November 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Modem set-up for Hylafax
by Phil 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

I'm trying to set-up my modem and Hylafax. The modem set-up facility in kde is for dial-up isp service. it reports my modem on ttyS14. setserial reports settings, but so does every other com port. how can I check which com port the modem is on and is there a simple communications program where I can send some AT commands to the modem to see if it is responding properly. Then I'll ask some Hylafax questions

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Allowed FQDN Question
by Laurenz, Dirk 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Hi, is it true, that suse >= 9.1 doesn't like fqdn's with .local like server.dom.local? Mit freundlichem Gruß, Dirk Laurenz Systems Engineer Fujitsu Siemens Computers Sales Central Europe Deutschland Professional Service Organisation Nord / Ost Hildesheimer Strasse 25 30880 Laatzen Germany Telephone: +49 (511) 84 89 - 18 08 Telefax: +49 (511) 84 89 - 25 18 08 Mobile: +49 (170) 22 10 781 Email: mailto:dirk.laurenz@fujitsu-siemens.com Internet: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com http://www.fujitsu-siemens.de/rl/servicesupport/itdienstleistungen/competen… *******************************************************************************************************************

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FW: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100 - SOLVED
by Thom Nowakowski 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Well I did the below action and now my wireless works perfectly!!! Thank you Dave and I hope Suse checks into this issue!! On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Thom Nowakowski wrote: > I will try this later today, thanks for the heads up. Quick question though, how do I set it to not start at boot up? > > ________________________________ Its not too bad. Edit the line STARTMODE='onboot' to "manual" in the ifcfg-<your eth0 device> in /etc/sysconfig/network. Take a look at man ifcfg it may help also. Rerun SuSEConfig to be sure, then reboot or init i, init 5 to see if it helps. Please let me know. David abraham(a)esper.com -----Original Message----- From: david [mailto:abraham@esper.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 7:42 AM To: Thom Nowakowski Subject: RE: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100 SInce you seem to be down to grasping at straws, I'll toss my two cents in here. I had a similar issue with my Toshiba Tecra 9100. What I found for me is that the DHCP service does not handle gracefully a condidiotn where it tries to initialize both eth0 (my wired nic) and the wireless nic under conditions that eth0 is not plugged in; it backgrounds the DHCP attempts for eth0 and does not seem to get an address for the wireless nic. I could get things started manually, but it was a pain. What i did to address it, was to set eth0 not to start "on boot" but "manual" in the setup of the device. This way on bootup the DHCP service did not seem to get confused by not getting an address ont he wired nic during bootup and did get an address for the wireless nic. This may not address your issue, but perhaps its relevant. Plese let me know if this helps or not. David abraham(a)esper.com.

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Re: [SLE] RE: SuSe 9.2 on ftp
by Mark Gray 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Martin <earl072001(a)yahoo.com> writes: > Would be ever 9.2 available for ftp download/install? Check ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.2/suse/ every once in awhile (Right now it contains only the source code). The last word I heard was that they would put the rest of 9.2 up around the end of the year.

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test, sorry
by dclemen 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

I have problem with this list

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Balmer threatens Asian governments who want to use Linux
by Gil Weber 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

A fascinating article on CNN.com at link below. Balmer threatens governments using Linux with lawsuits over alleged intellectual rights infringements. Classic quote from Ballmer at end of article: "We think our software is far more secure than open-source software. It is more secure because we stand behind it, we fixed it, because we built it. Nobody ever knows who built open-source software," he added. Chutzpah!!! ;o) Here's the link to story. Gil http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/biztech/11/19/tech.microsoft.reut/index.html

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init 5 kills my keyboard
by Felix Miata 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

This "just" started happening. I don't recall anything I did on the last boot several days ago before turning it off. So, I don't have any clue where to start looking. If I boot to runlevel 3, everything works, but only until I do 'init 5' or 'telinit 5'. Then the keyboard just dies. If I boot directly to runlevel 5, nothing but the reset & power buttons work. To run X, I must login and then do startx. This I do not like. How can I fix this? -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/

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Double Layer DVD problems may be kernel bug on heavily loaded systems
by Mark Gray 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

I tried to copy the 9.2 installation DVD to disk using two different DVD readers on running 9.1 systems, and they both failed with read errors part way through. Then I booted up the rescue system from the 9.2 DVD and copied the DVD to hard disk without any problems. To my mind this shows that the problem is caused by an interrupt related bug in the IDE driver. Just my $0.02 worth.

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Wine and Copy/Paste to X
by Osho GG 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Hi, I am trying to make copy/paste work with X11 and applications running under Wine. I mainly need to select a text in an application running under wine and be able to paste it in X application, like xterm. I can't do this right now. Any idea how to make this work? thanks, -- Osho

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SLES 9.0 Installation, Kernel Panic Out Of Memory.
by mmarseglia 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Hi folks, I just downloaded SLES 9.0 and went to install it on a Compaq Proliant, Pentium Pro, 384MB RAM Server and got the following message: Kernel Panic: out of memory and no killable processes. Is there a way around this? I've tried the "Safe" installation and "text mode" with no effect. Thanks!

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FAT32 driver and big disk drives
by Greg Freemyer 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Is FAT32 under SUSE 8.2 reliable with a 250GB partition? Is it likely more reliable with SUSE 9.2, or something in between? M$ claims FAT32 supports upto 8 TB under WinXP. === Background I have a large tar backup tape (~200GB) made from an ext2 filesystem. There are roughly 300 files, all 640MB each. (Sized to fit on a CD). I am trying to restore the tar backup to a newly formatted 250GB FAT32 partition. Looking at the tar output (saved to a log file), everything is working fine and my file sizes are correct. Doing a "ls" on the filesystem shows that a number of the files are 0 bytes long. Unfortunately, all 300 or so files comprise a single logical entity that I need to access from a Windows box. Linux cannot write to NTFS and none of Windows EXT2 drivers seem reliable enough to use for this. I guess my next attempt will be to get cygwin to read in the tape. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer

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ogg --> wav question
by Jake 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

I back-up my favourite audio CDs to my HD in the ogg format. Now, one of my source CDs is broken so I want to decode the ogg file on my HD back to wav so I may burn a replacement. What tool can decode the ogg back to a wav please?

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RE: SuSe 9.2 on ftp
by Martin 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Would be ever 9.2 available for ftp download/install? Thx, Martin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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gdm
by boricua Orman 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

is there a way for gdm to show all users that can log in in login screen?

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Openoffice form wizard
by steve-ss 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

The form and report writing wizard doesn't work in the OOo database in 9.2. Does anyone know a workaround apart from installing the real thing from openoffice.org? I have 20 boxes like this. Thanks, Steve.

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Slow DVD Playback on SuSE 9.2
by Davide Dolcini 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Hello, I was trying to re-install xine because crypted dvds playback won't work on a 'standard' suse package. I uninstalled kaffeine, totem, libxine, xine & the other plugins, and i downloaded packages from packman. Now xine works and plays dvd but it's almost impossible to watch them: the playback is really slow, sometimes the dvd hangs and i've to wait seconds to see the images again. How can I fix it? Thanks

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Experiences with XFS Filesystem
by Laurenz, Dirk 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Hello out there, i want to know about your XFS Filesystem experience. You may describe positive and negative experiences. I'm interesseted in both. Especially in the solutions for the negative experiences. It's also interessting, why you moved to XFS and from which filesystem. Thanks a lot in advance. Mit freundlichem Gruß, Dirk Laurenz Systems Engineer Fujitsu Siemens Computers Sales Central Europe Deutschland Professional Service Organisation Nord / Ost Hildesheimer Strasse 25 30880 Laatzen Germany Telephone: +49 (511) 84 89 - 18 08 Telefax: +49 (511) 84 89 - 25 18 08 Mobile: +49 (170) 22 10 781 Email: mailto:dirk.laurenz@fujitsu-siemens.com Internet: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com http://www.fujitsu-siemens.de/rl/servicesupport/itdienstleistungen/competen… *******************************************************************************************************************

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RE: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100
by Thom Nowakowski 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Ok, this is getting now to the point of being irritating. It's obviously a bug in SUSE 9.2 and the way it works with certain centrino cards/laptops Can anyone tell me what files suse/ipw2100 uses for encryption and network? I will just try editting them myself and see what happens. Like I said, I get a link and I'm connected, set my default gw route but still no luck!! Can't ping or anything. I had a suggestion to turn off dhcp client on my wired nic on bootup and see if that helps which I will try later but this is getting ridiculous. A patch for Suse 9.2 is needed!! ________________________________ From: boricua Orman [mailto:boricua@pepino.is-a-geek.org] Sent: Wed 11/24/2004 6:05 AM To: Michael Sacco Cc: suse Subject: RE: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100 2100 not there http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/List On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 00:47 -0500, Michael Sacco wrote: > Strange... > > Well, if I were you guys, and I really wanted it up and running, I would > download the ndiswrapper and use that module then. I had to set that up > when I was using 9.1 because the ipw2200 was not supported out of the box. > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ is the website, and there is pretty > straight-forward documentation. The install is relatively quick, you don't > need to recompile the kernel. Rather, you just compile the module for the > kernel you are already using. > > Testing this will also help pin down what the problem is. If ndiswrapper > works, then it's most likely the ipw2100 module. If ndiswrapper does not > work, then it's most likely a setup issue. > > Mike Sacco > > -----Original Message----- > From: boricua Orman [mailto:boricua@pepino.is-a-geek.org] > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:14 PM > To: Michael Sacco > Cc: suse > Subject: RE: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100 > > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 00:29 -0500, Michael Sacco wrote: > > This is going to sound silly, but I would try enabling power management. > I > > have the ipw2200 in my system, and sometimes it won't work unless I have > the > > power management on. It can be turned on by using the following command: > > > > iwconfig eth1 power on > > > > A quick type of "iwconfig eth1" afterwards should show that the command > took > > > > stays on for a second and back to off > > > -- > 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 > > > -- 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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Amarok and audio streams
by Susemail 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Has anyone been able to get Amarok to play anything at all. If you have please tell me how. I've been trying all day on 3 different systems using 9.1 and 9.2 to get Amarok to play a stream, any stream. I've read the handbook but I can't get Amarok to work at all. I know it's not good form to complain but what makes this really frustrating is that I pointed my safari browser on my Mac at http:// yp.shoutcast.com this morning and it's been playing all day! Xmms shows itself pre-buffering and connecting over and over again but it doesn't play anything. These two programs should play streams in a straight forward way. They don't for me. If they do for you please let my know how??? Thanks, Jerome

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HowTo play Shoutcast
by Susemail 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

I put http://yp.shoutcast.com in the Xmms location bar but nothing plays. Shoutcast documentation says Shoutcast should work with Xmms. How do I play a given stream on Shoutcast using Suse audio tools? I tried AmaroK too. Thanks, Jerome

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openmotif-devel ?
by Mark Hounschell 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Anyone know why the only devel package was excluded from 9.2 or if there is one available for 9.2 somewhere? Regards Mark

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Messages sent with header only, SYSERR(root): readqf: cannot open
by Dawson, Alan 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Hi I'm using a fully fou4s patched SuSE 9.0 email server running the standard Sendmail 8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7 I'm seeing a few messages that seem to get sent twice, the first time with only the header, then the full message later. /var/log/mail shows entries like Nov 22 12:20:28 charon sendmail[16998]: iAMCKBqG016952: SYSERR(root): readqf: cannot open ./dfiAMCKBqG016952: No such file or directory I've googled for this and found http://www.talkroot.com/archivee/index.php/t-3023__SYSERR(root):_readqf:_can _not_open.html and http://www.mailarchive.ca/lists/comp.mail.sendmail//2003-05/0214.html I'm using MailScanner (http://www.mailscanner.info ) to scan for spam and viruses and it mentions that there may be file locking issues for sendmail 8.13 and posix locking is required Does anybody know if SuSE sendmail has been patched to require posix locking ? Alan Dawson -- ICT Services

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Ethernetcards switching id
by Dan Am 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Hi all, following scenario: I am installing 9.1 via a dhcp/tftp setup. Boot works alright with dhcp request going out thru the installed 3com gigabit card. Kernel boots and suddenly recognizes onboard 100mbit card as eth0 and tries to obtain another ip-address. Normally I would edit /etc/modprobe.conf, but on an install system ? Anyone have anthing on that ? TIA/Regards Dan

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Re: [SLE] Digest?
by Mark Gray 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

rada and gus <rada_anr(a)sancharnet.in> writes: > On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 18:44, george wrote: >> Am I missing the link? I want to change from getting each email to a digest, >> but I don't see the link on line. >> >> Can someone share the info? >> >> >> >> (too much traffic for me) > Not possible. See the original enzim response to your subscription > request to the list. Gustav Degreef. >> Q8. Can I get the list in digest form? >> A8. Not from us. There's a much more complete discussion about >> this in the FAQ as well. Those who use the same email address for suse-linux-e as their personal address and cannot stand the traffic should read from the archive at http://lists.suse.com/ -- I used to have a perl script which would grab the index every morning and kept track of which posts were new to me -- (a very simple hack so I won't bother posting it unless somebody really wants it :-)

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Re: [SLE] Double Layer DVD problems may be kernel bug on heavily loaded systems
by Mark Gray 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Chris <meliore(a)iinet.net.au> writes: >>> Mark Gray wrote: >>>> I tried to copy the 9.2 installation DVD to disk using two different >>>> DVD readers on running 9.1 systems, and they both failed with read >>>> errors part way through. Then I booted up the rescue system from the >>>> 9.2 DVD and copied the DVD to hard disk without any problems. To my >>>> mind this shows that the problem is caused by an interrupt related bug >>>> in the IDE driver. >>>> >>>> Just my $0.02 worth. >> Terry Eck <terry_eck(a)comcast.net> writes: >>> I'm wondering if what you say about the "interrupted related bug" caused >>> what I saw twice yesterday. As a normal practice I backup my system to >>> my second hard disk using rsysc. The load average was running at about >>> 2.0 when the system froze. I had to reset the computer. So far I have >>> been able to freeze the computer twice and both times I was doing heavy >>> disk to disk copying using rsysc. This is on 9.2. > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 18:07 -0500, Mark Gray wrote: >> That sounds very much like the problem. On one of the computers it >> was impossible to kill -9 the cp process and it had to be >> rebooted. (That was with the 9.1 system reading the 9.2 DVD.) As a >> further note on the double layer DVD problem, I just tried installing >> 9.2 on yet a third computer using the DVD and it failed to even boot. Chris <meliore(a)iinet.net.au> writes: > I found the answer to this (but I can't remember where). Put disc 2 in > and when it asks is this disc 1 put dvd1 in your dvd drive and click ok. > This worked for me. I have already installed on that machine using the cd version. But I doubt it would have helped on my machine anyway, because it still could not reliably read the double layer DVD. In fact when the fan came on while reading the third CD it hung solid, and I had to power it off and reboot to continue the install. I am in the process of verifying that the install was totally successful (looks good so far). (9.1, 9.0 and several 8.*'s installed from the DVD and worked great on that computer (including acpi on 9.0)).

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Spitting out CD drive
by John Pettigrew 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Having updated my SUSE 9.1 system using YOU yesterday, my PC keeps spitting out the drawer of the CD recorder every couple of minutes. It's not done this before - does anyone know what might be causing this, because it's rather irritating! It started after the update (I rebooted straight after the update because there was a kernel update) and carries on today after another reboot (overnight). Thanks, John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john(a)headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Valley of the Kings: ransack an ancient Egyptian tomb but beware of mummies!

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Digest?
by george 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Am I missing the link? I want to change from getting each email to a digest, but I don¹t' see the link on line. Can someone share the info? (too much traffic for me) -- Thanks, George I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. Mark Twain

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wireless card ipw2100
by boricua Orman 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

try to convince my wife to switch to linux on her laptop with suse 9.2 and toshiba satelite m35-s3592 works fine but wireless conection is not working here is output of iwconfig eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"NYBKLNY" Nickname:"linux" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:66:37:54:B3 Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=32 dBm Retry:on RTS thr=2304 B Fragment thr:off Encryption key:D68A-E0A3-EEA6-4155-D894-4DE6-8D Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=-35 dBm Noise level=-98 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:11 Missed beacon:0 ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:0D:E3:C8:CB inet6 addr: fe80::208:dff:fee3:c8cb/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:5900 (5.7 Kb) eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:23:84:BA:1B inet6 addr: fe80::204:23ff:fe84:ba1b/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:4 dropped:4 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:9344 (9.1 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000 Memory:c2005000-c2005fff my wireless is eth1 i get 100% signal but no ip get assigned i tried to assigned manually i can ping it from same laptop but not from outside and i have no internet if i get this working i am sure she is a convert

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domain controller
by it clown 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Hi All, I am wanting to setup 9.1 as a domain controller. Does anyone know of where i can find some info on this? I found some info on samba but it has not really gotton me in the right direction, thanks. Regards _____________________________________________________________________ For super low premiums ,click here http://www.dialdirect.co.za/quote

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Re: [SLE] Apache, httpd.conf and SuSE 9.2
by Ron Brown 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

FWIW I have several "default" installs of several distro's on my desk.. ALL flavors inclue Apache 2 SuSE's httpd.conf file is (annoyingly) fragmented Debian's httpd.conf file is (far less) fragemented RedHat's httpd.conf file is not.. Gentoo's httpd.conf file is not.. Seems to me that this indicates the config file format differences are distro specific, not Apache version specific. My personal preference is the single config file, but I certainly appreciate that the other are that way for a reason. Ron --- My comments and opinions are generally non-conformist in nature. The accuracy of the information on which my comments and opinions are formed is always questionable... but if it's in print, it MUST be true :) -- >>> Josephine <Josephine(a)jaykay.org> 11/02/04 04:04PM >>> On Tuesday 02 November 2004 19:27, Jordan Michaels wrote: > Can anyone give me a definitive answer on this? > > > Perhaps, but not that I've seen. We do a lot of work with CentOS 3.1 > because of it's compatibility with RHEL and it's httpd.conf is NOT > broken up in to thousands (yes, I'm exaggerating) of includes. It's > just one file, which, honestly, seems simpler to me then the hordes > of includes. > > I know, and I did. It would just save us many, many hours if we > didn't have to talor it for every server that we set up. Time is > money and SuSE is starting to take more of it! *NOT* cool! I'm a big > fan of SuSE and have been for a long time - but this bothers me. It'd > be nice to have the option of the default install being just one > file. You really need a deep look into the apache documentation for both apache 1.3 and apache 2.0. You need to understand that this is no *fault* from suse, nor a bug or a *feature* that the httpd.conf is different from what you knew on suse 9.0. It is simply apache2 and *exactly* that is the way httpd.conf should look. If you dislike apache2 for the way it handles configuration, you are free to install binaries/whatever for apache 1.3.x and play with the httpd.conf you are used with. But please understand that SuSE is just trying to offer you the latest releases and they are not inventing configuration files for most common services. Learn it or change it to something you know, but don't blame suse for trying to give you latest stuff. Josephine -- 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] Double Layer DVD problems may be kernel bug on heavily loaded systems
by Mark Gray 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Terry Eck <terry_eck(a)comcast.net> writes: > Mark Gray wrote: >> I tried to copy the 9.2 installation DVD to disk using two different >> DVD readers on running 9.1 systems, and they both failed with read >> errors part way through. Then I booted up the rescue system from the >> 9.2 DVD and copied the DVD to hard disk without any problems. To my >> mind this shows that the problem is caused by an interrupt related bug >> in the IDE driver. >> >> Just my $0.02 worth. >> >> > I'm wondering if what you say about the "interrupted related bug" caused > what I saw twice yesterday. As a normal practice I backup my system to > my second hard disk using rsysc. The load average was running at about > 2.0 when the system froze. I had to reset the computer. So far I have > been able to freeze the computer twice and both times I was doing heavy > disk to disk copying using rsysc. This is on 9.2. That sounds very much like the problem. On one of the computers it was impossible to kill -9 the cp process and it had to be rebooted. (That was with the 9.1 system reading the 9.2 DVD.) As a further note on the double layer DVD problem, I just tried installing 9.2 on yet a third computer using the DVD and it failed to even boot.

