Good day all,
I recently cleaned my asus ( z92 from… 2008 ? ). I had the famous overheating issue. I opened the laptop, cleaned everything ( dust ). Then it works better but I still got issues with LAN stuff. So I tested lots of linux distro and the best I found was OpenSuse ! Really nice for managing hardware 
I removed the built-in wireless ipw2200’s like which seems buggy and switch to a wiresless carbus. Everything seems fine - I can connect, etc… - but sometimes the wireless card don’t show up at startup and it starts top be really anooying 
I can get two patterns:
- OpenSuse boots but stops: If i pressed escape, I have an error message with “Try something like pci=assign_devices”. I already tested that in the past, does not work
- OpenSuse boots but only the ethernet card is available or none of them.
Often I shutdown, wait a few seconds, restart in failsafe mode, shutdown, wait a few seconds, restart and that works again. Motherboard issue ? Don’t know but the bios shows all the bridges every time.
Thanks for any help
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iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth2 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:“C01HW-781DBA1EE60E”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 78:1D:BA:1E:E6:0E
Bit Rate=48 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:3335-3236-36
Power Management:off
Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:1224 Missed beacon:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
01:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
01:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 08)
01:01.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 17)
01:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 08)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X700 (PCIE)