November 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

tcp_connect problem with SuSE 10
by Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

Hello all. When the instant messenger gaimt wants to play a sound, I get the following errors: tcp_connect: can't connect to server (tcp:presario.localnet:1036) unix_connect: can't connect to server (unix:/tmp/ksocketu-gus/presario.localnet-220c-436955fe) Could somebody explain what these error messages mean? The file '/etc/services' indicates that port 1036 is reserved for ntssp (tcp/udp Nebula Secure Segment Transfer Protocol). I admit I am lost. TIA for your time. CF

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RE: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit?
by Black, Alain 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Same here. Lspci shows it as " 01:01.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 3ware 7000-series ATA-RAID (rev 01)" We are also running the 3dm software to monitor the card/RAID set. -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin_Gassiot(a)veritasdgc.com [mailto:Kevin_Gassiot@veritasdgc.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 7:42 AM To: Andy Cc: Black, Alain; suse-amd64(a)suse.com; suse-ia64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit? I've got one of the 8506 series SATA RAID controllers running the stock 3w-xxxx driver with no problems so far - had more problems finding an XP64 driver for it.... Kevin Gassiot Advanced Systems Group Visualization Systems Support Veritas DGC 10300 Town Park Dr. Houston, Texas 77072 832-351-8978 kevin_gassiot(a)veritasdgc.com "Andy" <frum(a)ar-sd.net> To 10/18/2005 02:57 "Black, Alain" AM <ablack(a)bloodsystems.org>, <suse-amd64(a)suse.com>, <suse-ia64(a)suse.com> cc Subject Re: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit? >> We also use the 3ware RAID controllers for SATA. And have had no >> problems with them. I supose you mean the 3ware 9500S series controllers. I couldn't find any drivers for suse 9x 64 for the 8506 series. Andy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Black, Alain" <ablack(a)bloodsystems.org> To: <suse-amd64(a)suse.com>; <suse-ia64(a)suse.com> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 10:24 PM Subject: RE: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit? -----Original Message----- From: Jack Malone [mailto:jmalone@horizonind.com] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 4:18 AM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com; suse-ia64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Sata Raid Controller for 64 bit? At 04:06 AM 10/17/2005, Andy wrote: >Hi to all, > >We have a Fujitsu Siemens Econel 200 Server. 2x Intel Xeon 2.8, 2x >SATA HDD. Suse 9.1 64 Prof is installed. > >At the moment we are using a software raid, but we want to buy 2 >more HDD's and implement a 0+1 or 1+0 RAID. >I looked over and over about raid controllers, have found from 120 >EURO's to 1000 EURO's but there seems to be a little problematic >the Suse 64 driver. > >A very convenient driver would be the >Promise FastTrack S150 TX4 or >SX4 controller >but I still don't know if the drivers are quite functional. > >The tx4 seems faster as the sx4 but has no 64 driver. > >We had in the past some problems with hardware raid controller on suse. > >Does anyone uses some good raid controllers and could give me some >informations? > >I have been using 3ware sata raid on two different machines here at >work with amd 64 cpu's in them with no problem. suse has the 3ware >driver built in for years now. been using 3ware raid cards for years >also with no problems. now I am not sure what they cost in >EURO's since im in the US. jack -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com We also use the 3ware RAID controllers for SATA. And have had no problems with them. -Alain -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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Linux macro recorder or scripting
by bob sandefur 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Hi- On windows I routinely use nmacrorec to record a sequence of mouse moves and clicks to automate tasks like saving a spreadsheet as a csv file. Is there a similar tool for SUSE 10.? Thanx Robert (Bob) L. Sandefur PE Senior Geostatistician / Reserve Analyst CAM 200 Union Suite 430 Lakewood, Co 80228 303 472-3240 (cell) <-best choice 303 716-1617 ext 14 The content of this message may contain the private views and opinions of the sender and does not constitute a formal view and/or opinion of the company unless specifically stated. The contents of this email and any attachments may contain confidential and/or proprietary information, and is intended only for the person/entity to whom it was originally addressed. Any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this message and any attachments from your system.