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Looking for new laptop or notebook
by David Sexton 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Hi I am looking at purchasing a new laptop one that is Linux compatible I want a laptop. My main thing I am looking for is battery support I would like to get a laptop that that can run off of battery for at least 3-4 hours. I know HP has the nx5000 what comes with Suse 9.1 installed all ready. I am looking with a laptop with at least the following specs. If any one has some suggestions I would appreciate it. I am looking for a laptop that priced less than 1500 but if its a bit more then I would spend the extra money for a good laptop. 1.5 G or faster 40 G Hard Drive DVD burner And 15 inch display 64MB video card either ATI or NvidiaThank David

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wireless bug
by boricua Orman 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

in the interface file i can see the correct key but when i do iwconfig the key is a mismatch. i always have to apply correct key from command line with iwconfig key blablabla is this a bug ? BOOTPROTO='dhcp' MTU='' REMOTE_IPADDR='' STARTMODE='auto' UNIQUE='y9as.NNm_C6+3ZFE' USERCONTROL='no' WIRELESS_AP='' WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='open' WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto' WIRELESS_CHANNEL='' WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0' WIRELESS_ESSID='NYBKLNY' WIRELESS_FREQUENCY='' WIRELESS_KEY='' WIRELESS_KEY_0='h:312F85A069B325A4E7DF38C039' WIRELESS_KEY_1='' WIRELESS_KEY_2='' WIRELESS_KEY_3=''

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Re: ***SPAM*** Re: [SLE] Re: Samba HOWTO
by James Knott 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

I don't. The subject on my message, as received here shows: "Re: [SLE] Re: Samba HOWTO" That ***SPAM*** is being added elsewhere. Perhaps by your ISP? Brad Bourn wrote: > Why do you put ***SPAM*** on all you emails. > > you probably aren't reaching allot of people that use spamassasin and filter > out that header. > > B-) > > On Monday 22 November 2004 09:40 am, you wrote: > >>Michael W Cocke wrote: >> >>>; OS/2 LAN Requester initialization file >>> >>>[networks] >>> >>> net1 = NETBEUI$,0,LM10,34,100,14 >>> net2 = TCPBEUI$,1,LM10,34,100,14 >> >>Is there any reason why you're running both NetBIOS and NetBIOS over >>TCP/IP? There's not much need for plain NetBIOS these days, as recent >>versions of Windows default to, and Linux only supports NetBIOS/IP.

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Re: [SLE] Suse 9.1 doesn't print colors on Lexmark ColorJet 7000
by Terje J. Hanssen 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Patrick Shanahan wrote. > * Terje J. Hanssen <nteknikk(a)monet.no> [11-23-04 09:37]: > /> Can someone confirm if colors doesn't work or not on this printer? / > > You can find your answer at www.linuxprinting.org. Look for the > capabilities and degree of support for your printer. Well, what I found was the following at http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=pbm2l7k&fromprinter=Lex… Driver:pbm2l7k Preliminary 600x600 dpi colour printing in CMY and CMYK mode - tested on Lexmark 7000. /Note:/ Due to a GhostScript bug users of GhostScript 5.50 or older must set the "Memory Limit" ("MemLimit", if you do not use Foomatic, use the GhostScript option "-dMaxBitmap=value") option to 120 MB and need at least this amount of free virtual memory to be able to print in colour. For newer versions of GhostScript there are no special memory needs. Only 600dpi colour is provided by foomatic yet! My problem is that I haven't got it to print colors either resolution yet. Maybe my plain installation and cups printing need to be customized in some way? I hope someone on this list has (used) this printer and can confirm if it prints colors on Linux (it does on Windows to tell that) and possibly how it was/is installed and set up? Thanks, Terje J. Hanssen

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Formatting Dvd-Ram
by Joe Dufresne 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

I am attempting to format a 4.7 singleside dvd-ram disc. I first run fdisk, setting a single partition, then running 'mke2fs -b 4096 /dev/hdc' after sector 300 or so the light goes off, and checking /var log/messages shows several hundred examples of: Nov 23 15:03:55 miverna kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 69471360 Nov 23 15:03:55 miverna kernel: hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Nov 23 15:03:55 miverna kernel: hdc: command error: error=0x50 Nov 23 15:03:55 miverna kernel: ide: failed opcode was 100 What am I doing wrong, and what is the right way? Joe -- SuSE Linux 9.1 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.8-20041116124251-default / i686 | Posted from: miverna 3:21pm up 5:38, 6 users, load average: 0.11, 0.37, 1.67 Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. -- Sam Brown, "The Washington Post", January 26, 1977 nqs(a)tmcom.com | http://tigger.tmcom.com/~nqs/blogger.html

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HP Certifies, Supports Novell Linux Desktop
by James Knott 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1731094,00.asp>

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Problem(s) with 9.2
by Bill Wisse 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Hi All I upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 My LCD screen (AOC) what wasn't recognized in 9.1 was detected now but it shows some letters in a sort of green and some are red. Anybody knows how to fix this? Also in trying to fix this myself I went to Sax2 and put the monitor back on LCD ( what I think it was on in 9.1) but it made no difference and I put it back to AOC. But now the fonts are far too big ( screen resolution 1280x1024) Any advise to get this back to a normal size? Thanks for any help. I also have a problem with the soundcard but this will be in a different email. -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."

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Re: [SLE] Looking for new laptop or notebook
by Tiscali Gary D Chance 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Subject: [SLE] Looking for new laptop or notebook Date: Tuesday 23 November 2004 14:58 From: David Sexton <dasexton(a)cox.net> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Hi I am looking at purchasing a new laptop one that is Linux compatible I want a laptop. My main thing I am looking for is battery support I would like to get a laptop that that can run off of battery for at least 3-4 hours. I know HP has the nx5000 what comes with Suse 9.1 installed all ready. I am looking with a laptop with at least the following specs. If any one has some suggestions I would appreciate it. I am looking for a laptop that priced less than 1500 but if its a bit more then I would spend the extra money for a good laptop. 1.5 G or faster 40 G Hard Drive DVD burner And 15 inch display 64MB video card either ATI or NvidiaThank David I've loaded SuSE Linux 9.2 Pro on a Toshiba Satellite A60 with no problems that already had XP factory loaded. Did a nice job partitioning and uses GRUB. Touchpad works fine. It meets all of your specs plus some. There's a range of these from which to choose. Here's one with 60 Gb HDD, DVD-RW & 15" TFT at £638.61 (£750.37 with UK VAT). http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=3236388334&action=c2h… Although it's in the UK, this will give you a sense of what I have and am using. I like it. Do a Google search for it to find US vendors. Gary -- 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] Experiences with XFS Filesystem
by Khanh Tran 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

I've never had a problem with it and have been happily running it for almost a year now. I mainly use it for large video files on a PVR box. I can watch live TV at 8Mbps for hours with the MythTV project. Khanh Tran Network Operations Sarah Lawrence College -----Original Message----- From: Laurenz, Dirk [mailto:Dirk.Laurenz@fujitsu-siemens.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 4:28 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: [SLE] Experiences with XFS Filesystem Hello out there, i want to know about your XFS Filesystem experience. You may describe positive and negative experiences. I'm interesseted in both. Especially in the solutions for the negative experiences. It's also interessting, why you moved to XFS and from which filesystem. Thanks a lot in advance. Mit freundlichem Gruß, Dirk Laurenz Systems Engineer Fujitsu Siemens Computers Sales Central Europe Deutschland Professional Service Organisation Nord / Ost Hildesheimer Strasse 25 30880 Laatzen Germany Telephone: +49 (511) 84 89 - 18 08 Telefax: +49 (511) 84 89 - 25 18 08 Mobile: +49 (170) 22 10 781 Email: mailto:dirk.laurenz@fujitsu-siemens.com Internet: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com http://www.fujitsu-siemens.de/rl/servicesupport/itdienstleistungen/competen… ******************************************************************************************************************* -- 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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SUSE 9.1 Pro can't print from Acroread
by Stan Glasoe 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

I have lost the ability to print from acroread (5.08-202 installed and have tried 5.09-4.2). I have uninstalled acroread, rebooted, reinstalled, etc. Still no go. My problem is that the files I need to print, print best from acroread. All the other pdf printer programs don't do it as well; wrong color, jagged edges, mis-aligned, etc. I have SUSE 9.1 Pro, KDE 3.3.1, cups 1.1.20-103 currently installed and have tried cups 1.1.20-108.8. Have tried normal updates of programs, rebooted in between, deleted all printers, installed one at a time with no reboots and reboots in between. I tried uninstalling cups entirely but that would require uninstalling 200+ programs that depend on it. I've tried many different files/pdfs. They all will print from kpdf, kword, xpdf, etc. I have a Lexmark Optra S 1855 laser TCP/IP and an HP Deskjet 5650 USB connected to the system. Both have worked and do work for most printing that I do. In acroread I have tried the standard /usr/bin/lpr setting and kprinter. Neither works. I see the Acrobat file to be printed arrive in /tmp and disappear when it thinks its printed. In kprinter I can't find anything wrong. Have gone over most everything three times. Any ideas? Stan

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Phantom cd ejection with SuSE 9.1
by Peter N. Spotts 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Folks, I've installed SuSE 9.1 Pro on an old HP Pavilion 6545C, which I'm using for backup storage and for ripping music. Everything is hunky dory except the CD drive, which decides to "eject" on its own at random times, leaving the drive with its "tongue" hanging out. This occurs when the drive is empty as well as when it is running a CD. If I'm ripping a CD, the drive will eject in mid-rip. I can push the CD holder back in, and ripping will continue for another minute or so. Then the drive ejects itself again. Likewise, when I'm using the computer but not the drive at all, it will open on its own, I can close it, and it will open a few moments later. Any thoughts on how to fix this? Or am I stuck with a perpetually panting desktop computer? Maybe, like dogs, the thing just wants to "sweat" through its "tongue." Next thing I know, it will want me to take it for a walk in the morning. Best, Pete -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter N. Spotts | Science Correspondent The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston MA 02115 Office: 617-450-2449 | Office in home: 508-520-3139 Email: pspotts(a)alum.mit.edu | www.csmonitor.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Suse 9.1 doesn't print colors on Lexmark ColorJet 7000
by Terje J. Hanssen 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

I have a local attached parallell port printer, Lexmark ColorJet 7000. It can use (costly) black and color or black and photo cartridges. Though this is a legacy GDI Winprinter, it was an advanced and is still a relative capabel CJ-printer for high resolution 1200x1200 photo. I have tried the Suse 9.1 included Lexmark 7000 Foomatic/Lex7000 ppd driver and also tried to download (another?) driver from http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=lex7000 I can select resolutions from 300x300 up to 1200x1200 (normal 600x600), but the testprints only contain grayscale and no colors. Can someone confirm if colors doesn't work or not on this printer? Thanks, Terje J. Hanssen

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Does Creative MuVO micro n200 work under SuSE 9.1?
by Steven Pasternak 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

I am thinking about getting a Creative MuVo Micro N200 and am wondering if it works under suse 9.1. If so, is it a kernel thing, because I use kernel 2.6.9 vanilla. Thanks!

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Itanium and SuSE
by Oxiel Contreras 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Hello Gurus: I've a problem, i need to know if OpenOffice and Evolution can run on SLES9 over Itanium???. They are not in the SLES9 packages, what happens if i install them manually from 32 bits rpms of SuSE9.1???? Best Regards. Oxiel

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RE: [SLE] Suse 9.1 Pro on Server Class Machine
by Ricci Graham 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Paul, Thank you so much for this information. I disabled the onboard NIC via the Compaq SmartStart CD and then I reinstalled the system. It did stop it from freezing up, but now I can't get my network card to work. I have it configured and when I do a "ifstatus eth0" it returns eth0 device: Compaq Center Corporation Compaq Integrated Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI TLAN 2.3 (rev10) eth0 is down I have tried rebooting the machine and that didn't help either. Any ideas on how to get the machine to activate eth0? Thanks, Ricci -----Original Message----- From: Paul Ketelaar [mailto:paulk@ketelaar.com.au] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 9:37 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: RE: [SLE] Suse 9.1 Pro on Server Class Machine Ricci, Ken and SLE People, Ia have had this problwm just recently with 2 1850Rs. You need to get a smart Compaq SmartStart CD Ver 4.2 or later. Use this to disable the onboard NIC. Once this is done try installing SuSE, the freezing should stop. SuSE will still find the NIC and you can set it up as normal. I did not have to worry about passing anything to the kernel during booting. This problem I believe is due to ACPI and IRQs. This seemed to work well. Some say another fix is to use another NIC but I could not get a number of diff types to be detected. Anyway try this and see how you go. Regards Paul K P.S. 'fsck SCO' > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 17:33, Ricci Graham wrote: >> Ken, >> >> It boots fine from the install CD and I can load all five CD's, but then >> when I try to boot from Installed System and it runs the boot messages >> by >> and the it freezes at the "starting yast" message. I thought maybe it >> was >> hanging on the RAID. What do you think? >> >> Ricci >> > > Please keep this to the list. > > I installed SuSE on an 1850R and problems until I used nousb to get the > system to run. YMMV. > >> > Are there any known problems with Suse 9.1 Professional running on a >> Server >> > Class machine i.e. >> > Compaq 1850R >> > Dual PIII 600 Mhz >> > 1 Gig RAM >> > RAID 5 (3 SCSI 18.5 Gig Hard drives) >> > >> > > > What part of the last line in my sig don't you understand? > > -- > Ken Schneider > UNIX since 1989 > SuSE since 1998 > * Only reply to the list please* > > > -- > 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 > > > -- 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 IMPORTANT NOTICE - The information (both of the message and any attachments) contained in this message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to an intended recipient or has received this message in error, you are hereby notified that we do not consent to any reading, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message and any such actions are strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy the transmitted information.

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My Viking Keyboard Went Berserk on 9.2!
by Steven T. Hatton 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

For some reason the compose feature isn't working for me in 9.2. This is the ~/.kde/share/config/kxkbrc Layout=en_US Model=pc104 Options=compose:rwin,altwin:meta_alt ResetOldOptions=false ShowFlag=true ShowSingle=true StickySwitching=false StickySwitchingDepth=1 SwitchMode=Global Use=true Variants=en_US(nodeadkeys) This is the result: setxkbmap -print xkb_keymap { xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" }; xkb_types { include "complete" }; xkb_compat { include "complete" }; xkb_symbols { include "pc/pc(pc104)+pc/en_US+altwin(meta_alt)+compose(rwin)" }; xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" }; }; Notice that the nodeadkeys is missing. Has anyone else had problems with this? It looks like there's a new approach to configuration, and it might have a bug or two yet. I'm running 'stock' KDE with the latest updates. BTW. I HATE DEADKEYS!... I feel much better now. ;-) -- Regards, Steven

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Epson USB scanner permissions in 9.2
by Fergus Wilde 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

I fear we may have done this in the three weeks I've been away, but, extensive googling hasn't got me where I'm going yet: Epson Perfection 2450 Photo scanner, problem free with 2.4 kernel series, problems with 9.1, partly resolved with kind help of many, partic Kastus and Sid. Now different prob, maybe easier? Kooka works absolutely fine as root, so I am assuming not much is broken and thus not posting scads of logs. But will not work as user. Over what should I shake a rubber chicken to allow users to scan, or is it the full horror again searching through 25,000 nameless files? Cheers Fergus

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looking for a good USB 802.11g adapter
by Jason Joines 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

I'm looking for an 802.11g compabitle USB wireless adapter to use with SuSE 9.1 or 9.2. I'd like something like the LinkSys WUSB12 because of its size. However, it doesn't do 802.11g and I don't know if it runs under Linux or not. Anyone out there using something like this? Any particularly good or bad experiences?

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Re: ***SPAM*** Re: ***SPAM*** Re: [SLE] Re: Samba HOWTO
by James Knott 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Is there anything in the headers about it? Brad Bourn wrote: > hmm, that is weird.... > > how would I track that down? > > > I'll forward to my provider and ask... > > > Any ideas mike? > > B-) > > > On Monday 22 November 2004 10:31 am, you wrote: > >>I don't. The subject on my message, as received here shows: >>"Re: [SLE] Re: Samba HOWTO" >> >>That ***SPAM*** is being added elsewhere. Perhaps by your ISP? >> >>Brad Bourn wrote: >> >>>Why do you put ***SPAM*** on all you emails. >>> >>>you probably aren't reaching allot of people that use spamassasin and >>>filter out that header. >>> >>>B-) >>> >>>On Monday 22 November 2004 09:40 am, you wrote: >>> >>>>Michael W Cocke wrote: >>>> >>>>>; OS/2 LAN Requester initialization file >>>>> >>>>>[networks] >>>>> >>>>> net1 = NETBEUI$,0,LM10,34,100,14 >>>>> net2 = TCPBEUI$,1,LM10,34,100,14 >>>> >>>>Is there any reason why you're running both NetBIOS and NetBIOS over >>>>TCP/IP? There's not much need for plain NetBIOS these days, as recent >>>>versions of Windows default to, and Linux only supports NetBIOS/IP.

