SuSE is the first one I've ever seen that assumes you want everything in V6 from the beginning.

The logs show nothing. DHCP never returns an address of any kind. In fact, there IS no /var/log/boot.msg. File doesn't exist. Nor var/log/messages.

If you bring up the interface manually, it gets a random IPv6 address. Statically setting a v4 doesn't work, the DNS lookup seems to be broken, and it still trys everything on V6.

EDIT: Your link is useless I have nothing at all in my modules.conf file. It's totally empty.

EDIT2: Ok. saw the latter part of the link. Made the change. Still no IPV4 address. This is really starting to get me frustrated.

If I do this, everything is fine. Maybe there is a problem with you router... Why not tying to deactivate ipv6?


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On my system, I get the 'Interface not ready' message also, but a split-second later the interface is set-up.

Sorry, you have no luck with SUSE on your laptop. On mine everything went smooth...

Maybe any further efford is useless. You didn't even read the text to the end.

The first part is about kernel 2.4 (modules.conf), in the second part (kernel 2.6) the file is called modprobe.conf.

Scuse me? Router works fine, 4 other systems hooked up to it, even this laptop when running windows works fine. It's an IPV4 router.

The address it got was something it doesn't get any more. Now it says not set up, then waits for a 20 second timeout, then says failed.

Read my second edit. I saw that, did that, still doesn't work. In dmesg it still says it can't find any IPV6 routers, and the transmission times out.

I had the same prob last time I did this, and again now too.
My Dell inspiron 8200 did somethine like what you are talking about. What I ended up doing was entering cmos setup and disabling the onboard LAN device there. That fixed my problem right away, but it also means that I was unable to use ethernet without entering cmos again.

It worked for me, but I would love to hear any other less frustrating fixes.

KK. Got networking up. Sorta.

Disable the wired lan, and everything was great. Wireless got an IP, route, etc and was running in <2 seconds. Enable the wired lan, and boom, nothing works. Looks like driver/etc issues with the Broadcom 4400 lan card.

You can disable it in YAST, instead of in bios. Set it to come up manually only.

So. Now to the video, and the sound

Video is up. Modify the instructions from the Nvidia site.

Now to debug networking and to try to adjust the touchpad. Sound works too.