February 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

usb scanner
by Roy Cabaniss 13 Feb '02

13 Feb '02

Well wit's end is getting closer to describing things. My boss got me a brand spanking new HP 5490c scanner with an autofeeder. Something I actually need for my research. The problem is, it is usb and I cannot get SuSE to work with it at all. When I use yast2 to do a hardware check it sees the usb port and even says there is a 5400 series scanner but that is as far as things go. I have tried every defination for hp scanner and none will work. Help and suggestions gleefully followed and accepted. -- Dr. Roy F. Cabaniss Associate Professor of Business University of Arkansas Monticello http://cabanisspc.uamont.edu/~rcaban

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alcatel speedtouch usb 2.4.16 kernel
by Frederik Vos 13 Feb '02

13 Feb '02

Hi all In the 2.4.16 kernel, (rpm's downloaded from the suse ftp) the driver for the Alcatel Speedtouch Usb is included (speedtouch.o). How to use this module ? I already downloaded the management tool of Alcatel -- greetz Frederik Vos www.vosberg.be

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ACT! like program for Linux
by Tom Nielsen 13 Feb '02

13 Feb '02

Does anyone know of an ACT! like program for Linux? Thanks!! Tom Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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Re: [SLE] Printing bug
by David Herman 13 Feb '02

13 Feb '02

On Sunday 10 February 2002 01:16 am, John Lamb wrote: > 1. Are you using gimp-print? and if so, which version? 2. Which version > of ghostscript are you using? gs 6.51 > There were some bugs in the interaction between some of the gimp-print > 4.1.xx series and ghostscript that caused sporadic errors. These have > been fixed in gimp-print 4.2.0. I don't know which versions are standard > in SuSE 7.2. I've fsck'd yast2 somehow (I think it saved me time and did itself in through an online update) so I dont know. Looking @ the 7.2 dvd I find no (specific) reference to gimp-print. I've tried compiling 4.2, it seems to ./configure, make just fine then fails @ make install (I don't remember the error right now, I'm pretty sure it couldn't find a library that exists exactly where it was looking! ) I did print from gimp just fine last night (font antialiasing is currently turned off in kde 2.2.2) my setup linux 2.4.17, xfree86 4.2, kde2.2.2, ghostscript 6.51, gnome-print 0.32-15 (from suse), gimp-print not installed? > gimp-print is only designed to work with gpl versions of ghostscript and > so doesn't work fully with ghostscript 7.x, but is fine with ghostscript > 6.51 and earlier. > JDL So I take it that you are able to print from advanced editor/kmail without problems. thanks > David Herman wrote: > > I was able to print the cups printer test pages from YaST2 and > > KControlCenter but if I tried printing from kwrite or kmail a new process > > would start that used all available cpu time. > > > > the process was > > > > (all on one line in kpm) > > gs -dBATCH -dSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE --r300x300 -sDEVICE-cdj550 > > -dBitsPerPixel=3 -sOutputFile=|cat >&3 - ----------snip---------------------------- > > I think there may be a buggy interaction between ghostscript and the > > anti-alias fonts setting in KDE. If I set Anti-Aliasing to "on" in KDE > > then I can't print from kwrite or kmail ( I get the cpu hog gs process). > > > > If I turn Anti-Aliasing "off" and restart the x server then printing > > works as expected. > > > > Can someone verify this behavior or disprove it on their machine? > > -------------snip---------------

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konqueror and samba browsing
by scc 13 Feb '02

13 Feb '02

Hi I browse a w98 client from our SuSE 7.3 server using smb://compuer_name. No problems. But I can't drop files from the server to the same client. It says access denied. Is it something to do with permissions? Thanks, Steve.

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DHCP means "dynamic" - coping with address re-assignment
by Gordon Pritchard 13 Feb '02

13 Feb '02

Hi everyone: I was happily SSH'ing into my home-PC, well aware that the first part of DHCP means "dynamic"... For quite a long time, my IP-address stayed the same, then yesterday, I couldn't get into my machine (from work). That prompted some thinking (always dangerous :-) ). I thought I'd share what I did, and hope that it may help someone else, or stimulate an even better solution. In a nutshell, I have my home-SuSE machine check the IP-address every hour. If it sees a change, then it mails me the new IP-address (to my work-email). (Note: I read the man-page for dhcpcd, and it looks like there is a facility to run a script only when the DHCP-client status changes. This may be a better way to do things, rather than my cron approach. Nonetheless, my parsing and notification may still be useful, even if the trigger-event is different). Without further ado, here is the bash-script: #!/bin/bash # ip_check.sh # Written by Gordon Pritchard. Feb. 12, 2002. # The purpose of this script it to check (via cron) if my DHCP # assigned IP-address has changed. If not, do nothing. If yes, # mail me the new IP-address. # Place this file in /etc/cron.hourly (SuSE system), and set the # owner/group to 'root'. Make sure it's executable. # First, we'll get the current IP-address /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | awk '/inet / {print $2}' > latest_ip # See if our latest IP-address is the same as the previously # assigned IP-address. This works fine the first time this # script is run, and previous_ip doesn't exist. if cmp -s latest_ip previous_ip then exit else cp latest_ip previous_ip mail -s "IP address change!" username@domain < latest_ip fi # You've got mail :-) -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng., Member IEEE Technical University of B.C. - Research Lab Engineer mailto:gordon.pritchard@techbc.ca direct phone: 604-586-6186

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Re: [SLE] .htaccess
by zentara 13 Feb '02

13 Feb '02

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:28:19 -800 landy(a)despiertapr.com (Rolando Roman) wrote: > > > > If it still dosn't work go to > > http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/key_form.html > > and enter "htacess". See if that's your problem. > > > > this was part of my problem but solution did not work.... > i mean i get the pop up window and put name/pass but authentication fails The only thing I had to do to get my htaccess working was put the AllowOverride AuthConfig in the directories listed in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf. Each directory must have it specifically enabled, because suse sets AllowOverride None for everything by default. What do your .htaccess and htpasswd files look like? They should be something like this: .htaccess ################################ AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/passwd # (don't know if your .htaccess will work here) AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthType Basic AuthName Restricted <Limit GET POST> require user landy <Limit> ################################# now your /etc/httpd/passwd should look like this landy $.j jglk)/............. -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}

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Compliments
by Jostein Berntsen 13 Feb '02

13 Feb '02

Some compliments to SuSE in this nice article: http://www.ofb.biz/article.php?sid=73&mode=&order=0 And they are always nice to get.. ;) Regards, Jostein

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[SLE] Traffic Rate Control
by Rickey Ingrassia 13 Feb '02

13 Feb '02

Good Morning (to those of you on the Pacific coast), I'm looking for any information or pointers related to TCP/IP traffic rate control. My goal is to "shape" egress traffic from Linux PCs. The info I need is how to implement it (which file to use, etc...). I currently using SuSE 7.3/Kernel 2.4.10. Thanks... -rickey

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.htaccess
by landy＠despiertapr.com 13 Feb '02

13 Feb '02

i am trying to secure a directory on the server i have .htaccess and .htpasswd in the save directory i want to password protect... when i go to the page a promt comes up asking user name and passwd after i put the info and hit enter nothing happends... any ideas

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