September 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

General 2.6.0 Kernel Question
by Andrei Verovski 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Hi, I have seen a lot of discussion regarding 2.6.0 kernel. I knew there are people who have succeeded to install and deploy it. The question is what real functionality benefits they got with 2.6.0 kernel, except hacking pleasure. Thanks. ********************************************* * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * Personal Home Page * http://snow.prohosting.com/guru4mac * Mac, Linux, DTP, Development, IT WEB Site *********************************************

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RE: [SLE] upgarade kernel
by Mohammad Fattahian 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

As I mention uname -r says that my kernel is 2.4.18-64GB-SMP but it seems that I have not properly module for hcfpciserial. How can I find the specific module? Mohammad Fattahian Eedé Business Solution -----Original Message----- From: jalal [mailto:the_jalal@fastmail.fm] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 2:15 PM To: Mohammad Fattahian Subject: Re: [SLE] upgarade kernel Mohammad Fattahian wrote: > I have a strange problem with loading hcfpciserial as I told in recent > mails. > Ah, right... :) The reason I asked is that if you are not familiar with Linux, then upgrading a kernel will be a bit tricky. Recompiling a kernel has filled chapters of books and hundreds of web pages, so I won't get started on it in an email. My kernel has been upgraded by using YOU, but that may not help you if you need a special module. Otherwise, experimental kernels ("mantel" kernels) are available from: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/ 2.4.22 is the latest there. Alternatively, a good starting point is: http://www.kernel.org/ HTH -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E

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SuSE8.1 and Zope
by Elio Padoano 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Hello! I would like to start to use Zope environment for managing degree projects with students. I installed the Zope version in SuSE8.1 I currently own, but I did not find any start script that should help in starting Zope's Server (according to Zope instructions). In SuSE.Readme file I found nothing about it. At present I start Zop server using $ python2.1 z2.py and the server starts correctly (at a first sight). I would like to know if this situation is normal for SuSE version of Zope or if anyone (with more expercience than me) has tried to compile a script in order to start Zope. Thank you very much. Elio

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Ethereal on user login
by Julie Xu 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Greeting, I have install the suse 8.2 and try to use ethereal. But, I can only use on root, not in my own account. When I login as my account and run ethereal I have got the following error: "The capture session could not be installed (socket: Operation not permitted). Please check to make sure you have sufficient permissions, and that you have the proper interface or pipe specified" I have shutdown the firewall for testing - not work. Any thing I can do to fix the problem? Any comments will be appreciated Thanks in advance Julie Xu Data Communication Team Information Technology Directorate University of Western Sydney Locked Bag 1797 Penrith South DC NSW 1797

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RE: [SLE] Goodbye SuSE :-(
by Anderson, Simon 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

> As for building from source being 'all the rage' I have to disagree. I > was using ROCK some three years ago, and I believe that Slackware was > compiling things from source as well long before that. It might be I still think of package management in Linux as quite a new thing. Believe it or not, compiling from source was the only option for many years. I'm amused that there are people who assume that apt/rpm or whatever have been with us since day one. > however that the threshold for using a compiled-from-source > distribution > has dropped, making it more available to Joe User. How the world turns. One of the big selling points for binary distribution was that it lowered the "barriers to entry" for Joe Users as they didn't need to learn how to compile from source, could easily manage installed software and didn't have to waste time/system resource on compiles. The cost of this ease of use in terms of performance was deemed acceptable by many users/administrators as it is alleviated by continuous hardware improvements. It struck me reading this thread that distributions like Gentoo are fashionable amongst the new breed Linux users who want to have the benefits of package management without sacrificing performance. Until reading this I assumed it was only the old time purists (particularly with a BSD background) that wouldn't ever touch pre-compiled binaries that were interested. -Simon.

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2.4.22 kernel
by Yaakov Nemoy 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

I did a fresh download of the 2.4.22 kernel, copied the .config file from the old kernel, (2.4.20-SuSE) double checked everything with xconfig (ALSA wasn't an option, and I'm wondering if that will be problematic knowing SuSE uses ALSA) and started compiling the bzImage. I'm now getting a lot of warnings saying "comparison between signed and unsigned". Is this normal or will it be a problem. (With the little I know about programming, I do know that getting this error for nearly every *.c file isn't a good thing.)