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FYI: Online update pkg mod_python breaks Apache2
by Kevin Wilson 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

I have only confirmed this on the x86 arch but the 3.1.3-37.6 version of pkg apache2-mod_python will break a installation of apache2 version 2.0.54-7.1. The package causes apache2 to emit the dreaded segmentation fault error... "Apache2 child pid nnnn exit signal Segmentation fault (11)" replacing mod_python's .6 version with the .4 version restores functionality. I do not subscribe to the suse-linux-e list (too many emails) so you'll need to email me directly if you have any questions. I do receive list mail from the amd64 list. Thanks

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To ECC or not ECC
by Pierre Patino 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

Greetings Several hours of reading the web and I still cannot overcome my density. I'm looking at a Socket 939 motherboard with one single-core Opteron 148. The motherboard supports ECC or non-ECC RAM The BIOS can turn off ECC if the RAM supports it. What is the kernel's involvement with ECC when it's enabled in the BIOS? Just reporting errors? Does ECC RAM incur a performance hit when no errors are detected? TIA & Cheers

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motherboard selection comments please
by Lonn 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Hi, I'm looking at some barebones rigs with Athlon64 3400 in the socket A vendor offers Athlon64 3400 on many boards - some easy to weed out. Do all the devices on these boards work well with SUSE? Abit AN8 Ultra nF4 chipset - this board is loaded Abit KN8 Ultra nF4 chipset - about the same as above, but less RAID, and less IEEE1394 MSI K8N NEO4 Platinum - loaded but SATA not 3G, no RAID It bugs me that most boards now offer only 3 PCI slots. Would you suggest a loaded board that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? Especially, do you use one with built in 802.11g? Does that present any limiting issues such as incompatibility with some or many wireless routers? Lonn

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RE: [suse-amd64] what frequency should my CPU run at?
by Langsdorf, Mark 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

> Thanks for getting back to me. However, when I look at the > cpuinfo_cur_freq all it does is hop between 1GHz and 2.2GHz - this is > reminiscent of the earlier thread on powersaved?? Is this the > expected behaviour? The driver does what it's told to do. Bernd suggested a fix for this issue. > Also, I read somewhere that there is a hotfix to deal with > AMD64 X2 TSC issues in Windows XP? I'm assuming that I need > to apply this in a VM also - where do I find this hotfix? Check the AMD, Microsoft, or VMWare site. Linux also is affected by this issue if you're using TSC and not PMTimer or HPET. -Mark Langsdorf AMD, Inc.

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nForce4 chipset.
by Brad Dameron 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

Anyone have a motherboard that uses the nForce4 chipset and running under SuSe 9.3? Just want to confirm it's support before purchasing. Thank you, Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com

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Akode and KDE 3.5
by Karaoulis Marios 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

I saw that from version kde 3.5 and up, akode is no longer part of kdemultimedia. This means than no longer mp3 issues? Just someone install akode from another repository and mp3 is back to the game? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Suse 10.0 Commercial on K8T Master2-FAR
by bob sandefur 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

Hi- I had video resolution problems with my Samsung 243T on my dual core system so I tried 10.0 commercial on my K8T Master2-FAR board with and opteron 144. Install goes ok til boot from hard drive and I get: GRUB Loading stage1.5 read error Anyone else running 10.0 on this board? (This is a lousy board as it only recognizes 3.6GB or memory and I have 4GB installed) XP pro and XP-64 install fine on this board. Thanx Robert (Bob) L. Sandefur PE Senior Geostatistician / Reserve Analyst CAM 200 Union Suite 430 Lakewood, Co 80228 rsandefur(a)cam-llc.com 303 472-3240 (cell) <-best choice 303 716-1617 ext 14 The content of this message may contain the private views and opinions of the sender and does not constitute a formal view and/or opinion of the company unless specifically stated. The contents of this email and any attachments may contain confidential and/or proprietary information, and is intended only for the person/entity to whom it was originally addressed. Any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this message and any attachments from your system.

