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**tomg35** · 10-29-2006

Hi

Well I've installed a few different linux distros - Ubuntu, fedora and suse 10.1.

Suse 10.1 is currently installed on my laptop (ibm t23) and I have 3 problems,

1) My ps 2 mouse doesn't work - looked in yast and there is a mouse configured that looks like mine and I've edited xorg.conf as suggested on another forum - no difference.
2) My external usb cd writer is not detected (all the lights on it flash as they did under windows but I cannot find it anywhere - I created an icon on the desktop but this comes up with the error message - "the desktop entry file /home/tom/desktop/cdwriter device is of a type FSDevice but has no Dev= entry" - I presume I'm supposed to mount the drive, but how (if i try to write to my floppy disk drive i get a similar error message even as root).
3) my network card (F5D7010 belkin) shows up in yast but according to KWIFIManager my card is dis-abled - how do i enable it? - I've seen other posts about wireless problems and there doesn't seem to be a solution. When I had fedora installed I followed the instructions of a number of posts but still no wireless (ethernet works but ethernet and a laptop is a bit of a contradiction).
Wondered if anyone has any suggestions - I've posted the problems elswhere but the replies seem to have dried up

**smolloy** · 10-29-2006

I can *maybe* help with the wireless network card problem.

What happens if you type (as root) "ifstatus eth1" (replacing eth1 with the correct name of the card)? Have you tried the following (as root)?

Code:

ifdown eth1
ifup eth1

**onlinebacon** · 10-29-2006

Heh, the PS/2 mouse problem could be sorted by:

X -configure

at the command line

**tomg35** · 10-31-2006

Thanks for the posts chaps

Smolley - excuse ignorence but what do you mean by "correct name"? I entered belkin as the name and got
ifstatus belkin "interface belkin is not available" - ifdown belkin "no such interface" - ifup belkin "interface belkin is not available"

Onlinebacon
the result of entering that command was "fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /temp/.XO-lock and start again"
Hopefully that means something to you!

**smolloy** · 10-31-2006

Originally Posted by tomg35

TSmolley - excuse ignorence but what do you mean by "correct name"? I entered belkin as the name and got
ifstatus belkin "interface belkin is not available" - ifdown belkin "no such interface" - ifup belkin "interface belkin is not available"

If you type the command "ifconfig" you should see a list of possible network cards to use, normally called eth0, eth1, etc., or maybe dsl0, ppp0, or something like that.

Also, the command "iwconfig" will give you a list of the network cards that are wireless cards.

You should see your card listed under one of these names. Once you've figured out the "name" of the network card, you can try the commands I gave.

**tomg35** · 10-31-2006

hi
iwconfig says there are no wireless extensions (but in yast the belkin card is shown). ifconfig only shows the inbuilt ethernet card.

**smolloy** · 10-31-2006

Originally Posted by tomg35

hi
iwconfig says there are no wireless extensions (but in yast the belkin card is shown). ifconfig only shows the inbuilt ethernet card.

Not good.

Hmmm.... You might have to look into using ndiswrapper to allow you to run the windows drivers for your wireless card. Or maybe trying to find if linux drivers are available for that card.

Sorry -- it's not much of a solution, but maybe someone who knows more than me can chime in now.

**tomg35** · 10-31-2006

Thanks for trying

**techieMoe** · 10-31-2006

Please start a new thread in the appropriate section of the forum for each separate problem you're having. This thread has grown too large and is attracting trolls. Locked.

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