May 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Is it me or is it the network?
by Ricardo Rodriguez 04 May '01

04 May '01

I am running two laptops (W2K & SuSE) connected to a network (NT) using dynamic IP's through DHCP. Both of them were working fine for a couple of days until I started messing up to configure my Kmail. Since then I can get connected internally (web server and intranet) but now I can just browse the www from the W2K laptop. If I try to ping something from linux (like www.dell.com) I get packages transmision with no error but Im not able to browse www. I'm not sure if they change something on the network that it is blocking me the access (I have nothing to do with the network admin, as a matter of fact Im just and end user, so Im far from them) or if I changed something on my puter that it is not allowing me to browse. What should I check? The strange thing is that I am pingin everywhere but not even the netscape or the konkeror are allowing me to have fun in the cyberspace. Thnx!!!!!!! ===== Ricardo A. Rodriguez www.RicardoRodriguez.net OKC, OK - USA Knowledge is power, and you are powerless without it!!! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/

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Konqueror Printing
by JR 04 May '01

04 May '01

I see a printer icon in the Konqueror file manager. However, it never lights up to indicate it is functional. How do you print a page of text in Konqueror? Thanks. JR

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regarding a laptop removable floppy and /floppy
by scsijon 04 May '01

04 May '01

Prelim statements: -I have a recently aquired Dell I8000 as some may know. -It has a removable floppy that fits in a bay in front. -I usually have my second Battery in this bay (it gives me between 5 and 6 active working hours that way) but from time to time I need to install the floppy hardware module for copying. -I'm using SuSE 7.1 with 2.4.0-4GB and X4 -If I plug the floppy module in and log in as either the root or a user, I need to manually mount the floppy to read/write to a disc if in a shell (not kde2 desktop, that's ok). Question: How do I alter /etc/fstab, or preferably anywhere else as I don't really like playing with that file for this type of purpose, so that on login it checks if the floppy hardware module is there and mounts /floppy automatically if so? thanks in advance fixing this will leave me with 1 major (on hold, I hate winmodems!),3 minor (in hand) and 8 nusance (get around when...) problems left. scsijon

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Was: Sync'in Time
by basslake 04 May '01

04 May '01

Hi I use dial-up account, so when I boot up, I am not connected to the net. xntp exits , and log says that - May 2 11:30:30 basslake ntpdate[389]: can't find host sundial.columbia.edu May 2 11:30:30 basslake ntpdate[389]: can't find host tick.cs.unlv.edu May 2 11:30:30 basslake ntpdate[389]: no servers can be used, exiting May 2 11:30:30 basslake xntpd[392]: ntpd 4.0.99f Mon Apr 9 10:57:57 GMT 2001 ( May 2 11:30:30 basslake xntpd[392]: signal_no_reset: signal 13 had flags 400000 May 2 11:30:30 basslake xntpd[392]: precision = 11 usec May 2 11:30:30 basslake xntpd[392]: kern_enable is 1 May 2 11:30:30 basslake xntpd[392]: using kernel phase-lock loop 0040 May 2 11:30:30 basslake xntpd[392]: frequency initialized 0.000 from /etc/ntp.d May 2 11:30:30 basslake xntpd[392]: using kernel phase-lock loop 0041 Question: Do I need to stop, then restart xntpd every time I go on line ? , or is there a command-line command to tell xntpd to get the time sync from the net servers ? Thanks for any info. John -- God does not play dice" -- Einstein "Not only does God play dice, he sometimes throws them where they can't be seen." -- Stephen Hawking

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Re: [SLE] Does Realtek 8139 chip work with kernel 2.4.2?
by Purple Shirt 04 May '01

04 May '01

I may be wrong but did you turn on the network card using yast? Are you doing this by hand or using yast to set the card up. I did an installation using 2.2 kernel the other day. I set up the network card. Then I installed 2.4 kernel and the network card would fault on me. I went into yast and the settings were gone. It was like I had to set the card up twice, once for 2.2 and once for 2.4. mk >From: Paul Abrahams <abrahams(a)acm.org> >To: SuSE listserve <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> >Subject: [SLE] Does Realtek 8139 chip work with kernel 2.4.2? >Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 22:13:16 -0400 > >Has anyone here succeeded in using an Ethernet card based on >the RealTek 8139 chip with the SuSE version of kernel >2.4.2? I can get it to work just fine with the 2.4.0 >kernel and the 8139too driver, but not with 2.4.2 and the >8139too driver. (In fact, the 8139too driver seems to be >the only driver provided for this chip in kernel 2.4.2.) >The symptom of the problem is that when insmod is called >with argument "8139too", either from the bootup code or >separately, it gives a "no device found" error. I've >switched back and forth between 2.4.2 and 2.4.0 a couple of >times, with completely consistent results. > >I'd like to know if the problem lies in something I did or >if there's a bug here. > >I plan to experiment further by trying a stock 2.4.4 kernel. > > >-- >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/faq and the >archives at http://lists.suse.com > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Re: vmware & 2.4.3 - networking no go
by Dave Jones 04 May '01

