January 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Network Card Problems ( Help PLEASE )
by ka1ifq 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Hi All, I have some Allied Telesyn AT1500 cards I need to use. I can't seem to get them working under Suse 8.1, hardware support lists it as a supported card. The card is found on boot in /proc/isapnp list the card info, but says the card id is ATK1500 instead of AT-1500 along with "Logical Device 0 ATK1500 unknown", I also get "could not get a valid interface name" during card init. I have manually set the io and irq on the card and in /etc/modules ( I believe the module is lance.o ) to no avail. What should I try now? Thanks for any info... mike -- From the SuSe Desktop <ka1ifq(a)adelphia.net> Linux, Because rebooting is for new hardware!

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Re: [SLE] Re: mp3 question...
by James Hatridge 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

HI Dale et al.... On Tuesday 30 December 2003 02:15, Dale A. Sprankle II wrote: > On Sunday 28 December 2003 15:01, James Hatridge wrote: > > HI Don et al.... > > > > On Sunday 28 December 2003 19:25, Donald Henson wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 09:32, James Hatridge wrote: > > > > Hi all... > > > > > > > > I've got a couple of files that are too big (ca. 60 - 70mb each) to > > > > get into audacity to edit. How can I break these files up into, say, > > > > 5 to 10 minute size? And then put them back together when I'm done > > > > editing? > > > > > > > > Use Gramofile I tried this today, but Gramofile says it only works with wav files, I have mp3 files. What next? TIA! JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ BayerWulf Linux System # 129656 The Recycled Beowulf Project Looking for throw-away or obsolete computers and parts to recycle into a Linux super computer WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection

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Promise TX2/Plus card not detected in compiled kernel ?
by Bo Jacobsen 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Hi, I have a Promise TX2/plus SATA card that I try to run on the latest 2.4.21-144 kernel. The standard kernel supplied with 9.0 detectes the card and works OK. Even when booting of the CD-1, in rescue mode, the card is detected (and works). When compiling a kernel myself, the card is NOT detected. The driver for the card, in the -144 kernel, is exactly the same version as the one supplied with the default kernel of 9.0 (Promise PCD ULTRA SATA support), and I have tried to compile the driver, both as a modules and as a non-module, with the same result. The card is just not detected. In boot.msg there is no trace of the card. lspci displayes info on the card: "Unknown mass storage controller: Promise....: Unknown device 3375 (rev 02)" Any idears anyone ? Thanks in advance Bo Jacobsen

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Re: Nvidia Drivers
by Felipe Leon 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

>I. SuSE Linux 9.0 >----------------- > >1) Kernel sources must be installed and configured. Usually this means >installing the 'kernel-source' package with YaST2. Update it - if not >already done - via YaST2 Online Update (YOU). > >2) Use the nvidia installer for 1.0-5328. > > sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run > >3) Configure XFree86 with > >sax2 -m 0=nvidia (0 is a digit, not a letter!) > >NOTE: There is no need to try to enable 3D support. It's already > enabled, when the nvidia driver is running. Ignore the > misleading error message, that 3D support can't be enabled. > This problem will be fixed with SuSE > 9.0 and is related to the > latest nvidia driver release. Ok, I followed this indications exactly and everything worked perfect (try some 3d acceleration games) except when logging out. The X server exits in a wrong way: The normal SuSE blue screen with a status bar (which gives you the option of pressing F2 to see what is going on), is replaced by this broken screen (green and blue squares as out of resolution) on which I can do nothing. Eventually the shutdown or rebooting process continue and everything is then normal. This is not particularly important except that I assume something must be wrong with the installation of the driver. Has anybody experienced this? What do you guys recomend? Felipe.

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Continuous Boot Loop
by Russ 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Hi All, Me again. When I boot the computer, I choose SuSE and the screen goes blank (normal) then it returns to the GRUB screen. Anyone know why it does this? It did this when I was installing SuSE. I gave up and went to bed that time. When I woke up the next morning I booted the comp and it booted up normally. I booted to the install disk and chose to boot to installed system and it worked fine. Rebooted and it did the same thing (looped back to GRUB). So I booted to the install disk again and chose to reinstall GRUB (neat feature that). Rebooted, and same thing (looped back to GRUB). Why would it do this? I didn't do anything this time, honest. Well actually I just finished burning the SuSE live eval CD and booting to it (took forever). Any ideas. Thanks Russ

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Re: [SLE] USB Modem plug & play?
by Peter 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Thank You Everyone those who responded to my inuiry and for your point of view. I agree that in most cases we never get to see throughput beyond 44Kbps. I failed to mention that my PC is configured to dual boot between Win98 and Suse. For some reason I can get 44Kbps from the winmodem running on Win98. This is why it had me wondering of there was room for improvement. I realize that this issue involves two kinds of modems. But I don't see any reason why the winmodem should outperform the PCMCIA Megarhertz/USR modem by 1000bps. Happy New Year, Peter _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Introducing My Way - http://www.myway.com

