January 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

ftp client problems
by fsanta 01 Jan '03

01 Jan '03

Hi everyone. gftp freezes my machine solid in 8.1. There are no messages in /var/log/messages. Can anyone recommend an alternative? Cheers and happy new year from Steve.

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Path.
by Erik Jakobsen 01 Jan '03

01 Jan '03

Hi. On my newly installed SuSE 8.1, I have installed Mozilla in /usr/local/mozilla. After I have made a file /etc/profile.d/mozilla.sh, that contains: PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla But mozilla doen't start up. Where's the culprit ?. -- Erik Jakobsen

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Kernel Upgrade Question
by Ralph De Witt 01 Jan '03

01 Jan '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I noticed that their is updated Kernel for SuSE 8.1 that may solve some Athlon problems. Online upgrade seems to not see this patch/rpm. My question is, What is the proper way to install this upgraded kernel? The readme file seems to indicate that installing the rpm with Yast2 and rebooting is all that is needed. Any thing else that might be needed to be done. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed SuSE-Linux 8.1 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key id = 3097 3BC4 Kernel version 2.4.19-4GB Current Linux uptime: 52 days 2 hours minutes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+EldYmmsm1DCXO8QRAgMyAJ0XT7hWuRYe9Q2pAnfTvXfvfBA/VgCfQ7el cZ9XS44YSKeBfo6GN3c046M= =DA55 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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How to Print Landscape with CUPS?
by Dom Incollingo 01 Jan '03

01 Jan '03

Hi everyone, I am running 8.1 and using CUPS to print. Whenever I try to print landscape from an application (Mozilla, KView, etc.), the output prints in portrait. According to the SuSE support database, the solution is to add the following command to the application: sed -e 's/Orientation: Landscape/Orientation: Portrait/' | lpr I added this command to Mozilla (Print Command within Print Properties), and it works fine. But I do not know WHERE to enter this command in the various K-applications (KView, KWrite, etc.). Does anyone know where to enter this command to be able to print landscape in K-applications such as KWrite? Thanks very much. Dom -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with POP3/IMAP access for only US$19.95/yr Powered by Outblaze

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Wireless NIC and T-Mobile/Starbucks
by Nick Selby 01 Jan '03

01 Jan '03

Hi, Wondering if anyone on the list has any experience using the T-Mobile broadbad wireless hotspots in Starbucks branches in the US AND/OR a suggestion for a simple to configure wireless NIC for my Sony Vaio notebook to connect to same. Happy New Year! Nick

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Strange LILO problem
by Bob S. 01 Jan '03

01 Jan '03

On Saturday 28 December 2002 08:35, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: > On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Bob just had to get this off his chest: > > Hello SuSE folks, > > > > Running 8.0 Just did an upgrade of my kernel to 2.4.19 > > Did my mk_initrd and then a LILO. The LILO message stated > > " added Linux* > > skipping /boot/vmlinuz.suse > > added /windows (dual boot) > > fatal open /boot/memtest.bin No such file or directory" > > > > When I rebooted it failed at LI. Had to reboot with a floppy > > Why did you ignore this error? I'm sure it also said it didn't > write lilo so that should've given you ample warning not to reboot > just yet.. Hi, Thanks for answering......Why ignore it?, Welllll...because I didn't know what to do about it at that point and still don't, ie: the purpose of this message. Can't tell you why, but I thought it did write it and it would boot OK at the time and then fix it afterwards. Guess I was wrong about that. Live & learn. > > and then edited lilo.conf by removing the memtest line. > > Then rebooted properly. But, without the two options of > > failsafe and memtest. > > > > Can anybody explain/help me fix what has caused this? > > Also there is no time delay to choose the OS. Boots > > almost immediately to Linux. > > Did you use a SuSE kernel (rpm) for the upgrade or did you build > one yourself? It is a SuSE rpm downloaded from their 8.1 repository. (k 5deflt_2.4.19-110_i586.rpm) > Boot delay in lilo.conf has nothing to do with the installation of > another kernel, see if your $EDITOR saved a backup copy so you can > see what changed. Fixed that already. Soooo......Can anybody explain why, or help me get back those two options in the Lilo menu? lilo.conf still shows the failsafe label, but does not show it in the menu, and of course the memtest86 label is gone because I removed it to make it boot. (see above original post) TIA, Bob.S

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