Comments on: OpenSuse 10.3 on HP dv9000

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:09:56 +0000

PA, eh? Go vote Obama then I’m in MA.

Don’t know much about websphere. We used it at a previous company but the only thing I did with it was write some wrappers for automated installation. I never actually used it….

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:03:03 +0000

That was a great link, thanks for the read.
I don’t suppose you work with websphere any? I am looking for a book on 6.1 deployment manager. Most of the offerings I have found are windows based “clicky-clicky” types. I am trying to get under the hood of websphere from an author not of IBM employment

BTW, where are you from anyway? I’m in PA.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:47:13 +0000

Hey Mike,

Things are good here. Happy with my switch to Ubuntu and my wireless *knocks wood* has even been working well. We use centos at work as well. Good for a server environment, not so much for a desktop. I actually came across this article today about the differences between upcoming releases of Ubuntu, Opensuse and Fedora:

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/track-linux.ars

By the way, I can’t get to the URL you have listed. Is it up?

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:38:46 +0000

Some of the guys at work are running either ubuntu or centos (more on centos since what linux we do run in production is RHEL4 and 5. I think this weekend I am going to jump into the fray and get this opensuse laptop going with wireless. If I can get it to work, I’m going to convert my work laptop to opensuse as well and run my windows out of vmware..

How have things been going for you otherwise? Have not had the time and hop on here to post anything..

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:17:48 +0000

Ah, my only faithful reader!

I did read that and I think he has a point. I’m thinking of buying a wireless card just to avoid this mess. I’m a huge Ubuntu fan. I’ve been using it for a few years now. I thought I’d give Opensuse a shot, but I thought the package management sucked and since I’m always adding/removing packages it frustrated me. I guess I’m just going to stick with Ubuntu until something else starts getting a lot of press.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:11:52 +0000

The ndsiwrapper issues is odd to say the least. Did you see on slashdot that linus said ndiswrapper should not be claiming the GPL license?
Outside of the wrapper, how are you liking Ubuntu?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:27:43 +0000

Wow, great news. And I just switched to Ubuntu! I’m still having the same problem with ndiswrapper. Sometimes it works when I boot, sometimes I have to restart networking, sometimes I have to uninstall ndiswrapper completely and readd. I’m thinking I may just try and find another wireless card.

Glad to hear everything worked out, and be sure to visit again!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:31:18 +0000

Like your blog by the way, hope ya don’t mind if I post here from time to time..

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:26:12 +0000

FINALLY! Success! I found the fix on, believe it or not, a ubuntu forum. Here is the url. There were two ways listed; I went the destructive route
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=619483
So, now my dv9000 is running with EVERYTHING enabled and working as supposed to..

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