February 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [SLE] More Laptops
by tduggan＠dekaresearch.com 03 Feb '00

03 Feb '00

Hi, >> If it is a Lucent LT modem it may work with the driver available at >> http://www.linmodems.org >> The one in my laptop works quite nicely with that module. >Thanks for the link, any special tricks in getting it going? I >installed the module, WVdial finds the modem, initializes it, >but dies when it can't find a dial tone. Nothing special, seemed to work out of the box for me with both wvdial and kppp. Give it a run with kppp and minicom, then if you can <shudder> reboot to windows and make sure it still works there. Here is some output I get, yours should be similiar tim@lepton:~ > file /dev/modem /dev/modem: symbolic link to /dev/ttyS14 tim@lepton:~ > ls -l /dev/ttyS14 crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 62, 78 Feb 3 10:50 /dev/ttyS14 Here is the start of my wvdial.conf (pretty stock stuff) [Dialer Defaults] Modem = /dev/ttyS14 Baud = 115200 Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0 Area Code Phone = 123456 Username = login_name Password = password Dial Command = ATDT Stupid Mode = 1 New PPPD = 1 The only time I recieved a similiar error was due to my voicemail actually messing up the dialtone. I've found the modem to work better under linux than it ever did under win98, or perhaps I should say the modem doesn't reduce the performance of the OS as much. Keep us updated, Tim -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] FTP confusion ?!?
by patlo＠linux.ba 03 Feb '00

03 Feb '00

I have question about FTP packages with SuSE 6.3 By default i had installed proftp . I uninstalled proftp package and installed "ftp dir" package and wuftp and uninstalled few times :) and now I have /usr/local/ftp/subfolders which i didn't have before...I am little confused now cause i don't know which package creates those folders? And does wuftp creates anonymous account and chroot automaticaly or maybe it's an issue for "FTP dir" package ? /ftp/pub /ftp/mesg /ftp/bin /ftp/etc .... those folders are created by which ftp package??? FTPD works OK ... anonymous users are "chrooted", normal users use their own home dirs... I don't have any problems but I want to know which package works with anonymous FTP Thank you all ... Greetings from Bosnia and Hercegovina ... -- PENGUIN POWER << S u S E L I N U X >> http://www.linux.ba << The first Linux page in Bosnia >> http://www.suse.com << The ultimate Linux distribution >> -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] /var/spool
by yatsen.ng＠brunel.nl 03 Feb '00

03 Feb '00

Hi there, I know that something that's about to be printed gets stored temporarily somewhere in /var/spool Where exactly? And how can I delete it? Thanks, -- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng(a)brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] excel
by fgs＠epulse.net 03 Feb '00

03 Feb '00

Hi, Does anyone know if there is an equivalent to 'wordview' which can look at ms excel spreadsheets? TIA Francesco -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Telnet
by eikeld＠gte.net 03 Feb '00

03 Feb '00

Have just found out that my ISP (GTE WorldWind) has decided to block inbound telnet on port 23. Question is, can telnet be set to another port or is it cast in granite and I'm hosed ? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Re: problem with ftp update in yast
by ke＠suse.de 03 Feb '00

03 Feb '00

"Stuart Powell" <stuart(a)yorkshirepudding.com> writes: | > rpm --rebuilddb | Thanks, Karl. This fixed the problem perfectly. Nice to hear :) | Does this corruption happen often ? It just happens from time to time ;-( Esp., if the RPM database is just converted to the new format (3.x)... -- work : ke(a)suse.de Karl Eichwalder home : ke(a)gnu.franken.de -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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RE: [SLE] More Laptops
by tduggan＠dekaresearch.com 03 Feb '00

03 Feb '00

Hi, -----Original Message----- From: Kristian Farren [SMTP:kf@wa.net] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 4:52 AM >I have a new Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop, and can't wait to install SuSE >on it, hopefully someone can help me out with a few questions that I have. >In order to get NT to work with my 3Com 10/100 ethernet adapter I had >to change the pc card setting in the bios from "auto-select" to >"cardbus/16bit", >this effectively kills the pcmcia service in NT, will this work in Linux? It should work O.K. Did you check here to see if anyone has had problems http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ >Also >since I want to add a pcmcia modem ( a dreaded winmodem is installed) will >I still be able to have both the cardbus lan card & the modem working >without >having to change the bios setting everytime I boot between NT & Linux? If it is a Lucent LT modem it may work with the driver available at http://www.linmodems.org The one in my laptop works quite nicely with that module. >I can't find any data on the horizontal & vertical display mhz, is there a >safe setting for a laptop display if one doesn't know? There's lots of data on this on the linux laptop page mentioned above. Good luck, Tim -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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RE: [SLE] Diald - Ethertap
by kremidas＠lrf.gr 03 Feb '00

