installation was pretty bad...no cdrom,webcam..

[TaraIkeda]

Originally Posted by lwfinger

TaraIkeda wrote:
> Well if openSUSE 11.1 offers you too many issues you dont have long to
> wait for openSUSE 11.2.
> I tried 11.2 already and my webcam worked right away, I dont use
> wireless but I did see network manager made its way into 11.2 (its not
> there in 11.1).

NetworkManager is in 11.1. The above statement is wrong.

Its not there on my installation, appeared right away on 11.2 though.

[lwfinger]

TaraIkeda wrote:
>
> Its not there on my installation, appeared right away on 11.2 though.

If you have only a wired interface when you install, 11.1 does not
install NM; however, you can always go to the repos and get it. I have
not tried an 11.2 install without a wireless interface.

[TaraIkeda]

Originally Posted by lwfinger

TaraIkeda wrote:
>
> Its not there on my installation, appeared right away on 11.2 though.

If you have only a wired interface when you install, 11.1 does not
install NM; however, you can always go to the repos and get it. I have
not tried an 11.2 install without a wireless interface.

Gotcha, yeh I have a wired interface so I never took notice of network manager... I am always connected.

[ing_eduardo]

Thanks

CD's are now detected, internet came back again too, thank you very much.

Now I' working with my webcam issue.

Originally Posted by oldcpu

There was a bug in 11.1 when it first hit the streets as a GM release, in that the permissions for CD/DVD read/write was messed up. A work around that was put in place at that time by many users was to add their user to group 'disk' and group 'cdrom'. One can do that by going to: YAST » Security and Users » User Management » “select your user” » Edit » Details » Groups » check “disk” and “cdrom” and then click on “ACCEPT”. Then one must restart for those settings to be applied.

Instead command line users may try in a terminal with root permissions:

run `usermod -A disk yourusername`

and

run `usermod -A cdrom yourusername`

If you are using KDE-4, then the network icon in the lower right does not work well. IF your wireless hardware already has the necessary drivers installed and running, you could try the approach I suggested in post#2 in this thread: wireless works with gnome but not with KDE - openSUSE Forums

Many of us, with a wired connection in place, have taken to installing wicd so that wireless will work with wicd: Wicd - openSUSE

Note we have a forum area specific to wireless problems. You could go there, read the stickies, and then make a post for help and our wireless experts will try to give you some assistance. Wireless - openSUSE Forums

For your webcam, there is guidance here: HCL/Web Cameras - openSUSE

[ing_eduardo]

HI everyone.

Well I've been doing my homework and at this time I fixed with the help of you, all the issues in my laptop, now I have fully functional laptop, I even now have all the media things set and I can watch videos, play CD, mp3 etc. All of this thanks to the tutorials and the replies of the kind people here in the forum.

So my installation was "pretty bad" at start but now it's really really good.
So I'll be around here to see if I can help another people, even when I'm not a totally expert.

Thanks to all.

[caf4926]

Good to know we helped a little. See you around for sure

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by ing_eduardo

Well I've been doing my homework and at this time I fixed with the help of you, all the issues in my laptop, now I have fully functional laptop, I even now have all the media things set and I can watch videos, play CD, mp3 etc. All of this thanks to the tutorials and the replies of the kind people here in the forum.

So my installation was "pretty bad" at start but now it's really really good.
So I'll be around here to see if I can help another people, even when I'm not a totally expert.

Great news ! I find with each openSUSE release it gets easier, as one remembers the techniques applied from previous time one installed. ... Although sometimes, as one would expect, some of the hiccup areas just work in a new release and less customization is needed.

Its down to the point now where dependent on the PC and on the Internet speed, I can typically complete an openSUSE installation in less than 2 hours, including full multimedia, full office suite, and many different utilities. It took my wife something like 4 evenings to setup winXP the way she wanted (with only partial multimedia, full office suite, and many different utilities) with a few hours work every one of the 4 evenings, so the packaging of a Linux distribution like openSUSE (together with independent installation of the 3rd party packages available) is pretty good. Of course an underlying assumption here is familiarity with openSUSE Linux and a good internet connection, so that one does not waste time searching while trying to figure out what to do.

Welcome to our community!

[brunomcl]

Originally Posted by oldcpu

Its down to the point now where dependent on the PC and on the Internet speed, I can typically complete an openSUSE installation in less than 2 hours, including full multimedia, full office suite, and many different utilities. It took my wife something like 4 evenings to setup winXP the way she wanted (with only partial multimedia, full office suite, and many different utilities) with a few hours work every one of the 4 evenings, so the packaging of a Linux distribution like openSUSE (together with independent installation of the 3rd party packages available) is pretty good. Of course an underlying assumption here is familiarity with openSUSE Linux and a good internet connection, so that one does not waste time searching while trying to figure out what to do.

Welcome to our community!

Very true. Given a good Internet connection, starting at 1Mb/s, i think, installing an working, personalized OS system takes about an hour (With windows it takes at least three for an incomplete system, not counting the d*mned reboots). Knowledge of the repo system is necessary, however, so it's not trivial to a newbie - but not so hard as windows...