Tonight I did a NET install of the above; MD5 was OK. Everything was fine and almost seems to be a walk in the park. However, it’s been almost 3 hours since the start. I should have finished long time ago. Now the screen shows:
Installing boot manager 96%…
Saving boot manager 0%…
It seems the installation hangs at this step despite the swirling orb. I did ask Grub2 bootloader to be placed in the root partition, since openSUSE 12.2 has the default Grub that chainloads into openSUSE 13.2 (and other OS’s).
How do I get this job completed safely and very soon? I dare not hit the “Next” button. I can’t wait to see if Network Manager is working for both wired and wireless connections.
PS: The laptop just reboots! Lucky me! YAST works! NM 0.9.10.0-2.1 installed. Kernel-default-3.16.rc6-1.2.i586
Wired connection works! However, wireless connection doesn’t work yet.
I spoke too soon about YAST. In Software Management, I found b43-fwcutter and tried to install it. When I hit ACCEPT, the screen window shows a few other applications including Adobe Flash Player. When I hit CONTINUE, the screen very quickly shows “Downloading b43-fwcutter” then returns to the main YAST window. When I re-open Software Management I don’t see “b43-fwcutter” installed at all. I need this item for wireless connection to be established. The old laptop I installed 13.2 Factory on has a Linksys WPC-300N PCMCIA card that would normally needs Broadcom wl driver, but for now this is not available because there’s no Packman repo yet.
So uninstall the package “libproxy1-config-kde4” with zypper and YaST should work.
zypper rm libproxy1-config-kde4
(you should taboo it in YaST afterwards, or it will be installed again)
Or just use zypper to install b43-fwcutter.
zypper in b43-fwcutter
The text mode YaST and the Gtk version should work as well.
I need this item for wireless connection to be established. The old laptop I installed 13.2 Factory on has a Linksys WPC-300N PCMCIA card that would normally needs Broadcom wl driver, but for now this is not available because there’s no Packman repo yet.
Btw, the Packman repo is available for Factory, but the wl driver is not in there.
It is already patched for kernel >=3.15, but for some reason the Factory build is disabled.
Maybe you should ask on the Packman mailinglist: http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
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