March 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

MS VPN server
by Phil Curtis 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Has anyone got the MS VPN SERVER (or something similar) to work with SuSE. If so how Regards Phil. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.237 / Virus Database: 115 - Release Date: 07-Mar-01

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stupid programming question
by S.Toms 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

I've been wondering this for a while, but havn't a need till recently. Is it possible to compile a program written for mac or windows on a linux machine or do I actually need to do it on those machines? -- S.Toms - tomas(a)primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v7.0+ - Kernel 2.2.18 The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

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Re: telnetd: getnameinfo
by phantasm 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Didnt send the first time, think I may have a prob with my mailer :/ Robert K Davies On 18 Mar 2001 00:08:53 -0500, phantasm wrote: > Here is an interesting problem, I seen it once before on a minimal 6.4 > install I did, and a friend of mine is getting the same error with 7.1 > install Default w/ Office while running SSH as well. > > When trying to telnet into the computer ya get > > telneted: getnameinfo. > connection to host lost > > What could the problem be, I have searched the SDB, List Archive and > Google and yet to find anything. > > Thanks, > Robert Kris Davies > > -- --

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imlib package
by S.Toms 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Quick question, I'm trying to compile xine but it is requesting imlib >= 1.9.5 be installed. Now, I have imlib 1.9.8 installed but for some reason, the imlib-config file isn't present in the system. I have an imlib_config, but it's not what xine is looking for during configure. A reinstall of the imlib package (from CD) results in the same, can't connect to ftp.suse.com due to it being down or something, so I can't check the version on the ftp site. Has anyone else come across this? Could someone do an 'rpm -qif /usr/bin/imlib-config' and see if it's supposed to be part of the imlibcfe package or what package it's supposed to be a part of before I start compiling it by hand. Thanks a bunch. -- S.Toms - tomas(a)primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v7.0+ - Kernel 2.2.18 On-line, adj.: The idea that a human being should always be accessible to a computer.

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RE: [SLE] Applix 5.0 Working in SuSE 7.1
by Jethro Cramp 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Doug McGarrett on Sunday, March 18 said: > > Please report back to the list what experiences you have with > this. I'm sure > Also, there are others, like me, also interested. BTW, how > compatible is it > with Windows WP's, like Word and WP9? --doug > Doug, I just ordered Applixware 5.0 from SuSE in the UK. I guess it'll take a couple of weeks before it gets forward to me in China. I'll let you know how the install goes on both 7.0 and 7.1 Regards, Jethro

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Kernel upgrade
by Sean Oonamey 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Hello all, I was hunting around this afternoon and found in the directory /usr/src/linux-2.2.14 a file called .config I was wondering if I could modify this, using pico for example, to change the Processor type and features? Can I do this or do I have to recompile the kernel. If I do where do I do the make menuconfig? Thanks, Sean :-) _____________________________________________________________________________ http://calendar.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Calendar - Access your appointments and meetings online.

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Does my kernal recognize PCI Modem
by mhf 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

I am using kernal 2.2.16 with Suse 7.0. I installed a PCI modem tonight while I'm trying to work out some other issues regarding ADSL use. When I do command lspci -v my modem is recognized as one of the hardware items plugged into my motherboard. Yet, when I run YaST2, I receive a message stating that a modem device could not be found. I found an article on the net that said, "The 2.2.x series of the linux kernel does not support serial ports on PCI devices at the time of this writing (approx. June 2000). In other words, the 2.2.x series does not support PCI modems." Is this correct? My motherboard has no ISA slots, so do I have to purchase an external modem if I want to connect? Does kernel 2.4 recognize serial ports on PCI devices, specifically modems? Thank you for your time. Mike Flug michael.flug(a)snet.net

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RPMs Rise to Arms
by Jethro Cramp 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Somewhere between 6.0 and 6.4 I played with Mandrake for awhile. Although I'mm not interested in discussing the general pros and cons between Mandrake and SuSE I would like to bring up a difference in their communities with respect to RPM. Mandrake has a very active user contributed RPM compiling project. You only have to look on rpmfind.net and you can see that usually Mandrake has the most up-to-date RPM's available. It was whilst being involved in this that I learnt to make rpms from srcrpms using Mandrake's very clear HOW-TO. SuSE does a wonderful job of making RPM's available to its' users for a wide range of programs. But this really isn't enough. Redhat based RPMs are ubiquitous. New users to SuSE all too easily can end up downloading the wrong RPM (witness Ron Sinclair's recent problem with quanta) and then get frustrated. To change this situation we all need to contribute by taking the miscellaneous RPMs that we build in the course of the daily use of our systems and upload them to rpmfind.net etc. Of course sometimes because of the individual nature of everybody's systems someone is going to download an rpm and it isn't going to run; but that is still better than not having a suse rpm at all. To make this work SuSE needs to take the initiative and write some guidelines for newbies to follow and publish this in a prominent position on their website, in the installed docs and in their manuals. I think that this would have a very positive effect on the useability and accessibility (excuse the marketing speak) of the SuSE distribution. What does everybody else think? Regards, Jethro

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X Windows
by Edwin Erdman 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Hello all, Re SuSe 7.1 I really know better, but I had an attack of terminal stupidity today and tried running SAX2. It does now find my ATI video card (first time ever). However it left me with that *&^%$(^ virtual desktop so that everything keeps sliding all over creation. Can someone take pity on me tell me the name of the file in which I can turn this thing off? -- Edwin O. Erdman Penguinista - diagonally parked in a parallel universe !!! User# 135893 Machine#s 59387, 82657, 82659 SuSE 7.1 - KDE 2.01

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ipchains: Protocol not available
by Jerry Kreps 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

root@JLKreps:/home/jerry > ipchains -P forward MASQ ipchains: Protocol not available root@JLKreps:/home/jerry > modprobe ipchains modprobe: Invalid line 210 in /etc/modules.conf snd_device_gid modprobe: Invalid line 233 in /etc/modules.conf snd_dma1 modprobe: Invalid line 242 in /etc/modules.conf amixer modprobe: Invalid line 285 in /etc/modules.conf isp16_cdrom_dma modprobe: Invalid line 325 in /etc/modules.conf /sbin/modprobe root@JLKreps:/home/jerry > YaST2 installed ipchains and turned ip forwarding on when I installed 7.1. I can see IP-FORWARDing enabled when the boot msgs fly by. The service is modular, but doing a modprobe on them gives the same errors the kernel reports when it tries to install them during the boot. Any advice besides 'reinstall'.? JLK CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y # Protocol-specific masquerading support will be built as modules. # CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y # # Protocol-specific masquerading support will be built as modules. # CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MOD=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPAUTOFW=m CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPPORTFW=m CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MFW=m

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