[CLUE-Tech] SuSE on the eMachines M2105 saga continues

[Angelo Bertolli]

I like SuSE, but it refuses to see my modem.  I usually use wvdial 
because it seems to do fine with my modem, but on SuSE it can't even 
detect the modem.  Do you have any idea why this might be?

Angelo

Nate Duehr wrote:

>I just posted a follow-up to some of my original problems (and their fixes) 
>for the eMachines M2105 laptop running SuSE on my blog... 
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>http://www.natetech.com/index.php?p=146
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>I found various stuff that helped, but the big ones were someone's 
>semi-working X config that gave me ideas (for a completely different LCD 
>screen, but after reading their config the lightbulb went on), and the 
>Synaptics touchpad settings -- and I'll be darned if I can find the link to 
>where I found that, but MAN does it make using the mouse a pleasure.  With 
>the default imps2 driver the thing was all over the place!
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>Now if a manufacturer would just come out with an 802.11g card with native 
>linux drivers... I appreciate the work the LinuxAnt folks did in coming up 
>with a hack to load Windows card drivers on Linux, but it just feels "wrong" 
>to me for some reason.
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