June 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Lost Windows after Suse8.2 install
by Marcia 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Dear All, I just installed Suse 8.2 on my Compaq Presario 1700T laptop which previously had Suse8 working great. After installing I lost my Windows 2000 choice for booting into. I know that I must add it in the bootloader which is grub. I am not familiar with grub so how does one do this in grub? Thanks for the help. Marcia

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info about POP versions.
by Denys A. Tonkonog 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Hullo friends, I am very sorry --- this question might be off-topic, but I did not find where to read about difference between various POP implementations (POP,POP2,POP3). Could anyone give me a clue? Thanks a lot. Best wishes! Denis A. Tonkonog. /\**/\ ( o_o )_) _,(u u ,),_

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Odd DHCP issue at boot
by Dylan 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Hello All, I have a LAN of 5 machines, all running SuSE8.2 Pro. Each has 2 NICs - eth0 faces an ADSL router which provides an IP by DHCP and dynamically assigns DNS, gateway etc. eth1 faces the internal network and has a static IP. Each machine has a static hostname. SuSEfirewall2 is configured to protect eth0 on each machine (all running services) and the DHCP client variable is set on all machines. In all cases, eth0 is only used for internet access, I use the second network for 'internal' services (NIS, nfs, ...). Now, two machines report during boot that DHCP for eth0 has failed, but by the time I can log in ifconfig reports a valid IP address. Also, if I manually rcnetwork restart, eth0 reports DHCP failure, but an immediate ifconfig shows an address. In both cases the IP address seems constant - i.e. machine 'frodo' always has 10.0.0.14 So, can anyone suggest what might be causing this behaviour? The router provides infinite leases (at least, theoretically) so I'd like to be able to manually force one of these abberant machines to relese its IP lease so that a different IP gets assigned - my reasoning being that if 'frodo' says DHCP fails, but still recieves an IP (but not 10.0.0.14) I know the DHCP is working and that the failure report is a ghost. I hope I've made sense... Cheers Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg

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Mozilla madness
by Bob S 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Hi SuSE folk, First of all, running a new install of 8.2 Mozilla 1.4b Am having a problem with Mozilla. The fonts in the title bars, menus, etc. are miniscule for my old eyes. Have to get them bigger or there is no way I can use it. Have looked at every possible configuration file and I cannot find anything. All of the rest of my apps seem to work OK. Second, and worst of all, and for one user only, in the body or page viewing area, where pages are displayed, the fonts are huge, and I mean huge! One inch or more high. Any images on the same page are all normal sized. Third, I had saved all of my bookmarks from Mozilla from when I was running 8.1. I have copied them to the exact same location /home/bob/.mozilla/bob/ eihc6c5w6.slt/bookmarks.html and Mozilla does not see them. Is this the right place? Not sure this upgrade was worth all of this trouble. Hope some kind SuSE person can help me out. Bob S.

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faking a cdrom
by James Philp 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Dear all, Here is a more challenging question for the technically minded out there... Matlab requires its docs cd in the drive before it runs. this is rather inconvenient as i can't play music while working and also it slows it down because it checks for any help on the cd all the time. so the question is: is there any way to have a copy of the cd on the hard drive mounted as a cdrom - somehow.?.. i'm running suse 8.2/xd2 thanks, j. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com

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Can't get my WLAN to work in 8.2
by Per-Olof Litby (Java Web Services Reg'l Mgr - Nordic - Sun Microsystems) 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Greetings, I've just installed SuSE 8.2 on my Toshiba Tecra 9000 laptop - I've tried using both Mandrake and RedHat but ended up selecting SuSE for hardware compatibility and company reasons. The installation went like a charm, but to my surprise the built-in wireless LAN interface, a Lucent/Orinoco based mini-PCI interface which worked perfectly using the orinoco_cs driver in RedHat 9 and Mandrake 9 (and of course) Windows XP, was not detected and will not work properly. I manually added the interface as eth1 with the orinoco_cs module (the "alias eth1 orinoco_cs" in /etc/modules.conf is there). Here are the problem symptoms: - During boot, eth1 reports as "failed" - KWiFi Manager shows my machine has contact with the access point, the signal strength is excellent, the ESS ID is correct but Local IP is missing. - iwconfig shows the same information. - Trying to ping something results in "Network is unavailable" message. If I then go into the Control Center and open up the configuration tool for the network cards, it shows that the wireless card is in ad hoc mode. It should be set to "Auto". Now, if I change the setting to "Auto" and hit "Finish" something interesting happens: For a brief instant, after SuSEconfig has completed, KWiFi Manager shows a local IP address and then the connection disappears and everything goes blank. Rebooting will restore the WLAN connection to the same state as before, and it will have returned to ad hoc mode. I've tried all the different drivers which should work with this card - same problem. This has to be something SuSE specific because it worked with other distributions. I have 2 DHCP servers on the LAN and both are working fine. Any help appreciated! thanks, ------------------------------------------------------- Per-Olof Litby Phone: +46 8 631-1463 Regional Mgr - Nordic/Baltic Fax: +46 8 631-1005 Java Web Services Email: politby(a)sun.com Sun Microsystems ------------------------------------------------------- Calendar URL below (Sun only) http://namefinder.germany/nfcal.cgi?-s+23213 ------------------------------------------------------- I've got this great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. -------------------------------------------------------

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Netscape Upgrade Question...
by Anthony Gunia 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Hi all, I would like to upgrade my Netscape v4.8 to Netscape 7.x on SuSE 8.2. Should I remove the current version, or just install the new one over the other? Also, will this effect Mozilla, and if so, any hints on how to deal with this? Thanks all! Anthony gunia(a)calumet.purdue.edu

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NTFS
by Michael Satterwhite 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 When going through configure, I found that the default SuSE configuration has NTFS (read-only) access enabled as a module. What do I need to do to mount an NTFS partition? I'm not sure which module to load or what to do after that point. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+/2IYjeziQOokQnARAuXCAJ9fr2lYYYguSYURfWxL44L01k4YwQCaAgNo Z32IlYDXtF/fExiPLpMoonM= =9FcL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Stock Kernel Source re-compile
by Bill Parker 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Hi All, Assume I load up a Dell PE 1650 with SuSE 8.0 along with kernel source. Now, what I want to do is modify exactly two lines in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h to give me a larger open file per process limit (default is 1024). However, when I do this, what do I need to do to ensure proper recompile and a bootable system with the stock /lib/modules? I can get it work if I unpack raw source from kernel.org, so what am I not seeing here? feeling stupid today :) -Bill

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Cd Burning
by Paul Kraus 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

What tools do i need to have in order to burn a cuesheet/mp3 file as an image. In windows i would use nero, select burn image, then pick the cue sheet. And it would take my one 60 min mp3 and split it up at tracks. This is very usefull as 90% of what i listen to are dj mixes that are all one big mp3 file. Tools, or links to how to do this would be great. I tried using the default cdburning software installed with suse but it gets an error everytime i tell it to burn a cue sheet. Paul Kraus

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