Service Manual

8 Installation Instructions and Important Information

Insert the

Driver Update

diskette when prompted and press <Enter>.

Please choose the Driver Update Medium

appears.

In the main menu, select

fd0

(floppy). Select

and press <Enter> to

scan the driver diskette.

The Driver Update diskette is scanned and

Reading the Driver

Update...

appears, followed by

Driver Update OK

Press <Enter> to exit the

Boot

menu.

Updating Your System Packages Using YOU

SUSE periodically releases software updates to fix bugs, address security

issues, and add new features. You can download the updates using the YOU

service. Dell strongly recommends that you use YOU to update your system

software to the latest revisions before you deploy your system.

Configuring Your System Settings

To configure your system after the installation, including hardware, software,

and services, use YaST. To start YaST in a text console, type yast at a

command prompt. Within the X Window System, type yast2 in a terminal

window, or choose YaS T from the System menu item on the SUSE Linux

main menu on the K Desktop Environment (KDE).

Important Information

This section contains information about software fixes, problems you might

encounter, and other information for using SUSE Linux on your Dell system.

lspci Reports Unknown Devices

When you use lspci to display information about all Peripheral Component

Interconnect (PCI) buses in the system and the devices that are connected to

the PCI buses, the output may contain unknown devices. The problem occurs

when the pci.ids file does not contain the definition of the latest chipsets,

PCI hardware, and so on.

To resolve the problem, download the latest pci.ids file from

http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids or use the update-pciids utility to

download the latest pci.ids file and save it at /usr/share/pci.ids.

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