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Re: [SLE] 9.1 install on Dell SC420
by dknecht＠se.rr.com 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

----- Original Message ----- From: Branimir Vasilic <brana7(a)comcast.net> Date: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:30 am Subject: Re: [SLE] 9.1 install on Dell SC420 > On Tuesday 23 November 2004 11:21, dknecht(a)se.rr.com wrote: > > i can't get YAST to load a NIC driver during install. > > the onboard nic is an Intel 1gb which i think should > > use the e1000 driver? anyone else seen this problem? > > I've had a problem with this driver on a desktop. I got the source > form > Intel's website, compiled it and that one worked. Install without > the NIC > being set up, go to the intel website and download the source, > compile the > driver and replace the stock driver with the one you compiled > (after making a > backup of it, of course). This might help. > > Brana > Thanks for your advise, i guess i'll have to install another nic temporarily, since the dell doesn't have a dvd drive and i must install via the network.....probably easier/faster than creating a special boot floppy.

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pam_pgsql
by Hamish 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Hello all Does anyone know where I can find pam_pgsql for suse 9.1, or even the source? Thanks H

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9.1 install on Dell SC420
by dknecht＠se.rr.com 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

i can't get YAST to load a NIC driver during install. the onboard nic is an Intel 1gb which i think should use the e1000 driver? anyone else seen this problem?

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RE: [SLE] Allowed FQDN Question
by Laurenz, Dirk 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Hi, -| >> -| > -| > Why don't you got just get a domain of your own, to use. -| If you don't want -| > to buy one, get a "dyndns.org" domain, it's free. -| -| That is a very reasonable answer... to a different question. -| For *internal* networks that do not HAVE a corresponding -| real domain -| (for any of a number of various reasons) that won't work. -| -| I've used .pvt for years without issue. what means, i have to update it periodically or it will be deleted. And that's not what i want! Mit freundlichem Gruß, Dirk Laurenz Systems Engineer Fujitsu Siemens Computers Sales Central Europe Deutschland Professional Service Organisation Nord / Ost Hildesheimer Strasse 25 30880 Laatzen Germany Telephone: +49 (511) 84 89 - 18 08 Telefax: +49 (511) 84 89 - 25 18 08 Mobile: +49 (170) 22 10 781 Email: mailto:dirk.laurenz@fujitsu-siemens.com Internet: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com http://www.fujitsu-siemens.de/rl/servicesupport/itdienstleistungen/competen… *******************************************************************************************************************

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installing rpm with yast
by David Sexton 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

I am having problems when I try to install any rpm on SUSE using yast. After selecting the rpm I want installed I click accept and it starts the install after downloading and trying to install them I get an error saying the following rpm felled to install. No mater what rpm I try to installed I get the same results ever time. Any suggestions on how to fix this or what I am doing wrong Thanks David

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ipw2100 wireless card
by rroman＠acedsl.com 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Cc: "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <suse(a)austinblues.dyndns.org>, suse <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> Bcc: Subject: Re: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100 Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <F21F8F12E720224CB4EFA1B636762F9A5358(a)tserver.Chambers.local> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 03:54:10PM -0500, Thom Nowakowski wrote: > Here's what i get; > > thomlap:/home/thom # iwconfig > lo no wireless extensions. > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Shore" Nickname:"thomlap" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:04:75:65:7C:31 > Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power:off > Retry:on RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off > Encryption key:EF12-B86E-B039-1D13-83A8-1FF9-56 Security mode:restricted > Power Management:off > Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=-47 dBm > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 last night @ 2am i got it to work but this morning it failed again. basically what i did was pass the key iwth iwconfig and manually assigned the ip and route as well basically these are things i had tried before but this time it worked. before i left to work this morning it was not working so something happend but i least i got it to work for a few hours. for security mode i have open and i noticed that if i dn't put the key manually it does not match the one on my web page for the router i will try again tonight > > > > >

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Re: [SLE] Firefox 1.0 won't print-SOLVED
by Ed Harrison 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

** Reply to message from Francesco Scaglioni <fgs(a)epulse.net> on Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:20:58 +0000 (GMT) Firefox 1.0 from Suse rpm will not print. Did you get any feedback on this. I have tried the firefox 1 rpm from SuSe as well as the version direct from the mozilla site and whenever I try to print firefox hangs at the lpr command - from which the only way out is to kill it. Using pretty well stock SuSE 9.1. Never got the SuSE rpm to work. So, I went back to mozilla.org and got the full gzip version, not the installer. ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/linux-i686/en-US/firef… As root, I gunzipped it in the default location, /opt/MozillaFirefox, and now it works with lpr. And, I might add, it is a marvelous product. For real speed test a feature called "pipelining". I have no idea why they switched the SuSE version to ghostscript, nor why it would not work. Ed Harrison SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.9-vanilla PolarBar Mailer 1.25a

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Re: [SLE] Network monitor tool, argus, big sister, mon, and nagios
by Daniel Thivierge 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Don't forget the combination of MRTG and Net-SNMP. It will give you graphs (dailies, weeklies, monthlies and yearly). All of this serve by apache, giving you access to the information with a browser to all of what you are gathering. You are only limited by the support of snmp by your devices (MIB). Here we are using Nagios and MRTG for most of our stuff. Daniel |---------+----------------------------> | | Jerry Westrick | | | <jerry(a)westrick.c| | | om> | | | | | | 11/22/2004 03:16 | | | PM | | | | |---------+----------------------------> >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: SLE <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> | | cc: | | Subject: [SLE] Network monitor tool, argus, big sister, mon, and nagios | >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Hello Don Gurus... I'm looking to install a network monitoring and system stats tool. on 5 independent office networks. All are served by SUSE servers. A quick check of the SUSE delivered tools I find: argus, big sister, mon, and nagios Now I'm a SUSE fan 'cause of all the preconfigured software, but... What I'm looking for is : - I would like the people inside each (office) network to be able to view their statics localy, (20%) - I'd like to have a system at my office to monitor the remote networks, with notification of error conditions (30%). - the system stats should include historical charts of server (linux) CPU/DISK usage. (30%) The rest is nice to have, cosmetics, ease of configuration etc. Now to my questions: Can anybody out there share his/her experience with one or more of these tools, to help me decide on which to evaluate? all tips, warnings, experience appreciated.... Jerry -- 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] wireless card ipw2100
by Thom Nowakowski 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Tried that also, no luck. I have placed a bug ticket with bugzilla so hopefully this can be fixed. I have no idea what else to try :( ________________________________ From: Michael Sacco [mailto:msacco01@rochester.rr.com] Sent: Tue 11/23/2004 12:29 AM To: 'suse' Subject: RE: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100 This is going to sound silly, but I would try enabling power management. I have the ipw2200 in my system, and sometimes it won't work unless I have the power management on. It can be turned on by using the following command: iwconfig eth1 power on A quick type of "iwconfig eth1" afterwards should show that the command took effect. Mike Sacco -----Original Message----- From: boricua Orman [mailto:boricua@pepino.is-a-geek.org] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 6:53 PM To: Jeffrey L. Taylor Cc: suse Subject: Re: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100 > cd /lib/modules/ > find . -name "ieee80211*.ko" > find . -name "ipw2100.ko" > > Delete any modules/drivers found. IIRC, these are in the extra/ > directory. > > Go to ipw2100.sf.net, download, make, and install the latest version > (1.0.1 at the moment). You will also need to download and install the > firmware. The directions are on the site. Be aware that the firmware > is closed source, binary only, and you will need to agree to a > license. You will need the kernel sources to compile it. The new > drivers will be installed in different place, > "kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100/". You do not want to have two > versions of the driver in the kernel modules directory tree. > > My second suggestion is to check routing ("route -n"). If safe, take any firewall down. (I.e., do try this > at home or work. Trying it in a coffeehouse/bar/dive where the > hackers hang out can be hazardous to the health of your laptop.) Take > any other network interface down, e.g. eth0. Try setting the IP > address manually. Try pinging the access point. If this all works, > try "traceroute google.com" or "traceroute 216.239.37.99" if you don't > have DNS working. > > HTH, > Jeffrey > update did not solve still same problem -- 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 -- 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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user nobody running find
by John Ryan 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Hello, I recently installed Suse Pro 9.1 onto my laptop. I have run yast online_update every second day. Today, after booting up, I noticed that performance was slow, so I ran "top" and saw that user "nobody" was running a "find". I killed it immediately. Who is this user? Is this normal, or do I have an intruder? If so, how should I proceed? John

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status of NTFS file system.
by Jerry Westrick 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

I noticed that SUSE 9.2 now can mount my NTFS partitions, Is this still beta software? should i mount RO? Anybody know the status of this? Anybody had expirience with it? Jerry

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pam.conf does not exist
by John 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

I have installed the following pam related software # rpm -aq |egrep pam pam-modules-9.0-5 yast2-pam-2.8.5-65 pam-0.77-124 pam_mysql-0.5-2 But i cannot find the /etc/pam.conf Do why that happens?

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Konqueror messin' up
by John B 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Hi folks, Here's another thing that's really gettin' to me. I got online earlier to go to ebay just to browse around and waste some time. When I opened konqueror and there was no URL typed in the location bar, I had the top bar with the drop-down menus (all text stuff above the 'back' and forward' and etc. buttons bar) right where it was supposed to be...at the top of konqueror. As soon as I typed in an URL, konq started to go there, and as soon as it arrived, the top bar just disappears. It's not in the right-click tool bar menu at all. How do I get my konqueror to act right again? I've made no adjustments to it for better than a week now, so it wasn't because I was piddlin' with anything, heh. Using SuSE 9.2 with all YOU updates except the kernel (dialup sucks!). John

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nfs freezes the server.
by Tim Hanson 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

I'm having problems with nfs. At present only one server and one client exist. I'm clearing up any problems before adding more clients. My server is a 64 bit Athlon system, the client is a 32 bit Athlon system (This may be relevant, maybe not). Both systems are running 9.2, although the same thing happened when running 9.1 on the client. This happens 100% of the time, after setting up nfs of /home on the server and /home/utilhome on the client. as soon as I activate nfs on the client, either through booting, through yast, or /etc/init.d/nfs restart, the server locks up tight. It won't respond to keyboard or an ssh login. The only unlock is the computer reset button. On the server, the option is rw,no_root_squash,async. On the client it is "defaults." Is there something I'm missing?

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YOU Update Problems - SUSE 9.2
by Don Parris 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

After I installed SUSE 9.2, I ran YOU successfully. I have also installed a few apps off the DVD since then. However, I have not been able to update since the initial update and my application installations all had errors, but seem to work fine. Someone suggested rebuilding the database, but I'm not sure how to do that. Where do I learn more? The error messages from tonight's attempt look something like: ERROR(InstTarget:E_RpmDB_subprocess_failed) warning: /etc/bogofilter.cf created as /etc/bogofilter.cf.rpmnew rpmdb: PANIC: Invalid argument rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30982) from dbcursor->c_put: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30982) from db->sync: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30982) from dbcursor->c_close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30982) from db->sync: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30982) from db->cursor: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30982) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery <I've truncated this message for brevity's sake> Thanks, Don -- DC Parris GNU Evangelist http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime anywhere!"

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/ out of diskspace after Backup/cp files???
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

How come when I backup my /home partition, i sometimes get scrolling messages that tell me that certain files where not copied, and at the end that the / partition has no free space?? This is one of THE quickest ways to make me breakout in a cold sweat!?? I am well aware of rsync and the system backup utilities on 9.0 but still prefer to do a plain cp as it results in a shorter time before the information can be accessed. Below is the procedure I use, which one fine day will find its way into a script: 1) Log off reading Mozilla email in KDE as a regular user 2) Log on to KDE as root 3) Using Konqueror, I click on the desktop icon that is labeled as /data4 4) Once the directory is mounted I delete the /home directory from /data4. 5) When complete I log out of KDE completely, sometimes unmounting /data4 beforehand. 6) I move to TTY1(ie CTRL-ALT-F2) and log on as root. 7) I then enter the command: #> cp -a /home /data4/home 7.1) I also sometimes do #> cp -a /etc /data4/etc to backup etc 8) On completion I shutdown the machine and go to bed. navigate to my backup partition /data4 My trimmed fstab is below to show that /data4 is a separate drive too. The figures at the end represent the partition capacity not its actual size, although the sizes are currently all under 50% of the capacity. /dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 1.9Gb /dev/hdb9 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 45.5Mb /dev/hdd1 /data4 auto noauto,user 0 0 6.9Gb /dev/hdb8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 5.9Gb /dev/hdb10 /opt ext3 defaults 1 2 3.0Gb /dev/hdb6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 3.8Gb /dev/hdb7 /var ext3 defaults 1 2 2.97Gb What is wrong with the steps 1-8? What am I missing? Does /data4 have to be mounted before step 7? Where does the backed up data go if /data4 is not mounted? Does the partition always have to be mounted before copying/accessing data on it, I would think so but when then have some of the backups completed without a hitch?? I've looked at the FHS, help, man and info pages for cp and realize this is a dumb question, but there must be something I'm missing that causes the root file system to become full. -- The cp full Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================

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RE: [SLE] Suse 9.1 Pro on Server Class Machine
by Ken Schneider 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 17:33, Ricci Graham wrote: > Ken, > > It boots fine from the install CD and I can load all five CD's, but then > when I try to boot from Installed System and it runs the boot messages by > and the it freezes at the "starting yast" message. I thought maybe it was > hanging on the RAID. What do you think? > > Ricci > Please keep this to the list. I installed SuSE on an 1850R and problems until I used nousb to get the system to run. YMMV. > > Are there any known problems with Suse 9.1 Professional running on a > Server > > Class machine i.e. > > Compaq 1850R > > Dual PIII 600 Mhz > > 1 Gig RAM > > RAID 5 (3 SCSI 18.5 Gig Hard drives) > > > > What part of the last line in my sig don't you understand? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please*

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k3B error for user
by Paul Cartwright 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

ok, I checked the archives and I can't find how to fix this problem. I have upgraded to SUSE9.2 and now my CD recorder won't burn, giving me a read error. as root, cdrecord works, so it is a file permissions problem?? yet the /dev/hdd is owned by the user what do I need to change? running kde 3.3.0 and K3b 0.11.17 -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

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portmap
by it clown 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Hi All i am running 9.1 and portmap for some reason does not want to start. When i run rcportmap start i get the following: Starting RPC portmap daemonportmap: fork: Success failed. What is causing this and how can i fix this? Regards _____________________________________________________________________ For super low premiums ,click here http://www.dialdirect.co.za/quote

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FW: [SLE] Need Windows EXT2 Reader Advice
by Greg Wallace 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

On Monday, November 22, 2004 @ 5:19 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote -- >>On Monday, November 22, 2004 @ 5:01 PM, Greg Wallace wrote-- >> *) e2fsprogs -- Looks like this is software for a Linux machine and not for >> Windows. >I believe those are all the accesory tools like mkfs, fsck, etc. >Someone ported them to cygwin and released them this last summer. >Cygwin is a dll (or collection of dlls) that present a Linux API in a >windows environment. >The core team works mostly on the dll's, but there are hundreds of >Linux programs that have been compiled for the cygwin dll and are >included in the cygwin packages setup. (Not really a distro.). >End result is the e2fsprogs is available for windows (via cygwin) once >you get a good filesystem driver for ext2. >Greg Thanks for the info. So would you think that they would work on top of any Windows mounted EXT2 file system, regardless of the software (ext2fsd, ext2 anywhere) that was being used to mount it? Thanks, Greg W

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SuSE 9.2 and future packaging
by Jerry Feldman 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Moving forward, we are at a similar point to where CDs were replacing floppies. One of the reasons I have always preferred SuSE over Red Hat, Mandrake and other media distros is that just about everything is included. But, in SuSE 9.2, the system lacks some packages on the CDs and the multi-layered DVD may not be readable on all DVD readers. I would propose that SuSE make available through YOU or some other means a supplemental set of packages for CD users available when the media is released. I would propose that SuSE continue to provide the 2 DVDs that they now provide, but they could reduce the number of CDs, and provide some of the lower priority packages online so that customers who do not have access to the DVDs can obtain these packages. In my personal case, I was able to solve the problem by grabbing the appropriate bits from other sources. -- Jerry Feldman <gerald.feldman(a)hp.com> Partner Technology Access Center (contractor) (PTAC-MA) Hewlett-Packard Co. 550 King Street LKG2a-X2 Littleton, Ma. 01460 (978)506-5243

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Need Windows EXT2 Reader Advice
by Greg Wallace 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

I recently converted one of two partitions on a USB hard-drive I have from NTFS to EXT2 so I could use it on my Linux machine, which means I can no longer even browse it on my Windows XP (SP2) machine. I'd like to have that capability, so I did some internet searches and discovered that there is software available that will allow you to read (and even write) to an EXT2 hard drive partition on a Windows machine. Not sure if I'd ever need to actually write to it from Windows, but being able to view data and maybe pull files off of it from the Windows machine would be sort of nice. Anyone have any experience with any of this type of software? I tried installing one of them that I found that was freeware (I think it was called EXT2FS), but couldn't figure out how to operate it, so I ended up trashing it. Maybe it was good software and I was just too dumb to figure out how to operate it, but when I tried to install it, I couldn't see that anything actually happened. After the install, clicking on the various exe's that came with it didn't seem to do anything either. I would like to think there's something out there with at least some rudimentary GUI front-end, but maybe that's wishful thinking on my part. Worst case, if it came with at least some rudimentary operating instructions, that would be better than nothing. Suggestions anyone? Thanks, Greg Wallace

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9.2 Install Problems & Observations -- Part 2
by David Johanson 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

After sitting idle for about 20 hours, I booted 9.2 this evening to find a new icon for the 160GB IDE drive { hard drive (dev/hda1)} and another for the IDE Zip250 drive { floppy (/dev/sdc)} neither of which have been present in "My Computer" prior to tonight's boot. Trying to read the IDE 160GB drive results in an error message which reads "an error occurred while loading drives:/hda1.desktop. The file or folder does not exist". Since this is a 160GB drive I thought there might be a problem with the DMA setup so looking at same I get: Current DMA Mode as "ultraDMA/100" Device name as "GY160P0" Type as "Disk" Device as "/dev/hda" Required Mode as "No change." I tried making a change to ultraDMA/133 just in case but it made no difference. Any guidance greatly appreciated. When clicking on the new icon for the Zip250 I get a can't read error regardless of what's in the zip drive. Both problems appear to be related to IDE devices but I have no clue as to why or how. Also, when trying to read the /root/media directory with Konqueror it takes between 30 and 60 seconds to read it. Any other folder (file) is read immediately. Tonight I connected a USB Zip250 drive to see what 9.2 would do with it and within seconds the drive was found, an icon created in "My Computer" and I was able to both read from and write to this zip drive. I don't understand why the USB zip should be functional while the IDE zip drive is not. Again, any help here greatly appreciated. tia, dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe

