I had previously used 10.3, which had a few niggles, but otherwise worked. I had to remove that to put windoze on for a few months (which turned into the best part of a year)
Now that 11 is out and I have time to get to learn about it. It’s on my machine.
A Thinkpad R60
I have hit the first hurdle again already.
With 10.3 the LAN connection would only sometimes work. It strangely enough only ever worked when the cable had previously been plugged into my windows laptop at work.
Again I’m suffering from this problem. I have no idea why it does this. It’s only at work. At home (as far as I know but I didn’t test it yesterday) it works flawlessly.
Even the Broadcom WiFi (should again I forgot to check yesterday).
Can anybody shine any light on why I need to do the following to get a connection at work.
Plug cable into my windows work pc with a working LAN connection.
Take cable out of PC and out of PC and put into SuSE machine
Connection works.
I know it’s not a cable thing, I can swap the cable between the two machines and it works fine.
SuSE is the only distro which works out of the box for me - 99.9%.
Ubuntu and it’s flavors cause me hours of grief getting the networking working.
> 1. Plug cable into my windows work pc with a working LAN connection.
> 2) Take cable out of PC and out of PC and put into SuSE machine
> 3) Connection works.
{Chuckle} Never really seen a cable connection you had to prime to get
started… like an old lawn-mower I had growing up… slow pull to prime,
than a fast pull to start it… stupid thing lasted 22 years, it wouldn’t die!
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Do you know if your work does MAC address filtering? Although if they did
that, your laptop wouldn’t work at all. Guess not…
Is your wired ethernet set up with Traditional or Network-Manager mode?
Is it set as ‘when plugged in’ or ‘at boot’ for enable type?
Without knowing what’s on the other end of the cable (don’t say “The wall
socket!”, I’ll smack you!)…
Without knowing what’s on the other end of the cable, some questions aren’t
really answerable… but if you’re using Network-Manager mode, then I’d
recommend setting the “enable” type to “at boot” rather than “when plugged
in”.
Even better, shift to Traditional Mode, again with ‘at boot’ enable and see
if it helps.
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You may want to obtain a small chilled bucket to allow the spilled bits to be
reclaimed and reused… no point losing them.
L R Nix wrote:
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> You may want to obtain a small chilled bucket to allow the spilled bits to be
> reclaimed and reused… no point losing them.
> L R Nix wrote:
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> > You may want to obtain a small chilled bucket to allow the spilled bits
> > to be reclaimed and reused… no point losing them.
>
> Does a “bit bucket” always have to be chilled?
>
> Larry
Of course not! But due to increased bit energy induced by high potential
thermal environments causing correspondingly increased bit motion and
agitation, lower energy environments are recommended so as to limit the
quantity of ‘mexican jumping bean’ phenomenon experienced during the
bit-collection exercise. You certainly wouldn’t want your hard-collected
bits to simply jump out of your container now would you?
On the other end of the cable is an elaborate windows server setup taking care of the rest of the school. Huge thing it is. It handles the DHCP, DNS, etc. It’s on a fixed line. For handling less than 100 connections it’s a bit of overkill.
My Thinkpad is off to the repair center today to get it’s fan changed so I can’t sit and play with it all day again.
I have tired the traditional method with cable connection and on boot. It only works with my priming method so far.
It has strangely enough lost the connection a couple of time and then found it again later. I know it’s not the cable though.
I have tried disabling the firewall, that didn’t make any difference either.
When it comes back I’ll start again from scratch - I messed up a the install of codecs etc by using a 10.3 repo and then finding the 11 repos and trying to put them on top (you can see where this is going)
I am determined to get it to work this time.
SuSE is the only distro that has let my wireless connection run out of the box.
Ubuntdevil hates my broadcom WiFi adapter and my Ethernet as well.
SuSE doesn’t
I will add that it works fine at home - no problems there.