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SuSE 9.0 on Vaio grt170
After spending many hours struggling to upgrade SuSE 8.2 to 9.0 on the Sony Vaio grt170, I gave up trying to upgrade, and did a clean install. I still had the XP Home [gack] that came with it, since, as usual, neither CompUSA nor MS, nor Sony will honor the MS EULA and give me my money back for not using the product (XP). So I used it as a reference point for driver issues and such, however that's about all the use that parition gets, and once I'm sure everything is working properly, it will be wipde to free up space for more Linux apps on this massive hard drive. So, fresh install, see the [read more] link below for the details so far...
....So, on the lighter side. Doing a fresh install went well.
It automatically found correctly,
the
SiS900 10/100 Ethernet built in NIC,
the AMBIT Microsystem WLAN built in 802.11b wifi (prism2_pci)
the Sony Intel 537 (WINMODEM)!.
This is a huge improvement so far, over the hassles of 8.2 on this laptop previously trying to get the modem and wireless working.
I haven't verified they actually work just yet, but the detection up front is a good sign....
That's all for now. See following articles for more progress updates.
Ciao....
