Opensuse 11.1 with KDE 4.1 on AspireOne 150

who want to disable the tuch on Synaptic mousepad
put on /etc/X11/xconf
"MaxTapTime" "0"Section

Code:

"InputDevice"
  Driver       "synaptics"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "MaxTapTime" "0"
  Option       "Buttons" "5"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
  Option       "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
  Option       "InputFashion" "Mouse"
  Option       "Name" "Synaptics;Touchpad"
  Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
  Option       "SHMConfig" "on"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

 

Yes, I suspected a race condition too. However, it is worst than that. I found out no matter how early you load pciehp (I even put it in my initrd), ethx still does not appear once in a blue moon. It looks like the most reliable way is to load it after NetworkManager starts.

To ensure that pciehp is only loaded after NetworkManager, I made a proper SysV init script:

[attachment=0:1pqrogml]pciehp.gz[/attachment:1pqrogml]

Being a very long time user of SuSE, I am partial to the distro.

 

I put pciehp into /etc/rc.d/boot.local now and eth0 seems to be set up correctly after every boot. I also get no pciehp-warnings anymore during boot sequence.
But I will try your script also if you tell where it should be located.

so you are employed by novell?

 

Yes I tried too. It happens with the last version ( 1.011 ) try r8101-1.009.00.tar.bz2
it works good

 

I did notice that my openSuSE 11.1 does not shut down correctly
at boot time it always has to replace reworks slices as I switched off
without shut down correctly. Did anyone has the same behaviour ?
I have reiser as filesystem

 

Had the same problem, maybe it is not your case, but typing
'iwlist scan'
I discovered that my wifi router has a wpa1 encription
( I tought it was 2 and I tried just with it ).
Configured knetworkmanager, now it works

 

You have to gunzip and put it in /etc/init.d/

 

Normal the knetworkmanager symbol move from earth to gear when it start to connect, on my opensuse 11.1 it is doing nothing, same loged-in as root

 

did you install madwifi and madwifi-kmp for your kenel ( standard, pae .... ) ?

 

Doesn`t it connect at all or is just the automatic connection not working? Did you check the "connect automatically" field in knetworkmanager?

 

I did that now but I also had to set the correct runlevels in Yast`s runlevel-editor. It`s active now in runlevels 1,2,3 and 5.
When I checked in /etc/init.d/rcX.d I found that pciehp is started twice. First K01pciehp then S09pciehp. Is that correct?

 

On Opensuse is written out-of-the-box
http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_on_the_Aspire_One#Wireless
The wireless is working, when I dont use any encryption, only when I try to connect to a secure Access point, the Networkmanager stop to try to connect

 

Installed Madwifi now
http://en.opensuse.org/Atheros_madwifi
still the same

 

don't think, its better just one ( even if I think that there shouldn't be problems )
I did not put that script in /etc/init.d/
I just installed r8101 version 0.9 and put

modprobe pciehp

in /etc/init.d/boot.local
and a 'lsmod | grep pciehp' gives me :

pciehp 30824 0
pci_hotplug 27392 1 pciehp

and seems to works eth and sd card slot reader in plug & play

 

Did you see with 'iwlist scan' what encription your router has ?

 

So both ways to get pciehp to work without racing with setup of eth0 seem to work
Either download and install the r8101 driver and put a "modprobe pciehp" in /etc/init.d/boot.local or use builtin r8169 kernel module and put the "piehp" script in /etc/init.d and set the runlevels accordingly.

 

Does it works your wlan switch, on off ?
If yes, what do you did. ( mine seems to work just after reboot to register changes )
Does it switch on wlan leds ?

 

I installed the madwifi driver now and blacklisted the ath5k as the ath5k sometimes didn`t want to connect properly. With madwifi you can easily get the LED working by following the steps here

Code:

http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Laptops/Acer#Acer_Aspire_150L

I did not try the killswitch.

The "pciehp"-script in /etc/init.d still caused problems with eth0 from time to time. So I removed it completely and setup a script that modprobes pciehp as soon as kde starts. Now it`s perfect.

The only small problem left is that the kde start sound often doesn`t play after boot. Any ideas about this?

 

Tryed but it does not works. it gaves me errors at boot. it does not find some /proc/.../wifi... file

Are you sure that the eth0 problem is the pciehp module ?
Because I had problems with r8169 module even when I had not set pciehp.
I think that if you continue to have trouble you can think to install r8101 instead that to me seems more and more stable.

I don't use kde, I use fluxbox. But did you put your username in " audio " group ?

 

I installed madwifi following the instructions for ubuntu

Code:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne#Install Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04.1) on the Acer Aspire One

It is pretty easy but instead of putting the "modprobe pciehp" into /etc/modules put it in /etc/init.d/boot.local

No I am not sure. But in other distros r8169 works flawlessly with the same kernel. Maybe it`s the ath5k/r8169 combo that causes the trouble. So maybe the problems will also be solved by simply changing to madwifi driver but I did not check.

This should not be neccessary but I will give it a try.