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Linux Video Recording Hardware?
by Lenz Grimmer 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, First of all, Happy New Year to all of you! I think this is the first time that I post a question instead of answering one in this list :) I would like to be able to archive some of my old video tapes by converting them to MPEG and burning them on CD-ROM. I assume I need some kind of MPEG Encoder card for this, preferably with a TV Tuner as well as a normal video input port. What kind of hardware (Manufacturer/Model) would you recommend for this? What are your experiences? Any useful URLs? I've seen the VDR pages, but this looks like you need a Satellite Dish, if you want to record normal broadcast TV. I only have cable, but it would be neat if there is a way to record cable TV as well. But the main focus is on recording from a video source. Thanks in advance for your help, LenZ - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer <lenz(a)grimmer.com> -o) [ICQ: 160767607 | Jabber: LenZGr(a)jabber.org] /\\ http://www.lenzg.org/ V_V -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQE/9BwfSVDhKrJykfIRAqNyAJoDhy6WJQUJxRKFvRMIeaOt8dzFbQCfTndT Lu9SWzCnjpAs6LhiSd+5hhY= =WHuq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Starting Kde from Runlevel 3
by Selim Ober 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Hi, I've just installed 9.0 Pro and everything seems pretty ok. But I discovered that when I start Kde from runlevel 3 with startx, there are lot of error messages, but if I start-up my system normally, it means without 3 in the paramater box from GRUB, none of these messages appears... So, what's going on? Second question, a silly one, how can i switch to Gnome? Thanks

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] Configuring a Router
by Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

>X-pair-Authenticated: 217.235.114.54 >From: Nick Selby <ns(a)nickselby.com> >Organization: Flyguides.com >To: "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." <smolnar(a)jadeinc.com> >Subject: Re: [SLE] Configuring a Router >Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:21:10 +0100 >User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 >X-RCPT-TO: <smolnar(a)jadeinc.com> > > >Hi, >This will seem rude but it's not - you really need to post this reply to me >(thanks for it) to the list itself. The reason is that people use the list >archives as learning tools and reference material, so making this a private >conversation deprives future users of the benefits of the thread. > >So how about resending everything below to the list and then I'll reply there? > >FYI, there are separate issues here: > >The router seems to be routing so that's actually a SOLVED issue. > >The telnet into the MS workstation is a second issue; someone on the list >will >be able to help with configuring your windows box to allow this. > >Having your machines truly networked and each others drives available is >another issue, which will involve your sharing the drives on your windows >machines, setting up SAMBA on the Linux machine, mapping the network drives >on your windows box (to allow your windows machines to see the hard disk of >the linux machine) and mounting your windows shared drives on the Linux >machine via Samba (which amounts to the same thing as mapping a network >drive). > >Those last issues are all separate, but rather straightforward. SAMBA has a >browser based configuration tool. > >So go ahead and re post and I;ll give the same response and add to it, as >will >other users more expert than me (I have just described most users). > >Nick > > > >On Wednesday 31 December 2003 16:13, you wrote: > > WOW! Let me say that backwards !WOW > > > > Many, many thanks for your quick reply to my query. > > > > Amazingly simple, at least so far > > > > At 08:52 AM 12/31/2003, you wrote: > > >On Wednesday 31 December 2003 14:44, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote: > > > > I have just installed a Linksys router on my LAN. As I am functionally > > > > illiterate with regard to such things (it took me three days and many > > > > hours on the telephone to get my Win2000 box working with the router) > > > > what is the simplest way for me to get the linux machine on my LAN to > > > > communicate with the router? > > > > > > > > Oh yes, I have a DSL connection to the internet. > > > > > >Should be rather trivial. > > > > > >1. Plug the router into the wall, into the DSL modem and plug your linux > > >machine into it. > > > > > >2. I assume you already have the router on speaking terms with your DSL > > >provider; if not you can do it after you get it on speaking terms with the > > >Linux machine. > > > > > >3. Go into Yast and configure the ethernet device you will use to speak > > > with the router to be DHCP everything - IP, host name, etc. Click okay > > > and let it run suse config > > > > OK, it's at this point that I don't know what I'm doing. I have > > reconfigured the nic to accept a dynamic IP via DHCP and that seems to > > work. I can log on to 192.168.1.1/Index.htm and that gets me to the > > Linksys page via my browser, I assume that is on my router. The routing > > table shows me that I have local and internet interfaces. > > > > I can ping my Win 2000 box at 192.168.1.100, but when I attempt to telnet > > in my connection is rejected. LinNeighborhood AddMachine gives me a query > > error when I attempt to access the machine via that route. > > > > I am totally intimidated by the plethora of choices that yast give me for > > configuring things - and there lies the continuation of the problem. > > > > >4. You should be able now to ping the router; look in the quick set up > > >instructions in the box it came in for the router IP address. Open a > > > browser window and type in the IP address, something like > > > > > >http://192.168.123.100 > > > > > >5. You should now be looking at the router's configuration page. Enter > > > your ISP's user name and password and other information it wants and have > > > the router try connecting. It should be that simple. > > > > > >HTH! > > > > > >-- > > >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 > > > > Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set > > Foundation for Chemistry Multivariant and stochastic > > http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry > >-- >---------------------------- >Nick Selby > >US Mobile: +1 347 804 4410 >Germany: +49 89 2737 4527 >Germany Fax: +49 89 2737 4529 >*Currently in: MUNICH*

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SuSE 9 Pro Symlink Missing?
by Colburn 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

I am trying to get Sync to work with my Kyocera 6035 cellphone/PDA via a USB-Serial adapter from sewelldev.com All of the USB ports seem to be set up OK as I tried mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSBx x 188 x on 1 through 10 and was informed that they were already present. Sync is looking for dev/pilot so I tried symlink /dev/usb/ttyUSB4 /dev/pilot and discovered that symlink doesn't exist. How please, do I make this happen? Thanks! doc -- "Wars and rumors of wars, disasters, and social decay, yet undaunted for love and peace we pray." dmc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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