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Root password problem
by Harry Giles 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

I can log in as a user as root, but when i try to su from a terminal window as a regular user, it says the password is incorrect. Any ideas why? Harry G

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USB pen-drive vs keyboard
by Osvaldo Clua 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Hello I installed SuSE 9.2 in a 1.6 Ghz Asus Athlon. Everithing fine, including my pen-drive. made a YOU update including the Kernel 2.6.8-24.3. As soon as I plug a pen-drive in the USB, the keyboard "dies" until I unplug it, when the keyboard sent everithing I done. Restoren the old Kernel dd not help. Please, send any ideas -- Osvaldo Clua

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Card reader
by John B 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hi gang, I just got a card reader, an i-rocks, usb. For some reason, if I plug it in, nothing happens...no icon shows up on the desktop, nothing. The suseplugger seems to 'see' 4 generic storage things, but I don't know what to do or where to go from there. I've tried to look on the 'net in yahoo and google, but there's really nothing that helped me (or I just didn't understand well enough) to get this thing working so I can just look at the pics on the card. The reader was a necessity, since my camera doesn't seem to get 'seen' by digikam or anything, even though it's supposed to be supported and it's serial (it was the same on 8.2). I've got 9.2 now, and was hopin' someone might walk me through a simple way to get this puppy workin' and how to open whatever app to use to see the pics on the card and also to format it too if need be. Sorry if there's been more info on this on the list, but I didn't find a lot. John

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RE: [SLE] Allowed FQDN Question
by Laurenz, Dirk 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hi, -| > According to http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2606.html: -| > .example -| > .test -| > .invalid -| > .localhost -| -| Are you really sure? At a first glimpse I noticed that each -| of those addresses -| have a different specific purpose, and I would rather avoid -| those names -| unless those purposes apply. But which ones should be used instead.....? Mit freundlichem Gruß, Dirk Laurenz Systems Engineer Fujitsu Siemens Computers Sales Central Europe Deutschland Professional Service Organisation Nord / Ost Hildesheimer Strasse 25 30880 Laatzen Germany Telephone: +49 (511) 84 89 - 18 08 Telefax: +49 (511) 84 89 - 25 18 08 Mobile: +49 (170) 22 10 781 Email: mailto:dirk.laurenz@fujitsu-siemens.com Internet: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com http://www.fujitsu-siemens.de/rl/servicesupport/itdienstleistungen/competen… *******************************************************************************************************************

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Suse 9.1 Pro on Server Class Machine
by Ricci Graham 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Are there any known problems with Suse 9.1 Professional running on a Server Class machine i.e. Compaq 1850R Dual PIII 600 Mhz 1 Gig RAM RAID 5 (3 SCSI 18.5 Gig Hard drives) IMPORTANT NOTICE - The information (both of the message and any attachments) contained in this message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to an intended recipient or has received this message in error, you are hereby notified that we do not consent to any reading, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message and any such actions are strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy the transmitted information.

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Re: [SLE] Allowed FQDN Question
by DC Parris 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

---------- Original Message ------------- Subject: [SLE] Allowed FQDN Question Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:31:53 +0100 From: "Laurenz, Dirk" <Dirk.Laurenz(a)fujitsu-siemens.com> To: <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> Hi, is it true, that suse >= 9.1 doesn't like fqdn's with .local like server.dom.local? Mit freundlichem Gruß, Dirk Laurenz Systems Engineer ___________________ Well, in my SUSE 9.2 LAN, I use *.rel instead of local - just a personal preference. -- DC Parris Matheteuo Christian Fellowship webdev(a)matheteuo.org http://matheteuo.org/ Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anywhere anytime!

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RE: [SLE] Allowed FQDN Question
by Laurenz, Dirk 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hi, -| -| What *should* be used? I've seen .pvt and .private and -| some others as -| well. -| According to http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2606.html: .example .test .invalid .localhost Mit freundlichem Gruß, Dirk Laurenz Systems Engineer Fujitsu Siemens Computers Sales Central Europe Deutschland Professional Service Organisation Nord / Ost Hildesheimer Strasse 25 30880 Laatzen Germany Telephone: +49 (511) 84 89 - 18 08 Telefax: +49 (511) 84 89 - 25 18 08 Mobile: +49 (170) 22 10 781 Email: mailto:dirk.laurenz@fujitsu-siemens.com Internet: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com http://www.fujitsu-siemens.de/rl/servicesupport/itdienstleistungen/competen… *******************************************************************************************************************

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RE: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100
by Thom Nowakowski 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Yes, IP's are the same when going from WinXP to Suse. -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey L. Taylor [mailto:suse@austinblues.dyndns.org] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 4:39 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100 The wireless status info is less than 100%. There are several reasons for this, some technical, some we-haven't-gotten-too-it-yet. Are you using the same IP addresses in WinXP? Jeffrey Quoting Thom Nowakowski <Thom(a)chambers.no-ip.info>: > Hello Jeffrey, thanks for the quick reply. > > The only reason I have both eth0 and eth1 in my router because the only > way I could paste that was to plug in my cat5 :P > > I took out all instances of eth0 with the "route del" command but still > no joy. Link still says ultimate but still nothing :( > > My setup is as follows; > |--- Server PC > Broadband Modem -> wireless router ------ Main PC > | ~~ Wireless > > Wireless works great when I boot into WinXP, but not in Suse. > > My Wireless Router is a 10/100 and 802.11b > > > I have the same symptoms at my work as well as at home. > > > > > From: Jeffrey L. Taylor [mailto:jeff.taylor@ieee.org] > Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 4:12 PM > To: Thom Nowakowski > Subject: Re: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100 > > > You have both eth0 and eth1 on the same subnet. Tricky but doable. > The access MUST be a bridge instead a simple router. > > You have both eth0 and eth1 as the default route. This is unlikely to > work. Also both interfaces for the 10.10.0.0/255.255.255.254.0 > subnet. > > For debugging purposes, I suggest taking eth0 down, removing it > manually from the routing table if taking the interface down does not > remove all eth0 routing info. Then try just eth1, the wireless > interface. > > Do you have a broadband router with both wired (10/100Base-T) and > wireless (802.11a/b/g)? > > Jeffrey > > > > -- 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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What site shows how webpages look in IE?
by Leendert Meyer 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hello all, A long time ago I found a website that could show how webpages look in different versions of Internet Explorer, and in different versions of Windows. Alas I've lost that address. I suppose with the right search terms I could find that site with Google, but I was unsuccessful until now. Who knows of what website I'm talking about and can post the URL? TIA, Cheers, Leen

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RE: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100
by Thom Nowakowski 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hello Jeffrey, thanks for the quick reply. The only reason I have both eth0 and eth1 in my router because the only way I could paste that was to plug in my cat5 :P I took out all instances of eth0 with the "route del" command but still no joy. Link still says ultimate but still nothing :( My setup is as follows; |--- Server PC Broadband Modem -> wireless router ------ Main PC | ~~ Wireless Wireless works great when I boot into WinXP, but not in Suse. My Wireless Router is a 10/100 and 802.11b I have the same symptoms at my work as well as at home. -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey L. Taylor [mailto:jeff.taylor@ieee.org] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 4:12 PM To: Thom Nowakowski Subject: Re: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100 You have both eth0 and eth1 on the same subnet. Tricky but doable. The access MUST be a bridge instead a simple router. You have both eth0 and eth1 as the default route. This is unlikely to work. Also both interfaces for the 10.10.0.0/255.255.255.254.0 subnet. For debugging purposes, I suggest taking eth0 down, removing it manually from the routing table if taking the interface down does not remove all eth0 routing info. Then try just eth1, the wireless interface. Do you have a broadband router with both wired (10/100Base-T) and wireless (802.11a/b/g)? Jeffrey

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Should "cat chime.au >/dev/audio" work under SuSE 9.2
by Terry Eck 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I installed version 9.2 today and part of my requirements is being able to cat an *.au file to /dev/audio. The command hangs the command line and the system never makes a sound. I have to kill the process. Is there something about the sound configuration under 9.2 which would prevent this operation. It works great under SuSE 8.2. Thanks for any inputs to solve this problem. -- SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) ---- 2.4.20-4GB-athlon --- Sun 11/21/04 15:10 3:10pm up 1:08, 3 users, load average: 0.37, 0.35, 0.32

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RE: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100
by Thom Nowakowski 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Here's what i get; thomlap:/home/thom # iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Shore" Nickname:"thomlap" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:04:75:65:7C:31 Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power:off Retry:on RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:EF12-B86E-B039-1D13-83A8-1FF9-56 Security mode:restricted Power Management:off Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=-47 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:2 Missed beacon:0 sit0 no wireless extensions. thomlap:/home/thom # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:3F:64:43:A2 inet addr:10.10.1.187 Bcast:10.10.1.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 inet6 addr: fe80::202:3fff:fe64:43a2/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:66256 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:16496 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:27145311 (25.8 Mb) TX bytes:1999157 (1.9 Mb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:23:62:15:8D inet addr:10.10.1.153 Bcast:10.10.1.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 inet6 addr: fe80::204:23ff:fe62:158d/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:22072 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:462 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2169011 (2.0 Mb) TX bytes:245852 (240.0 Kb) Interrupt:5 Base address:0x2000 Memory:90000000-90000fff lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:273 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:273 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:18252 (17.8 Kb) TX bytes:18252 (17.8 Kb) thomlap:/home/thom # route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.10.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 10.10.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 10.10.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 10.10.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 thomlap:/home/thom # As you can see everything looks like it should work. I can ping my wireless ip (from another pc on the network) only when my laptop is ALSO connected through cat5. As soon as I take out my cat5..nothing. It's something really funky!! I have no idea what to do next. I pretty confident this is a Suse bug... -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey L. Taylor [mailto:suse@austinblues.dyndns.org] Sent: Mon 11/22/2004 3:06 PM To: suse Subject: Re: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100 Quoting Thom Nowakowski <Thom(a)chambers.no-ip.info>: > Jeffrey, I have a similar issue and have tried everything you wrote. I > updated to 1.0.1 driver and the issue persists. I get a signal strength > of ultimate and set everything up correctly (essid/encryption/etc) but > it's still not working. I can't even ping my router ip! I have even > added default gateway with no luck :( > What do "ifconfig eth1" and "iwconfig eth1" and "route -n" show? Can you turn encryption off at the AP? Is the result the same? Jeffrey -- 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] Allowed FQDN Question
by Laurenz, Dirk 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hi, that was new to me, thanks. One can learn everyday something new.... Mit freundlichem Gruß, Dirk Laurenz Systems Engineer Fujitsu Siemens Computers Sales Central Europe Deutschland Professional Service Organisation Nord / Ost Hildesheimer Strasse 25 30880 Laatzen Germany Telephone: +49 (511) 84 89 - 18 08 Telefax: +49 (511) 84 89 - 25 18 08 Mobile: +49 (170) 22 10 781 Email: mailto:dirk.laurenz@fujitsu-siemens.com Internet: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com http://www.fujitsu-siemens.de/rl/servicesupport/itdienstleistungen/competen… ******************************************************************************************************************* -| -----Original Message----- -| From: Anders Johansson [mailto:andjoh@rydsbo.net] -| Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 9:37 PM -| To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com -| Subject: Re: [SLE] Allowed FQDN Question -| -| On Monday 22 November 2004 21:31, Laurenz, Dirk wrote: -| > Hi, -| > -| > is it true, that suse >= 9.1 doesn't like fqdn's with .local like -| > server.dom.local? -| -| Yes, don't use .local as a domain, it is reserved for -| linklocal by the -| zeroconf people -| -| http://www.zeroconf.org -| -| -- -| 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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Network monitor tool, argus, big sister, mon, and nagios
by Jerry Westrick 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hello Don Gurus... I'm looking to install a network monitoring and system stats tool. on 5 independent office networks. All are served by SUSE servers. A quick check of the SUSE delivered tools I find: argus, big sister, mon, and nagios Now I'm a SUSE fan 'cause of all the preconfigured software, but... What I'm looking for is : - I would like the people inside each (office) network to be able to view their statics localy, (20%) - I'd like to have a system at my office to monitor the remote networks, with notification of error conditions (30%). - the system stats should include historical charts of server (linux) CPU/DISK usage. (30%) The rest is nice to have, cosmetics, ease of configuration etc. Now to my questions: Can anybody out there share his/her experience with one or more of these tools, to help me decide on which to evaluate? all tips, warnings, experience appreciated.... Jerry

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RE: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100
by Thom Nowakowski 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Jeffrey, I have a similar issue and have tried everything you wrote. I updated to 1.0.1 driver and the issue persists. I get a signal strength of ultimate and set everything up correctly (essid/encryption/etc) but it's still not working. I can't even ping my router ip! I have even added default gateway with no luck :( -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey L. Taylor [mailto:suse@austinblues.dyndns.org] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 2:27 PM To: suse Subject: Re: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100 Quoting boricua(a)pepino.is-a-geek.org <boricua(a)pepino.is-a-geek.org>: [snip] > does this help > > > Nov 22 06:49:51 linux kernel: ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 0.55 > Nov 22 06:49:51 linux kernel: ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation > Nov 22 06:49:51 linux kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 > Nov 22 06:49:51 linux kernel: ipw2100: 0000:02:0a.0: Detected at mem: 0xC2005000-0xC2005FFF -> f0fd0000, irq: 11 > Nov 22 06:49:51 linux kernel: eth1: Using hotplug firmware load. > Nov 22 06:49:51 linux kernel: eth1: Bound to 0000:02:0a.0 > Nov 22 06:49:52 linux kernel: eth1: Associated with '04Z409048210' at 1Mbps, channel 6 (BSSID=00:00:00:00:00:00) > Nov 22 06:50:01 linux kernel: eth1: Association lost. > Nov 22 06:50:02 linux kernel: eth1: Associated with 'NYBKLNY' at 11Mbps, channel 6 (BSSID=00:e0:98:c9:09:6c) > Nov 22 06:50:12 linux kernel: eth1: no IPv6 routers present > Yes it does. The lines above look good. This version is several months old. My first suggestion is to uninstall the driver thru YaST, rpm, or whatever. If not a separate package, do this: cd /lib/modules/ find . -name "ieee80211*.ko" find . -name "ipw2100.ko" Delete any modules/drivers found. IIRC, these are in the extra/ directory. Go to ipw2100.sf.net, download, make, and install the latest version (1.0.1 at the moment). You will also need to download and install the firmware. The directions are on the site. Be aware that the firmware is closed source, binary only, and you will need to agree to a license. You will need the kernel sources to compile it. The new drivers will be installed in different place, "kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100/". You do not want to have two versions of the driver in the kernel modules directory tree. My second suggestion is to check routing ("route -n"). If safe, take any firewall down. (I.e., do try this at home or work. Trying it in a coffeehouse/bar/dive where the hackers hang out can be hazardous to the health of your laptop.) Take any other network interface down, e.g. eth0. Try setting the IP address manually. Try pinging the access point. If this all works, try "traceroute google.com" or "traceroute 216.239.37.99" if you don't have DNS working. HTH, Jeffrey -- 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] Synchronize mail between Laptop & Fixed PC
by James Knott 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Franky Goethals wrote: >>I run an IMAP mail servier on my desktop system. > > > Hi James, > > First of all, thanks for your answer. > > Then... how did you proceed ? I'm quite new to this stuff. > I'm a Systemengineer Mainframe, and started linux 2 months ago, so... With IMAP, the mail is stored on the server, rather than the users computer. I enabled the IMAP server on my desktop system (details depend on your choice of server). I then use fetchmail, to get my mail from my ISP. Then I set up all the various mail clients, on the various computers and operating systems, to use the IMAP server for incomning mail. Sent messages are also saved on the IMAP server, but each client is configured to use the ISPs SMTP server. This way, all mail clients are synchronized. I even have my notebook computer configured with a VPN to my home network, to connect to the IMAP server and also so that the SMTP server thinks my notebook is connected to their network, even though the computer is actually connected to another one.

