{"id":364,"date":"2002-10-05T21:59:28","date_gmt":"2002-10-05T21:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-364.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"its-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/10\/05\/its-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s alive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/categories\/martins_annual_linux_experience\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0px 5px 5px 0px;\" height=\"103\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Martin's Annual Linux Experience 2002\" src=\"\/martin\/images\/2002\/09\/male2002_1.gif\" \/><\/a> I reinstalled SuSE 8.1 again yesterday evening.  This time, I found the section of the install process that asked me for the wireless networking parameters, but once the install was complete, the network still didn&#8217;t appear.  Bummer.<\/p>\n<p>This time, though, I was determined to get it working.  From Windows, I delved into the SuSE on-line support database, read the PCMCIA HOWTO, and goggled around a bit.  I came up with some information that looked plausible (<a href=\"http:\/\/sdb.suse.de\/en\/sdb\/html\/PCMCIA_PROBLEME_8-0.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sdb.suse.de\/en\/sdb\/html\/pcmcia_sgehdnix.html\">here<\/a>, namely that I needed to tweak the file \/etc\/sysconfig\/pcmcia.  This I did, setting the variables PCMCIA_SYSTEM to &#8220;kernel&#8221; and PCMCIA to &#8220;i82365&#8221; (both had been blank).  I then went back into the control centre, and found that ther system had picked up the fact that the wireless network card was installed.  Yay!<\/p>\n<p>But although I could now ping myself, the rest of the network was still unreachable.  Boo!<\/p>\n<p>A reboot sorted it all, though, and we are now broadcasting live from SuSE 8.1.  Woo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reinstalled SuSE 8.1 again yesterday evening. This time, I found the section of the install process that asked me for the wireless networking parameters, but once the install was complete, the network still didn&#8217;t appear. Bummer. This time, though, I was determined to get it working. From Windows, I delved into the SuSE on-line &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/10\/05\/its-alive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s alive!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-martins_annual_linux_experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}