04 May '01

On Wed, 2 May 2001, dids wrote: > Cant get vmware to run now Ive upgraded to 2.4.3 The networking > modules fail. > Ive seen patches by people for RH7.1 but no info for Suse The kernel patches floating about on various lists replace a removed function that has been obsoleted. Namely this one: static inline atomic_t *skb_datarefp(struct sk_buff *skb) { return (atomic_t *)(skb->end); } Whilst this is easy to replace, the correct fix would be to fix the vmware modules not to use this function, and instead use the new equivalent, which is &skb_shinfo(skb)->dataref regards, davej.

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Re: [SLE] Just For Fun
by Volker Kuhlmann 04 May '01

04 May '01

> > Hey, olvwm is just the thing I want for my 486 X-terminals. Beats just > > about everything except maybe fvwm in terms of resource use. SuSE still > > supporting openwin was a very pleasant side-effect after ditching RH... > > I cannot let this pass ;) > > Just use blackbox with bbtools -- the perfect complete desktop > environment :-) > > If anyone feel like seeing how beautiful it is, go look at Ehhm, beauty is secondary to speed. Besides, openwin looks perfectly ok. > And one cannot even see the roottail in the background ... Having not yet looked at the image, what's the benefit of that? > (mmj@panther) ~> cat /proc/`pidof blackbox`/status [17:57] > Name: blackbox > State: S (sleeping) > Pid: 646 > PPid: 629 > TracerPid: 0 > Uid: 1098 1098 1098 1098 > Gid: 100 100 100 100 > FDSize: 256 > Groups: 100 > VmSize: 3472 kB > VmLck: 0 kB > VmRSS: 1852 kB > VmData: 416 kB > VmStk: 36 kB > VmExe: 176 kB > VmLib: 2548 kB > SigPnd: 0000000000000000 > SigBlk: 0000000000000000 > SigIgn: 8000000000000000 > SigCgt: 0000000000014e83 > CapInh: 0000000000000000 > CapPrm: 0000000000000000 > CapEff: 0000000000000000 Ok: > cat /proc/`pidof olvwm`/status Name: olvwm State: S (sleeping) Pid: 1204 PPid: 1200 Uid: 501 501 501 501 Gid: 551 551 551 551 Groups: 551 14 16 73 74 75 76 77 79 100 102 106 144 147 201 513 558 902 VmSize: 3020 kB VmLck: 0 kB VmRSS: 1124 kB VmData: 440 kB VmStk: 28 kB VmExe: 340 kB VmLib: 2020 kB SigPnd: 0000000000000000 SigBlk: 0000000000000000 SigIgn: 8000000000000000 SigCgt: 0000000000014203 CapInh: 0000000000000000 CapPrm: 0000000000000000 CapEff: 0000000000000000 Sorry, you lose. Your shout :-) Volker

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Help on how to check a new disk.
by Rafael Herrera 04 May '01

04 May '01

Hi, I just got in the mail an IBM 18 GB scsi disk from Ebay. As usual in this kind of transaction, there is no 100% warranty. In any, case the disk looks in good condition. To assure myself that the disk is in good order I did: cp /dev/sdb /dev/null This will copy the raw partition into the null device, that is, it will just read the whole disk. This ended with an scsi medium error. May 3 20:52:34 inca kernel: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 1, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 6a fc 85 00 00 60 00 May 3 20:52:34 inca kernel: Info fld=0x6afc86, Current sd08:13: sense key Medium Error May 3 20:52:34 inca kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:13, sector 6288536 Next, I run the 'badblocks' utility on one of the partitions and got 5 bad blocks. Now, my question is how do I deal with this? If I create a ext2 partition I can pass those values to mk2efs, or even use the '-c' option. However, I want to use reiserfs. But mkreiserfs does not appear to have a bad block check. In short, is there something I can do about it? I know that I can: low level format the drive, get a replacement from IBM, use ext2. I don't want the last two options. Any suggestion will be appreciated. -- Rafael

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Estimating driver development effort
by Ed 04 May '01

04 May '01

Can anyone tell me how much time it typically takes to develop Linux drivers for: Sound card or NIC card or whole PC type system board ... or anything similar I realize it varies widely with experience but need some rough estimates. Thanks, Ed

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URGENT Need good dialup ISP in NYC
by dizzy73 04 May '01

04 May '01

I have an immediate need (tonight) to find a good ISP in New York City anyone??? many thanks rob

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