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Workaround for VMware bug 2293 on OpenSUSE 11.4

After setting up my new Dell Precision T1600 with OpenSUSE 11.4 I found that I could no longer run VMware. Got a message about some NMI problem and bug # 2293.

Nice looking fonts in GTK applications on openSUSE 11.4

When I installed Open SuSE 11.4 yesterday I thought that the fonts used in GTK applications like Firefox and Thunderbird were really ugly.

Subpixel hinting in SuSE 10.3

How to enable subpixel hinting in SuSE 10.3.

 

Fixed NIC names

Question: 

I have two NIC's, one wired and one wireless. On each boot SuSE 9.3 seems to randomly assign eth0 to one of them and eth1 to the other. It doesn't matter that the wireless is disabled. How do I assign a fixed name to each NIC?

Answer: 

You need to assign a "persistent name" to each NIC.

In "/etc/sysconfig/network" you will find a file named ifcfg-something for each NIC. Edit the ones whose names end with MAC adresses and add the line

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