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Burning DVDs Slows System Clock?
by Lucky Leavell 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I just installed a new NEC ND-3500A DVD+RW burner in my SuSE 9.0 system (Dell 600SC with SCSI hard drive but IDE DVD) and ran a master backup using the LoneTAR backup software. After completing both backup and verify passes the system clock had lost about 1 hour 40 minutes! Later, I burned about 600Mb and 200Mb to CDs using k3b and lost about five minutes. Is this a known problem? Do I need to look into renicing the backup processes to prevent this? Thank you, Lucky Leavell

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Services not starting due to DHCP ?
by Rod Rioux 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I think that the delayed response from the dhcp server is causing my network related services to timeout/not find addresses (ie nfs mounts, nis, ntp, etc) When it boots up it complains that it cant find the servers .. but once the machine is up, if I start any of the services that failed during boot up, they all seem to work fine. Has anyone had something similar to this ? does anyone know if I can increase the timeout before it gives up on dhcp and continues to boot ? Btw this is sles9 and happens on every machine I have .. I would almost suggest looking at the dhcp server .. but since we are a large corp. this is not an option. Any help would be great.. Thanks, rod

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RE: [SLE] HP WiFi
by Thom Nowakowski 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

So what was the solution to this? I am having the same problem with Suse 9.2. It's a Compaq X1000 laptop so it looks like it could be the same problem as the HP. I have tried everything this thread has suggested with no luck. I get signal strength and it says connected, but I can't even ping my router. I set up a default Gateway..but it still doesn't help. I'm running out of ideas here... -----Original Message----- From: Richard [mailto:ratcheson@earthlink.net] Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 9:51 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] HP WiFi On Saturday 11 September 2004 09:13 am, Jim Sabatke wrote: > I'm going in circles. I've tried everything I've found on > the net. Seems like everyone has an "easy" way to do it, > and none of them are working for me. Here are some of my > details: Jim, I started this earlier today but got sidetracked. Will send it all anyway cuase it might help you a bit. First some questions. When you use XP, are you using dhcp to get your IP? If yes then the wireless router is capable of doing its job. Also, it may not be setup to deal with a fixed IP which is what you have setup to do in the following. > wmugsy:/home/jim # cat /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0 > BOOTPROTO='static' > DHCLIENT_SET_DOWN_LINK='yes' > DHCLIENT_MODIFY_RESOLV_CONF='yes' > DHCLIENT_SET_DEFAULT_ROUT='yes' > MTU='' > REMOTE_IPADDR='' > STARTMODE='onboot' > WIRELESS='yes' > WIRELESS_ESSID=NETGEAR > WIRELESS_KEY='' > WIRELESS_MODE='Ad-hoc' > WIRELESS_NICK='' > WIRELESS_NWID='' > MII_NOT_SUPPORTED='yes' > WIRELESS_RTS='off' > BROADCAST='192.168.0.255' > IPADDR='192.168.0.97' > NETMASK='255.255.255.0' > UNIQUE='' > #NETWORK='192.168.0.0' > CHANNEL='6' > wmugsy:/home/jim # Next question is, is your router acting as an access point? It probably is so you need to use Managed Mode, not ad hoc. Ad-hoc is for peer to peer stuff. First thing I would do is zero out all you have put in your ifcfg-wlan0 until you have the thing talking to your router manually, then you can play with making it setup on boot later. you can manually put in all you need via the iwconfig command e.g., iwconfig alone will read the wireless card and tell you what you have going. ifconfig is another goodie that will show you what is setup. Remember you need to be root, as in su, to make the things work. ifconfig should show something like: lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:4664 (4.5 Kb) TX bytes:4664 (4.5 Kb) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:96:A7:22:58 inet addr:192.168.2.6 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::290:96ff:fea7:2258/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:178 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:172 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:24153 (23.5 Kb) TX bytes:35969 (35.1 Kb) Interrupt:11 Memory:fcffc000-fcffdfff This shows you that wlan0 is getting it IP and all that good stuff. iwconfig will give you something like this if it is setup properly: lo no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"linux01" Nickname:"richdell" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.447GHz Access Point: 00:30:BD:FA:9F:63 Bit Rate=48Mb/s Tx-Power:14 dBm RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key:<26digitkey> Security mode:restricted Power Management:off Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-30 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:5 Invalid misc:238493 Missed beacon:0 If you dont see that then you need to methodically put the stuff in using iwconfig wlan0 <command> AND in my machines they have to be entered in specific sequence. Encryption has to be set before the card will take the ESSID. So I first do: iwconfig wlan0 enc 1245678901234567890abcdef to set the encryption mode and key, then iwconfig wlan0 essid linux01 to set the ESSID. On some cards you may need to place quotes around the name. Now if that takes, and you can verify it by doing iwconfig wlan0 then the next thing you need to do is dhcpcd wlan0 which should get you the IP. If it says its already running you may need to stop the thing and redo it by dhcpcd stop, then dhcpcd wlan0. Another good command to remember is rcnetwork restart That will obviously restart your network and show if the wifi card is getting its IP. > > I have no idea what to put in for UNIQUE, if I need anything > at all. > > If I use dhcp, it can't get one and backgrounds. > > wmugsy:/home/jim # ifconfig wlan0 > wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4B:5D:32:6D > inet addr:192.168.0.97 Bcast:192.168.0.255 > Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::290:4bff:fe5d:326d/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:54 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Looks to me like you are setting the inet addr of your wifi card manually and the router is probably not setup to do fixed addresses. What does a ping to 192.168.0.1 get you? -- Old age ain't for Sissies! -- 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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9.1 Install Problems
by Ricci Graham 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

When I try to install 9.1 from the CD set I purchased, it give me two problems. 1) In some of the screens it appears to be blank, but I think it is really black writing on a black screen because I can see lines and bullets. What could cause this and how do I fix it? 2) When it shows the boot messages it give a "FATAL" Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.4-52-default/modules.dep: no such file or directory". Why would it not be able to find this> I am loading everything. Any suggestions or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ricci IMPORTANT NOTICE - The information (both of the message and any attachments) contained in this message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to an intended recipient or has received this message in error, you are hereby notified that we do not consent to any reading, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message and any such actions are strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy the transmitted information.

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xmgrace
by Herbert Georg 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I have the Suse 9.1 and recently I have noticed that the xmgrace is behaving somewhat different. The main thing is that I cannot access, for any font, the second group (below) of characters in the font tool. I click on them but nothing happens. If I click on the characters of the first group (above) it's alright. This is really annoying because I have to use very often for example the "Angstrom" character, or the "degree" character. Someone knows what might be the problem? thanks in advance -- []s Herbert ----------------------------------- Departamento de Física de Materiais Instituto de Física Universidade de São Paulo -----------------------------------

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MPlayer 1.0-pre5 from source on SuSE 9.2
by Jay Vollmer 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hi everybody. Has anyone out there been able to build the latest Mplayer from the latest sources (1.0-pre5) on SuSE 9.2? When I attempt it, I get the following error: In file included from /usr/include/linux/list.h:7, from ../osdep/kerneltwosix.h:5, from vo_fbdev.c:21: /usr/include/linux/prefetch.h: In function `prefetch_range': /usr/include/linux/prefetch.h:64: error: `CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/include/linux/prefetch.h:64: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once /usr/include/linux/prefetch.h:64: error: for each function it appears in.) make[1]: *** [vo_fbdev.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/MPlayer-1.0pre5/libvo' make: *** [libvo/libvo.a] Error 2 If anyone could tell me how to fix this, I'd be ever so grateful. Thank you. -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER(a)CONSOLIDATEDLINT.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE

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Re: Samba HOWTO
by Michael W Cocke 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 07:39:54 -0500, you wrote: >Michael W Cocke wrote: > >> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:12:42 -0500, Felix Miata <UgaddaBkidding.due2UCE(a)dev.nul> wrote: > >> >http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html was last updated April 2000, >> >long before Samba v3. V3 has broken much of what used to work between >> >OS/2 and Linux, and, from what I hear, even between Linux and windoze. >> >Does anyone know a modern substitute for this HOWTO that takes into >> >account changes in Samba 3? Is anyone here working on an update to it? >> >I'm willing to help test and troubleshoot to make that happen. I'm tired >> >of being stuck on SuSE 8.2, the last distro I've been able to make >> >coexist happily with OS/2. :-( > >> It's still working fine here. > >Exactly what is working fine? Please share your config files. An OS/2 workstation connected to a linux server via samba. Been working for more than a year with no problems or changes. First set up in Redhat 9 (gods know what samba version, 2.something, probably), thru SuSE 9.1, and now with SuSE 9.2 (Samba 3.0.7-4) The OS/2 side is warp 4.52, but I see no reason why eCS or Warp Server would be a problem here - warp peer has been stable since Warp 3. You might also see the back issues of OS/2 Magazine - I wrote several articles on how to network linux and OS/2 using samba and NFS. They both work fine. Mike- -----------IBMLAN.INI ----------------------------------------------- ; OS/2 LAN Requester initialization file [networks] net1 = NETBEUI$,0,LM10,34,100,14 net2 = TCPBEUI$,1,LM10,34,100,14 ; This information is read by the redirector at device initialization time. [requester] ; The following parameters generally do not need to be ; changed by the user. charcount = 16 chartime = 250 charwait = 3600 keepconn = 600 keepsearch = 600 maxcmds = 16 maxerrorlog = 100 maxthreads = 10 maxwrkcache = 64 numalerts = 12 numcharbuf = 10 numservices = 7 numworkbuf = 40 numdgrambuf = 14 othdomains = printbuftime = 90 sesstimeout = 45 sizcharbuf = 512 sizerror = 1024 sizworkbuf = 4096 ; The wrkheuristics parameter sets a variety of requester fine-tuning ; options. Brief descriptions are provided here for each digit. More ; complete descriptions, along with explanations of relationships between ; digits can be found in the LAN Server Network Administrator Reference ; Volume 2: Performance Tuning. ; ; When not otherwise specified, a value of 0 means off (inactive) and 1 means ; on (active). ; ; 0 opportunistic locking of files (default is 1) ; 1 performance optimization for batch (.CMD) files (default is 1) ; 2 asynchronous unlock and asynchronous write-unlock ; 0 = never 2 = only on a LAN Server virtual circuit ; 1 = always (default) ; 3 asynchronous close and asynchronous write-close ; 0 = never 2 = only on a LAN Server virtual circuit ; 1 = always (default) ; 4 buffer all named pipes and serial devices (default is 1) ; 5 combined read-lock and write-unlock ; 0 = never 2 = only on a LAN Server virtual circuit ; 1 = always (default) ; 6 open and read optimization (default is 1) ; 7 reserved ; 8 use of the chain-send NETBIOS NCB ; 0 = never ; 1 = when a server's buffer is larger than the workstations buffer ; 2 = always (default) ; 9 buffer small read and write requests until the buffer is full ; 0 = never 2 = only on a LAN Server virtual circuit ; 1 = always (default) ; 10 buffer mode ; 0 = always read buffer size amount of data if the request is smaller ; than the buffer size (sizworkbuf) and data is being read ; sequentially ; 1 = use full buffer if file is open for reading and writing ; 2 = use full buffer if reading and writing sequentially ; 3 = buffer all requests smaller than the buffer size (if hits occur) ; (default) ; 11 RAW read and RAW write SMB protocols (default is 1) ; 12 RAW read-ahead buffer (default is 1) ; 13 RAW write-behind buffer (default is 1) ; 14 read multiplexing SMB protocols (default is 1) ; 15 write multiplexing SMB protocols (default is 1) ; 16 use of big buffers for large core (non-RAW) reads (default is 1) ; 17 same-size read-ahead or read-to-sector boundary (default is 1) ; 18 same-size small record write-behind or write-to-sector boundary ; (default is 0) ; 19 reserved and must be 0 ; 20 flush pipes and devices on a DosBufReset or DosClose operation ; 0 = Flush only files and devices opened by the caller. Spin until ; flushed. Wait for confirmation before processing with other ; tasks. (default) ; 1 = Flush only files and devices opened by the caller. Flush only ; once. Do not wait for confirmation. ; 2 = Flush all files and all input and output of short-term pipes ; and devices. Spin until flushed. ; 3 = Flush all files and all input and output of short-term pipes ; and devices. Flush only once. ; 4 = Flush all files and all input and output of all pipes and devices. ; Spin until flushed. ; 5 = Flush all files and all input and output of all pipes and devices. ; Flush only once. ; 21 LAN Server encryption of passwords (default is 1) ; 22 control log entries for multiple occurrences of an error ; 0 = log all occurrences (default) ; 1-9 = limit occurrences that are logged (1-9 define size of table ; that is used to track errors) ; 23 buffer all files opened with deny-write sharing mode (default is 1) ; 24 buffer all files opened with the read-only attribute set (default is 1) ; 25 read ahead when opening for execution (default is 1) ; 26 handle the interrupt (ctrl+c) key ; 0 = allow no interrupts ; 1 = allow interrupts only on long-term operations ; 2 = always allow interrupts (default) ; 27 force correct open mode when creating files on a core server (reserved ; for DBCS users) (default is 1) ; 28 NETBIOS NoAck mode ; 0 = NoAck is disabled. ; 1 = NoAck is set on send only. (default) ; 2 = NoAck is set on receive only. ; 3 = NoAck is set on send and receive. ; 29 send data along with SMB write-block RAW requests (default is 1) ; 30 send a message to the screen when the requester logs an error ; 0 = never ; 1 = on write-fault errors only (no time out) (default) ; 2 = on write-fault and internal errors only (no time out) ; 3 = on all errors (no time out) ; 4 = reserved ; 5 = on write-fault errors only (time out) ; 6 = on write-fault and internal errors only (time out) ; 7 = on all errors (time out) ; 8 = on all errors (time out) and pop up an error if a session ; to a server is abnormally disconnected ; 9 = on all errors (time out) and generate an INT24 (critical ; error) to applications running under DOS emulation if a ; network hard error is encountered ; 31 reserved ; 32 behavior of DosBufReset on a redirected file (not pipes or devices). ; When the call to the API returns, the data in the buffer has been ; handled as follows: ; 0 = Changed data in the buffer was sent from the requester to the ; server. The server has written the data to disk. ; 1 = Changed data in the buffer was sent from the requester to the ; server. The server has not yet written the data to disk. ; 2 = DosBufReset was ignored. (default) ; 33 time interval for performing logon validation from the domain ; controller ; 0 = 5 seconds 4 = 60 seconds 8 = 8 minutes ; 1 = 15 seconds (default) 5 = 90 seconds 9 = 15 minutes ; 2 = 30 seconds 6 = 2 minutes ; 3 = 45 seconds 7 = 4 minutes ; 34 date validation ; 0 = PCLP date format (default) ; 1 = MSNET date format ; 2 = assume date is correct ; 35 free disk space reported to DOS and Windows applications ; 0 = return true value (default) ; 1 = return a value less than two gigabytes ; 36 time and date synchronization with the domain controller at logon ; (default is 1) ; 37 type of verification for the LAN Server logon ; 0 = no verification ; 1 = verify against local NET.ACC ; 2 = verify against domain NET.ACC (default) ; 38 display warning messages for the LAN Server logon ; 0 = do not display warning messages ; 1 = display all warning messages (default) ; 2 = do not display LAN Server specific warning messages ; 3 = display all warning messages, including password expiration date ; 39 buffer all files opened in compatibility mode ; 0 = buffer only files opened for read access in compatibility mode ; 1 = buffer all files opened in compatibility mode (default) ; 40 allow a user to logon multiple times in the same domain (default is 1) ; ; The next lines help you to locate bits in the wrkheuristics entry. ; 1 2 3 4 ; 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012 wrkheuristics = 1111111121311111110001011120111221001111100 wrkservices = ,MESSENGER wrknets = net1,net2 Computername = FRED Domain = MWCE [messenger] logfile = messages.log sizmessbuf = 4096 [peer] auditing = resource ; The following parameters generally do not need to be ; changed by the user. NOTE : srvnets= is represented in ; the server info struct as a 16-bit lan mask. Srvnet names ; are converted to indexes within [networks] for the named nets. guestacct = guest autodisconnect = -1 maxauditlog = 100 maxchdevjob = 2 maxchdevs = 1 maxconnections = 26 maxlocks = 64 maxopens = 160 maxsearches = 150 maxsessopens = 80 maxsessreqs = 25 maxsessvcs = 1 maxshares = 16 maxusers = 15 numbigbuf = 4 numfiletasks = 1 numreqbuf = 48 sizreqbuf = 4096 srvhidden = no ; The srvheuristics parameter sets a variety of server fine-tuning ; options. Brief descriptions are provided here for each digit. More ; complete descriptions, along with explanations of relationships between ; digits can be found in the LAN Server Network Administrator Reference ; Volume 2: Performance Tuning. ; ; When not otherwise specified, a value of 0 means off (inactive) and 1 means ; on (active). ; ; 0 opportunistic locking of files (default is 1) ; 1 read-ahead when the requester is performing sequential access ; 0 = do not use read-ahead ; 1 = use single read-ahead thread (default) ; 2 = use asynchronous read-ahead thread ; 2 write-behind (default is 1) ; 3 use of the chain-send NETBIOS NCB (default is 1) ; 4 check all incoming SMBs for correct format (default is 0) ; 5 support FCB opens (default is 1) ; 6 set priority of server (default is 4) ; 0-9 = 0 is highest priority, 9 is lowest priority ; 7 automatically allocate additional memory for directory searches ; (default is 1) ; 8 write records to the audit log only when the scavenger wakes up ; (default is 1) ; 9 do full buffering when a file is opened with deny-write sharing mode ; (default is 1) ; 10 set the interval for the scavenger to wake up ; 0 = 5 seconds 4 = 25 seconds 8 = 45 seconds ; 1 = 10 seconds (default) 5 = 30 seconds 9 = 50 seconds ; 2 = 15 seconds 6 = 35 seconds ; 3 = 20 seconds 7 = 40 seconds ; 11 allow compatibility-mode opens of certain types of files by translating ; them to sharing mode opens with deny-none ; 0 = Always use compatibility-mode opens. ; 1 = Use deny-none sharing mode if read-only access to .EXE or .COM ; files. ; 2 = Use deny-none sharing mode if read-only access to .EXE or .COM ; files. Use deny-write sharing mode if read-only access to .BAT ; files is requested. ; 3 = Use deny-none sharing mode on all compatibility-mode opens. ; (default) ; 12 allow DOS LAN Services workstations to use a second NETBIOS session when ; sending printer requests (default is 1) ; 13 number of 64KB buffers used for read-ahead ; 0-9 = number of buffers (default is 1) ; 14 convert incoming path specifications into most basic format (default is 0) ; 15 Oplock Timeout and NETBIOS Acknowledgment Timeout (default is 0) ; 0 = 35 second Oplock Timeout; 34 second NETBIOS Acknowledgment Timeout ; 1 = 70 second Oplock Timeout; 69 second NETBIOS Acknowledgment Timeout ; 2 = 140 second Oplock Timeout; 127 second NETBIOS Acknowledgment Timeout ; 3 = 210 second Oplock Timeout; 127 second NETBIOS Acknowledgment Timeout ; 4 = 280 second Oplock Timeout; 127 second NETBIOS Acknowledgment Timeout ; 5 = 350 second Oplock Timeout; 127 second NETBIOS Acknowledgment Timeout ; 6 = 420 second Oplock Timeout; 127 second NETBIOS Acknowledgment Timeout ; 7 = 490 second Oplock Timeout; 127 second NETBIOS Acknowledgment Timeout ; 8 = 560 second Oplock Timeout; 127 second NETBIOS Acknowledgment Timeout ; 9 = 640 second Oplock Timeout; no NETBIOS Acknowledgment Timeout ; 16 validate IOCTLs (default is 1) ; 17 how long the server maintains unused, dynamic big buffers before freeing ; the memory. ; 0 = 0 seconds 4 = 5 minutes 8 = 1 hour ; 1 = 1 second 5 = 10 minutes 9 = indefinitely ; 2 = 10 seconds 6 = 20 minutes ; 3 = 1 minute (default) 7 = 40 minutes ; 18 how long the server waits after failing to allocate a big buffer before ; trying again. ; 0 = 0 seconds 3 = 1 minute (default) ; 1 = 1 second 4 = 5 minutes ; 2 = 10 seconds 5 = 10 minutes ; 19 RAW read and RAW write SMB protocols (default is 1) ; 20 server responds to announcement requests (default is 1) ; ; The next lines help you to locate bits in the srvheuristics entry. ; 1 2 ; 012345678901234567890 srvheuristics = 111101411113110013311 SRVSERVICES = srvnets = NET1,net2 SRVCOMMENT = Fred [replicator] replicate = IMPORT importpath = C:\ibmlan\repl\import tryuser = yes password = [services] ; Correlates name of service to pathname of service program. ; The pathname must be either ; 1) an absolute path (including the drive specification) ; OR ; 2) a path relative to the IBMLAN root messenger = services\msrvinit.exe peer = services\peerinit.exe replicator = services\replicat.exe requester = services\wksta.exe ------------------------------------------------------------------------- smb.conf # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.2) # Date: 2004/06/25 12:36:31 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = MWCE log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192 dns proxy = No ldap ssl = no default service = homes read only = No hosts allow = 192.168.1. printer name = N17 printing = CUPS printcap name = CUPS security = user wins support = yes time server = yes name resolve order = wins bcast hosts [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = es, cocke, root, elliott write list = es, cocke, root, elliott [sys] invalid users = elliott,@elliott browsable = yes path = / [moose] invalid users = elliott path = /home/moose [N17] path = /tmp printable = Yes path = /var/spool/samba printer admin = root use client driver = yes GUEST OK = YES [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/drivers admin users = root, administrator write list = root [Emoose] valid users = elliott,es,root,cocke read list = elliott path = /home/moose/Shared ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs... You may have a great career as a network administrator ahead! -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,

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Crossover and PT accents
by SuSE Lover 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hi! My system is a SuSE 9.2 and HP omnibook and my keyboard is a international keyboard. (BTW the problem existed also in 9.1 and with a distribution like gentoo the problem didn't exist) My system is configured to use the Portuguese_Portugal (pt_PT) language. KDE works just fine with all accents but when I run any application using Crossover Office 3.0.0 (M$ Office for example or other non-M$ app) portuguese accents aren't working... For example ' + A = nothing (just) A = A Any ideas will be welcome ! Francisco Maia

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problem to boot...
by Marc Collin 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

hi i use suse kernel 2.6.5-7.111 i installed kernel source from yast... (it's 2.6.4-51) i done all step when i boot i get: error 13: invalid or unsupported executable format my grub: ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Linux-2.6.4-52 kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinux-2.6.4-52 root=/dev/hda7 vga=0x314 splash=silent desktop resume=/dev/sda2 showopts initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd-2.6.4-52 any idea to resolve that? -- La boîte à prog http://www.laboiteaprog.com

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So tired...ya ya ya ya know...
by Joe Polk 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I took the Mepis challenge. It allows you to boot off the CD in either 2.6.x kernel or 2.4.x kernel. When I boot into 2.4.x my monitor behaves nicely. When I boot in 2.6.x I get a squiggly screen. It would appear to be kernel related or could be KDE, though even before I go into a user desktop I'm getting this. With some work I can eliminate it with user settings but it comes back. I want to stick with Suse, so perhaps a new monitor is in order. Time to drag out the old CRT. Before I plop down for another TFT, I'd like to know it's going to work properly. :/ -- <<JAV>>

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DVD Drive Problem SuSE Linux 9.2
by Georgios Nikolis 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hi, i installed suse linux 9.2 on a notebook (a FSC Amilo 7620 AMD Mobile Athlon 3000+ 512MB RAM) and i ve got a problem with the dvd drive (a DVD+RW, no further details). The system recognises the drive on boot (as /dev/hdc mounted on /media/cdrecorder), there is also a relevant entry in /etc/fstab. But the drive will remain completely inactive. Any attempt to access /media/cdrecorder causes Konqueror or Shell to crash. I found in /var/log/messages the following entry: Nov 13 17:54:26 niobe kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x25 timed out Nov 13 17:54:26 niobe kernel: hdc: lost interrupt Nov 13 17:54:26 niobe kernel: hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01) Nov 13 17:55:26 niobe kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x25 timed out Nov 13 17:55:26 niobe kernel: hdc: lost interrupt Nov 13 17:55:26 niobe kernel: hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01) I guess it has something to do with the kernel configuration. I have already installed 9.2 on several machines without having any such problem. Any ideas??

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9.2, problem with suspend to ram
by Ernest Byaruhanga 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

hi, i've just installed suse 9.2 pro on a dell latutude d600. i have a problem with suspend to ram. it suspends well but cannot resume. when it resumes, i can hear that the cpu has woken up, all led's come on apart from the display. the keyboard also does not come up since pressing caps-lock wont light the caps lock LED. can someone with a similar laptop advise if they have got suspend to ram working well with suse 9.2? NB - suspend to disk works fine.. but it takes long to resume :-( thanks! e.

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RCA Lyra RD1090 HELP
by Steven Pasternak 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I have an RCA Lyra RD1090 and am running suse 9.1 kernel 2.6.9. I have tried the usbat 2 driver and it didn't work. How am I supposed to get the stupid mp3 player to even be seen correctly under linux? When I go to mount it, it says that it can't read the superblock. Can ANYONE help me?

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MPlayer on SuSE 9.2
by Mitja 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

When i start MPlayer i got a msg: alsa-control: mixer attach /dev/mixer error: No such file or directory MPayer playing anywhere but this msg blinking above. Mitja

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LVM and df
by Vanderstucken François 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hi, Obtained during installation a freespace problem on a LVM filesystem. Extended this filesystem with command lvextend from 300MB to 450MB lvdisplay shows file was extended to 450MB (so lvextend worked well). Yet still same problem when restarting the installation. df command shows the size is still 307184KB (same as before the lvextend command). What is blocking? François Vanderstucken

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SuSE 9.2: mysql-shared-compat?
by Chris Carpinello 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I have a need for mysql 3.x compatibility libraries, but I didn't find a mysql-shared-compat RPM on the SuSE 9.2 CDs. Any chance we'll be seeing official support for this, or are we on our own? - Chris

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9.2 Install
by Darrell Cormier 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Has anyone done an install or upgrade from a hard drive local to the machine? I am trying to upgrade a 9.1 box using it's local harddisk. I have the contents of DVD1 at /data/suse/9.2/install/ (built from a mounted iso image of dvd1). /dev/hda4 is mounted at /data. So when I boot using the 9.2 boot disk, at the boot manager (grub) screen I tell it installation, then I hit F3 to change the installation source. I select "Hard Disk". Then in the next dialog I put: Disk Device: /dev/hda4 Directory: /data/suse/9.2/install For the above I get the following message: Could not find the SuSE Linux installation source. Activating manual setup program. I have tried the following combinations and still get the same result: Device | Directory /dev/hda | /data/suse/9.2/install/ /dev/hda | /suse/9.2/install/ /dev/hda | suse/9.2/install/ hda | /data/suse/9.2/install/ What am I doing wrong. Could not find any info while googling (maybe my search criteria is wrong). Tried searching SuSE sight for installation from hard disk, but didn't find it either. I have also tried installing from an nfs server but it only gets part way and craters with no recovery and it leaves me starting over. :-( Thanks, -- Darrell Cormier Registered Linux user #370711 http://counter.li.org

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Problems with cron and openldap ?
by Rejaine Monteiro 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I'm use servers with Suse 8.0 and 9.0 and openldap+nss_ldap+pam_ldap The problem: Crond sometimes stops (process disappears) when a users crontab has changed or the process randomly die alone. I find only this error on /var/log/messages (maybe they are related?) Nov 22 09:32:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[3532]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server... Nov 22 09:32:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[3532]: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server after 1 attempt(s) Any help will be welcome! Rejaine da Silveira Monteiro (sorry by english - babel fish used)

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Re: Intel(R) Desktop Board D865GBF Email Support Request
by oss 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

crmotherboard(a)mailbox.cps.intel.com пишет: >Hello Nick, > >Thank you for contacting Intel(R) Technical Support. > >Linux* is not one of the supported operating systems on the Intel(R) Desktop Board D865GBF. There are some Linux* drivers for some versions of the operating system available on the Intel(R) website, but no warranty or support is provided for their use. You can use any of the Linux* support groups to see if there are any other drivers available that will provide you with the functions you require. > >You may also wish to consider testing an installation with a supported operating system, such as Windows* 98 SE, Windows* 2000, and Windows* XP. > >Please do not hesitate to contact us again if you need further assistance. > >Sincerely, > >Rick P. >Intel(R) Technical Support > > Hello! I've got a real answer from greatest firm! Thank you very much! IMHO, the problem is not in OS and software. I've wrote about test with old 440BX chipset and have good result. But I think, that motherboard of intel is not good as like a support! And I will not to buy it in future. Nick >Intel(R) Desktop Board Support Web Site >http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/ > >A representative of Intel may subsequently contact you (via email) in order to obtain your feedback on the quality of the support you received. If you do not wish to participate, simply delete the survey email. > >Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. > >*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. > ><===== Received from suse(a)oss.ru on 2004-11-19-08.29.21.000000 ======> > >crmotherboard(a)mailbox.cps.intel.com wrote: > > >Hello Nick, > >Thank you for contacting Intel(R) Technical Support. > >Please provide more detailed information so we can better isolate your >issue. We would appreciate if you would answer the following > >questions and include any additional helpful information. > >Hello. > > >- Processor Type and s-Spec Number: > >- Processor Speed (and Front Side Bus speed): > >- Processor Cache: > >Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz >Cache 1M >(Prescott) > > - Are you over-clocking your processor? >No! > > >- System Manufacturer and Model: > >- Motherboard PBA/AA number (which is found on a sticker, usually with >a barcode, on the component side of your motherboard): > >I've tryed with two Intel mother boards with latest bios (from >www.intel.com) > >D865GBF (Gbit LAN + sound + P4 2.6 800MHz 512K + 1G DDR 2*512M 2ch) >and >D865GLC (10/100 LAN + sound + P4 2.8 800Mhz 1M + 1G DDR 2*512M 2ch) now >Intel Desktopboard >E210882 N232 >CGLC42300872 AA C28906-408 >D865GLC/D865PESO/D865PCD > >I've successfuly instaled BIOS from file BF86510A.86A.0069.P21.IB.exe >And I've tryed with older versions... > > > > >- Revision of Motherboard BIOS: > >- Megabytes of System RAM (please include the chips' speed, model, and >manufacturer): >Tho bare with 512M (Channel A connector 0 and Channel B connector 0) > >root@bip-bip:~ # cat /proc/meminfo >MemTotal: 1025512 kB >MemFree: 22476 kB >Buffers: 90032 kB >Cached: 819188 kB >SwapCached: 0 kB >Active: 351176 kB >Inactive: 583276 kB >HighTotal: 122044 kB >HighFree: 504 kB >LowTotal: 903468 kB >LowFree: 21972 kB >SwapTotal: 1052216 kB >SwapFree: 1052216 kB >Dirty: 4 kB >Writeback: 0 kB >Mapped: 30956 kB >Slab: 60632 kB >Committed_AS: 78580 kB >PageTables: 332 kB >VmallocTotal: 114680 kB >VmallocUsed: 9712 kB >VmallocChunk: 104540 kB >HugePages_Total: 0 >HugePages_Free: 0 >Hugepagesize: 4096 kB >root@bip-bip:~ # > > > >- Operating System: >SuSE Linux 9.2 (and I've tryed with different version of kernel/Linux) > > >- Patches Installed: > >- AGP Graphics Card (if one is installed): > >not > > > - List any PCI or ISA Cards Installed: > >PCI 3WARE Escalade ATA RAID 7006-2 w 120G Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 > >I need to install one more PCI card: D-Link DFE580TX with >intel S21152BB L222EA11main chip and DL10050C chips >(4port ethernet adapter) > > >- Power supply information: > >400Watt ATX Power supply > > >- Other information about the system: > >- Do you have any other Intel(R) software installed in your system >(please include its version, as well)? > >- When did the problem first occur? > >At fist time. > > >- What system changes occurred, such as a BIOS or operating system >upgrade, new peripheral device, etc.? > >- What steps have you tried to fix the problem? > >- If you are getting error messages, what is the exact wording of the >error message? > >PROBLEM: > >I've a serious hardware problem. >More than one year I've used D865GBFL (Intel motherboard) with 3WARE >Escalade 7006-2 ATA RAID Controller with two Seagate Barracuda 120G ATA >disks and SuSE >9.0. And I've tested it with new SuSE 9.2 (all worked fine). Now I've >got D-Link DFE580TX >Four-port ethernet card. After installation of this adapter into my >computer the server >started to hang from several seconds/minutes of work. > >It happens and with another PCI a card - Cronyx PCI (8port RS232 >controller (http://www.cronyx.ru)). I have not had time to establish the >driver of these devices at all! > >But! All works well if to establish my 3WARE 7006-2 and simple Intel >Ethernet Card i82557. >Strange. > >Who knows, why my controllers do not work in pair with 3WARE Escalade >7006-2? > >P.S. I've tested it situation with another intel mother board D865GLCL >(i865G chipset too). >The result is the same. But All my devices are work fine on a 440BX >chipset. (Test on a old ASUS motherboard without needed productivity) > >Thank you for any future help. >Nick. > > > >Please do not hesitate to contact us again if you need further assistance. > >Sincerely, > >Rick P. > >Intel(R) Technical Support > ><===== Received from suse(a)oss.ru on 2004-11-16-08.24.12.000000 ======> > > > >>ERSID: 1100592607.26484.2 >> >>hardware problem with 3ware 7006-2 and D865GBF motherboard >>##ERIGNORE## >>First_name: nick >>Last_name: nick >>Email: suse(a)oss.ru >>Customer_type: Corporate IT >>Product: Intel(R) Desktop Board D865GBF >>Product_id: 948 >>OS: Linux* >>Survey_opt_in: No >>Bios_version: >>Processor_manufacturer: >>Video_manufacturer: >>Video_model: >>Sound_manufacturer: >>Sound_model: >>Virus: >>Issue: hardware problem with 3ware 7006-2 and D865GBF motherboard >>Form_id: 27 >> >> >> >>[X] None of the above >> >> >>IMPORTANT NOTE IF YOU REPLY TO THIS EMAIL: Please perform a reply with >>history so that the following identifier "[THREAD_ID:2344243]" is seen >>in your response email. This will insure that your reply is delivered >>to the proper support team at Intel and will reduce the time it takes >>to receive a response. Thank you. >> >>http://modoc.cps.intel.com/psp/CRMPROD/EMPLOYEE/CRM/c/CALLCENTER.RC_CASE_MA… >> >> > > >{ See Attached File: Attachment } > > >IMPORTANT NOTE IF YOU REPLY TO THIS EMAIL: Please perform a reply with history so that the following identifier "[THREAD_ID:2358181]" is seen in your response email. This will insure that your reply is delivered to the proper support team at Intel and will reduce the time it takes to receive a response. Thank you. > >http://modoc.cps.intel.com/psp/CRMPROD/EMPLOYEE/CRM/c/CALLCENTER.RC_CASE_MA… > >

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POSTGRESQL password
by Laurent Renard 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hello everyone, what's the default password of the user when i type : > #su postgres Thanxx for all ;) -- Laurent Renard Epicuri@ Websolutions www.epicuria.be <http://epicuria.be> 114, Rue Vandervelde 7033 MONS ( BELGIUM ) TEL/FAX : +32 65 31 77 81 SKYPE : leolargo2004 ------------------------------------------------ Scanned with Clamav Antivirus on Procmail Server This e-mail and any attachment thereto is confidential and are intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. Any use of the information contenaid herein is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender either by telephone or by e-mail and delete the material from any computer. Thank you for your cooperation Ce message electronique, y compris tout document joint, est confidentiel. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire de ce message, toute divulgation, copie ou utilisation en est interdite. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur, veuillez le detruire et en informer immediatement l'expediteur. Merci de votre collaboration

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RE: [SLE] ipw2100 1.0.1..help!!
by Thom Nowakowski 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Suse 9.2. I actually got it loaded, had to delete all instances of ieee80211 that suse came with, so it would use the new driver ones...but I still can't ping anything!! -----Original Message----- From: Khanh Tran [mailto:khanh@slc.edu] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 3:38 PM To: Thom Nowakowski; suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: RE: [SLE] ipw2100 1.0.1..help!! What version of SuSE are you running? Which firmware are you loading? Khanh Tran Network Operations Sarah Lawrence College -----Original Message----- From: Thom Nowakowski [mailto:Thom@chambers.no-ip.info] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 3:18 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: [SLE] ipw2100 1.0.1..help!! Hi guys, here was my issue at first; I tried connecting with my Compaq X1000 laptop to a wireless router It's a centrino chipset I set up the essid and crypt correctly...got a signal and was connected. The wireless router issued me a ip address, iwconfig confirmed I had an address I tried pinging my router...unreachable, checked route -n and noticed I didn't have a default gw. Added a default gateway hoping that would fix it..NOPE, no luck! Link says 100..ultimate line quality. My router says I'm connected to it..however I can't ping anything!! I pinged my laptop ip to be sure, I got a reply. Went to freenode.org and tried asking around. They thought maybe I needed to upgrade the driver. Downloaded and installed ipw2100 1.0.1, but now it won't load, getting the following error; WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211 (/lib/modules/2.6.8-24-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100/ieee8 0211.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) Unloaded all ieee modules...still didn't help. Can someone please help me? I have no idea what to do next?? Thanks!! Thom

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Trouble with Apache
by Steven B.Chasin 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Have installed 9.1. Finally got Apache 2 up an running. Now am trying to get UserDir to work correctly. (I am fairly new to Linux) Followed the example in both the conf file and on the Apache Web site. Both state the following is acceptable and should work. UserDir enabled UserDir disabled root I then uncommented UserDir public_html I then try to restart Apache and it fails saying that the enabled command must be followed by user names that are enabled.... Anyone have any ideas that would help? Thanks

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apache2 sucks!
by Zoltan Levardy 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

hi, anybody has idea what to do with this and where does it come form or where to start investigate it? /etc/apache2/error.log: [crit] (38)Function not implemented: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_log_lock Configuration Failed - or - [error] (38)Function not implemented: Cannot create SSLMutex Configuration Failed os:suse91 hw:i386 apache:2.0.49-23 many thanks in advance

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Firefox 1.0 won't print
by Ed Harrison 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Firefox 1.0 from Suse rpm will not print. When I click Print>>Properties, the print command begins with lpr, as it always has. Now, if I print using lpr, the printer prints out an error message telling me how to enter a GS command line to get it to print. The beginning of the command is "gs -q -sDEVICE=pswrite". This portion is in error because gs says "Unable to open the initial device, quitting". >From the console, the message is same. I got a list of available devices with gs, then from the GS prompt "devicenames ==". None of my printers are there and neither is pswrite. What is with this change and how to fix? Ed Harrison SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.9-vanilla PolarBar Mailer 1.25a

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Re: [SLE] Why does logout sometimes fail? (also is there a developers mailling list)
by Andrew Betts 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I'm using whatever comes with SuSE 9.2, 3.3.0 i believe. (sorry... i accidentally replied to the poster again.... damn gmail) On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:02:23 +0000, Andrew Betts <jaspsoftware(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using whatever comes with SuSE 9.2, 3.3.0 i believe. > > > > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:56:39 +0100, Richard Bos <radoeka(a)xs4all.nl> wrote: > > Op maandag 22 november 2004 12:48, schreef Andrew Betts: > > > I'm just wondering how logging out in KDE works. I understand > > > logout(int, int, int) is called in ksmserver but what does that do? > > > > http://dot.kde.org/1065448008/1065801649/ > > > > Which kde version. I see the same problem, with kde-3.3.1 > > > > -- > > Richard Bos > > Without a home the journey is endless > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Andrew Betts > Jasp Computer Services Ltd > -- Andrew Betts Jasp Computer Services Ltd

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GPL Accounting software
by Laurent Renard 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hello everyone, does anyone knows a good accounting software ( GPL only ) that can be suitable for european (belgian ?) corporates ? Thanks ;) -- Laurent Renard Epicuri@ Websolutions www.epicuria.be <http://epicuria.be> 114, Rue Vandervelde 7033 MONS ( BELGIUM ) TEL/FAX : +32 65 31 77 81 SKYPE : leolargo2004 ------------------------------------------------ Scanned with Clamav Antivirus on Procmail Server This e-mail and any attachment thereto is confidential and are intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. Any use of the information contenaid herein is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender either by telephone or by e-mail and delete the material from any computer. Thank you for your cooperation Ce message electronique, y compris tout document joint, est confidentiel. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire de ce message, toute divulgation, copie ou utilisation en est interdite. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur, veuillez le detruire et en informer immediatement l'expediteur. Merci de votre collaboration

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Why does logout sometimes fail? (also is there a developers mailling list)
by Andrew Betts 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I'm just wondering how logging out in KDE works. I understand logout(int, int, int) is called in ksmserver but what does that do? -- Andrew Betts Jasp Computer Services Ltd

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Re: [SLE] Undoing personal desktop settings with 9.2 install?
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Darryl Gregorash wrote: > I have no idea if upgrading an installation will change the K meu, as I > rotate drives, and always install from scratch. > > Right click on the "start application" button on the taskbar, which > brings up a menu including a "menu editor" item. I just added and > deleted an application to be sure how it works, and there seems to be > one small "feature" that is annoying: when I highlighted my item and > pressed "delete", it was not actually deleted. I went back into the > editor, hightlighted the item, and pressed "cut", which got rid of it. > (The "apply" button does not seem to want to light up when you are > deleting an item.) > > Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > >> I have a 9.0 system where I have edited the K menu. >> >> Which file in /home/ do I need to delete to restore the menu as it was >> before I edited it. I do not want to change my background and >> screensaver settings, just the K 'menu' settings I thought I'd like, >> but consequently don't. >> >> along the same lines 9.2 has far many more applications in it and >> hence a more complicated K 'menu'. Would installing 9.2 and then >> replacing the /home with a backed up copy also change the K 'menu' >> structure, or do I just need to delete the same file I did in 9.0? Tnx Darryl, I was looking more for a file I can delete and therefore restore my K menu to its default. I am just not sure where it is ie in the ~/.config or ~/.menu directory or even ~/ Someone on the list knows and told me before but I cannot remember and cannot afford to search the archives. -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================

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Re: [SLE] YOU question
by DC Parris 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

---------- Original Message ------------- Subject: [SLE] YOU question Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 23:50:14 -0500 From: "B. Stia" <usr(a)sanctum.com> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Hello SuSE people, <SNIP> Connected to the server and there was a huge list of update patches. (Many megabytes) Some are red, some are blue, and some are black. All have checkmarks next to them to be updated? Question is, what am I looking at? Do they all need to be updated ? (excluding, of course packages that I don't need or want) Looking for a little guidance here. Bob S. _______________ I'm just guessing, but I believe the code is: Black = optional Blue = important Red = Critical You can choose to manually select packages in the initial dialogue, if you like. Basically, Yast will highlight the ones you already have installed that need to be updated. Not sure that it selects packages you don't need to update. I've noticed it doesn't necessarily auto-select the wlan card updates (and I don't have a wlan card). HTH. Don -- DC Parris Matheteuo Christian Fellowship webdev(a)matheteuo.org http://matheteuo.org/ Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anywhere anytime!

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Shutdown on SuSE 9.2
by Davide Dolcini 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I've recently installed SuSE 9.2 on an hp nx 7010 notebook. I've had 9.1 on the same machine and everything worked fine. I can't shutdown the system. Funny enough when i decide to shut down in every moods possible the computer simply restarts. How can I fix it? It's really annoying

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SUSE 9.2 and cdwriter odd behaviour
by Jim Hamilton 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hi I have just installed a suse 9.2 pro environment onto one of my systems. In general not too bad an experience. The item I want to check with the list is periodically the drawer on my cdwriter comes out with no request from me i.e. like an eject command has been issued. Setup is a DVD ROM and a CDWRITER share the secondary IDE bus. No problems with the DVD ROM only with the writer. I can access the writer but it will still eject the drawer. This was not a problem with the 8.1 environment previously installed. Any pointers welcome. BR Jim -- Jim Hamilton Perth, Western Australia

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Re: [SLE] volume control doesn't work
by Tim Hanson 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

*OOPS* Sorry. That was a good hunch. I enter X in text mode, runlevel 3. Also, if it matters, I don't use KDE. On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 21:42 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 21 November 2004 21:40, you wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 21:33 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > > > try chmod 666 /dev/snd/* > > > > That took care of it. I only did it to /dev/dsp. > > You didn't anwer my question though, I'm trying to determine where the bug is. > Right now my theory is that it's a bug in the text mode login. So: do you > boot to text mode or to graphical?

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Re: Samba HOWTO
by Michael W Cocke 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Sorry about that - I hit the wrong reply to. Mike- -- If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs... You may have a great career as a network administrator ahead! -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,

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lm_sensors?
by Marc Christensen 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I have installed SuSE 9.1 and now 9.2 on hardware that has sensor hardware but I am confused at how to get sensors working so that I can see CPU tems, fan speeds, etc. What is the processes for setting this up? Thanks... -- Marc Christensen

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PCMCIA Driver for Desktop
by scsijon 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I have recently been given an old pcmcia PCI Card (PCI Card that allows you to plug in a pcmcia "Module card" into a desktop workstation). The card uses a spare plug off the IDE2 cable and has a number of chips that handle the conversion. No labels, marks, etc as usual and they don't remember where it came from or when except it was back in the mid1980's when they first set it up. I have been asked if it's possible to use this with Linux as their current system (a program written in dos 3) has reached the end of it's lifespan and they want to "move on". At least I have the source code for the simple tables program, and that will be easy to convert (for once). 1- Does any of the "driver" people online know if this is the norm for pcmcia to feed from the ide bus? 2- Does anyone have a pointer for how-to to writing a driver interface as the pcmcia seems only to convert levels to 20 parallel inputs (like a open-collector to a 6821 parallel chip, for those technically minded). And yes, I am asking before I try as both my "play" machines are already busy, will be til after christmas, and never having looked at device drivers or interfaces for them I'd like a pointer or two first. regards and thanks in advance to any help given scsijon

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SLES 9 - How to configure multiple email domains in LDAP
by Richard Mixon (qwest) 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I am trying to configure postfix/cyrus/LDAP to handle two email domains, say user(a)domain1.com and user(a)domain2.com. I've read and read the admin guide, googled and googled, and experimented a good deal also. I seem close but cannot quite get there. Here's what I've done. 1. On install I took the YAST defaults to create a default server certificate for domain1.com and told it to use LDAP for user authentication. 2. Created a new LDAP database for domain2.com. Actually I'm wondering if I really need to do this - can I just have two branches in one database - one for domain1 and one for domain2? 3. Anyway, then created a new CA and server certificate for domain2.com. But looking at slapd.conf, I do not really see a way to point LDAP at two sets fo certificates - so I did nothing with this. 4. When I go into Yast->Security->Add Users there seems to be no way to indicate which domain a user is in. If "user1" exists in domain1.com, I am unable to create user1 in domain2.com - I get the message something like "There is a conflict between the entered user name and an existing user name." Thanks in advance for any ideas/suggestion - Richard (Sorry for the cross-post, but traffic in the SLES forum seems light).

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I'm tired--9.2
by Doug McGarrett 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Hello, all--and probably goodbye-- I know you have been helpful thruout all this time-- I've been with SuSE since 7.1, but I've had it. The mail program (KMail) seems to forget its SMPT information, it also forgot its screen mode, now having to click twice on a message, and then having it come up in a little quarter- screen window. I've never been able to get any kind of sound, much less video, even tho the built-in noises work. Open Office will no longer open. I don't know where I go from here-- back to XP, for a while, I guess. I have a copy of Free-BSD, which I've never tried, but I guess I will. (9.1 crashed in such fashion that nothing would revive it. Before then, 8.2 gradually deteriorated to unusability. 9.2 has _already_ degraded to unusability.) This is a fairly modern machine, and XP runs perfectly on it. I guess I will be watching for a few days, while you all flame me, but enough is enough. Thank you for the help you have offered over the years. --doug

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] problem to boot...
by Marc Collin 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Marc Collin wrote: > Le 21 Novembre 2004 11:34, Anders Johansson a écrit : >>So this is something you've compiled yourself? What did you select as >>target machine, and which executable format did you select when you >>configured the kernel? > > ya compiled myself > > i used .config gived with suse kernel.. (all is standard) > > use i586, elf, ext3, ext2, fat... Output of "file /boot/vmlinux-2.6.4-52" and did you remember to "mkinitrd"? Regards Sid. ok: file /boot/vmlinux-2.6.4-52 /boot/vmlinux-2.6.4-52: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped -- La boîte à prog http://www.laboiteaprog.com

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Strange boot sequences for 9.2 Pro (0003)
by George Stoianov 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Hello, Today I had to reinstall 9.2 as MySQL Max was missing from the CDs and I need to use it. So I started with the DVD but for some reason it would not boot on my computer. I assumed it is because my DVD-ROM device is a few years old and sure enough when I tried it on a new machine it worked no problems. So I had to use the old cheat approach and booted from CD 1 and as soons as yast and the kernel where loaded and I had to choose the language for the install I popped out CD 1 and put in DVD 1...all is going well so far. But it is a strange way of doing things....and why is there less on the CDs. Does anyone now how to change the source of installation so that after having installed from CDs you can choose the DVD as the source...I tried that with success? Thanks. George ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

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/tmp cleaning
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Whilst reading through the list email, I decided it would be a good idea to clear out my own /tmp directory. Can I safely assume that as long as there is no one logged on, besides root to delete all the files in the /tmp directory, that I could safely use the command: #> rm -fr /tmp/* ?? Reading the email further I see that it can be enabled via YAST but when I tried, I failed :( Richard Bos wrote: >> >>>Anders Johansson wrote: >>> >>>>It is a good idea though to clean up old and unused junk. So setting >>>>CLEAN_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP to "yes" would be a good idea >>> >>>Where's that option found? >> >>Oh, sorry, it's in /etc/sysconfig/cron Anders, I see that file on my 9.0 system is empty. Should I insert CLEAN_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP=yes in it? Thought I'd try adding the option via YAST, courtesy of Richard's post, but... > yast -> system -> misc -> editor for sysconfig files. > than: system -> cron ... does not lead to a solution as my sysconfig file editor in under system and there is no subdirectory Misc, only a Misc 'brother' to System. This is all on a 9.0 system -- The tmp getting full Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================

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SuSE 9.2 - ALT + CTRL + Fn - wierdness
by Zvone Zagar 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Hi, I have just finished installing the second PC with SuSE 9.2. I have noticed the same strange behavior as on the first one. I can't switch to text console using Alt + Ctrl + Fn. To be more precise, i can only switch from KDE, not from any other window manager (Icewm, Fvwm, WindowMaker, Twm - no even KDM). I have run 'Online Update', i made a complete shutdown. On the first PC i repeated the installation and at the second attempt it seems running quite normal. I must say that i have done no upgrade from previous version. When this behaviour happened on the first PC i also lost my network configuration (using SiS 900 onboard network chip). I did the default installations on both PCs. And my today's final observation regarding speed - to my experience is SuSE 9.2 slower as 9.0 as far as OpenOffice is concerned. On pretty decent PC (Celeron 2.66 MHz, 512 Mb RAM) it needs about 9 sec. to start (9.0 starts in cca 4 seconds). Both tests had been done using OO 1.1.3. Regards Zvone Zagar

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volume control doesn't work
by Tim Hanson 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

I have set up my sound card (actually, on the motherboard) with Yast. The arrangement has worked in the past on the same hardware without problems. After installing 9.2, whenever I try to use the volume control, I get the message: "Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found" Sound works normally, except I must go into yast|hardware|sound to adjust the volume. What's missing?

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[k3b burn error] Read buffer capacity failed under 9.2
by James PEARSON 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Hello all, I am looking for some ideas on how to troubleshoot the following problem. <problem> My first attempt to burn a CD with a fresh install of SuSE 9.2 didn't work. # Error message : ERROR: Read buffer capacity failed. </problem> <facts> system: linux 2.6.8-24-smp #1 SMP Wed Oct 6 09:16:23 UTC 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux Burner: Plextor 40/12/40A Other info... CD disk: I was using a Verbatim 48X CD-R Cdrdoa driver: generic-mmc Remark: The driver "generic-mmc" has worked in the past and it works fine under Knoppix. I set the burn speed at 20 (which is k3b's average burn speed when it works). System ----------------------- K3b Version:0.11.15cvs suse-linux-e(a)suse.com, KDE Version: 3.3.0 QT Version: 3.3.3 </facts> ########################################## Here what I found using google... ########################################## >> ERROR: Read buffer capacity failed. > > I submitted a patch for this a few days ago. It has been merged into > Linus's tree. Yes, I see the patch, thanks: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/cset/cset-axboe% 40suse.de[torvalds] ChangeSet|20041104154725|45958.txt But the question remains: what should the users of not 100% MMC-compatible CR-RW drives (i.e. those which have a separate cdrado or cdrecord driver, not generic-mmc/generic-mmc-raw) do? Is the support for writing as non-root on such drives just dropped without any plans to "fix" it? ########################################## Here k3b's log ########################################## System ----------------------- K3b Version:0.11.15cvs KDE Version: 3.3.0 QT Version: 3.3.3 cdrdao ----------------------- Cdrdao version 1.1.9 - (C) Andreas Mueller <andreas(a)daneb.de> SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling Paranoia DAE library - (C) Monty Check http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html#dt for current driver tables. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8' /dev/hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W4012A Rev: 1.06 Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC - Version 2.0 (options 0x0010) Burning entire 79 mins disc. Starting write at speed 20... Process can be aborted with QUIT signal (usually CTRL-\). WARNING: No super user permission to setup real time scheduling. Turning BURN-Proof on Executing power calibration... Power calibration successful. Writing track 01 (mode MODE1/MODE1 )... ERROR: Read buffer capacity failed. Wrote 1 of 727 MB (Buffer 100%). Success. : scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 03 39 00 00 1A 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 00 03 CF 0A 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x02 Qual 0x00 (no seek complete) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 975 (valid) resid: 53248 cmd finished after 76.544s timeout 180s ERROR: Write data failed. ERROR: Writing failed - buffer under run? ERROR: Writing failed. cdrdao comand: ----------------------- /usr/bin/cdrdao write --device /dev/hdc --driver generic-mmc:0x00000010 --speed 20 -n -v 2 --eject --remote 21 /tmp/kde-jpearson/k3b4pwvYatoc ########################################## Any ideas and/or comments would be appreciated. TIA James

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Re: [SLE] SuSE9.2 64-Bit installation problems
by Silviu Marin-Caea 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 10:27, Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > > And Pro 9.2 should install on Opterons, you're right about that, but > > you're wrong using it for anything other that your own play-desktop in > > your company. > > Why ? > > Im running 9.1 pro on a bunch of dual opteron systems. > > What is the difference between SLES9 and suse 9.2 ? Some features of Enterprise server products: 5 years maintenance certifications and support of ISV (oracle, ibm, sap) certfications and support of IHV (ibm, hp, dell) security certifications (common criteria) support for enterprise-class hardware (SAN...) manageable with ZENWorks In other words, when ever you'll have some thing important to do on those servers (like running mission critical ERP or business critical webshop or even network infrastructure servers) and you don't want to reinstall them every 2 years you need Enterprise products. Professional is for techie play, Enterprise is for serious production. Just read the site: http://www.suse.de/en/business/products/server/ It's too much to tell in a single email.

