Re: [Sheflug] Re: SuSE 9.0

[Mike Hemstock <hemstock [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 10 October 2003 12:01, Chris Johnson wrote:
> On the laptop front is it any better with Windows modems?  Anybody tried
> it? I'd love to keep it on my laptop but it loses internet connectivity
> once out of the office as I couldn't get the winmodem to work under 8.2
> (Sony Vaio PCG F801A).
>
> Also when I leave the laptop on for any period of time and am not using it
> the screen goes blank (part of its APM I suppose) but it never comes back
> without a full reboot!
>
> Chris Johnson
> (No not that one, the other one!)
> (running SUSE 8.2, 512MB PIII 600 (ish))

SuSE say that all Lucent modems are supported.

If power management is giving you grief try editing the grub config file.  It 
probably says apm=off, acpi=on.  Change it to the other way around, or turn 
both off.

ps. A helldesk is slang for a helpdesk.  Do you not read BOfH?!

Mike.

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