November 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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Fwd: Re: [SLE] need good how-to on firewall
by humvee 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

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[SLE] 9.0 installation problems
by Mike L 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Hello All, Trying to install 9.0 Personal without success!! System is AMD Athlon 500, 256meg mem, 10g Ext2 partition set up with Partition Magic and using BootMagic to dual boot. Process starts OK from CD1 or CD2 but stops after:- "starting yast" - then a further 2 lines. Then the dreaded RED BOX with "an error occured during the installation" quickly appears, I cannot stop this appearing to be able to give you full details of the last 10 lines or so of the sequence. This happens at exactly the same point whether I try:- Installation Installation - ACPI Disabled Installation - Safe settings Manual or whether BootMagic is activated or not. Any ideas, I really want to use Linux.(totally fed up with Uncle Bill) Tried distro 6.4 a few years ago but finally gave up after 8 months of pure hassle, and a lot of help from this list, but at least it loaded and dual booting worked fine, thought this latest distro would be somewhat easier !! Mike L

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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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