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243T Samsung 10.0 Driver
by bob sandefur 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

Hi- I just installed 10.0 commercial and my 243T Samsung which runs at 1920x1200 on windows is limping along at 800x600. (I asked installation support but they seem to me off til Monday) Thanx Robert (Bob) L. Sandefur PE Senior Geostatistician / Reserve Analyst CAM 200 Union Suite 430 Lakewood, Co 80228 rsandefur(a)cam-llc.com 303 472-3240 (cell) <-best choice 303 716-1617 ext 14 The content of this message may contain the private views and opinions of the sender and does not constitute a formal view and/or opinion of the company unless specifically stated. The contents of this email and any attachments may contain confidential and/or proprietary information, and is intended only for the person/entity to whom it was originally addressed. Any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this message and any attachments from your system.

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sound problems with suse 10.0
by don leslie 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

I have a Compaq r3240 laptop and have installed SuSE 10.0 . I can configure sound with Yast and alsaconf . If I do a sound test it works fine. Other programs do not seem to think that sound is configured . kamix gives : Did not find any soundcard. xine gives: ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:955:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device What do I need to do to use sound ? Don Leslie

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can MTRR mapping cause system lockups?
by John Craig 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

Hi, I have a dual Opteron File server with 4GB ram, and just "upgraded" to SLES9 x86-64 (was previously running SUSE 9.3 x86-64 without problem). The system keeps crashing, and I am starting to suspect mtrr. Some other posts on the subject indicate that mtrr is used to remap the memory that is hidden by the PCI bus to a region above the existing physical memory, so it can be accessible. The system on boot always reports something like this: mtrr: 0xfd000000,0x800000 overlaps existing 0xfd000000,0x400000 mtrr: 0xfd000000,0x800000 overlaps existing 0xfd000000,0x400000 And after running a while it suddently locks up, requiring a cold start. Something else that I thought funny is that there are 2 PCI -X cards in it that work fine but attempting to put in another (an Intel dual GigE card) prevents the system from booting or even passing POST (even with the other cards removed). The same card works in another dual Opteron machine (different mother board) running SLES9 without problem. So, if erroneous memory mapping by mtrr is causing the lockups, how can I remap or disable memory mapping? Thanks for any clues

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No 32 bit OpenSLP rpm for SLES for AMD64
by C Preethi 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

Hi, I have a query about OpenSLP which is being shipped with SLES9 64 bit(for AMD64). In a SLES9 64bit OS, I see that only 64bit OpenSLP rpms are present and no 32 bit OpenSLP libraries are installed ( The CD also doesnt seem to have the 32 bit openslp rpm). As a result 32 bit applications are not able to use the 64 bit OpenSLP library. However, other packages like openldap, openssl etc., have both 64bit and 32 bit rpms and only openslp seems to be an exception. Is this an intentional decision of not making it available for 32 bit applications? Could you please clarify? Thanks, Preethi

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opensuse vs SLES on quad opteron
by Clemens von Pereira 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Hi Folks, Does anyone know details which Suse will perform better on this kind of hardware? (CPU & RAM - not so much disk IO) Does opensuse 10.0 AMD64 default Kernel support 32 GB and 4 CPUs out of the box? I read that SLEs supports 512 CPUs on Itanium but this "technical" document manages to miss all other important details (http://www.novell.com/products/linuxenterpriseserver/features.html) . I would like to avoid recompiling Kernels after each online update. Is that MegaRaid320-1 supported by both? Thanks much CPU: Quad AMD Opteron 854 (2.8 GHz, 1MB L2 Cache) RAM: 32GB (16 x 2GB) DDR400 Registered ECC PCI-X (133MHz) 1: LSI MegaRAID SCSI 320-1 - 1 Channel U320 RAID 64MB CACHE 2 x 10KRPM SCSI RAID1 --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.

