September 1998 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SuSE Linux] PCMCIA troubles
by jwaalkes＠edge.net 09 Sep '98

09 Sep '98

Sorry about reposting this, but I was zombified when I previously posted it with the wrong subject title. Hi all, I have a IBM 755CX thinkpad with PCMCIA slots, and using Suse 5.2 they don't work. I've tried cardmgr and have looked in '/proc/devices' (nothing there) and lsmod shows nothing either. With RH 5.1, it just came up working. So I know they *should* work. I d'led the latest PCMCIA driver and installed it, but it's still not working. In fact, cardmgr doesn't give out any messages whatsoever and as far as I can tell, doesn't do anything. The how-to and the man page (other than the need to install the latest-n-greatest driver) didn't really point me anywhere. Can anybody help? Thanks, John - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] system hangs
by qgl176＠yahoo.com 09 Sep '98

09 Sep '98

I do not even know where to begin with this so I will just explain what happens. I am using kernel 2.0.33 ( SuSE v5.2). I installed dosemu that came with the distribution and it works, but after the system has been sitting idle for a while it will hang when I try to run it. No problem I will just go to another virtual console and kill it. Well the process will not die, even with the ' -9 ' siginal. Is there a way to kill these types of rouge processes? Ok so now I will just do a ' shutdown -r now'. Now after all the sigterms have been sent and the filesystems are getting ready to unmount the system hangs. This is not new to me and it does not have anything to do with dosemu, (if any one has any suggestions to why dosemu doesnt load and hangs a tty, pleas feel free to comment), infact I think it has something to do with sync. I have run sync manually and it hangs a tty and I can not kill it. The only way to recover is to power off and then on. I know clarification is probably needed, but any ideas? _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at <A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com"><A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com</A">http://mail.yahoo.com</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] rpm's
by erwon＠hotmail.com 09 Sep '98

09 Sep '98

Will any rpm package work with suse 5.2? Or will only rpm's made especially for suse linux work? won't the different file system between redhat and suse make redhat rpms different from suse rpms? or am i way off base here? and now, what i really want... where can i get a gcc2.8 rpm for suse linux? thanks. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at <A HREF="http://www.hotmail.com"><A HREF="http://www.hotmail.com</A">http://www.hotmail.com</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] [ISDN] How to add to Hisax / Dynalink support
by i000372＠nl.cis.philips.com 09 Sep '98

09 Sep '98

Hi, I moved from Redhat to the new SuSE, mainly because I hoped that the ISDN support was completely up-to-date. First of all, in general : Good Job! SuSE appeared to be a pretty decent dist. (And what application is 1000erfect, right?) First of all, as described for SuSE 5.1, there is a hisax.o and a hisax.2.5.o in de /var/modules/etc. Does this mean that still the 'standard' version is 2.1, and one has to rename 2.5.o to get the 2.5 support? I figured 2.5 hsould have been stable enuff by now? I'm trying to get a Dynalink IS64PH+ ISDN card to function inder 5.3. Unfortunatly it is not standard supported by 5.3. What do I have to do, to get it functioning under 5.3? If I get just the simple steps explained would already be a big help. I'm a bit reluctant to make a whole new kernel just for this, Hisax is a module after all and I thought that that means that you don't need to do that? The driver information for this Dynalink IS available at <A HREF="http://www.2l.net/dynalink/linux/"><A HREF="http://www.2l.net/dynalink/linux/</A">http://www.2l.net/dynalink/linux/</A</A>> there is a file <A HREF="http://www.2l.net/dynalink/linux/hisax.tar.gz"><A HREF="http://www.2l.net/dynalink/linux/hisax.tar.gz</A">http://www.2l.net/dynalink/linux/hisax.tar.gz</A</A>> that contains the sources for the hisax/isdn cards (similar to /usr/src/linux/modules/etc), including the .c and .h for the dynalink. You can't just replace this directory, with these files and do something like a 'make modules' right? Would it be to simple, to just replace one of the other card's source files, by the dynalink ones and rebuild hisax, and then start using the dynalink under the name of the other one? What if the hisax gets a new card added to it, do I: - change the Hisax source? - make modules? (/usr/src/linyx/modules/etc assume to have the needed .c and .h) - rebuild Hisax? - change the kernel? - rebuild the kernel? If I (by building it myself or getting it) have a Hisax module (.o) for my Dynalink, can it be interchanged with other SuSE 5.3 systems to have instant support without any rebuilding hassle? Can it be interchanged with RedHat 5.1 and others...? How does one make a as module? I have seen here and there that soemthing can be compiled as a module, but nowhere exactly HOW... If I would patch/build the kernel to 2.0.36 (which as I have been told has more ISDN support), would that mean that my kernel is no longer usable as SuSE kernel? This thing has got me busy, already for quite some time. And I still do not want to swap my Teles card from my other machine, with this one... and I know it must be possible somehow.. I just got back into the Linux game after a few years of denial; have to catch up a lot, like for the modules thing. I'm not a newbie in Unix though... Greetings, Frans - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] SaX
by hettar＠teleport.com 09 Sep '98

