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ndiswrapper
by Kenneth Schneider 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

OSS 10.1 beta 8 Trying to compile km_ndiswrapper-1.2-2.i586.rpm from 10.0 and am getting errors. Since I cannot connect my laptop I am NOT going to copy a 120 colume X 25 row error message here. One small part states: halt passed 1 argument, but takes just 0 then the errors start and the compilation craps out. Any suggestions short of sacrificing my first born? And yes I do need ndiswrapper because it is the only way to use my wireless card and no I -AM NOT- going to buy a different card so don't suggest it. Ken

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crash on time error
by jdd 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

still on this very low end machine (only 76Mo ram), I got a time error (I don't really understand why). I didn't change anything to the time :-(. this took 2 hours to correct and got a hard crash. after 16 hours of install :-(. I wont fill bug reports for such things. This computer runs well with 10.0. I only try to find a way to make a very straightforward install on low end machine, kind of machines that runs quite well and are nearly free nowaday. this one could be very handy as a personal gateway (it's a mini laptop). what make me upset is that the machine runs linux very well, it's only an install problem this mail only for reporting a situation, not at all as a complain :-). If I find a way, I'll report it :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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opensuse-commit up & running
by Christoph Thiel 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hello everyone, we have just enabled the opensuse-commit mailinglist. It will carry all checkin mails for Factory. To subscribe just sent an empty mail to <opensuse-commit-subscribe(a)opensuse.org>. The web archive is available at http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-commit/ Have a lot of fun Christoph

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ndiswrapper missing on the beta8 CDs
by Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

About the bug I posted bellow: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=160804 It has been closed with the following comment: [Andreas Jaeger]: "We will not add it to our media, it will be available via ftp only." Can I have a "why" on that? I can't see the logics here. I didn't have a wired LAN available by the time of install, and it's not easy to get one, so you mean I'm forced to use floppies, usb sticks, or whatever other way I could get to download the packages somewhere else and install them on my machine? Yes, I fail to see the logics here. So you're simply stating that I can't have network connection because my wlan card isn't natively supported by the kernel? See, I would accept if you say it's a license problem with ndiswrapper (which I think isn't), but simply saying "we will not" isn't a polite answer. Oh, BTW, the ndiswrapper on factory doesn't match ther kernel installed by beta8 CDs, so I can't even use it, unless I switch my kernel too. -- % Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) % mteixeira{a}webset{d}net <> Maceio/AL/BR % http://mteixeira.webset.net <> http://pmping.sf.net

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y2pmsh fails while upgrading
by Azerion 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Don't know if I mailed this before but this happens sometimes when I try to upgrade: y2pmsh: auto refreshing sources newer: shows a lot of new packages upgrade: some packages installed fetching yast2-bootfloppy (71.2 kB) *** failed: ERROR(Media:file not found)[HTTP return code: 404 (URL: http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/sus…) ERROR(InstSrc:E_cancel_media) ============================ Maybe it is related to the fact that if a source does have newer packages and have to be updated, y2pmsh stops after it shower the message that the source is updated. If you have more then one and source 1 is updated, it just hangs there. You have to restart y2pmsh and the it shows that list 1 is up to date and continues with the other sources. Azerion

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Beta 8:- zmd/zen-updater/rug/libzypp
by Graham Anderson 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Help! :P I appear to be stuck in some sort of nasty update hell. I wanted to update zmd/zen-updater/rug/libzypp from the versions on the beta 8 CD's to the newer ones on the factory repo. Here's what I did. I added the factory repo as a YUM source into rug, then I subscribed to the catalog. After refreshing the catalog I opened up zen-updater and was presented with a long list of available updates. From there I deslected all and re-selected zmd/zen-updater/rug/libzypp and allowed the updater to do it's own 'thang' At this point things went wrong, the updater either stalled, 'crapped out' or the repo was synching and a file was missing or something that the updater couldn't handle. Either way, i had to kill the updater and now i have some problems. I cant update/install/remove anything with zen-*. The updater stalls every time trying to list the available updates. I can't update/add/remove packages with rug. I can't add/remove/update packages with YaST ( both 'Installation Source' and 'Software Management' applets fail to load). I receive the following error in rug when trying to perform package operations:- ERROR: Dependency resolution failed: Resolver Failed Here are the current installed versions rug - 7.1.1-13 libzypp - 0.0.8-64 libzypp-zmd-backend - 7.1.1-10 zmd - 7.1.1-3 zen-updater - 7.1.0-25 So should I update any or all of these? and if so how? rpm? y2pmsh? cheers Graham

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zen-updater
by Marcel Hilzinger 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Can anybody explain me in 2-3 sentences, howto setup the new replacement for Suse watcher? Or point me to the right documentation? Thanks. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Marcel Hilzinger Linux New Media AG Süskindstr. 4 D-81929 München Tel: +49 (89) 99 34 11 0 Fax: +49 (89) 99 34 11 99

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NVIDIA 1.0-8183
by Pascal Bleser 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I guess a lot of you read linuxtoday.com as well, but just in case, and FYI: It seems HP puts nVidia drivers dubbed "1.0-8183" online, although they're not on the nVidia website (yet ?) http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=427&num=1 - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser(a)skynet.be> <guru(a)unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEKIwrr3NMWliFcXcRAmlwAJwKquOAKUDwKCHX43ZFC+saofy+wwCfenwq eB5ktt8hwJ4Lsr3KGPKWtEo= =gBeA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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KNetworkManager + (adsl/pptp)
by Mauricio Teixeira 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

I noticed that I can manage modem (dial-up) connections using KNetworkManager, but since I don't have any, but have many ADSL and PPTP connections, I would need to manage them from KNM. Any plans to support that? Should I fill a feature request? Ps.: I've set up my PPTP connections as ADSL from YaST, so they work fine with ifup/ifdown. -- % Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) % mteixeira{a}webset{d}net <> Maceio/AL/BR % http://mteixeira.webset.net <> http://pmping.sf.net

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beta8 install package count error
by Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hi! I've just installed SUSE 10.1beta8 using default KDE selection, and I found a strange behavior. The package countdown from CD1 reached zero, and it shows "Finished", but it still installs about 10 or 15 packages more (forgot to count :). It also happens when finishing CD2, but it only installs 4 more. It didn't happen with CD3 or 4. Anyone else got this? I'll reinstall later just to confirm, and take notes on the correct numbers and packages. But I would like to hear if it's an expected (wrong) behavior. -- % Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) % mteixeira{a}webset{d}net <> Maceio/AL/BR % http://mteixeira.webset.net <> http://pmping.sf.net

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