April 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE : [SLE] Bouncing mail because of a non-existing domain
by James PEARSON 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

Help anyone, I have standard SuSE8.1 setup at home and Kmail can receive mails fine, but I can only send mail with Kmail when I am logged in as root and even then I eventully get an error message some 30-40 seconds later saying that "Could not connect to host smtp.isp.xx"... But at least the mail transfer works... However, when I logged into linux under my normal (non root) user account, kmail tkeeps giving the following message... "Sending failed .... Sender address rejected: Domain not found" The email stays put. I don't understand what the problem is. I have double checked and I am sure that I identical Kmail setups under root and my normal linux user compte. I tried setting up "Mail Transfer Agent" under Network/Basic so that my outgoing mail server is smtp.isp.xx but it makes no difference. Kmail works works under root (with a warning messag) but is KO under my linux user. What gives here? These same setting work flawlessly under Windows. Is this me or my Internet Service Provider ? My ISP doesn't support Linux. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance James

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New Nvidia drivers...
by Matt 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

New nvidia drivers are here: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4349 Thats the good news, bad news: You need to get the RPM of them, and I cannot find them anywhere. SuSE 8.2 will be capable of running the new installer, not 8.1 or below. Matt

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FW: [SLE] Firewall2
by M. Edwin 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

Hi All, I just setup the firewall2 on 7.3 and it seems working fine if someone want to access smtp and pop on the outside server. But I had a problem to doing ftp, our client (mainly using Windows)cannot do ftp through the firewall. also traceroute and ping to the internet. Even if I follow the EXAMPLE into my firewall2.rc.config carefully. Is it by design? Other question is, is it necessary to setup DNS on firewall because we currently not maintain DNS, but point to the ISP DNS. TIA M. Edwin

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WLAN with Cisco-card
by Glenn Remstedt 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

list, I'm running SuSE8.1 trying to setup a WLAN with a Cisco-card(firmware;4.25.30). First I set it up via Yast2 with the module-name; airo_cs.o I can't get it to work after "dhcpcd eth1" !!?? here is my /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth1 BOOTPROTO='dhcp' REMOTE_IPADDR='' STARTMODE='onboot' also tryed with "hotplug" UNIQUE='' WIRELESS='yes' WIRELESS_ESSID='any' WIRELESS_KEY='' WIRELESS_MODE='Managed' WIRELESS_NICK='' WIRELESS_NWID='' Any suggestion's // glenn

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VPN server with SuSE 8.1
by John LeMay 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

I've decided to build out my first Linux based VPN server to service a half dozen "road warriors" and thier Windows based laptops (Win2K or XP). However, I'm a bit confused between FreeSwan, PoPToP, openvpn, etc. Seems like a lot of products that kind of do similar things. Not that that is a problem, options are good. I just need a bit of help narrowing things down. Any tips? By the way, I won't be doing the firewalling on Linux - that purpose will continue to be served by a dedicated firewall device. thanks! -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions

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RE: Microsoft PPTP VPN server behind FIREWALL
by Rowan Reid 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

> I believe there is a userspace IPsec package, reasonably high > overhead but runable where a patched kernel is politacally > incorrect. Does that ring a bell with anyone? > -- I've heard of this didn't like the idea though. Technically the trend is towards kernel level ipsec modules. Note 2.5 kernels. I tried pptp then an experimental 2.5 kernel. But I decided on using freeswan it's stable robust and relitivly easy to set up. My MS machines have no idea that the neighboring Domain is over 60 miles away.

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Re: Gnome: Out of context, and miss-quoted.
by Derek Fountain 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

> Seems like you are using an incorrect quote which is taken out of > context about the state of Gnome vs KDE. I posted an explanation here: > > http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=55745&cid=5445520 > > Sadly the truth is not as fancy as the incorrect quotation. The major > issue was really `it is hard to build', which is hardly a problem. And > the `lagging behind' quote is within the context of *slashdot* > perception, not reality. > > If you are going to quote, at least quote the entire message, and do not > attribute to me an "edited" version of what I did say. Referring to this email for the benefit of the SuSErs: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-March/msg00026.html First, I didn't mis-quote you, or edit what you said. With the exception of a fullstop (period) at the end of the first section, my quote is character for character what you typed. Second, all quotes, by their nature, are out of context. That is only normally a problem if what was intended by the original statement is altered by the quoting. In this case, I don't think it is. The second part of my quote is repeating a simple fact in the exact words you used to state it. The fact could be stated in any context. I can't see how context could change it. As for the first part, had you said: "Reading today's Slashdot comments, you can see that *it is perceived that* our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE" and I'd slyly taken out the "it is perceived that" bit, you'd have a point. But you didn't say that. You stated what some Slashdot readers can see to be reality, and what I can see to be reality: stability wise and feature wise, GNOME is falling behind KDE. From what you wrote, it seems you can see the reality of that too. If you're now telling me that that's not what you meant to say, hard luck. You said it, it's on the record, and my partial quoting of it doesn't change the meaning of what you said. I'm not going to quote your entire email in my sig for obvious reasons, although I have referred the 3 or 4 people who asked about it to the original mailing list post. And since I'm not attributing to you an edited version, nor anything which you didn't actually say, I'll continue to use the quote as I wish. -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003

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SuSE 8.2 - Advanced Purchase???
by Darrell Cormier 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

I was just on the German site and noticed that they have a link to "book in advance" (lycos translation) SuSE 8.2. Does anyone know when this will be available on the English site? It's not extremely important, just curious. -- DC

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k_delft upgarde and a big mess
by David 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

I just upgraded k_delft on my 8.0 and before doing so rpm -e i2c-2.7.0-1 and lm_sensors-2.7.0-1. Now when I boot the machine goes to start then goes only to command line, no kde. If I try to start wvdial it does a segfault, so I am back on a windoze machine. Can someone suggest what I might do to correct this problem, other than a reinstall. TIA David

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Slow dial-up
by Bernd Koepsell 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

I am using a U.S. Robotics 56K Performance Pro V.92 PCI modem which is fully supported. My ISP supports V.92. I am using Kinternet to connect. Yet, when downloading files from http or ftp, my datarate is averaging 3Kb/s( yes it spikes to 10Kb/s and drops to 0Kb/s, but still averages 3Kb/s). I am locked on that one file that is downloading, and until it is fully downloaded I can't use my connection for anything else (even trading a slower datarate for further access or multiple downloads). Bernd

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