Impossible hardware configuration for Suse

Motherboard: asus a8n-sli + 2gbs of ram
Graphic card: Club3d 7800 gt
Processor: AMD64 x2 3800
Networking: Linksys wmp54g(rt2500) / Telewell PCI wlan(atheros 512)

First of all I've been using Linux for about six months. I have 4 computers at home (3 x suse 10, 1 x kubuntu 5.10) and I haven't had any major problems until now.

I bought this new computer two weeks ago, specs mentioned above, and since then I've been trying to get 64-bit linux OS (mainly Suse 10) working on this d*** machine.

I wasted almost my whole 7 day holiday for this:

Suse 10 64 &3 2:

Problem is that Suse won't recognize either one of my two wlan cards during installation(and for smart asses, i'm not using them at the same time). I've tried also to install with wired internet connection(integrated network card) and then the installation succeeded, but as soon as i've to install wlan cards the system halted. I've tried with all installation and bios options without succeeding.

Ubuntu 64 5.10:

Ubuntu detected rt2500 but as soon as I updated to smp kernel, I lost my wireless device.

Mandriva 2006, FC4 64:

Installation detected both wireless cards but I wasn't able to access os after installation.

What am I supposed to do next? I've already installed xp pro to this computer and everythig works like it should, so there is nothing wrong with the hardware. Is it the dual core system that linux is having problems? I would have never wanted to go back to windows but at the moment I had no any other option.

I'd really like to find solution to this problem...

Originally posted by cor@Dec 8 2005, 09:39 AM
What am I supposed to do next? I've already installed xp pro to this computer and everythig works like it should, so there is nothing wrong with the hardware. Is it the dual core system that linux is having problems? I would have never wanted to go back to windows but* at the moment I had no any other option.

I'd really like to find solution to this problem...

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What version of XP did you try, 32bit or 64 bit? Do you know if there are 64bit drivers for either card? If not you won't be able to get those cards working AFAIK and might need to switch to 32bit.

just for kicks, try booting with "nosmp" after you hit F2 at the 1st bootsplash just to see what happens.

I also like to use the Knoppix live CD to quickly find my problems. There is, however, a problem with rt2500 with the latest versions; see here: http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=16316
(The latest ver will boot with the cheat code "nodhcp" & maybe "nosmp", but, you are not gonna have internet.)
Anyway, get booted with knoppix & see what it is doing & not doing; then apply that to your Suse at boot via cheat codes.


For the record, Suse 10 x86-64 has no problems detecting & providing for my setup of rt2500 on my sager laptop -- it is presented in Yast > Network Devices.

Good luck & let us know what happens.

Problems with smp-kernel.

Originally posted by Snakedriver@Dec 8 2005, 03:53 PM
just for kicks, try booting with "nosmp" after you hit F2 at the 1st bootsplash just to see what happens.*

I also like to use the Knoppix live CD to quickly find my problems.* There is, however, a problem with rt2500 with the latest versions; see here: http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=16316
(The latest ver will boot with the cheat code "nodhcp" & maybe "nosmp", but, you are not gonna have internet.)
Anyway, get booted with knoppix & see what it is doing & not doing; then apply that to your Suse at boot via cheat codes.
For the record, Suse 10 x86-64 has no problems detecting & providing for my setup of rt2500 on my sager laptop -- it is presented in Yast > Network Devices.*

Good luck & let us know what happens.

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Now I've tried knoppix but it wasn't very helpful. Only startup option that I could get knoppix running was NODHCP. But knoppix halted just like SUSE when configuring network interface.

What's next?
Do I need to wait until SUSE 11 comes out?

Did you try Knoppix-3.9 version as I indicated in my link above?

"What's next?
Do I need to wait until SUSE 11 comes out? "

According to the link you gave, going back to the -default kernel is the thing to do, or go for the KOTD at the link inside the link you gave. Just keep in mind that the kernel-of-the-day is a project & hasn't been thru all of Suse's checks & balances yet.

Originally posted by Snakedriver@Dec 16 2005, 06:59 PM
Did you try Knoppix-3.9 version as I indicated in my link above?

Network card configuation output:
"No supported network cards found".

Looking here, http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_wmp54gs it looks like the linksys card needs ndiswrapper to work. I'd suggest checking andrewd18's howto that is linked in the wireless network section to try and get that going. As for the Telewell card, I can't find anything on it.

cor, re knopix 3.9
I'm just curious,
when you did knoppix > network config
Did you get eth1 & eth0 as options to config? If you did, one was the wired lan & the other was your wireless.
you have to go ahead and see which one allows you to setup the wireless extension to find out which is which.

Plus, I had to add these two lines in the root terminal (knoppix > root term)
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.101 up (your static config vs this one)
route add default gw 192.168.0.1

then edit /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver yourispdns1
nameserver yourispdns2
nameserver yourispdns3

Hopefully, 69_rs_ss's reference to ndiswrapper works and you won't have to mess with this. andrewd18 has a great guide.

Thanks for your help, but there's no solution to this problem.