October 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] D-LINK DWL-610
by Roberto J. Dohnert 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Never, ever buy a D-Link product. They are the most Linux unfriendly company I have ever dealt with, either go with 3COM or one that is a known Linux friendly vendor. LinuxWorld999 wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Erik Jakobsen" <eja(a)urbakken.dk> > To: <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 6:24 AM > Subject: [SLE] D-LINK DWL-610. > > > > >> Hi. >> >> Has anyone of you had luck with the D-Link DWL-610 Wireless Cardbus >> Adapter on a laptop. I have tested it now under both 8.2 and 9.0, but >> had no luck with it. >> -- >> > > <snip> > > This web page http://home.student.uu.se/p/prko4377/ which is in > Swedish, I > think, seems to indicate that a linux driver si available at : > > http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?Keyword=8180 > > HTH. > > LW999 > > > >

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8.2 cd-rom/rw
by Matei Traistaru 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

My pc: SuSE 8.2 (standard kernel), Teac CD-RW, ... I wanted yesterday to go to a friend and fetch some mp3's and films from his hdd. In order to do that I took my hdd as well (I'm talking about some 100GB stuff). Because his pc has only win2k I installed my hdd as primary master (the same as back home). His CD drive is a regular Teac CD-ROM. I wanted to see a cd that was in the cd tray so from KDE I just clicked the cdrom icon; then we both heard some strange noise coming from his pc but nothing happened. Only after a few minutes we realized that his cd-rom was "toasted"; it even smelled. Well the problem is not his unit (he had just bought it and the guys from the shop had nothing to do but replace it), but is it possible that it could be my OS to blame (actually me, but ...)? Could the fact that in my unit it loaded hdc=ide-scsi, be the cause of this problem ? _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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Real Player
by Donald Henson 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

I give up. How do you make Real Player 8 play a CD? Don Henson

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YAST1 and YAST2
by Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

SuSE 8.1. Is it possible for yast1 and yast2 to coexhist on the same system? I downloaded and installed the yast1 version from 7.3. Yast2 continues to work, but yast1 won't start. Alternately, how can I get yast2 to use a directory on the system HD for the installation of rpm's. This problem has been plagueing me since the introduction of yast2 Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Multivariant and stochastic http://web.jadeinc.com/FoundationChem

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mozilla and SuSE 9.0
by Nick Murphy 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Mozilla seems to be broken in SuSE 9.0. It works, but if you touch the keyboard to type anything it crashes. I have tried 1.4 and 1.5 and it is the same. I saw a post suggesting there was a problem with the firewall setup but this is nonsense. If you can only get Mozilla working with this sort of work-a-round it is a serious problem, maybe not as bad as Mandrake 9.2 but not far off. Am I the only one who thinks 9.0 is not quite finished? I have been a user since 6.0 and 9.0 seems very rough compared to 8.2. Nick

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Compiling User Mode Linux kernel
by chip＠innovates.com 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

I'm using SuSE 9.0 with all the kernel source packages and module packages installed. I can get cloned configuration to compile just fine but errors are numerous when I use "ARCH=um" I've started by trying to compile a clone of the UML kernel from the host-k_um-2.4.21.99 using: linux --showconfig > .config in /usr/src/linux then I do "make dep ARCH=um;make modules ARCH=um" the make dep runs flawlessly but make modules or make linux fails very quickly. The kernel build howto from Andreas Gruenbacher (October 2003) suggests that kernel-source-um.i586.rpm can be generated from kernel-souce.src.rpm and the source tree will be placed under /usr/src/linux-um. If this is correct how do I generate the kernel-source-um.i586.rpm or am I missing something else to build the UML binaries as SuSE has? Thank you, Chip Schweiss

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logrotate problem
by Olsson Mattias 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Hi Hope somebody can help me:) We specify the rotation of the logfile maillog as follows: /var/log/maillog { rotate 7 daily compress postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true endscript } For some reason the command doesn't succeed, i.e. the signal never reaches the syslog daemon. Consequently, syslogd will continue to write to a INODE that no longer has a file pointer effectively resulting is log data being lost. However, if the command is modified to: sleep 1; /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true the problem disappears. The easiest way to test this is to do the following commands when configurating the logfile /var/log/maillog as given above: #/usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf #ls -l /var/log/maillog Note that the size is 0 #logger -p mail.info -t info TESTING #ls -l /var/log/maillog Note that the size is still 0 #/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` #logger -p mail.info -t info TESTING #ls -l /var/log/maillog Note that the size no longer is 0 Thanks /Mattias

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Sendmail ok on 127.0.0.1 but not ip address
by Robt. Miller 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

I've got a newly configured SuSE 8.2 server and I'm trying to get sendmail to work properly. An nmap of 127.0.0.1 shows sendmail on port 25 but an nmap of 192.168.1.20 shows nothing for that port. What do I need to do to marry sendmail to my nic address? -- (o< |) //\ Powered by SuSE Linux /\obt. V_/_ Virusproof, Crashproof /\/\iller 5:49pm up 17 days, 21:54, 18 users, load average: 1.21, 1.43, 1.45 processes 504932

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local mirror
by Tom Allison 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

I would like to be able to create a local mirror of the Suse FTP website for packages. This will save a lot of bandwidth in the future. For starters, I was going to install the packages from the suse tree into /srv/ftp/suse/ But none of those package are seen by YAST when I set it up as: Source Of Installation == "dir:///srv/ftp/suse/" or "dir:///srv/ftp/suse/suse/" With a directory tree of: /srv/ftp/suse/suse/(i586|i686|...) I doesn't see anything. I was assuming if I could get this to work, then I could use FTP for access from the rest of my clients.

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wireless card help
by Bakir Helic 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Hi, I'm using fixed wireless for internet access with Cisco Aironet 350 PCI on SuSE 9.0 There's also a standard ethernet card in my PC. Ethernet is eth0 for local network, and wireless is wlan0 (auto Yast configured), but when I run iwconfig or ifconfig I get three cards: eth0, eth1 and wlan0. There's no record in /etc/sysconfig/network of eth1, but ifconfig shows that eth1 has an ip and route shows it as default gateway. For wlan0 ifconfig shows: wlan0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-09-43-8C-85-E3-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:2312 Metric:1 RX packets:3684 errors:32024 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:32024 TX packets:3038 errors:142 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:142 collisions:4557 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:1920328 (1.8 Mb) TX bytes:361131 (352.6 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xb400 The problem I'm having is that I can't permanently fix access point MAC address. That should be done in /etc/sysconfig/netwok/ifcfg-wlan0 WIRELESS_IWCONFIG='ap ma:ca:dd:re:ss:00' But when I try that option I get error "wlan0 interface doesn't support MAC address". The same thing happens when I try to set the samo thing in /etc/sysconfig/network/wireless My ISP has two access points with DHCP in my area which use different subnets, and if card switches form one access point to another (and that's often) I can't access network until it associates back to the first AP. Does anyone have an idea how can I specify MAC for eth1 since I can't find any config file for it? -- Best Regards, Bakir Helic, bh(a)linux.org.ba on 10/31/03

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