Wireless? Where?

Hi. I'm new to Suse. I started the live-cd KDE-Four. Where on earth do I find something to configure wifi? I just want to get on my network? (everything on my laptop works with open source drivers, that is not the problem). Thanx. Sorry to ask such a very very simple question....

unfortunately, wireless will not work on the livecd,unless you have an old 802.11b card as most newer wireless devices will need drivers & the livecd doesn't have room for all drivers. Your best bet would be to either install openSUSE or to use something like SimplyMepis ( which is a small distro & can store *most* drivers ).

Andy

Thanx for the reply. But ...Ah... to bad. My best bet would probably be to stick with Ubuntu as it does that one thing other distro's never seem to do - it actually works. I actually like KDE better and thought I'd try with another distro. I'll wait till another nice distro to come with KDE 4(.1).

Thanx for the reply. But ...Ah... to bad. My best bet would probably be to stick with Ubuntu as it does that one thing other distro's never seem to do - it actually works. I actually like KDE better and thought I'd try with another distro. I'll wait till another nice distro to come with KDE 4(.1).
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suse does work with wireless. my wireless internet is working fine... and actually i found ubuntu didn't just work for me, the install wouldn't work properly and had to do some niggly work arounds. for me, suse just works.

Totally cool
I'm sure these things mostly depend on hardware and its hard for any distro to support all. I really don't mean to start with all kind of fanboyism here. Ubuntu's last release has some really ugly bugs and I'm convinced that calling it their LTS gives linux an ugly name. The least we can say is that Suse looks better.

In many other cases however I like the way Ubuntu sets priorities. Wifi is a often bottleneck so I want to see it working. I have a laptop, I fire up a live-cd. A very common thing to do for a try-out of a distro. Developers that consider such common perspective of a common user would probably consider many other likely scenario's as well.
I converted to linux two an a half years ago because there was finally a distro that 'just did it' and had sane defaults. I tried a few at the time. Mabye I try Mandriva or Mepis to see what happens. But instead of tweaking for hours to get my perfect linux a lot of time is safed by sticking with what works already.

as was said, a live cd is to give you a taste, if you are going to give linux a serious try, install...at least partition that hard drive, once installed you should be able to get wireless without a hitch.

my laptop came with vista, I immediately got rid of it and had wiresless up and running without much of a hitch (thanks andy). funny, ubuntu wouldn't even install on the same laptop. there is a reason when high end apps which are installable on all three major platforms, like autodesk's maya, gear their linux installs towards two distros in particular: SuSE and RedHat (fedora) and it's not because of RPMs.

as was said, a live cd is to give you a taste, if you are going to give linux a serious try, install...at least partition that hard drive, once installed you should be able to get wireless without a hitch.

my laptop came with vista, I immediately got rid of it and had wiresless up and running without much of a hitch (thanks andy). funny, ubuntu wouldn't even install on the same laptop. there is a reason when high end apps which are installable on all three major platforms, like autodesk's maya, gear their linux installs towards two distros in particular: SuSE and RedHat (fedora) and it's not because of RPMs.
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precisely. i am not knocking ubuntu, i never got much of a chance to try it since it wouldn't install properly. a friend of mine had it, but after seeing suse they switched shortly after.

..it is because RH and suse are two biggest industry/enterprise ready distros.
=support for longer than few months.

rpm is huge drawback, but when you weight pluses and minuses currently only these two linux players earned enough credit.

to be honest latest Maya is supported only on RH (Fedora is a bonus).

This is one of serious linux weaknesses: each distro has different file system structure/location/dependencies. So for software maintainer it is difficult to keep up with all linux quirks. Even for something smaller than Maya.

Okay...so I gave it a try and installed 11.0-beta. Looks nice and feels nice. In added a packman repository. I'm a bit at loss now. What plugin do I need to have firefox play a video? Is there no Skype in any repro? Is there a nice all-in-one 'restricted extra's' package with codecs fonts and such?
It's probably me being not very familiar with Suse and its forums but I'm looking for a easy/clear way in.

why install a beta release if you are having problems? try the latest 10.3 release then go here:


da link

for package managing you can use yast by manually adding every repo or smart from labix.org (guru version not opensuse version) just avoid having all the channels activated 'cause you may get some buggy software just keep the channels, packman guru. suse update. current kde. opensuse. etc checked to have access to third party apps and patches which will keep your system relatively bug free.