09 Sep '98

Hia S.u.S.E I just gota say SaX is very nice. Its the new XFree86 manager that SuSE uses. Its less trouble than XF86Setup and thats a breeze itself. And does away with Xvideotune with its own tune which does a pretty good job. Way to go SuSE ! (still running SuSE 5.2 tho, just ) (just upgraded XFree3.3.2.+ from ) (the SuSE FTP site............... ) But why do I get these errors(always had em) when I restart a wm such as fvwm2 from X. X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 62 (X_CopyArea) Resource id in failed request: 0x3400002 Serial number of failed request: 205 Current serial number in output stream: 205 X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 4 (X_DestroyWindow) Resource id in failed request: 0x300000f Serial number of failed request: 1823 Current serial number in output stream: 1826 I wish I could fix these.. Steven Udell hettar(a)teleport.com - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] Netscape is unique
by steve＠millsphoto.com 09 Sep '98

09 Sep '98

I am not trying to advertise (I sell nothing on my website, anyway) but I need some input from normal Netscape users. Maybe this concerns Linux itself, but I don't think that's the cause. I have always built my webpages with MS Front Page. I checked the pages with IE and occasionally with NS to be sure visitors would get equal or at least similar views. I have been perusing my site with NS today and one page is just plain wierd. My wallpaper page, perhaps because there are so many images but I don't think so, doesn't line up along the left side of the page like I built it to. That is an issue I can address more closely and I'm sure I can get it to be right. It still looks right for MSIE4. What really looks wierd is the fonts. I have no idea what NS is trying to present, but it's not the fonts selected. Even KFM shows the pages with the right fonts. In particular, I have tried to use Maiandra GD and Verdana. If they are there in NS, they are almost too small to read. My monitor is set to 1024 x768, btw. I've seen a lot of threads in here about NS fonts and how to change their sizes. Does this also have something to do with bitstreaming fonts? My NS is pretty much out-of-the-box in it's setup. Day 2 of the web with Linux. I like it. :) -- Steve Mills steve(a)millsphoto.com <A HREF="http://www.millsphoto.com"><A HREF="http://www.millsphoto.com</A">http://www.millsphoto.com</A</A>> Great Wallpapers Live Here. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] re. spam
by mlankton＠home.com 09 Sep '98

09 Sep '98

I just meant that it's cool to mention a new release of an app that S.u.S.E. users may find interesting, or to mention one that may be little-known that you would like to bring to people's attention, but I think that last post was pretty much a sales pitch, and that probably isn't appropriate. -- .###. /#######\## -==============================================- ;##### ;# Mike's WindowMaker ;##### ;# <A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html"><A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html</A">http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html</A</A>> \# /## -==============================================- ###'---'#### - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] BlackBox WM
by hettar＠teleport.com 09 Sep '98

09 Sep '98

BLACKBOX wm by Bradley T. Hughes (aka Nyzthike) Far Out! Insane! ***** Five Star Day Dream Best looking wm there is Fastest wm there is One wm SuSE should of put in <A HREF="http://linux.wiw.org/blackbox"><A HREF="http://linux.wiw.org/blackbox</A">http://linux.wiw.org/blackbox</A</A>> <A HREF="http://blackbox.themes.org"><A HREF="http://blackbox.themes.org</A">http://blackbox.themes.org</A</A>> <A HREF="http://www.themes.org"><A HREF="http://www.themes.org</A">http://www.themes.org</A</A>> Don't get lost in unremarkable wms! Don't get lost in bloated wms! Don't get lost in boring wms! Get Blackbox 0.40.5 NOW! 0.40.6 is due out Thursday! Steve Udell - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] Linksys PCI cards and the ne2k-pci driver problem
by nick.bowling＠dial.pipex.com 09 Sep '98

09 Sep '98

Hello, After a lot of effort I have finally got my Linksys PCI Ethercard installed. Unfortunately... two more problems now occur. 1. Pinging a Win98 box with it's IP number gets a "network unreachable..." 2. TKDesk in X now locks up the computer so bad I have to do a hard reset! Does anyone have any idea as to what I am doing wrong. During boot up the kernal recognises the card identifies the correct io and irq and loads the driver. The conf.modules file is correctly set as is the rc.xxxx files. Is the TK lock up problem related to the desk manager trying to access the LAN? Nick Bowling - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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[SuSE Linux] Ack! Connectivity degradation
by cmayes＠adenine.frognet.net 09 Sep '98

09 Sep '98

Hello from my Minicom connection... I am having major problems with my PPP stuff, and I can't figure out what has caused it. The first signs showed up a couple of days ago when I was fetching some mail off of my ISP server. All of a sudden, the transfer essentially stopped. Thinking I had gotten a bad connection, I (using wvdial .41) reconnected. Now, nothing would work. No telnet, no W3, no POP3, No IMAP, nothing. In a panic, I fell back on Kppp. It worked for telnet and W3, but the mail transfer was abysmally slow. So, I thought I'd try to modify named.boot to see if that would make a difference. Nope. I re-commented what I had modified and went to class. Upon returning, I discovered that I could not connect at all! My pppd kept dying. Puzzled, I manually tried launching pppd. It returned that I did not have Kernel support for PPP. I am at a loss, really. Does anyone have any ideas? I seriosly have not touched a thing besides named.boot, which I quickly reset to normal. I am running SuSE 5.2 with the 2.0.33 kernel. I have tried both kppp and wvdial, both of which worked perfectly before. Thanks in advance! Chris - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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