The 02.10.15 at 13:54, John Murphy wrote:
I think it should be ide-scsi, not ide-cd: at least, for the cdwriting programs to work.
That was a suggestion by someone I thought I would try. I'm reaching out for anything now!
I think my mind is starting to spin faster then a Cd. First we had to change cdrom to ide-cd to get the DVD drive to mount in Konqueror. Now if I go ide-scsi to get the CD writing programs to see my DVD drive I'm back at square one I think.
Ugh. Normal programs should be able to read files regardless of where they are. If you mean that an icon for mounting the DVD failed, or something similar, I don't know (I still have suse 7.3). But it has been comented here that suse 8.1 has a problem when detecting ide-scsi devices, that appear octuplicated (8 times, one for each lun). Maybe it was that.
This whole issue is unbelievable that Suse can't check out their distribution to see if it works.
It is not the first time :-(
Hell even the lowest economy systems today come with a DVD and CR-RW drives. Of course my frustration is added to as I sit and watch Yast2 work on an online update for the last 45 minutes. I can't cancel it out with out resetting the machine to reboot.
You should be able to kill it. In kde, start "xkill", the mouse changes to a skull, point and shoot. Or, use "ps afx | less" on a console to learn the pid, and then "kill pidnumber"; If it is recumbent to die, then "kill -9 pidnumber"
Oh yeah I have cable modem and it should of been done in a few minutes not going on an hour. Not to mention the 8.1 upgrade didn't go well and had to do a fresh install. Well I'll send this, kill the machine as Yast2 online update is still in never never land.
You can start "iptraf" in a console (I don't know if you'll have it), and it can show the activity of any network interface: connected to/from IPs, bytes Tx/Rx... -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson