October 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

usb modem n wireless card
by Harsh Busa 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

hello group can anyone please suggest me a reliable usb modem and a pcmcia wifi card that is known to work with linux { specially suse pro 9.1 upwards } thanks harsh -- __________________________ http://www.ebackend.com/blog

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mplayerplug-in ...70 acts like a trojan horse
by Jim Worrest 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

I decided to install the new mplayerplug-in for Mozilla on a computer using apt-get. BIG MISTAKE! Now I can't get Mozilla or Synaptic to boot up. The boot up of my 9.0 Pro from grub even doesn't act the same. Is there a cure for this? ---Jim --- Msg sent via DIT Online WebMail http://mail.ditol.com

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SCSI tape drive hangs SUSE 9
by rotbau 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

I have been having a problem with a tape drive hanging my suse 9.0 pro server. The backup job starts and within 15-30 seconds of the job starting to write to the tape, everything freezes. The server stays up but nothing really works. No menus or commands work. The only option is to do a hard reset on the box. No errors are ever generated in any logs or on the screen. I have tried using taper, arkeia, tar, for programs, all see the drive fine and can format tapes etc, but they all hang the same way. I have also tried with and without x/kde loaded. Same deal. Server is a Dell poweredge 2300, dual PII 400, 512 ram. I have a compaq 2SL controller with 2 drives running raid 1. The tape drive is an HP Surestore Dat 40 (DDS4). I have tried it on the on-board adaptec 7890 and 7860 controllers. I have also tried using a PCI adaptec 2690. I have also tried both the term jumper on the drive and using a active terminator at the end of the cable with no change. Anyone have any ideas what else I can try? Are the any known bugs in 2.4 smp kernels that might cause this or maybe a problem with the adaptec driver ada7xxxx ? Thanks for any help. regards, rotba

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Printer on SMB server in Suse 9.1
by Herbert Georg 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Hello everyone, I'm having a problem here. I was completely successful in configuring a windows printer in Suse 9.0 through YAST. Now that I upgraded to Suse 9.1, I simply cannot do it, performing exactly the same operations. What happens? The printer server runs a Windows 2000 OS and I'm using LPRng spooler (which is probably irrelevant because I cound print with both cups and lprng in 9.0 and I can't with both in 9.1) Any help would be appreciated -- []s Herbert ----------------------------------- Departamento de Física de Materiais Instituto de Física Universidade de São Paulo -----------------------------------

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9.2 Live CD - Monitor Problem
by L. Mark Stone 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

The 9.2 Live CDROM cannot identify either of my Samsung monitors correctly and as soon as the graphical portion of the boot process begins, each monitor reports that the signal is out of range. I tried using the F2 key during the boot manager screen to select text mode, but that too fails in the exact same way. I also tried VESA, since both monitors are indeed quite VESA compliant, but got the same result. Works fine on another computer with a Hitachi monitor, BTW. Frustrating, because for each release of SuSE since 8.2 one of the two monitors has been misidentified (the second monitor was acquired last month), and I have with the release of each version dutifully filled out a bug report for SuSE. Any way I can get a command prompt to run sax and set the monitor settings correctly? Thanks, Mark -- ____________________________________________________ Another Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678

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What updates modules.dep?
by Scott Leighton 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

I somehow keep getting two entries in modules.dep for ndiswrapper.ko. /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111-default/extra/ndiswrapper.ko /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111-default/misc/ndiswrapper.ko The correct entry is the second one. I can manually edit modules.dep and remove the first entry, but eventually it reincarnates and reappears all on its own. Obviously, manually editing the file isn't the right answer. What is the correct procedure to remove this incorrect entry? Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.5-7.111-default x86_64

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Double Password Prompts with Winbind PAM
by Cameron Thorne 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

I know this has been beat to death, but I've exhausted all the resources Google affords me to no avail. I am running Winbind to authenticate against active directory in SLES9. ADS users can login normally. Locally defined users get double-prompted for password. This prevents anyone other than root from running YaST, but also prevents root from logging in to X. /etc/pam.d/login: #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_securetty.so auth required pam_nologin.so #auth required pam_homecheck.so auth required pam_env.so auth required pam_mail.so auth sufficient pam_unix2.so nullok auth required pam_winbind.so use_first_pass account sufficient pam_unix2.so account required pam_winbind.so password required pam_pwcheck.so nullok password required pam_unix2.so nullok use_first_pass use_authtok session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0022 session required pam_unix2.so none # debug or trace session required pam_limits.so /etc/pam.d/xdm: #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient pam_unix2.so nullok auth required pam_winbind.so use_first_pass account sufficient pam_unix2.so account required pam_winbind.so password required pam_pwcheck.so nullok password required pam_unix2.so nullok use_first_pass use_authtok session required pam_unix2.so debug # trace or none session required pam_devperm.so session required pam_resmgr.so Any ideas? -- Cameron Thorne

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Tomcat
by Ben Densmore 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

I recently installed tomcat and the tomcat connector for Apache2 so that I could use jsp but I can't seem to get it working correctly. If I put a .jsp file in the srv/www/htdocs directory it displays all the code as a text file in the browser. Since this is my first time using tomcat I'm sure I missed something, just not sure what it is. I'm running SuSE 9.1 Pro with Apache2 and using version is 5.0.19-13 of tomcat which is what comes shipped with 9.1. Does tomcat start on a port other than 80 that would cause it not to work by default in the htdocs directory? Thanks, Ben

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Using tape drives on a cciss controller
by Cameron Thorne 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

I have two scsi tape devices that I want to connect to my SmartArray controller (using the cciss driver). I am running SLES9 x86-64. This is a four channel controller. Two channels are connected to some RAID arrays, and they are detected just fine. I have another channel connected to a Quantum SDLT320 drive, but the kernel is not detecting the tape drive. After reading this: http://www.cpqlinux.com/cciss-tape.html I am worried that the SuSE kernel may not be configured properly for access to this device. I can always add another SCSI controller to the system ($$$), but I would rather just use the extra channels that I am not using now. I will also be connecting an IBM 7334-410 tape library with two drives to the other channel in a few weeks. I assume I'll have the same problems with that. Any advice on using the cciss driver for SCSI tape devices? -- Cameron Thorne

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dynamic compressed read/write filesystems?
by Danny Sauer 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Does anyone know offhand if any of the commonly supported filesystems support dynamic compression? I was looking at the size of my maildirs today, and thought to myself "text generally compresses well"... I guess I could archive stuff to a cramfs or squashfs periodically, as that'd give me a readable directory structure with compression, but I'd really like to trade some CPU time for some disk space on a couple of machines. If Ms can manage to get individually compressed files into NTFS, surely *someone* has gotten around to doing so under Linux. Right? I'll head off to google, but figured that someone here might know of something and maybe even have experience with it. --Danny, hoping not to run NTFS under Linux, even if RW support *is* marked "stable" someday :)

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