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[Swimmer]

I will write a weekly, if needed, guide on how to do something if someone is have issues or I think it is just outright cool..  I will try and have them done by Friday so that you all have the weekend to work on your systems.

So.. here is the schedule:

5/11: Dual boot: Windows XP and openSuSE 10.2
5/18:  How to get wireless working in openSuSE 10.2
6/3 DVD Playback in SuSE 10.2: How to watch movies

[JokeyMcScrotsack]

Awesome, thanks so much Swimmer. I am on Vacation at the moment but will be reading. Thanks again.

[RyanS]

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Awesome, thanks so much Swimmer. I am on Vacation at the moment but will be reading. Thanks again.

i will look into it, but i have suse 10.1 lol i downloaded/installed the wrong version 

[Swimmer]

Ummm..  How did you do that?  Did you look in the wrong location?

[RyanS]

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Ummm..  How did you do that?  Did you look in the wrong location?

no i had downloaded suse 10.1, never touched the dvd i burned the iso to. then downloaded suse 10.2 and accidentally grabbed the 10.1 dvd instead of the 10.2 dvd right after i used gparted. and i didnt think about it untill i had like 5 minutes of install left 

[Swimmer]

You might actually be able to upgrade.  Try placing the 10.2 into the DVD drive and selecting upgrade for the installation type.  I have never tried this method, I have always just reformatted.

[RyanS]

thanks, but i'll stay with this untill i get wireless working and more ram for my laptop, then i'll upgrade versions. right now i'm still trying to learn the basics 

[RyanS]

hey swimmer i need help with wireless and i never saw you do a tutorial. any help is appreciated.
if you reply to this i'll start a new thread for it. but just letting you know  if i cant get suse to work i can change to ubuntu i guess.

[Swimmer]

Doing it Monday..  My mom was really sick.. Sorry about this guys.. I will make it up to you.

What type of wifi card do you have?? Does SuSE detect it or not?

[RyanS]

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Doing it Monday..  My mom was really sick.. Sorry about this guys.. I will make it up to you.

What type of wifi card do you have?? Does SuSE detect it or not?

Sorry to hear that about your mom  , hope she is feeling better now 

well i have an acer aspire 3100 laptop with the integrated "Acer InviLink 802.11b/g Wi-Fi!" is all i know about it. and i dont think it detects it because i have the wifi switch turned on but nothing happens. it just says the my network manager is off....and wont let me turn it on, so i use an ethernet cord and all is fine.

[dlewis23]

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Sorry to hear that about your mom  , hope she is feeling better now 

well i have an acer aspire 3100 laptop with the integrated "Acer InviLink 802.11b/g Wi-Fi!" is all i know about it. and i dont think it detects it because i have the wifi switch turned on but nothing happens. it just says the my network manager is off....and wont let me turn it on, so i use an ethernet cord and all is fine.

see if you can find out what wireless chipset it uses. I looked for a few minutes but i couldn't find it.

[RyanS]

same here dlewis, i looked again and this is all i found   

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Networking
Networking Network adapter
Wireless NIC Acer InviLink 802.11b/g
Data Link Protocol Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g
Features Acer SignalUp
Compliant Standards IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, Wi-Fi CERTIFIED

i guess i could uninstall suse and use ubuntu, i can use that easier and it recognizes my wireless better....

[Swimmer]

It isn't going to matter to much... The way that the guide is going to be written is using the windows drivers anyways.  Just wanted to know if it detected it.

[Swimmer]

Finally.. it is done.. enjoy..  Any ideas for the next ones?

[RyanS]

thanks swimmer, looking at it now!.

ummm...what about loading xgl in suse? i am not using it untill i get a new laptop and reinstalling suse on it but hey, you wanted a topic for a guide 

[Swimmer]

Not hard.. I can give you the command for suse 10.2 that will pretty much do it for you..

gnome-xgl-switch --enable-xgl

Run that as root in a terminal window..

[RyanS]

are you serious? ok never mind, i dont think that would make a good guide after all. but thanks for the code swimmer, i'll keep that ready

edit/ what about in suse 10.1? is it the same?

[Swimmer]

10.1 doesn't have all of the packages installed by default..  Then again 10.1 was really flawed from the beginning..

[RyanS]

ok thanks. i'll get 10.2 sometime....i havent used my laptop lately so i havent even used linux for awhile.

[Swimmer]

another guide posted.. enjoy.