Unstable 10.0 Installation On Thinkpad T43

Hi!

I have used suse 10.0 since it was released on my T41 (2373-3JG) and got everythink working perfectly out of the box. With much confidence in suse, I bought new T43 (2668-F7G) and bought a suse 10.0 DVD.
This time the suse installer hanged during the installation and I had to reset and retry a couple of times to finish it.
The hang seemed to happen in the networking setup starting the network intefaces.

Now I have a suse 10.0 installed but without working wlan and it hangs several times when performing network operations.

The networking hardware is:
Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG
NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express

I can use the kinternet to list wlan networks.
I can set wlan parameters in yast, but it doesn't connect to the access point (wrt54g).
I have tried both wep encrytion and open wlan mode (in both ends)
After setting a wep key, it sometimes shows different key setting each time I do iwconfig (in kinternet -Wirelss connection it shows yes/no randomly on each update.

Some times when dhcp has set up ethernet correctly, then after some seconds tcp-ip stops working, and ifconfig reports no ip number and /etc/resolv.conf is blank again.

I use acpi and it works very well.

Tell me if you want to look at dmesg or hardware-info lists.

Regards,
Dag

Hi,

I am using Suse 9.3 on my t43p. But I had installed once the version 10.0. And I remember it working well.

Altough my wireless card is an ibm one, I couldn't connect or get a nameserver when I used kinternet. I had installed netapplet which is a network manager for gnome (but working also in kde). And it happened to connect to the wlan (wep and open) without any problem.

I think the latest updates messed up things. Either the drivers or the kernel is behaving strange. Now I have difficulties to connect to wep accessed wlans with or without netapplet. I am currently using kinternet to access wifi and each time I enter the wep key by hand otherwise it does not connect.. I don't know if these 9.3 updates are also for 10.0 but I think the first kernel without updates was better.

I can recommend you the thinkwiki wich contains lots of info about linux on thinkpads
(www.thinkwiki.org)

Now I have got the WLAN interface working!
I bought driverloader from Linuxant and downloaded a driver for the 2915 interface from the net.
I had to do one change to get it working: Suse think that wlan device should be named eth1 but driverloaded want to name it wlan0.

I installed like this:

rpm -i driverloader-2.33_k2.6.13_15.8_default-1suse.i586.rpm
Used web based setup
kwrite /etc/udev/rules.d/30-net_persistent_names.rules
commented out the following line with a leading # (address will be different for you):
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{address}=="00:13:ce:c7:28:df", IMPORT="/sbin/rename_netiface %k eth1"
Started Yast/network devices/network card, and edited the essid etc
Now ifup wlan0 starts it