[Novalug] Problem with video card and linksys wireless card

[Jay Hart]

> On Tuesday 19 February 2008 07:44, Varol Okan wrote:
>> Hey, I don't know what happened between gfx card and wireless but I
>> would like to know if you also see a lot of dropped packages with your
>> bcm43xx driver ( ifconfig will tell ). I could only get my bcm4318
>> working with ndiswrapper under 10.2 ( on a x86-64 laptop ).
>>
>> I also found the yast tool to configure the nic has some issues.
>>
>> As for your problem, what happens if you boot the 10.2 life CD/DVD ?
>> will this fix your nic ( after installing the firmware with
>> bcm43-fwcutter ) ?
>>
>> Varol :)
>>
>
>
> Varol,
>
> My wireless pci adapter is lynksys model wmp54gs.
>
> Under my original configuration, the following is the output from ifconfig:
>
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:51223 errors:0 dropped:7114 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:53542 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:25056359 (23.8 Mb)  TX bytes:4276863 (4.0 Mb)
>
> Don't know if that is an unusually number of received dropped packages or not.
>
> I'm going to try the following:
>
> Remove wireless card totally
> Replace graphics card
> Reboot and reconfigure
> Re-install wireless card and reconfigure
>
> Maybe that will work.  Also new graphics card is using nv driver needs nvidia
> driver for 3d effects.  Any idea how to change drivers?
>
> Regards, Bill...

Bill,

On Opensuse website they have a section about installing the latest driver
from nvidia so you can get 3D working. I have problems the first go at it, so
make sure you back up everything in /boot prior to installing.

The whole ATI/Nvidia drivers issue is realy stupid. Hopefully these companies
will get onboard and make it easier to switch over.

Jay


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