[ale] opensuse 10.2

[James P. Kinney III]

I'm not a suse user but I have some ideas that may help:

1. Get X running by hook-or-crook. By this I mean edit the xorg.conf and
change the driver from the nvidia driver to a nv driver. The nv driver
is in xorg and it works. You won't get the spiffy hardware accellerated
OpenGL but you wil get X and multiple term windows.

It is possible that if the USB stick has no partition that Linux hotplug
may not see it. plug it in and wait about 3-5 seconds (or until the
light blinks on it) and run dmesg. That should tell you the /dev device
that is seen. Now run fdisk -l /dev/<above> to see the partitions. If
there are none, that would explain the no automount.

So mount it manually with mount -t vfat /dev/<above> /<mountpoint>

On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 22:31 -0400, mike barnes wrote:
> I need help setting up my daughter's system. I have installed 10.2 of
> opensuse and now need to set up the wireless card. The problem is that
> I do not have easy access to a ethernet connection since that
> connection is downstairs. 
> 
> As far as I can tell I have 2 tasks that I need to do:
> 
>    1) Install wireless driver. BTW, this is an Athreos chipset.
>    2) Install NVIDIA driver. Currently, I have not been able to get
> the X dispaly working and it appears to be a driver issue. But until I
> can get to website from her system. I can not install the new driver. 
> 
> I have downloaded madwifi onto a 1 GB usb stick. What I can not figure
> out is how do I see this stick on by openSuse system so that I can
> transfer the rpm over. BTW, I have been using the USB stick on windows
> systems, if this makes any difference. 
> 
> 
> Thanks for any guideance and help 
> 
> 
> Mike Barnes
> 
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