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Re: Help
by fsanta 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

On Monday 22 September 2003 14:13, you wrote: > On Monday 22 September 2003 12:16, Mario Pesce wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I wish to inform you that I finally succeeded to solve all my problems > > with NFS. > > > > > > I found a very good HOWTO that gives step by step advices on the setup. > > It can be found at: > > > > http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ > > > > It provides also a good description of the services required on the > > server and those required on the client. It mentions that statd should be available on the clients. What is that called in 8.2 I wonder?

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Re: [SLE] NFS Help
by Mario Pesce 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Hi, I wish to inform you that I finally succeeded to solve all my problems with NFS. I think that the problem was due to my hosts.allow having only a line for rpc.mountd. I added also the other services (portmap, rpc.lockd etc) and finally evrything worked. I found a very good HOWTO that gives step by step advices on the setup. It can be found at: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ It provides also a good description of the services required on the server and those required on the client. Thank you Mario Pesce >Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:40:49 +0100 >To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >From: Mario Pesce <mario(a)datamission.co.uk> >Subject: Re: [SLE] NFS Help > >>Hi, >> >>I made again some progress because of the list help. The problem was >>indeed due to the firewall. >> >>Now the nfs mount normally works, but I have still a problem when I try >>to mount a floppy. >> >>I tried the command: >> >>mount -t nfs server1:/media/floppy /mnt/nfs >> >>It works correctly if the floppy device is not mounted on the server >>machine, but, when the device is mounted it gives me the following >>messages in /var/log/messages: >> >>rpc.mountd authenticated mount request for client1:687 for /media/floppy >>rpc.mountd: getfh failed operation not permitted >> >>The mount command on the client machine terminates with a message of >>failure because of Permission denied. >> >>I tried the mount command directly on the server by using the localhost >>instead of server1 and it works without problem. >> >>Please suggest probable causes of the problem. >> >>Thank you >> >>Mario Pesce >> >> >> >> >> >>>X-Original-To: mario(a)datamission.co.uk >>>Delivered-To: b200964(a)mail6.easyspace.com >>>From: Örn Hansen <orn.hansen(a)swipnet.se> >>>Organization: N/A >>>To: Mario Pesce <mario(a)datamission.co.uk> >>>Subject: Re: [SLE] NFS Help >>>Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:25:49 +0200 >>>User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 >>> >>>fredag 19 september 2003 17:55 skrev Mario Pesce: >>> > >>> > I have tried to use the following command: >>> > >>> > mount -t nfs 198.162.1.2:/media/floppy /mnt/nfs >>> > >>> > The command works for a while and then terminates with the message: >>> > >>> > mount: RPC: times out >>> > >>> > I used ping to check that the two machines were communicating and ping >>> > worked without problems >>> > >>> > I checked the messages in /var/log/messages and I found the following >>> > message on the server machine: >>> > >>> > rpc mountd: authenticated mount request for 198.162.1.1:729 for >>> > /media/floppy >>> > >>> >>> The Firewall on the remote machine that is trying to do the mount, is >>>blocking the incoming NFS service. >> >> >> >>-- >>Check the headers for your unsubscription address >>For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com >>Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com >>Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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Re: [SLE] GUI webpage program needed
by John Andersen 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

On Monday 22 September 2003 00:11, Radu Voicu wrote: > Anyway... have you tried CrossOffice or VM Ware as a solution to run > Dreamweaver??? Not yet, I've run FP in both, (not so successfull in COO but works perfectly in VMware. I have no doubt that DW will work perfectly in Vmware, as everything I throw at VMware works, even Autocad. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen

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Supporto for Intel Centrino or Pentium 4 M
by John Fawcett 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

I would like to install Suse Linux 8.2 on a laptop. Among those that I'm looking at there are many laptops which use Intel Centrino or Pentium 4 M chips. >From the Suse hardware requirements page, these are not explicitly mentioned. What is the current support status for these chips or does anyone have any experiences about installing Suse for these? Thanks, John

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