i am happy with suse 9.1 prof, and did not have none of the problems the other user had here-

hp photoshop 1000 printer set up during install

sound on my nforce 2 board setup on install

got xine dvd player running in 20 min with rpms from thread in the forum

easily set my monitor resolution and refresh rate from yast -hardware setup

got it running on a dual boot on my nforce 2 board, got to make 2 bios settings for this to work-
set primary idie master-AUTO
access mode-LARGE

otherwise i was not able to boot into windows

overall, best suse distro to date in my opinion.

I am a linux newbie. I will have to learn unix/linux for my degree in networking(security certificate has unix classes).
Decided to jump in now,installed SuSe 9.1 on my laptop.
Thank god I didn't do research before-all of you would have scared me off!

Installed fine-good hardware detection.
Can't get my wireless card working-it was detected,drivers installed-just can't get it connected.
USB Zip drive is detected, just can't access it(wont mount).
Konqueror(I use firefox, so not a big issue) doesn't display jpeg images right-they collapse into a thin line-I refresh and they are fine( probably more of a KDE thing).
Fan on laptop seems to stay on alot-understand this isn't a SuSe specific issue,seems to be a linux thing.

No big issues, minor inconveniances.
I would still recommend this distro to any windows user who wants to switch who isn't afraid to tinker around a little bit.

I would certainly recommend it as well. Light years ahead of Red Hat/Fedora in quality and understanding of enterprise needs. SUSE advocates are sometimes the most critical of their own distribution... I'm a perfectionist. I expect perfection. There are some issues with SUSE... but certainly for every one issue with SUSE there are three issues with another distribution. I've always felt that SUSE was a 9 out of 10... but always striving for 10. IMHO, Red Hat is comfortable with about a 7ish or 8ish... they're very proud of their marketshare and seem more focused on making "deals" than improving what they have.

First, I am a total Linux newbie. Just installed 9.1 professional on a Dell L400 laptop. I want to set it up as the main portal to my home network- SSH I think. Anyway, before I get that far, I have several issues I hope someone can help me with:

1. Wireless card access:

RMaynard- how did you get the Linksys wireless card working? I have been searching for days and have not found a solution.

You wrote:

"rmaynard
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Ok the real pain was my wireless g card from linksys. WOW that sucked! I finally got it set up after much searching on linuxquestions posts. I have a windows machine that set up its wireless card automatically! That sure beats spending 10 hours fiddling. Oh well, now its working."


2. Printing: I have an FM114P router that has a dedicated print server. I can connect to the port directly, and print a nice page of gibbrish. When i try to config the pronters I never get any option to tell the system what printer I have, only options for network address, etc. Where do I input a printer profile?

3. Mail. I have Bellsouth DSL and I can receive all the email I want. But sending does not work at all through KMail or the other mail program I found on the install. The Connection is live and the FM114P keeps it active and handles the PPOE for me. Why can't I send?

Thanks for any advice/direction.

My attention has been drawn to Pcghost's excellent instructions on this thread for expanding Yast and quickly downloading programs like MPlayer. I have just done that on Suse 9.2. As a way to get a copy of MPlayer quickly up and running, it was superb. When I tried by other ways, I couldn't get it to instal properly.

However, I find it still has the same failing as I had with Kaffeine previously: it will only play .mpg videos. Worse than that, when I try to play another format the MPlayer freezes, and I can only get out of it by turning off the computer. Can anyone help me to overcome this?

I can think of a couple of possible reasons. When I downloaded Mplayer, I was asked for a small file to take off the Suse 9.2 CD 2. But that CD made a scraping sort of sound in the computer and the file clearly wasn't being downloaded. After several attempts I decided to abandon it by pressing "Ignore". Unfortunately I didn't note the name of what had to be taken from the CD, but it was about 180 KB in size.

I just went back into Yast and on "Install and Remove Software" I found that MPlayer did not have a tick against it, like other programs in use, but a padlock. Could that be the source of the trouble? If so, what can I do about it?

As with so many things with Linux in the week or two I've had it, I find that, with a great deal of help from forums like this, I've nearly got to where I want to be - but not quite. Can anyone please give me the final push???

Tom

Hummm, you know I tried this but I keep getting a message:

ERROR(Instsrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media)

What does this mean and how would I get around it?

-TS-

Great thread. One of the best things that any Suse user can do is figure out how to use yast to access the suse repositories. Since there are lots of Suse newbies, here is a must read thread on the same topic - http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=253645

Packman rocks

That is common problem. Either you aren't enterring the information properly or the repository is down. Check out that link that I just posted.

Hey thanks for the tip! i'll be sure to check this out!

JavaScript is weak in Konqueror because the ebeddable KHTML control it uses doesn't offer full DOM support - at least not the same DOM schema that other browsers (including the horrid MSIE) support. If you think Konqueror is broken, you should try Safari on OS/X sometime - because it uses an older version of KHTML it's even worse!

I'd expect the KDE team will fix KHTML (and thusly Konqueror) in 3.4 or 3.5.

Well I can't really beleave it !!!!
Linux is the BEST operatin system !!!
And once more thanks for the tip!!!!

Pcghost

hey there, i am a complete newbie (hours) and ive been reading all these posts and was excited to see pcghosts post that seemed to be the solution to my mplayer problem...but even after doing that(actually i had that site as my installation source already) i have had no luck resolving the liblzo.so.1 dependency problem....any other ideas what might be a solution???

im using suse 9.3, so is that the problem, that that was a solution specifically for 9.1???

thanks for helping if u can...

wow since this thread was last active so much has changed. Safari has lept leaps and bounds beyond other web browsers in Tiger, and their code contributions back to KDE have been really bringing Konqueror along. I now use Konqueror quite often - it hasn't replaced Firefox on my system (IMHO Firefox is vastly superior in all respects except for missing KDE integration) but it's quite good nonetheless.