On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 12:01 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
On 5/24/2010 at 14:07, Marcus Meissner
wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 01:55:03PM +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 11:37 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I have installed the RPMs in novell-client-2.0-sp2-sle11-i586.iso (downloaded from Novell), as well as CASA and libbfd on an openSUSYE 11.2 system. When I log in to KDE, I get a NCL icon in the system tray. When I try to do something with it, I get this in a popup window: Description : Cannot scan Connection References. Error:NWCCScanConnRefs: Code : FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFB Build : 1.0.0 File : ncpConnectionRefScanner.cpp Line : 79 Repository Version : $Revision: 2371 $
Then I can proceed to the NCL menu. However, login does not work. I fill in all the usual details and I get this message:
"The system could not log you into the network. Make sure your name and connection information are correct, then type your password again."
I use this exact same information in the same machine from Windows XP running on VMWare, and that works fine. So I know that the values are correct and that the machines are available. But obviously something has gone kaplooie.
Anyone else using NCL on openSUSE 11.2?
Bit more info: after rebooting the openSUSE 11.2 machine, I get this message when logging in:
"The novfs kernel loadable module is not correctly installed."
Does: "modprobe novfs" work?
Roger: I do run NCL on openSUSE 11.3/Factory. Works pretty well. But as I installed it so long ago, I don't really remember all the steps I went through (I remember having build a dummy rpm with an old libbfd to satisfy rpm deps and NCL)
This is the RPM I am trying to use: Name : novell-client Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.0.0 Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany Release : 29 Build Date: Mon 09 Mar 2009 05:51:18 PM CET Install Date: Thu 20 May 2010 10:15:34 AM CEST Build Host: i386build9 Group : Productivity/Networking/Novell Source RPM: novell-client-2.0.0-29.src.rpm Size : 54900 License: Novell Binary Restricted Signature : DSA/SHA1, Mon 09 Mar 2009 05:52:23 PM CET, Key ID 14c28bc97e2e3b05 Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org URL : http://www.novell.com Summary : Novell Client for Linux The Packager line is interesting.
for the novfs module: use the one provided by the kernel and not the one that comes with NCL (I vaguely remember there was something around init scripts trying to build it at all the times... get rid of that).
I think this is what I am running. modinfo says: filename: /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop/kernel/fs/novfs/novfs.ko
If you want, I can try to find the time to make some more testings / proper doc / blog post on how to install NCL on a 11.2 / 11.3 installation.
Sigh. I guess there is still no support for openSUSE as a NCL user.
Without bugreports probably not.
Marcus: I pretty much gave up on this one. Having spent hours directly with internals fro Novell responsible for NCL (was Joe Harmon at the times) I had to recognize that there seems to be very few interest in offering NCL on openSUSE (even though the most apparent thing missing is a proper repo building NCL against openSUSE distributions... but for licensing reasons, this seems not to be welcome on OBS... I can tell you the full story if you're interested.. but 'offline').
I can understand it not being available with the base release. But if you can include Adobe or nvidia drivers, this seems not to be so very different. We have thousands of users running the NCW on XP. It is so frustrating to not be able to do the same with a Linux so closely related to Novell. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org