March 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Machine freeze
by Erik Kiledal 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

I recently upgraded my HP Omnibook Xe2-DC (product code F2028WT) laptop from SuSE Linux 7.2 to SuSE Linux 7.3 (pretty much a stock installation). Every now and then, apparently at random intervals, the machine will freeze, not responding to keyboard or touchpad input (not even Ctrl-Alt-Del). Only a hard reboot will bring the machine back. When the machine freezes, the caps lock and scroll lock LEDs will start blinking (about 1/s). HP supports says "as far as I know, the LEDs are not used for any diagnostics". This has happened twice so far today (in a few hours of running). I am not 100% sure that the freezes started after the SuSE 7.3 upgrade, but I think so... Any suggestions? Is this more likely to be a hardware failure? -Erik

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RE: [SLE] commands through SSH - SOLVED (kinda)
by Eric Carbone 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Chad's suggestion: > on your local machine type xhost +10.XXX.XXX.XXX > (or whatever the REMOTE ip address is that you are > ssh'ing to) > > then ssh -l <username> -X 10.XXX.XXX.XXX > once logged in, do > export DISPLAY=YYY.YYY.YYY.YYY:0 > where YYY..... is the ip of your local machine > (the one you sshed from) > > now starting an x app from the ssh session will > display it on your local machine (assuming no > firewalls are blocking access to port 6000 on > either end) this is not quite what I wanted to do. I wanted the x app to display on the REMOTE machine's display. Chad's instructions caused the x app to display on the LOCAL machine's display. So, instead of using export DISPLAY=YYY.YYY.YYY.YYY:0 (where YYY..... is the ip of my local machine), I typed export DISPLAY=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:0 (where XXX..... is the ip of the REMOTE machine). I look across the room and lo and behold, the app is starting up. Exactly what I was trying to accomplish. Thanks Chad (and everyone else) for your help. I have one small problem though ... if I close the Konsole window on my local machine, I see my app shuts down on my REMOTE machine! ... boy ... if someone can just port over pcAnywhere to linux, that would make me very happy ... ;-p --------------------------- Eric Carbone

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basic networking in LAN with DHCP
by tauzero.com/suse 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

I have two laptops running SuSE Linux 7.3 as part of my home network. Both are using 802.11b wireless, and hook up just fine through an Apple Airport for access to the external internet - they are able to browse the Web, fetch and send Pop email, do ssh to external machines, etc. The Airport is connected vie ethernet to a 3Com ISDN modem with an integrated firewall and ethernet hub; the DHCP is done on the 3Com box. They are also able to print to an Axis printserver that I have connected to the 3Com box - they are able to find it as a named computer, and address its print queue. I also have six Apple Macs on the network; they are all able to see each other via Apple's file sharing methods, and print, and access the external web . Here is the problem: I can't figure out how to go from one Linux laptop to another, via rlogin, ssh, etc. I also can't see the Apple machines from the Linux boxes, or vice-versa. I'd like to make it so the Linux machines are visible & log-inable inside my LAN. This is probably dirt simple (I hope so anyway!), but I just lack the one or two essential bits of know-how that I have not had the wit to glean from the available documentation. I'd appreciate any advice & pointers. -- R o b T o w robtow(a)tauzero.com www.tauzero.com/Rob_Tow (408)-829-7407 * * his sword for hire * another faithless lord left, * the ronin walks on *

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WWW.recycle-it.de
by Jim Hatridge 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Hi all.. I'm really thinking about buying a recycled HP 4 or 5 laser printer. But I don't know anything about this company, www.recycle-it.de has anyone on the list done business with them? If so how did it go? Also does anyone know other companies that sell recycled / rebuilt HP printers? TIA! JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ BayerWulf Linux System # 129656 The Recycled Beowulf Project Looking for throw-away or obsolete computers and parts to recycle into a Linux super computer

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Re: [SLE] STAROFFICE GOES COMMERCIAL, AND STAYS OPEN-SOURCE
by Uzo Kemdi Anyamele 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 19:15, David Johanson wrote: > > I ordered the Hancom package Thursday; waiting for it to arrive. Let me > know what you find. After all our work getting things working on my > system my Nikon CoolScan II has decided to start putting a colored band > in every scan. Now I have to find a new scanner to replace it and i > haven't found any "reasonable" options yet. Any good ideas or sources > for a high quality internal SCSI based scanner. Hi Prof, Well, I installed the Hancom evaluation, as tempted..... First thing, I like the modularity through HancomShell2, which you can sit on your desktop as a fast launcher to the various components of the suite. Colourful too !! Secondly, I installed the suite in /opt instead of the default of /usr/local.... Might be missing one or two links to maybe fonts and other sets, so when I tried out the Evision , which is ala dia, and called on the stencil set, it locked up. Happily, I could even choose to ignore it and carry on with another component of the suite , or kill the offending application without the whole suite falling. GREAT !! Lastly, anyone else noticed the rendering of word documents with diagram/photo inserts ? My trial didn't come close to mark of SO-5.2. StarOffice just outdid Hansom here. Oh, Dave, About our SCSI chain !! I haven't looked at any other scanner for ages. I'll be all ears for you. Cheers !! -- Kemdi IN_SuSE_d Since 5.2 123792 of counter.li.org ICQ:112290572

