May 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE 8.0 and Netgear MA401 802.11b card (help needed)
by Lionel B. Dyck 30 May '02

30 May '02

What hoops do I have to jump thru to get my Netgear MA401 wireless card to work? thanks I've tried a number of different things with no success. ---------------------------- Lionel B. Dyck <>< AIM: lbdyck Home page: http://www.lbdsoftware.com

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RE: [SLE] Lost my root password
by Jon San Juan 30 May '02

30 May '02

You bring up a good issue though.. If you lose a password and reset it, isn't that a security hole? how can you stop someone from resetting or changing the root password ... thanks JJ -----Original Message----- From: William Dulyea [SMTP:wdulyea@qualcomm.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 5:05 PM To: tabanna(a)aig.forthnet.gr; suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Lost my root password Thanks to everyone that replied. -William At 05:57 PM 5/28/2002 +0000, tabanna wrote: >On Tue, 28 May 2002, William Dulyea wrote: > > Over the weekend I was helping my brother >_________________ > >someone who knows, wrote, the other day :- >___________________ > >Yeah, boot the system with the floppy and choose >to start the rescue >system. >(There are alot of ways to do this, some like the cdrom >rescue boot) >So boot up, it will say "Yomamma" or "Rescue", >and you won't have to >have a password. >Then say your / partition is /dev/hda3, do >mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt >(use reiserfs if required) >then >vi /mnt/etc/shadow >and find the root entry and delete everything between >the first 2 colons after the root entry. >When done it should look >like >root::100112:......... >JUST MAKE THE FIRST 2 COLONS ADJACENT >hit : w to write and exit vi >reboot, and you will get a root prompt >but not need a password. >You're back.......just enter passwd to set >a new root passwd and >then change all user passwords back to something >you remember. >................... > > >best wishes > >____________ > >sent on Linux > >____________ > >-- >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 -- 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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Slightly OT - UNIX S. analysts
by Gelah 30 May '02

30 May '02

Dear linux-e: I mainly use Windows @ work. Although I use UNIX/Linux @ home, never worked with them before. I'm trying to take a UNIX systems analyst position. I'll have test & interview. I know little C/perl, & never used UNIX database. This job needs database/C++/perl, etc. What do UNIX systems anlysts do? Which sites can help me? thanks __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com

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positive review in eWeek
by Joshua Lee 30 May '02

30 May '02

SuSE Linux 8.0, in a comparison with Mandrake and Red Hat's latest offerings, got eWeek's "Analyst's Choice" award. I think they picked it because they liked YaST more than the equivalent utilities of the other two distros. -- "Why must you tell me all your secrets when it's hard enough to love you knowing nothing?" -- Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

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Monitor Switch
by Robert Thyberg 30 May '02

30 May '02

Hej, Am running 8.0, using a MAG DJ707 17" monitor. Got a nice gift of a 17" LCD flat monitor with which I wish to replace the MAG. Question: Is it safe to shutdown, change monitor, and reboot and hope that 8.0 detects the new monitor or is there some other proceedure I should use to prevent damage to the LCD?? Using Win 98SE, on another computer, it detected the new LCD monitor with no problem. Regards, Bob

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kdm hangs
by Brian Marr 29 May '02

29 May '02

Suse 7.1 kde 2.2.2 XF86-4.2.0 I am getting hangs when I try to log out from KDE and shutdown. Kdm seems to hang. Can kdm be reinstalled ? Should I try to use xdm ? Regular reboots are putting a strain on my file system. Any suggestions appreciated. Brian Marr

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ADSL DINAMICA - Gateway
by Alberto Butrico (linux) 29 May '02

29 May '02

Alguien tiene algún material sobre cómo configurar un linux con ADSL DINÁMICA como un gateway. La idea es conectar una red interna a internet por la salida ADSL, pero la complicación que encuentro es en el cambio de IP cada poco tiempo. -- Saludos, Alberto mailto:linux@opc.com.uy Linux User #242064 UyLug Member #195

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Samba
by Tom Nielsen 29 May '02

29 May '02

Can someone explain what Samba is? Am I correct to assume that it allows my Linux system to see a W2k system? Tom

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yet anotherYaST2 problem
by Bernie Gardner 29 May '02

29 May '02

I have been unable to use yast2 from kde for a couple of weeks. I have 8.0, and have not upgraded to kde3.0.1. The control center comes up ok, but most of the modules don't work. The text/ncurses version works fine. I tried running from a terminal in kde after sux which results in this message when trying to run one of the modules: # yast2 quickstarting sw_single beginner /sbin/yast2: line 154: 25673 Segmentation fault /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base $module "$@" qt -geometry "$Y2_GEOMETRY" -style="$Y2_STYLE" -fn $Y2_XFONT I added line breaks for ease of emailing, the last three lines were a single line in the output. I don't think this is related to kde. I got identical results from gnome. I have updated to the latest version of yast2 using you, but the problem existed before the update. Thanks for any suggestions, Bernie Gardner

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ACPI and SuSE 8.0
by David Robertson 29 May '02

29 May '02

Does anyone have any experience of ACPI? I've a Toshiba Satellite 5005-S504, one of these "legacy-free" laptops, with no bios access. It uses acpi to assign IRQ's and the bottom line is that I can't get sound working because of this. I've previously been using debian and had no problems patching a 2.4.18 kernel with acpi patches from sourceforge, but if I try this with the SuSE kernel (2.4.18-4GB) it won't recompile. I suspect that SuSE have already patched it in some way. Enabling the existing options in the kernel doesn't work and the sound modules still won't load (i810_audio, ac97_codec). So for the time being, I have a dummy sound driver: it's not a big deal, but I'd just prefer to have it working. David

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