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Asus AMD64 Laptop and SuSE Linux 10
by Daniel Latshaw 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

Greetings List, Sorry if this is not the correct list for these questions, but the laptop list is Deutsch and i do not read Deutsch. Besides, the problems i have may be more related to the 64 bit architecture than being a laptop. Here is my Hardware: Asus Z8100 Laptop 15.4 LCD 1GB RAM AMD Athlon Mobile 3400 DVD Burner/CD Burner I installed suse 10 from the DVD. I can not get my SMC 54G (#SMC2835W) to communicate via tcp/ip. It can "see" the wireless router, if i do an iwlist scanning it shows my network information (and some of my neighbors!) But it will not obtain an ip address from dhcp nor will it work if i assign one staticly. lsmod shows the prism54 module is loaded. i have the isl3860 in /lib/firmware (both from YOU update and my prism54.org archive) The card works under fedora core 3 and knoppix. The pcmcia slot and software is working, as my Cisco Aironet card works flawlessly. On my wife's laptop, i am having the same problem with XG-600 mini pci card. I have swapped that out for an intel mini pci and that works fine. Does anyone know why the prism54 is broken in suse 10? Thanks in advance, and let me know if there is another list i should use. Cheers, -- Daniel H. Latshaw Pitbull Solutions, LLC.

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10.0 freebie firewall VNC question
by bob sandefur 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

My wife just paid $60 for the not free version of 10 so this question may be moot. I have to run windows at work and sometimes cygwin gawk runs out of memory so I use suse 9.0 thru 9.3 commercial 64 via VNC for memory hogs. However, I can't get to 10.0 freebie via VNC unless I run as root and turn off firewall. Questions: Why is vnc firewalled out on freebie How do I allow just vns to get thru firewall? ( A quick google didn't give an obvious answer. Thanx Robert (Bob) L. Sandefur PE Senior Geostatistician / Reserve Analyst CAM 200 Union Suite 430 Lakewood, Co 80228 rsandefur(a)cam-llc.com 303 472-3240 (cell) <-best choice 303 716-1617 ext 14 The content of this message may contain the private views and opinions of the sender and does not constitute a formal view and/or opinion of the company unless specifically stated. The contents of this email and any attachments may contain confidential and/or proprietary information, and is intended only for the person/entity to whom it was originally addressed. Any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this message and any attachments from your system.

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serial vanish
by Roy F. cabaniss 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

I was using Suse 9.2 and every version until now this worked ok. but I just upgraded to 10.0. Serial sync on a palm pilot using /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1 always worked. Now those devices evidently no longer exist. So what happened to the serial? And (more importantly, how can I continue to use my ever faithful palm pilot.?) Roy F. Cabaniss

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10.0 free upgrade questions f77 g77
by bob sandefur 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

Hi- I downloaded the 5 free iso images of 10.0 and installed on a HP L2000 mt37 with no problems. However fortran is missing and YAST finds Nothing. Any suggestions? Thanx Robert (Bob) L. Sandefur PE Senior Geostatistician / Reserve Analyst CAM 200 Union Suite 430 Lakewood, Co 80228 303 472-3240 (cell) <-best choice 303 716-1617 ext 14 The content of this message may contain the private views and opinions of the sender and does not constitute a formal view and/or opinion of the company unless specifically stated. The contents of this email and any attachments may contain confidential and/or proprietary information, and is intended only for the person/entity to whom it was originally addressed. Any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this message and any attachments from your system.

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[suse-amd64] - Segfaults in ld, grep
by Jan Zahradník 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

