March 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] win dhcp server?
by neonatus＠gimp.thz.net 13 Mar '00

13 Mar '00

Hi! Please I don't want to start a OS war, so if anyone finds this mail inpolite or offending please mail your oppinion to me directly and not to the list. I have a laptop running linux which has a dhcp network set up via pcmcia. Since my work at home includes work on a windooze machine (NT) and I would like to connect my laptop to it I would like to ask you if there is a way to do that. The laptop is running SuSE linux 6.2 and connects well to dhcp on SuSE 6.2 and Slackware 7 distro. I don't know how to make it connect to a NT machine (Workstation 4.0 sp 5). I know this is way of topic for this list, but I really hate to ask on some windooze list just so they can tell mw here to *BUY* something that will crash all the time. Can anyone at least point me to some url's or some program names to look up - something non commercial please (im just a student). (I allready found dnsplus, whic is shareware for 10days only). THX in advance! Bo¹tjan -- Bo¹tjan Müller [NEONATUS], NEONATUS(a)bigfoot.com, http://surf.to/NEONATUS RSA id: 0x90178DBD, ICQ #:7506644, PGP key: finger neonatus(a)gimp.thz.net GEEK CODE = PGP key Registered Linux User #87774, Powered by SuSE Linux 6.2 "He's just a politician trying to save both his faces ..." -- 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] There are stopped jobs.
by frenche＠telalink.net 13 Mar '00

13 Mar '00

root@frencher:/home/frenche > exit exit There are stopped jobs. root@frencher:/home/frenche > What produces the stopped jobs message? What can I change to eliminate it? Is it a symptom of a good thing or is it bad? -- Jeff French frenche(a)telalink.net For the best Linux reading list on the WWW, checkout http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Reading-List-HOWTO.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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Re: [SLE] Sax is nice, but...
by hccr＠thecity.sfsu.edu 13 Mar '00

13 Mar '00

Thanks to Vitor Demeter and Kirk Moore for suggestions on how to avoid having to use sax every time in order to get the mouse to work, but I'm still stuck. > You could type /etc/rc.d/gpm I tried "/etc/rc.d/gpm start" and got the message "restarting console mouse support" but then after using startx, the mouse does not work in X. After using sax it works OK. BTW, when getting out of X without using the mouse, is there a more elegant way than CTRL-ALT-Backspace? It seems rather brutal to shut it down like that. ---------------------------------------------- Charles Rathbone San Francisco, California Voice & fax: 415-928-7347 Email: hccr(a)thecity.sfsu.edu ---------------------------------------------- -- 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] YAST2 rocks!
by hattons＠CPKWEBSER5.ncr.disa.mil 13 Mar '00

13 Mar '00

I just ran YAST 2 on a box and told it to set up a default minimal system. Wow!!!! My mother could do that! Good Job SuSE! One thing that did happen when I changed my hard drive set up did get me thinking about a type of management tool. I originally installed on an old 340 MB HD with just the minimal setup. I then added a 10G HD and put /usr, /var, and /opt on the big drive. I didn't think to migrate the contents before I rebooted. Needless to say the system wasn't very happy to find empty partitions where its brain used to be. It would be cool if that could be done in one command, e.g. "migrate /dev/hda3/usr /dev/hdb3/usr" which could be made part of the disk admin utility. Again YAST2 rocks! Steve -- 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] Dump segfaults!
by abrahams＠valinet.com 13 Mar '00

13 Mar '00

Yeah, I say get rid of 'em too! Boot 'em out unceremoniously! Segfaults have no place in a Linux system! <grin> Paul Abrahams -- 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] XFree86 V4
by jpennington＠atipa.com 13 Mar '00

13 Mar '00

Sasa Janiska <sjaniska(a)inet.hr> said: > On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 01:21:08 +0100, Philipp Thomas wrote: > > >Watch out this space for when 6.4 is out and we're free to talk about its > >features :-) > > Who is maintaining LyX package? > It seems to me that it is not really up to date. I personally was under the impression that LyX (xforms) was abandoned in favor of the KLyX (Qt) project. In my own limited experience, KLyX is a LOT easier to use than LyX was... > >PS For me personally, the switch to gcc 2.95.2 and thus to one single compiler > > would be worth it, but of cause YMMV :) > > I agree. That's certainly a great step forward. A single compiler? What a novel idea... ;) -- 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] Can't Print
by dvalyou＠yahoo.com 13 Mar '00

