January 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

2.4.0.SuSE-6 & ppp
by Greek Geek 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

Hi All, I've tried a couple of times now, to get this kernel online, with my wee 56k modem & am having no joy :-( I've tried the ppp, as both a module & in the kernel, but I keep getting bounced off @ the very end of the logging on process, with "No carrier," message whizzing bye....? Huh? Say what? Any hints, aligations or things left uncompiled???? *BFN* Greek Geek (tired & somewhat sunburnt....) "Microsoft Productivity Software" - See reductio ad absurdum, conclusions. - GG.

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Is there a 'Page maker' clon for linux?
by Adinda Praditya 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

The subject tells everything, -- Abdulmalik bin Hilman bin Mahyuddin ----------------------------------- Verily! Allah grasps the heavens and the earth lest they should move away from their places, and if they were to move away from their places, there is noe one that could grasp them after Him. Truly, He is Ever Most Forbearing, Oft-Forgiving. (Al-Fathir : 41) a Black Hole?

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Re: [SLE] Installing 2 kernel for iomega zip drive
by Adinda Praditya 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, you wrote: > Hi, > > If your ZIP drive is a IDE one, you don't need a driver. Just mount partition > four ( 4 ) of the relevant IDE device ( f.ex. /dev/hdd4 ) > > Your entry in fstab would look like this: > > /dev/hdd4 /zip vfat user,rw,noexec,noauto 0 0 > > If the drive is a SCSI one, you would load the ppa kernel module. The generic > SuSE kernel, and the Pentium SuSE kernel have SCSI emulation compiled in, so > loading the module and mounting /dev/sda4 is enough. > > -tosi > Mine is an external one, i use lpt1. Is 2.4 support for it? where can i see a description of 2.4? i couldn't find it in www.kernel.org and its mailing list. -- Abdulmalik bin Hilman bin Mahyuddin ----------------------------------- Verily! Allah grasps the heavens and the earth lest they should move away from their places, and if they were to move away from their places, there is noe one that could grasp them after Him. Truly, He is Ever Most Forbearing, Oft-Forgiving. (Al-Fathir : 41) a Black Hole?

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Automatic dial an alternate number
by Adinda Praditya 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

Is it possible to make an alternate dial number to my ISP that runs automatically when the default one failed (for some reasons). I have to 'load an alternate configuration profile' in yast1 (which it must be root). thanks, -- Abdulmalik bin Hilman bin Mahyuddin ----------------------------------- Verily! Allah grasps the heavens and the earth lest they should move away from their places, and if they were to move away from their places, there is noe one that could grasp them after Him. Truly, He is Ever Most Forbearing, Oft-Forgiving. (Al-Fathir : 41) a Black Hole?

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How can I set up a dial-up server (one connection, not an ISP)
by wilson＠claborn.net 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

Howdy, We have a server we're about to take to a remote office. We need to be able to administer it remotely, so we're going to have to set it up as a dial in server with a modem. I have absolutely no experience with dialup servers in any OS, so I wonder if anyone has any advise? Also which package is best? The goal is simply to be able to get a shell remotely. TIA ---------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com

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Re: [SLE] yast2 and alsa and lots of angry ranting
by Purple Shirt 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

>From: Nick Zentena <zentena(a)hophead.dyndns.org> >To: "Purple Shirt" <purpleshirt(a)hotmail.com>, suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >Subject: Re: [SLE] yast2 and alsa and lots of angry ranting >Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 08:38:31 -0500 > >On January 6, 2001 07:27 pm, Purple Shirt wrote: > > > > > until 6.4 rolled around and with it yast2 and the fact that SuSe started > > trying to include sound setup with its distro. From there on sound setup > > may have become easy for people who like yast2 and think it does a good > > job. For me yast2 makes sound almost impossible to enjoy. I got opl3sa2 > > card. > > > > The problem is that if I use the alsa.rpm and alsadev.rpm and use yast2 >to > > set sound up it gives me sound but loops forever. it's not sound its >noise. > > So there I tell myself that I just don't use yast2 and compile my sound > > like in the past myself. > > > > The problem is ever since suse created this automatic sound setup its > > impossible to compile alsa yourself. I constantly get this stupid error: > > > > amixer: Mixer 0/0 open error: Invalid argument > > That doesn't sound like a compiler error. I haven't looked at yast2 in >awhile but last time I did all the program did was call the alsa utilities. >There is nothing stopping you from manually running alsactl. Or from hand >editing the asound.conf file. It's no compiler error. It's the error I get once I reboot and try to unmute the sucker. Modules load but it doesn't unmute thing hence I can;t hear anything. BTW even if I used yast2 now I don't get /etc/asound.conf back. I deleted the file once but since alsactl doesn't run smoothly I don't get that file back. > > > > > > I wish we all go back to good old text file setup and none of this yast2 > > junk. > > So don't use it. Edit the file yourself. Alsa compiles just fine here. At >least when I got the kernel fixed. Just grab the tarball and do it. Nothing >stopped me. All the old tools are still there. Nobody forces you to use rpm >or cute programs like yast2. > >Nick Well I spend basically 8 hours on this now. I do my own compiles and they compile just fine but we still end up at the same problem with the mixer. mk _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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[SLE] printing in colour or color
by peter＠hargroves.screaming.net 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

Hello all readers, I have a epson stylus color 440 printer. I can print ok in Black but not in color any help appreciated. I'm using Suse 6.2 Peter -- 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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A bit more about 2.4.0
by Nick Zentena 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

Something I forgot. APM doesn't seem to load automatically anymore. I've added a modprobe line to boot.local to make it happen. Nick

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My notes on kernel 2.4.0
by Nick Zentena 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

Well yesterday I grabbed the source for linux-2.4.0.SuSE-6.tgz from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/next/ yesterday [of course there is a newer version there today-)] Compile and install went fairly smooth. Rebooted and it wasn't loading modules. At first I figured I'd forgotten compile the right ones. But no that wasn't it. After some playing I figured out modprobe was looking in the wrong place for them. Actually read the Docs with the kernel and found out I needed to update modutils. Did that and things got better. Went and compiled Alsa. Now modprobe wouldn't find the sound modules. It seems that the new modprobe wants them in /lib/modules/sound so I just got lazy and copied the stuff in /lib/modules/2.4.0/misc to /lib/modules/sound and everything was happy. I'm not sure I'm seeing any real changes with 2.4.0 vs 2.2.18 but it seems it handles memory a little better. Nick

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diald-wvdial
by pjpieczora＠sympatico.ca 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

From: Peter J.Pieczora <pjpieczora(a)sympatico.ca> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 09:06:02 -0500 Message-Id: <00123109060200.00543@waterman> Subject: diald-wvdial Hi, and HNY I have just recently setup dial-on-demand to my ISP, which works fine. I am wondering if there is someone who uses similar configuration. I'm interested in getting better control of, especially shutting down connection. So far I'm very satisfied with the results, and regret taking so long to use it. cheers, peter

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