Hello all, we have a new server - 2xOpteron 246, motherboard MSI-K8D Master-133 (chipset AMD8131) and 2GB ECC dual-channel memories Kingston, used fs is XFS. I installed SUSE LINUX 10.0 (X86-64). During compilation of large projects (for example linux kernel) and sometimes during system boot following messages in syslog appear (and compilation stops): Oct 14 10:00:32 linux kernel: ld[7703]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aaaaaaae05c rsp 00007fffffc90170 error 4 Oct 14 15:01:43 linux kernel: grep[32266]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aaaaaaae05c rsp 00007fffffa66800 error 4 Oct 14 15:01:44 linux kernel: grep[32355]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aaaaaaae05c rsp 00007fffff958720 error 4 Oct 14 15:01:44 linux kernel: grep[32395]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aaaaaaae05c rsp 00007fffffcd2600 error 4 Oct 14 15:01:44 linux kernel: grep[32458]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aaaaaaae05c rsp 00007fffffed3e10 error 4 Nov 15 15:44:53 cedr kernel: ld[19959]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aaaaaaae05c rsp 00007fffff807c90 error 4 Nov 15 15:45:50 cedr kernel: ld[21868]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aaaaaaae05c rsp 00007fffffd78a80 error 4 All addresses are the same - 00002aaaaaaae05c. In /proc/self/maps these address belongs to /lib64/ld-2.3.5.so I tried check integrity of installed grep, binutils, gcc and glibc - all were valid. I tried to add/remove/change/move memory modules, running memtest, altering different BIOS settings (including load defaults), but the same messages always appear. When I tried to boot kernel with maxcpus=1 everything was ok. Now I installed SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i386) and running the same compilation - no errors appear. On this systen I tried to run x86_64 kernel (with all these i386 32-bit programs and libraries) and everything works also ok. Do you have any ideas, why programs don't run reliable on our computer under x86_64-smp? Is it possible, that problem can be in suse 10.0 bundled glibc-2.3.5 for x86_64? Thanks in advance, Jan Zahradnik ________ Information from NOD32 ________ This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus System for Linux Mail Server. http://www.nod32.com

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Eclipse 3.1 startup error
by Philippe Andersson 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Hello again, Just installed Eclipse 3.1 (eclipse-3.1-0.7) from the SLES9 SDK SP2 site kindly suggested to me earlier today. Unfortunately, eclipse dies just after displaying the splash screen, and the following error message is found in the log: -------------------------<cut>-------------------------- java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS.GTypeInfo_sizeof()I at org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.GTypeInfo.<clinit>(GTypeInfo.java:26) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.createDisplay(Display.java:777) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.create(Display.java:746) at org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Device.<init>(Device.java:141) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.<init>(Display.java:429) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.<init>(Display.java:420) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createDisplay(Workbench.java:394) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createDisplay(PlatformUI.java:155) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.createDisplay(IDEApplication.java:128) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.run(IDEApplication.java:79) at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:226) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:376) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:163) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:334) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:278) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:973) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:948) -------------------------<cut>-------------------------- Anyone seen this ? TIA Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- ----------- | IBA | /*-----------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* Ion Beam Applications, S.A.| Philippe Andersson */ /* Av. Albert Einstein, 4, | Unix Admin. Control Team */ /* B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve | pan(a)iba.be */ /* BELGIUM | +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-475.837 */ /*-----------------------------------------------------------------*/

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Extra packages for SLES9: where ?
by Philippe Andersson 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Hello list, Something really bothers me: there seems to be so few packages provided with SLES9 (as compared with SuSE Linux 9.3 Pro, for instance). Where can I get extra RPM packages for SLES9 x86_64 (subversion comes to mind) ? TIA Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- ----------- | IBA | /*-----------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* Ion Beam Applications, S.A.| Philippe Andersson */ /* Av. Albert Einstein, 4, | Unix Admin. Control Team */ /* B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve | pan(a)iba.be */ /* BELGIUM | +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-475.837 */ /*-----------------------------------------------------------------*/

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e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Full Duplex
by Ken Siersma 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