03 Feb '00

Hi to all :) On /etc/diald.conf and at the parameter connect you MUST use the chat script and not a ppp script. Diald starts pppd by itself. When you put it at connect then diald thinks that this is the chat script and wait for the chat script to finish. pppd doesn't exit and the diald (using alarm system call) thinks that the chat script timed out. Look at the man page also to double check it. But if you cannot make it work there is an alternative method but that method requires that the ISP you use will drop the connection after some idle time that you will specify (at least this worked with my ISDN dial-up). Add a line at inittab like this: pd:23:respawn:/usr/local/bin/myppp where /usr/local/bin/myppp is a shell script like the following: #!/bin/sh exec pppd call my-isp where my-isp is the a file like the following in the /etc/ppp/peers directory: updetach /dev/ttyS1 115200 crtscts connect '/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/ppp/YOUR-CHAT-SCRIPT' noauth ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote defaultroute lock asyncmap 0 idle 30 noipx demand persist holdoff 5 user YOURUSERNAME The above starts from init the pppd and creates the ppp0 interface but does not dial. When you ask something from the Internet only then the pppd starts dialing and connect to your ISP. The only problem I had at the begginig (and that is why you ISP must disconnect you after some time idle) is that the active-filter parameter in pppd doesn't work. And you have some icmp traffic at the ppp0 interface so I couldn't take advantage of the idle parameter of pppd. Any hints on that ? Hope I helped. Kleanthis Kremmidas System Administrator at Lambrakis Research Foundation (LRF) E-mail: kremidas(a)lrf.gr, kremidas(a)freemail.gr -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] update, rpm, 6.3
by jdenning＠pobox.com 03 Feb '00

03 Feb '00

Greetings -- Another question I'm not quite sure about. Until I get my net connection working with Linux I have to download in Windows and move files via floppy:-( Can I take the rpm files I download from SuSE's update site and use them to update my working system? Using the rpm -U command? Do I need to be aware of any potential problems? John W Denning -JD- ( ( ( ) ) ) jdenning(a)pobox.com Salt Lake City, UT ) ) )( ( ( (801)322-2056 JD's UnderWater Photo Course - http://www.pobox.com/~jdenning/uwpc.html -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Re: problem with ftp update in yast
by ke＠suse.de 03 Feb '00

03 Feb '00

"Stuart Powell" <stuart(a)yorkshirepudding.com> writes: | I decided to give the "yast system update via ftp" a chance to work its | magic. Everything seemed to go OK for about 20 or so packages, then it | stopped with the following error: | | free list corrupt (1307976) contact rpm-list(a)redhat.com | | This is in a red bar, so it looks like a pretty bad error. The RPM database is corrupted; please, try to issue: rpm --rebuilddb | I am also confused by the reference to Red Hat. This machine was a | fresh install from my new SuSE 6.3 CDs last night. This machine has | never had Red Hat anywhere near it. It's RPM, which emitted this message; RPM has its home @redhat.com and Red Hat is kind enough to run the RPM mailinglist, too. | The problem first cropped up for package afio, so when I re-ran the | update, I excluded it from the list. Next time it stopped at alien. | Restart the update, omit afio *and* alien, and this time it stopped | at aps. I really don't want to have to keep stopping and restarting | the job; I would prefer it to go through nice and smoothly all at | once. Please, try to install/update the mininal system (base system) first; then start the system again and fetch all needed packages -- install these fetched packages from a local device. Do you try to install per through a proxy server? If yes, is it a real FTP proxy server? Otherwise it does not work; per FTP through an HTTP proxy is not implemented. -- work : ke(a)suse.de Karl Eichwalder home : ke(a)gnu.franken.de -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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