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Ralink rt2500 not autodetected
by Igor 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

Ralink rt2500 is not autodetected on oss beta4. I tried to compile rt2500 drivers and it compiles well but the rt2500 module can't be loaded. It works fine on oss 10. # modprobe rt2500 FATAL: Error inserting rt2500 (/lib/modules/2.6.16-rc3-git3-2-default/extra/rt2500.ko): Invalid argument -- Igor Jagec

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Re[2]: 2.6.16 serious consequences / GPL_EXPORT_SYMBOL / USB drivers of major vendor excluded
by Christoph Weidmann 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

Hi, I want to reply to a message which was sent to list when I wasn't subscriped to it. So I send my reply now as a new message, I hope it will not break the thread structure to much. Sorry! I'm very pleased for explanation of details in the mail from s.schmidt(a)avm.de about the closed-source driver problem. I can understand that a leading company like AVM can't open source its intellectual property and know-how. I understand that its easier und more flexible to do some functionality in software than in hardware. But what about putting this algorythms in the upgradeable firmware of the devices? Ok, I can understand that current devices are not prepared for doing this, but could this be a solution for future products? Things like fax or modem emulation could be done in the binary firmware of the device an the drivers could be kept simple an open source. You have to open no know-how to public or competitors because it will stay closed in the device's firmware. I'm currently not affected by the disscussion because although am using ISDN as primary net-access, I'm using a Bluefritz USB in combination with Bluefritz AP-X that seemes to work with open-source drivers. All ISDN-related things seemed to be done by firmware and I think this could be a solution for other devices. I've to clearify that I'm not a programmer, hardware designer or ISDN-expert (so I may be completely wrong), I'm just a very pleased user of AVM's devices who's hoping that a solution will be found. I can understand both sides: Having closed source in kernel will cause some problems but opening the software is inacceptable for AVM... regards Christoph Weidmann ______________________________________________________________ Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS! Jetzt bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://f.web.de/?mc=021193

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Installation Sources not remembered
by David Wright 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=152085 Having a problem adding additional repositories, I can enter them, but upon closing the dialog with Finish, they seem to be automatically deleted (opening Installation Sources a second time shows the list is empty, including no entry for the CD's). Trying to enter the sources again causes the dialog to crash. Restarting X seems to fix this problem, but I still can't get the sources to stay. Using the Software Manager only shows installed packages, it is not possible to add additional packages because all the sources have been deleted. Dave

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amsn
by Frederic 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

Hello Why the package of Amsn is not installed by default or available by default in inst-source Have a nice day!! Frédéric

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nVidia drivers for Beta 4
by David Wright 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

Are there any nVidia drivers available in the new KPM format, or do I need to download the official old-style drivers from the nVidia website? It looks like the OSS drivers still can't cope with a dual-head configuration. Dave

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Using Atheros driver in Beta3/Beta4
by Kirk Coombs 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

For those have Atheros-based wireless cards and can't use them because the nongpl modules have been removed in Beta3/Beta4, here are some instructions to easily get them working: 1. Go to the madwifi site and download the latest driver: http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-ng-current.tar.gz 2. Create a SUSE build script from: http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/SuSE 3. Install the sharutils-4.6-2 (CD-3) and kernel-source (CD-5) RPMs. 4. Unpack the madwifi drivers, copy the build script into that directory, and execute. 5. Use NetworkManager or the ifup scipts to manage your wireless card. It takes all of 5 minutes to accomplish! Kirk Coombs

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installation_sources
by houghi 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

installation_sources is not installed anymore as default. This is most likely because yast2-packagemanager is not there anymore. Is there anything that replaces installation_sources AND is installed as default AND can be used in scripts? If possible something that is available in pre-10.1 as well as default. houghi -- Nutze die zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Wert und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das tun. Johannes Müller-Elmau

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Webcam Support
by Joseph M. Gaffney 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

A recent thread [1] on suseforums at is ongoing and discussing the webcam support in SUSE. I replied to the thread with a link to the Novell Cool Solutions feature on compiling kernel drivers by example [2] , which uses the pwc module [3] as an example. Is there any reason why webcam support is not included out of the box yet? [1] http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtop=209333 [2] http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16340.html [3] http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/files/ Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin

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Re: [opensuse-announce] SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta4 seeks adventurous experts and their *test* systems
by David Wright 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2006 17:15 schrieb Andreas Jaeger: > I'm glad to announce that we finally have a Beta4 available. > > Beta4 has a number of ROUGH edges, so read the following before you > decide to download and test it. I advise to not put it on any > production system! > > <snip> I'm trying to torrent it at the moment, but nobody seems to be doing it... I've also started downloading from the FTP source, which is currently giving me 250KB/s. I'm relatively new to torrents, I used torrent for the first time with Beta 3... If I download the iso images from FTP, can I pause the torrent and overwrite the files, thus providing more for the scavengers to pick from? My understanding is the iso's from FTP and torrent must be identical... Dave

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Nagios 2.0
by Ciro Iriarte 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

Anybody knows if Nagios 2.0 will be available with the 10.1 release? Thanks in advanced Ciro

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