I've installed SUSE 10.0 (OSS) on a dual opteron 250, 4 GB RAM, with a Tyan S2875 K8W Tiger motherboard. The onboard NIC is Intel Gigabit Ethernet. My kernel is 2.6.13-15-smp, and I have the e1000 module loaded without any options. When my network comes up, I see in my logs: Nov 14 10:09:42 lincoln kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present Nov 14 10:09:50 lincoln kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Full Duplex The network is obviously pretty slow with this setup. I've tried forcing the interface to 100BaseT full duplex (that's what my switch supports) by placing this in my /etc/modprobe.conf.local file: options e1000 Duplex=2 Speed=100 The interface appears to come up in the logs I see: Nov 14 10:22:29 lincoln kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 6.0.60-k2-NAPI Nov 14 10:22:29 lincoln kernel: Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation. Nov 14 10:22:29 lincoln kernel: e1000: 0000:02:03.0: e1000_check_copper_options: Forcing to 100 Mbps Full Duplex Nov 14 10:22:29 lincoln kernel: e1000: 0000:02:03.0: e1000_check_copper_options: Speed, AutoNeg and MDI-X specifications are incompatible. Setting MDI-X to a compatible value. Nov 14 10:22:29 lincoln kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection But, I can't access the network - i.e., ping by ipaddr gets me 'Destination Host Unreachable' Can anyone offer advice? Thanks, Ken -- Ken Siersma, Software Engineer EKK, Inc. phone: (248) 624-9957 fax: (248) 624-7158 http://www.ekkinc.com -- "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -MLK Jr.

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RE: [suse-amd64] what frequency should my CPU run at?
by Langsdorf, Mark 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

> I have an AMD64 X2 4400+ and had noticed that the CPU > frequency (as reported by a Windows XP Pro virtual machine > running under VMware 5.5beta on SuSE 10 x86_64 host) is being > reported as 1GHz. You're welcome. > So I did a bit of digging and found that cat /proc/cpuinfo gives: ... > Sorry if this is a repetition of the earlier thread regarding > CPUFREQD, but I am still uncertain of the implications of the > bug in the CPU frequency scaling. Is there a workaround? The SUSE SL10.0 kernel doesn't have any problems with CPU frequency scaling. The reported speed of 1 GHz that you're seeing is a feature provided by AMD: when your processor isn't doing anything, it reduces its frequency and voltage in order to dramatically reduce the amount of power it needs to run. If your system were actually running a significant load, the frequency would go up. You can check the current frequency with the following command: cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq If you want to know more about how to influence the frequency of your system, try man powersave I hope this helps. -Mark Langsdorf AMD, Inc.

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Re: [suse-amd64] USB support in SuSE 10.0
by Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

I would like to thank everybody who responded to my plea for help. I did a lot of research during the past 48 hours or so and was able to correct *SOME* of my problems with USB. Below I am summarizing my findings for the benefits of all. Upon close scrutiny, it seems that the syntax for '/etc/udev/rules.d/*.rules' files has changed a bit from SuSE 9.3 to SuSE 10.0. (These files enable the new hotplugging system udev to assign persistent names to peripherals which may be hotplugged in random order. For example, if you have two different USB storage devices, with the proper set of rules you can make them show up each with the same mountable partition, regardless of the order they are plugged in.) These changes are *not* documented in the SuSE 10.0 manual. Look, for example, at the bottom of page 492 of the SuSE 10.0 manual (available for download at http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse10/pdfdoc/suse10_ref/suse10_ref.pdf) and p. 349 of the printed SuSE 9.3 manual. You will observe that comparing for BUS keys now (in SuSE 10.0) requires a double equals sign, while in 9.3 a single equals sign worked. After changing the pertinent device rules to conform to the SuSE 10.0 syntax (and multiple reboots) yesterday, my cellphone and 512MB USB stick (which, by the way, carries an encrypted file system) began to work. I plugged and unplugged them hot several times in different order and the USB bus did not lock up. The cellphone looks like a USB dialup modem again, as it should (albeit a lot faster than a "real" one connected to a landline), pppd handles it as such just fine --as it should-- and the same peer, secrets, and chat files work, so I can surf wirelessly through it again. The USB compact flash card reader still does not show up as a partition, but it does no longer seem to lock up the USB bus (two days ago, the USB bus locked up and recognized no hot(un)plug events). I am not exactly certain what got most USB peripherals working again and why the whole USB system locked up two days ago, but so far it seems that correcting the syntax of udev rules has helped prevent USB bus lockups. During boot, I still get udev-related warntings/errors about missing brackets, so it seems I need to go through all the udev rules, which I inherited when I upgraded from 9.3, with a fine tooth comb. Again, I would like to thank everybody for their help and I hope that these postings will prevent others from having the problems with USB I just had. CF

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