Hello! First off, I'm new to Linux and I'm totally psyched about using it! Goodbye Windoze! Now, I've been trying to use my floppy and zip drives by clicking their appropriate icons on the SuSe Desktop. When I do this, I get an I/O error-it can't determine files structure type and it doesn't matter if it's a mac or ibm type disk. I wish I could provide the actual message, but I'm forced to work online in windoze b/c i don't have an appropriate driver for my wireless adaptor. Netgear has sent me a windows driver, or at least its an exe file. Can this file be opened with linux? do i have to use wine? Any ideas?? Thanks in advance for helping out a newbie!!

- Floppy and zip; the command mount /mnt/floppy and mount /mnt/zip from a terminal generates the same error? - Your exe file won't work in linux. Have you checked at the SuSE hardware database if information is available? http://cdb.suse.de/?LANG=en_UK - I assume YAST2 doesn't detect your network card when you try to configure one? - Can you post the model number or chipset of the adapter then somebody can find out if you should be able to get it working somehow. If it's a PCI then open a terminal give the command su (enter); after typing the root password you now have root privileges. Give the command: lspci (enter) or lspci -v (enter) and see if your card is listed there. If you have a laptop, check the laptop out at http://www.linux-laptop.net to see if conflicts between linux and other laptop hardware can be expected.

1)Mounting for zip & floppy both produce error: "Could not mount device The reported error was: /dev/hdb4: Input/output error Mount: I could not determine the filesystem type and now was specified" I noticed under YAST2 Hardwile Info that the name of the zip was "/dev/hdb" not "/dev/hdb4". 2)Network info: I'm running a Netgear wireless device-WG121 hooked up through my USB PCI port. YAST2 recognizes my ethernet card and is managing it without any problems-when directly hooked up to the router which is on the other side of the house. I have to set the pc up by the router to do this. I looked up the compatibilty on the Suse website but there was not information given for the WG121 or the USB card. When I typed in the terminal commands listed about I got this: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] 00:03.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50) 00:03.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50) 00:03.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51) 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 05) 00:04.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 05) 00:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) 00:14.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22) 00:14.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10) 00:14.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 10) 00:14.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 10) 00:14.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev a1) linux:/home/Suzi # lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: dc000000-ddffffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-d7ffffff 00:03.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 I/O ports at d000 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:03.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 7 I/O ports at d400 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:03.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID): Unknown device 1234 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 05) Subsystem: Creative Labs CT4760 SBLive! Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 7 I/O ports at d800 [size=32] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 00:04.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 05) Subsystem: Creative Labs Gameport Joystick Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 I/O ports at dc00 [size=8] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 00:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) Subsystem: Allied Telesyn International AT-2400 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11 I/O ports at e000 [size=32] 00:14.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686/A PCI to ISA Bridge Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0 00:14.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 I/O ports at e400 [size=16] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:14.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 10) Any Ideas? Did something go wrong when I installed it? Am I just trying to use stuff that isn't supported yet?? Thanks A LOT!

On your Zip Drive problem; where is the Zip installed ? You mentioned that Yast2 sees it as /dev/hdb and "not /dev/hdb4". If you installed the Zip as the secondary drive (slave) on the Primary IDE controller, it will be /dev/hdb, so Yast is showing you the correct information. If you attmepted to connected as a Partition instead of as a drive, and that is why you think that it should be as /dev/hdb4, then there might be the problem. I think it would be trying to mount a parition that does not exist. How many drives do you have? (hard drives, zips, CD-Rom, CD-RW, DVD-Rom) How/where are all your physical drives connected? (which IDE and master or slave) Example configuration would be: Primary H/D= Master on Primary IDE= /dev/hda Secondary H/D= Slave on Primary IDE= /dev/hdb Primary Optical (CD/DVD)= Master on Secondary IDE= /dev/hdc Zip Drive=Slave on Secondary IDE= /dev/hdd You can substitute H/D's, optical drives, etc. in the IDE chain and the /dev/hdx will remain the same, for it is related to where it is placed and not what it is. Check your configuration and that might help figure out the problem. Regarding the WiFI card, Linux distros are doing much better at dealing with WiFi now, but it is not perfect yet. I have no direct help for I do not use WiFI. ALl I can recomend is to remove the WiFi card, and start the configuration from scratch again, paying close attention to Yast2's options and the default drivers it comes with.(I once had a problem with a very old SMC NIC which Yast would not recognize during initial set up in oneof my test machines, and then after all was installed, I tried from scratch and it configured it without a single hitch... go figure) (Ie read that many people have good luck with Orinoco drivers for WiFI) HTH and good luck... Regards...

At least some good news for your wireless card; According to this site: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/ProductGuides-Wireless-Details-ProdID-WG121-Network_Adapter.php It uses the intersil prism chipset, and according to this FAQ: Q: What devices does the linux-wlan-ng driver support? Currently, the linux-wlan-ng driver supports the Intersil Prism2/2.5/3 chipsets. These chipsets are used in a wide variety of PCMCIA, PCI, and USB products. If it has a Prism chip in it, linux-wlan-ng should support it. You should be able to get it working... So maybe best to spend some time at website: http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/wmp11-linux.htm And http://www.linux-wlan.org/ I am not going to buy any netgear products as long as they don't improve their linux-related info on their website; it really sucks! As far as getting your wireless adapter to work, don't expect it to work in 5 minutes. Most things you need to do you're not yet familiar with, but it should be worth the challenge! Just for curiousity, can you post the /etc/fstab file? It's hard for me to imagine that a SuSE installation messes up with floppy's and zip drives (mine do "just work", but to make sure there's nothing strange). Oh, and just to make sure the wireless card itself is working properly, can you connect it to a windows box? So you know for sure that while trying out the hardware itself is good. Good luck!

Thanks! I have to take my computer into the shop today. I've found some MAJOR hardware issues that I can't fix. So, perhaps that's why I was having the problems. I'll see what the experts say, and perhaps I'll have a new harddrive and A drive when it's all over. If I have any problems after that, I'll post up something. Thanks for your help!