I need help with connecting to cdma mobile broadband for a tethered samsung phone. When I first installed Suse the phone icon on the network manager icon was all i needed to do to connect to the cdma network. After rebooting later the icon is gone and i cannot manage to connect. The connection is still there, but it is as if the computer no longer recognizes my phone as a modem. Well sense i just installed i figured lets try reinstalling to see if it was a bad installation. It happened exactly the same again. If anyone has any idea how to get network manager to allow me to connect to the internet again i would be grateful.
specs:
toshiba satilleite l305
Suse 11.3
Samsung R560 (Samsung Cdma Technologies)
there is a command to revoke n/w manager it says like NETWORKMANAGER UP and similar ones u can check them at man pages .U can revoke the NM daemon and start working
Are you using KDE or Gnome? They have different front ends. Have you tried deleting the connection and starting over?
Well sense i just installed i figured lets try reinstalling to see if it was a bad installation. It happened exactly the same again.
When? After a reboot? After 3 days? After an update?
Kde. And fresh os install. I can get it to connect properly in failsafe mode. It just doesn’t offer the option in regular mode. Please explain things simply. I am a bit of a linux noob.
I’m not immediately sure what might cause that. Maybe problematic power management (ACPI) with your laptop.
Just to have a look at your grub boot boot parameters…
Open a terminal, and become root with
su -
Enter your root password when prompted. Then type
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
Cut and paste the info here. Wrap it with th code tags for better readability.
There are also graphics issues, such as not being able to get proper resolution. I was told to add repositories and stuff to get a patched kernel for Toshiba buggy bios. I think that I have one of these buggy bios sense every not windows os has difficulty operating properly on my computer. This is the instructions.
If it suffers from the same buggy bios issue that many of the new Toshiba laptops have then you can remedy all it’s problems by installing the 2.6.35 kernel and won’t have to play with/disable/set any acpi settings it will just work.
Add this repository to Yast.
Index of /repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_11.3
Once it is succesfully added then go into Yast software management, and click on view tab, then click on repositories, on the right hand side click on switch to repository, then it should install the kernel. If it warns that preload is not compatible, select the option to not install preload-kmp. (QT yast instructions)
When done you can reboot to the new fully functioning system.
Could someone help me do this. I have been attempting it but between all the weird issues such as having difficulty connecting to wifi or mobile broadband and it sometimes working and sometimes not I am not sure if I am going about this the right way or not.
These are all different problems. I strongly suggest you start new threads for both of these: Graphics configuration and Upgrading kernel.
BTW, for your graphics, read these first:
SDB:Configuring graphics cards - openSUSE
openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users