Re: Network issue openSUSE 11.1

Problem solved! The firewall (which is enabled by default) has to be disabled.
In order to do this, you have to run YaST (logon as administrator) and disable
the firewall.

Every linux flavour has it's own peculiarities.

Quoting Howard Krakower <[email protected]>:

> Some flavours of Linux seem to have different issues depending on the
> hardware involved - in my case, I am using a Dell D600 notebook.
>
> I put Ubuntu on it a while back - started with Hardy Heron, where I
> had a difficult time getting the wireless network to work. Eventually
> (after a month of grief and experimentation) it worked (no reason why
> it suddenly decided to work). Hardy heron worked fine, then I did the
> update to Ibex. With Ibex, the networking worked fine, but on occasion
> the mouse (touchpad) froze - solved by rebooting - not a pretty
> solution, but it did work. What worked fine was the ability to mount
> and access shared network drives at home, on Windoze-based machines.
>
> Two days ago I did the update to Ubuntu 9.10. All updates had been
> done using the update manager. The system would boot up fine, but as
> soon as I tried to open any application, it froze totally.
>
> Fortunately, I had nothing of value on the drive, so I didn't feel any
> loss blowing it all away and starting over. I figured I would try
> Fedora - bad mistake, as the screen froze and flickered with just the
> Fedora logo. At this point I questioned whether it was hardware, so, I
> loaded Windoze on it just to see if all worked well - and it did.
>
> I tried putting Ubuntu 9.10 on it from a CD, and it froze up. So I
> decided to see what else there was out in the linux world that would
> work, and I settled on openSUSE. I downloaded the installation DVD and
> it installed fine. The wireless was a bit tricky, but once I installed
> bcm43xx-fwcutter, it works like a charm.
>
> There is only one thing I cannot seem to get working - the ability to
> browse the Windoze network - just a simple WORKGROUP at home where I
> know we have shared directories. I cannot see those folders and cannot
> mount them.
>
> Any ideas on how this can be done?
>
> Oh, yes - I find openSUSE takes longer to boot up than Ubuntu, but
> once up, applications load faster. In particular, Firefox loads pages
> faster. It also authenticates on the network much quicker than under
> Ubuntu.
>
> Howard Krakower
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