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RE: [SLE] basic networking in LAN with DHCP
by Eric Carbone 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

> I can't figure out how to go from > one Linux laptop to another, via > rlogin, ssh, etc. can you ping one laptop from the other laptop? Make sure the ip scheme, subnet mask, etc are consistent. > I also can't see the Apple machines > from the Linux boxes, or vice-versa. > I'd like to make it so the Linux > machines are visible & log-inable > inside my LAN. You need to set up netatalk in order for the macs to see the linux machines in the Chooser. Contact me off-line if you need help setting it up. To work the other way around (to see the macs from the linux machines) ... well, i haven't tried it but here is the way to do it: http://www.anders.com/projects/netatalk/mirror/afpfs-1.0b2q2.tar.gz --------------------------- Eric Carbone -----Original Message----- From: tauzero.com/suse [mailto:suse@tauzero.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 2:46 PM To: SuSE Subject: [SLE] basic networking in LAN with DHCP I have two laptops running SuSE Linux 7.3 as part of my home network. Both are using 802.11b wireless, and hook up just fine through an Apple Airport for access to the external internet - they are able to browse the Web, fetch and send Pop email, do ssh to external machines, etc. The Airport is connected vie ethernet to a 3Com ISDN modem with an integrated firewall and ethernet hub; the DHCP is done on the 3Com box. They are also able to print to an Axis printserver that I have connected to the 3Com box - they are able to find it as a named computer, and address its print queue. I also have six Apple Macs on the network; they are all able to see each other via Apple's file sharing methods, and print, and access the external web . Here is the problem: I can't figure out how to go from one Linux laptop to another, via rlogin, ssh, etc. I also can't see the Apple machines from the Linux boxes, or vice-versa. I'd like to make it so the Linux machines are visible & log-inable inside my LAN. This is probably dirt simple (I hope so anyway!), but I just lack the one or two essential bits of know-how that I have not had the wit to glean from the available documentation. I'd appreciate any advice & pointers. -- R o b T o w robtow(a)tauzero.com www.tauzero.com/Rob_Tow (408)-829-7407 * * his sword for hire * another faithless lord left, * the ronin walks on * -- 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 archives at http://lists.suse.com

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FW: [SLE] Reselling SuSE ?????
by Michael Garabedian 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

-----Original Message----- From: Michael Garabedian [mailto:mikejr@emergyscorp.com] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 2:34 PM To: 'James.Hatridge(a)epost.de' Subject: RE: [SLE] Reselling SuSE ????? Yes you can, as long as you do not make a profit off of the giving of the software. You could throw a consulting fee in there though, You are not making the money off of selling the software, but the configuration, man hours involved, and information not contained in the suse cds but in your head are licensed to you. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Hatridge [mailto:James.Hatridge@epost.de] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:53 AM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: [SLE] Reselling SuSE ????? Hi all.. I've been reading about the Yast1 / 2 problem. Let me ask a question. For example, if I buy a copy of SuSE 8.0 and burn copies to give away, that's OK, right? What if I charged only for my costs? Or what if I sell the same copies to guys downunder for say double my cost, ie about 20 euro. Is this OK? If not, why not? Heck the Aussies on the list were moaning about the price. I could burn just the 7 disks and mail them there for around 20-25 euro. What's stopping me? BTW, I just got a burner <G>. JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ BayerWulf Linux System # 129656 The Recycled Beowulf Project Looking for throw-away or obsolete computers and parts to recycle into a Linux super computer -- 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

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java
by Landy Roman 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

both opera and konqueror all they give me is loading appalet when testing java i am going to www.java.sun.com and the applet does not load i install the plugin from opera site

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finding files
by Clayton Cornell 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

I need a pointer for command line tools to find files. 'locate' and 'whereis' work OK for most things as long as they are in that database, but I need to pattern/filename match the way 'find' does things... but across multiple directories. As far as I can tell from reading the man page on 'find' I can only search the current directory, or a directory I specify when I type in the command. So, I want to search across multiple directories the way 'locate' does, but I don't want to use the database thing that 'locate' uses... I want to pattern match. Can 'find' do this? Is there a better way to do this from the console? C.

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PLIP bandwidth?
by Jeffrey Taylor 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Anyone know what kind of bandwidth I can expect thru a PLIP interface? TIA, Jeffrey

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