13 Mar '00

doing what you suggest adds the file to the list in lpq but the printer remains silent. --- Graham Smith <gqs(a)zip.com.au> wrote: > > On 13-Mar-2000 David wrote: > > > > > > --- Erland Moller <erland(a)pandora.be> wrote: > > > >> Did you configurre the right interface ? > >> lp0 for the dos lpt1: > >> lp1 for the dos lpt2: > >> > > > > Only have one parallel port which uses lpt1 > so > > I'm using lp0. > > > > > > > >> Erland. > >> > >> -- > > Hi, > > Have you tried sending a file directly to > /dev/lp0 to prove the port is working? > > cat <file> >/dev/lp0 > > The <file> should be file suitable for printing > on your printer. e.g. a plain > text file. > > You will have to be root to use this command > because of the default permissions > set for this device excude users from directly > accessing it. > > Regards, > > Graham Smith > ---------------------------------- > > -- > 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/ > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- 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] Win apps in Linux
by grtoft＠yahoo.com 13 Mar '00

13 Mar '00

BobF wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > > There is WINE. It is still under development, severely crippled by > > the lack of documentation for the Windows API. www.wine.org > > George- > The above url is a French wine page :-) > -- > Bob F > This must be a manifestation for a strong desire to get drunk after sifting through tons of security pages and MS FUD. The correct URL is www.winehq.com -- George Toft http://www.georgetoft.com -- 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] suse on micro channel
by arthur＠sevenkings.net 13 Mar '00

13 Mar '00

Thanks to those who replied. I finally got suse 6.2 up and running on a micro channel IBM 9595 with SCSI disks. It required downloading the 6.2 mca boot disk from the ftp site and booting with: linux ide0=noprobe ide1=noprobe ibmmcascsi=7 mca-pentium Without the ide noprobe it would not see the SCSI adapter, complaining about not being able to get shared IRQ 14. I don't know why that would be a problem, as the SCSI adapter does not use IRQ 14 anyway, but at least the noprobe got it working. To finish the install I had to select a micro channel kernel. I was able to reboot successfully with LILO installed on the hard drive. The tricky part was getting the 3Com Etherlink III MCA (3c539) network card working. It appears that Suse's micro channel kernel is built without support for 3c509 (which includes support for 3c529) so it could not see the card. But after recompiling a custom kernel with 3c509 support it worked. The performance of the Etherlink III MCA is not good though. If you try an FTP download across ethernet from a fast server, the 3c529 suffers many overruns on inbound packets resulting in poor network performance. This must be due to the card itself and not the device driver, because the same thing happens under NT. Recompiling the kernel to remove TCP large window support helped a lot. Now a on 15 meg file I usually get fewer than 4 or 5 overruns, and performance is within 95% of wire speed. I'm accustomed to SMC Ultras which never get overruns, so even 1 overrun is disappointing to me. I notice that kernel 2.3.51 has support for the SMC Token Elite MCA. I have several cases of them, bought at auction. Now I will have to go to Ebay and get some cheap token ring MAUs to see how the SMC Token Elite MCA performs under Linux. What about Suse 6.3 and micro channel? I tried using the 6.2 MCA boot disk to install 6.3, but at the end when it is time to select a kernel you can't select a kernel anymore! How do you get Suse 6.3 running on microchannel? -- 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] SuSE list archive
by jpennington＠atipa.com 13 Mar '00

13 Mar '00

Irwan Hadi <irwanhadi(a)iname.com> said: > At 16:33 05/03/2000 -0500, **Nicolas Beaulieu**, has written a message, and > here is the reply : > >There's an archive of this list on SuSE's website: > > > >www.suse.com > > > >Another one is available on www.geocrawler.com > > is there any , which I could download the entire passed discussion here ? > so not by downloading all the messages one by one. Some listservs allow access to individual messages, serial message groups, and message groups by date. You might send a message to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com to see what your options are on this one... -- 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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