December 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Zip drives again
by Alexandr Malusek 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

I wonder what happens if you run # /sbin/dump -f /tmp/hdd1.dump /dev/hdd1 I don't see dump mounts /dev/hdd1 so the response may be different. # rpm -qf /sbin/dump dump-0.4b31-12 -- Alexandr.Malusek(a)imv.liu.se

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qmail and SuSE
by W.D.McKinney 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

Hello - I would really like to see SuSE overcome it's adversion to adding djb's software in the distribution. I see even the mail server for this runs list ezmlm which is dbj's mail list software. (see http://cr.yp.to/ezmlm.html) Now maybe a thought would be to stick it all a special directory called djb ? (See http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html) Anyone else running qmail/vpopmail/qmailadmin/etc.,etc. ? Best Regards, Dee

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Re: [SLE] Digital Camera
by Thomas Widlundh 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

Hi, I'd like to thank You all for Your contributions on my behalf. My camera is a MagPix, not listed in gtkam. It has a 16MB memory, with the possibility to expand with a standard memory card. The pictures seems to be jpegs. It's storing all the shots in the memory (or on the memory card, wich I don't have - yet). I'm running SuSE 8.0. During the launch of SuSE, it claims that the USB service is started. gtkam is not detecting the camera. I think it's trying to detect only the very camera showing in the list, and is not trying to detect any camera. Am I right? I'd like to try the method of John's - creating a new device icon, but what is the device of the USB? I have to point a path to something, don't I? I do have two USB ports on the computer. Suggestions? Regards, Thomas

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Epson scanners
by Fred A. Miller 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

Are all CURRENT Epson USB scanners working with 8.1 or just certain models. If the later, which ones? Thanks for any experience any of you have had. Fred -- Fred A. Miller Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fm(a)cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org

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ftp command line wild cards
by fsanta 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

Hi everyone. How can I put up a bunch of files using command-line ftp? I've got 100 .html files to upload. I can put them one at a time but can't seem to be able to use wild cards to do the lot. Thanks, Steve.

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Re: [SLE] can't get 100mb eth0 to work
by Z_God 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

Op dinsdag 31 december 2002 17:34, schreef FX Fraipont: > Z_God wrote: > >The Realtek RTL8029 can only do 10 mbit/sec. > >If you need to force the others to 10 mbit/sec to get them to work, could > > it be that your hub is only able to do 10 mbit/sec? > > No, I have an external 10/100mb hub. > > fx These things can have many causes, broken cables, weird hubs, weird driver etc. I'm not really an expert at this. If you can, you could try other cables (or testing the cables in another network) or something similar with the hub.

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SuSE 8.1 HW detection "blends" devices
by Kevin McLauchlan 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

Greetings, all. I didn't find an SDB entry or FAQ about this specific symptom, and Google was not helpful because I'm not quite sure what to call it. Can somebody tell me: a) is this [below] expected/proper behavior b) what to fix, if it's not correct? I have my hard drives on my primary IDE. On my secondary IDE, I have: PLEXTOR PLEXWriter 16/10/40A (sd0) and Pioneer 116 DVD-ROM (sd1) In SuSE 8.1 (fresh install, not an update), the KDE Control Module Available Hardware app reports them as: PIONEER PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A (wrench symbol) ( /dev/sd0 ) and PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A (wrench symbol) ( /dev/sd1 ) and PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A (X-stopsign symbol) ( /dev/hdd ) and Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-116 -122 (X-stopsign symbol) ( /dev/hdc ) If I click for "Details", the first two device representations show: configured No available Yes nedeed No while the second two device names (with status X on red stopsign) show: configured Yes available No nedeed No If I select "Configure" for ANY of them, YaST demands my root pw and then opens to a CD/DVD device integration dialog, which shows all detected drives. The YaST list contains only the first two of the four items that were shown in "Available Hardware - KDE Control Module"... the ones with the WRONG, INCORRECT, MIXED-UP, INTERMINGLED device identifiers, with empty check boxes beside the names (meaning that they are not "integrated into the system", yet). The dialog explicitly does not give me an opportunity to declare or integrate the third and fourth (properly named?) devices in my list, above, and I similarly can't just overtype the broken names with "correct" device names. So, I abort before commiting to something that seems broken. Why would SuSE 8.1 / YaST2 (installer from DVD) mix parts of the names of the two drives, when it detects them? By that, I mean, why would it take the word "Pioneer" from the Pioneer DVD drive and insert it into the the name of the Plextor CD-R? These are two different physical devices, from two different companies. Yes, before anybody asks, one is Master and the other is jumpered as Slave. What is a SAFE approach to fixing this broken naming? Is it necessary/desirable to have the names correct, or should I just let YaST "Configure/integrate" them as it finds them, with screwy names? Should I expect to have grief later on? Does IDE bus care about which drive is physically connected to the nearer or farther connector on a cable (I thought it did not, if the cable contained no crossover), or is it only important that one drive be jumpered as Master and one as Slave (my current belief, but I'm trying to understand what would have confused YaST2 hardware detection)?? /kevin

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Suse kernel patches
by Andrea Negro 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

There is a link/file describing the list of patches applied to the vanilla kernel by SuSE for each version? Andrea Negro IBM Linux Impact Team

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[SLE] Zip troubles
by Franklin Maurer 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

Hi everyone, I installed a adaptec scsi card so i can use my old zip 250 external scsi drive, but I'm having some troubles.(8.1) When i installed the card, and configured the hardware, i checked a check box that had something to do with loading the SCSI module at boot time, I don't know if this is contributing to my problems ... From info I found in the archives, I added a mount point and the information to fstab, but sometimes when i click on the zip icon on the kde desktop i get a message saying it is already mounted under the info in mtab. entry in fstab ... /dev/sda4 /media/zip vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0 entry in mtab... /dev/sda4 /media/zip vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=framau 0 0 What's the difference between mtab and fstab? Should my zip be in both? On the few occasions where the shortcut does open up konqueror, it sends me to http://navigation.realnames.com/resolver.dll?action=navigation&realname=file %3A&charset=iso-8859-1&providerid=180&fallbackuri=http%3A//www.google.com /search%3Fq%3Dfile%253A Any idea how this url got there? I thought maybe it was a konqueror issue but if I mount a floppy, cd, or my shared windows drive i go straight to the right directory. If I type in /media/zip I can see the contents of the zip, so it does work i just get sidetracked a little. Then if I try to umount it by right clicking the icon, umount isn't there. So I have to umount by hand. Any ideas on how to get the shortcut to work? Thanks in advance -- Franklin Maurer <nebbish(a)sprynet.com> Using SuSE 8.1.

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Two Questions
by Stuart Urquhart 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

Hi there, I have some questions... =) 1) Is there any useful HOWTO/tutorial for setting up a CVS server? (pserver) 2) Is there any useful HOWTO/tutorial for setting up a win32 crosscompiler on linux? (aka compile windows apps on linux, rather than using mingw on windows) Thanks for your help

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