alright i am new to linux, ive heard great things about it and i wanted to get away from windows. i have an hp pavilion dv9418ca. i cant get my wireless card to enable and search for my home network. ive been trying for 3 days now and i really dont want to have to go back to windows vista. also is it possible to install my own programs on opensuse 11.0 like microsoft office and windows live messenger, probably not but i just figured id ask.
tino887 wrote:
> alright i am new to linux, ive heard great things about it and i wanted
> to get away from windows. i have an hp pavilion dv9418ca. i cant get my
> wireless card to enable and search for my home network. ive been trying
> for 3 days now and i really dont want to have to go back to windows
> vista. also is it possible to install my own programs on opensuse 11.0
> like microsoft office and windows live messenger, probably not but i
> just figured id ask.
For your wireless, go to the wireless subforum, read the stickies at
the beginning, do what they ask, and then reopen your thread there.
As for Windows programs, they will not run without special efforts.
The standard openSUSE installation includes OpenOffice, which can
read/write any of the Microsoft Office file formats. Only Access is
not implemented, but that probably does not affect you.
As for Microsoft Live Messenger, it was really good to get rid of that
security black hole!
Larry
good luck …
Hi,
Open office has fairly good compatability with micosoft office; however
there are methods to get microsoft office to work in Linux, if you
really need it, such as Crossover office or running Windows in Virtual
box.
You can use Kopete in KDE or Pidgin in GNOME to log in to your live
messenger account and IM your friends.
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Regards,
Barry Nichols
For wireless do “sudo dmesg | grep firmware” should give u read out which may say u need to get firmware will give u an address to go to get updated firmware for your wireless, it should have suse pkg to install do that then it will tell u installed then do reboot should work. Had to do that to my Dell laptop with b43. Hope this helps also look at forum wireless detailed info there for getting it to work it helped me.