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SuSE 9.1 Installation problem
by Mario Pesce 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Hi, I tried to install a SuSE 9.1 Professional on a Dell GX60 with a 17" Dell R771a Monitor. The installation starts correctly, but, as soon as Yast takes control the screen becomes unreadable and I have to abort the installation. I tried to install in safe setting, as suggested by SuSE support, but I have the same problem. The installation starts correctly, but, as soon as Yast is used, all characters are displayed in an unreadable way. It looks like the resolution is incorrect, but I have not been able to find any way to change it. When I abort the installation and I go back to linuxrc, then the screen is perfectly readable, I tried also to change the linuxrc settings to use a monochrome display and again it works until Yast is started. Then color is used again and the coloured characters are unreadable. The strange thing is that I installed without any problem a SuSE 9.0 distributed on a computer magazine. Please let me have any useful suggestion. Best Regards Mario Pesce

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SuSE 9.2 and audio, jpilot headaches
by Donn Washburn 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Hey Group; I have been monitoring the mail and have seen several unhappy persons that spent good hard earned money on SuSE9.2 (at a much higher price). I am among those that are rather unhappy with SuSE 9.2. I am a compTIA Linux+ person that has been fighting (on the same machine) things that did work fine under 9.0 and fail to work as well (or if at all) under 9.2. Like while listening to my pci bttv TV/FM card and alsa sound playing. If I type "lsusb" the FM freq. changes to a off freq. (aka noise). You might ask why I needed to use lsusb. Simple! To try to get my Palm Pilot to work. It seems no matter which /dev/usb or /dev I use the Palm Pilot is not synced. So /dev/ttyUSB[any #} fails All of this works correctly under 9.0. Too may scripts ruling every process running. I may need to look into Slackware. -- 73 de Donn Washburn __" http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 Dump Microsoft Software - Stop virus email Email: n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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9.2 Install Problems & Observations
by David Johanson 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Well, 9.2 arrived this week and I spent last night trying to get it installed. No major problems save for the following: 1. Even though the setup program and hardware info (YaST) sees my maxtor 160GB USB 2.0 drive (6Y160P0 - sys_bus_id: 0 0) under the heading of DASD Disks and USB, I can find no way to access it once I'm on the desktop. No fstab entry, nothing in "my computer" ughh, nothing at all. 2. Again, even though hardware info sees my Nikon USB 2.0 Super Coolscan 5000 scanner (LS-5000 -- sysfs_bus_id: 8-1: 1 0) under the heading USB, I can find no way to access it. However, even though 9.2 won't show it to me, (it did install the Epson 2400 perfectly), vuescan can see it and use it with no problems. 3. Of even greater concern, I can find NO way to access by ide ZIP 250 drive and this isn't even identified in hardware info. This seems very odd. If I boot with the drive containing a disk, I get a new hardware found message, an offer to configure which I accept, and then a message that it has been configured. However, I can't locate it anywhere, not on the desktop, not in my computer, not under /media, not in fstab, and not in hardware info. 4. The 9.2 install is MUCH slower than any version I have on my other systems (7.1, 7.1, 8.2, and 9.0), and virtually grinds to halt with a disk in the zip drive taking up to 2 minutes to return control. As for the zip drive, I've tried entries in fstab of /dev/hdc4 and mounting at /media/zip with file systems of auto, vfat, and subfs none of which have worked and options of the new floppy default; and noauto,user, 0 0. I have no idea as to how to get the USB HD seen. Any and all help on getting the zip drive up and running as well as finding the 160GB hard drive GREATLY appreciated. I've searched the manuals but can find nothing to help. dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe

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Re: Thanks for this message to the SuSE list
by jfweber＠bellsouth.net 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

On Sunday 21 November 2004 8:21 am, you wrote: > > I keep seeing this "much higher price" but as I remember it was the same > > price as I got it for the last time I bought the full boxed version. > > Please tell me how much more it is costing you. And how long ago it was > > you bought the version before this one. > > Well it was purchased from Novell at a rate of $99.95 (which included > freight). It was the Pro version. Okay, 9.0 and 9.1 were each $89 not counting tax and shipping, , the ubiquitous "shipping and Handling" which , like death and taxes are a duo of life it seems no one can escape. <G> Depending on where you live ( sales taxes vary widely from, location to location , and shipping is distance related. ) I'll bet the "S & H" come to at least $10 ... and there is your "hard earned money" w/ the actual cost not any higher than it's ever been. > And there is always the install from the ftp site option. The only thing that > > didn't happen and wont apparently is the Home version. That was always less > > money, but it had a lot less in it. Still, if you bought any of it you can > > download and install any of the individual programs from Suse's ftp site. > ftp goes live several months later. This time, possably because they had more manpower available, it went up less than one month from the packaged release! So roughly 4 weeks after I got my boxed SUSE pro, anyone who wished could download and install the same thing. > Besides not everybody can live without the books. I can because of using SuSE for about 8 years. Yes, and you will save $30 by getting that during the '.1 etc. versions. It will probably also cost less to ship it and sales tax, which is based on the in this case "dollar" value of the purchase ( US dollars here in this illustration. ) So you are well on your way to another years purchase of the full pro version. It's hard work, but you can likely , tho waiting a bit to get the newer .x releases, but downloading the items to your hard drive and making your own cds is possible, and will save time on future installs or adding software etc. <Snipped> > True that tecnology moves on. However, many people do not need or want > a DVD. SuSE could have supplied for the 99.95 dollars at least two more > CDs 4.7GB = 1 DVD and 3.5GB = 700Mbx5 CD I bet one more would have > fixed the problem. that math is not correct. As Anders Johansson pointed out earlier in this discussion the dvds are double layered in other; words they hold , IF I remember correctly, 9.6 or 7 GB. When I was looking at these double layered or whatever they are dvds It was to keep my editing chores on one single, or no more than two backup disks per backup. And it seems my old Sony DVDR +/- RW can read them. But I digress, the point is, it's more than you think and actually would raise the costs if you think of the work of assembling the extra Cds , and formatting the media to send to the print shop.. ( the guys who make the dvds and package them up. ) It would be to use Togan's penny per CD ( I'm certain it's more, but for the sake of this discussion lets use it. And let us say that it would be and extra two or three CDs per package.Multiply the cost for one package by at least the minimum number the shop will accept to print. Many of these sorts of places have minimum purchase amounts. And no one knows for certain how many they will need to print for the first run.. Plus there will be the added weight in the package; before the books go into the box. And the usual fudge factors one must take into account . And you will get a price boost at some point for certain. You aren't missing much, and perhaps you can find a friend w/ a Dvd unit and you can break individual packages out to install. IF there is anything needed to actually use the distro, it's on those cds . I know that for certain, since my kid doesn't have a dvd unit in her computer.. > > IF you want a completely non paying system, download the bits from all the > > sites and roll your own. > Well this doesn't apply to me. However, I don't like buying broken > software. So you would rather Suse put in the software libraries, and pay those royalties, and you think they should just eat that cost? Since apparently there is no reason for them to raise the price that you guys were complaining about ? Even as a lateral thinker, that doesn't seem logical to me. > xine is broken and all of it is geared to a > i586. It ISN'T broken, it doesn't have some of the movie dvd stuff in the box, because of copyright issues, w/ the EU as well as well known objections by RIAA here. MS paid ( still is paying?) huge royalties so they can have the box play movies strait out of it's crate. The situation in the EU is somewhat watchful at the moment, It seems they will buy into the royalty stuff that the RIAA want. Tho now at least one country is taking a stand against that sort of draconian measure. If the EU insist on the royalty scheme, at least that country has said it will not join. Anyway, you can go to packman.links2linux.org, and you will find the bits that are added, libraries and some other things , so xine will play movies. Tho, unless you are on the longest plane ride in the current world, why would you waste your time playing a movie , which you can only watch on a 21 inch screen??? That isn't how the movies were meant to be seen. We planned most things, and especially the '2nd unit" stuff... generally stunts and special effects, w/ the idea that people would be seeing it on a 6 ft or larger screen. The whole things tends to lose a bit in the translation to the telly. And I have a huge screen on mine. On the little screens, a lot of the impact, or the story as well as the effects tend to not quite be as they were intended. > > that are constantly awash in red ink just go away... ask anyone who fell >> in love w/ BeOS. When Jean Louis ran out of cash, it basically died. And >>as we repeatedly say programmers have to eat, pay rent, feed the kids, cats,dogs, car, tax man etc. etc. too. > Well if you are lucky your job won't get shipped to India Nope, it wont, I have an ownership interest in the company. They can't afford to pay anyone else to do this stuff <G> Besides, do you believe that Indian people don't eat, have kids, families, homes etc that must be paid for ? The idea that everyone there just sort of wanders about begging is based on a rather racist view of the world. Kim wasn't real, it was a book and then , several times, a movie. Indian peoples, as do Pakistani ,Chinese, Bangledeshi , and any other folks they can pay to do the scut work. Perhaps Afghanistan will get in on the pie eventually. <G> > Well maybe if people that promote SuSE should be listened to. This wa > the first time that I was able to use the DVD. It worked nice but the > scripts coming from it fail. I'm sorry about that, did you note any particular messages that fail? -- j nemo me impune lacessit quis custodiet ipsos custodiates?'

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spyware
by it clown 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Hi All, Is linux as vulnerable to spyware as windows?What software is there to load if it is? Regards _____________________________________________________________________ For super low premiums ,click here http://www.dialdirect.co.za/quote

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split Double Layer DVD into 2 nomal DVD's ???
by Franky Goethals 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Hi, I've bought SuSE 9.2 DVD, and want to boot the DVD-version on my portable, but this one doesn't recognize double layer DVD yet... The CD-version doesn't contain all packages i want to have... Any idea how i can proceed to make NORMAL DVD's ? So the real question is : how do i split a double layer DVD into 2 single DVD's ? Greets, Franky.

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Fwd: [SLE] which suse distrib do you prefer?
by Synthetic Cartoonz 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Johannes Cloete asked: >which distrib of suse is better? >is 9.2 & 9.1 truly superior, faster and more stable than suse 9.0? >does the 2.6.x kernel shipped with the later models outperform suse 9.0 that >shipped with kernel 2.4.21? I started at 8.0 Professional, and bought every SuSE Professional version since. I use the most peculiar hardware I have -- my HP5295 laptop -- as the index of success for the distro. With 8.0 Pro hardly anything worked on the laptop. No sound, the CD burner wouldn't burn, USB wasn't functioning worth a darn, and the LAN wasn't working. At that time I had just bought into running Linux after experiencing the third Windows implosion on the laptop in a year. So, the lack of working stuff in 8.0 left me slightly disappointed. But, I managed to eventually make the LAN work, and figured that sooner or later I or someone else would figure out how to get the rest of the hardware running in this or the next version of SuSE. 8.1 Pro and 8.2 Pro saw progressive improvements. In 8.1 the LAN worked immediately after the install, sound and the CD-Burner also started working, tough sound was sometimes sporadic. USB required some personal hacking on a device by device basis. In 8.2, the sound stopped working, but USB support increased dramatically. Most thing I shoved into the USB port would mount without magic incantations. I think 9.0 Pro was really intended to be 8.3 Pro, but SuSE appeared to need to engage in Version Number Wars with other distros. That was the BEST version so far. Everything worked on the laptop. Sound was working without issue this time, and everything I needed was working happily. Some of the power management things didn't work so well, but I wasn't concerned with that, since I don't normally use the laptop without the AC power plugged in. I think 9.1 Pro is the originally intended 9.0 Pro. I get the "dot oh" feeling of being used as someone's unpaid beta tester. Everything is working, but sometimes it works strangely. USB is the biggest problem: USB devices sometimes move locations, so I end up having to remove and recreate icons on the desktop to make mounting/opening/browsing the devices convenient. Hotplugging USB devices often takes an irritatingly long time to recognize that something was plugged in. USB performance and reliability also took a nosedive. Devices that were working fine with 9.0 have intermittent I/O errors. Most annoying. Some recent patches and updates have fixed something, because I'm having far fewer I/O errors. (USB throughput still stinks.) Otherwise, the only improvement I see in 9.1 is that the power management features (that I don't care about) appear to be functioning much better. I just picked up SuSE Pro 9.2 yesterday at CompUSA and it is still on the floor next to my desk. Various computer parts are winging their way to me from a variety of Internet sellers as I write this. In the next week I plan to use 9.2 to build a file and print server for my personal linux boxes in the house (and my wife's nasty Win 98 box.) When that is done I'll start upgrading the other linux systems. to 9.2.

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Openoffice.org 1.1.3 rpms for Suse 9.1
by Osho GG 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Hi, Does anyone know where to download the Openoffice.org 1.1.3 rpms for suse 9.1 I currently have 1.1.1. thanks, -- Osho

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OCR -9.1
by Mike McMullin 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

I am looking for a good OCR package for 9.1, I do not have an installed scanner. Does anyone have any suggestions or experience that could be helpful? Mike

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Re: [SLE] which suse distrib do you prefer?
by Synthetic Cartoonz 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Johannes Cloete asked: >Thanx for the info. >I build production desktop servers. >I am thus unable to allow my clients to take part in a beta test while I'm >the one getting paid. >(if I may coin your phrase) >My primary concern is: >Is the improvements in post Suse 9.0 editions worth the effort of potential >gremlin hunting & kernel hacking. If you're building servers (file server, database server, network firewalls?) then you may be talking about boxes that a lot of people do not log into and use directly. So, the quirks that come with some configuration or application changes may not be so evident to them. I guess I will add that getting the Samba server working on my personal linux box, so my wife could access some disk space for her Win98 box was nearly trivial on 9.1. In 8.2 it didn't work very easily at all. >Was it for you? For me, yes, but I'm willing to do some suffering and head scratching, since these are all computers in my home.

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Where's Scribus?
by James Hatridge 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Hi all... I've got the 5 disk 9.2 version of SuSE. I tried to install Scribus but YAST could not find it. I though that it was on the disks. Did anyone else have this problem? What do I do? Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ 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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tiocgdev kernel patch
by Johannes Cloete 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

I am repatching a stock standard 2.4.27 kernel dor use with suse 9.0 I am told that in order to logging not to break, I have to obtain the tiocgdev kernel patch. I have no idea where to find it Is anyone able to help? -- Johannes Cloete Tel: +27 82 224 8324 (Mobile) +27 12 804 9700 (Office Hours) -- Johannes Cloete Tel: +27 82 224 8324 (Mobile) +27 12 804 9700 (Office Hours)

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Why am I paying SuSE for a distro if the software developers bundle the software?
by me＠prestoncrawford.com 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

I asked SuSE support about the lack of Gnome Conduits and this is what I got... "Unfortunatly it is up to the developer of the software to package it up for each distribution they wish to support, unfortunatly, if the package is not available for SuSE linux all I could suggest would be searching for the sources and compiling it on your system, beyond that theres not much we could do." So... (SuSE team listening) does this mean that every single RPM installed in SuSE is provided by the people who developed the software? The Kernel, Gnome, KDE, all of that comes to SuSE already ready to go. SuSE doesn't do anything, really. What, then, does SuSE do? Burn them all onto a CD for me? Seriously, this is the most ridiculous response I've ever received from a SuSE rep. I don't, for a minute, believe that the developers of Gnome-pilot-conduits created RPMs, packages, etc. for Mandrake, Fedora, Ark Linux, FreeBSD, Debian, etc. but not for SuSE. That's absurd. All I wanted was a straight answer and I got the biggest line of bull ever. Preston

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Problems with bash and perl execution
by Ed Harrison 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Something has happened throughout my system. Before my problem the error message when trying to install crossover 4.0 was: "install-crossover-standard-4.0.sh: ./setup.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied" I have discovered that I get this error whenever I execute ANY bash script file, and now perl. Also, when I try to run cxsetup or cxreset I get the following: "ed@linux:~/cxoffice/bin> ./cxreset [or cxsetup] bash: ./cxreset: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Permission denied" The permissions on /bin/sh, /bin/bash and /usr/bin/perl are all 755. If I use "bash" in front of the file name, it works. With perl, I get different error messages with different files, but none will execute. These have worked for months, and I have no idea what has happened to change them What could be causing this? Ed Harrison SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.9-vanilla PolarBar Mailer 1.25a

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Re: [SLE] upgrade 9.2 partitions question
by steve-ss 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

On Saturday 20 November 2004 12:30, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Saturday 20 November 2004 6:24 am, steve-ss wrote: > > I want to upgrade a box from 9.1 to 9.2. The only > > partition I can select for upgrade is / (the one with > > fstab on it). All the others are marked 'unknown'. What > > about these others I have, /var, /usr, /srv and so on? > > I want to upgrade those as well. Will yast mount them > > and upgrade those too? > > I think it will look at your current fstab once you > select the "/" partition. It did for me, as I had a /home > partition and it continued to use it after the upgrade, > yet I never selected it during the install. > Hi and thanks. I wouldn't expect it to touch /home but I would expect it to update for example /usr and not just what's left in /. Surely it won't leave me with an upgraded to 9.2 / and a left as it is /usr, 9.1. Anyone? Cheers, Steve.

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radeon framebuffer 9.2
by steve-ss 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

In 9.1 my radeon ve card ran flicker free at 1280x1024. Under 9.2 it won't run at this resolution unless I use the framebuffer. Sax2 throws up a 1024x768 screen which is flicker free but slow. The framebuffer screams in comparison but doesn't play 3d games and it flickers. I see that ATI don't support Linux. Is this something to do with the move the new SuSE X.org? Is there anyway I can go back to use the 9.1 graphics with 9.2? Cheers, Steve.

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Hello Everyone
by ROB 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

I'm new . I'm using SuSe 9.1 today my first ever using Linux (nah im playing) I have 2days playing with linux but not much . I tried MandrakeMove, KnoppixLIveCd, SimplyMepis, Slax, CollegeLinux, Xandros, I tried to work with SuSe 9.2 kDE but didnt work . My desktop is celeron 634mhz 256mb 20gb broadband running SuSe 9.2 My laptop is amd athlon xp-m 2800+ 784mb ddr (64mb video shared) 30gb dsl/router My desktop is on cable modem directly but im gonna put it my dsl/router soon when i cancel cable.. So im a newbie here...

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SuSE support for shfs? lufs?
by Jerry Westrick 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Hello all... I really could use shfs in my development environment, if it is stable, and would not break after each YOU kernel update. Does anyone have any experience with shfs? Is it stable? Can I get rpms? From SUSE? if not how can I go about compiling it so that it don't break with each kernel update? Thx Jerry

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winbind
by it clown 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Hi All I am having some trouble joining 9.1 to a w2k domain. net join -S srv.domainname -U administrator Joined domain domainname. but when i run wbinfo -t checking the trust secret via RPC calls failed error code was (0x0) Could not check secret wbinfo -u Error looking up domain users wbinfo -u Error looking up domain groups. is there help about joining 9.1 to an 2000 domain? Regards _____________________________________________________________________ For super low premiums ,click here http://www.dialdirect.co.za/quote

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9.2 Weird monitor problem
by Joe Polk 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

I have a TFT450 Flat Panel and occassionally I get squiggly-screen. It seems to happen when I come out of YaST. Sometimes it will quit after a while. It looks like it doesn't like the refresh rate, to be honest. But for 1024 I can't change it, it's locked on 75 though somehow it did read 71 once. I've used this monitor since 9.0. I'm stumped. -- <<JAV>>

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thank you...
by Mitja 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

As many others I start thinking to change Linux distro. Eight years ago when i installed my first SuSE was less problems than now. Every day new problems: today new one with mozilla which doesn't want to open some web pages (konqueror does) - www.fchn.org for example. Real Player still doesn't work if i run as user, still xset: bad font path element (#72), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax I have everything same as before but... ...and today some new (i didn;t change nothing): ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:563:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:563:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:563:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe kmix: ERROR: snd_ctl_open err=No such device kmix: ERROR: snd_ctl_open err=No such device kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x82463f0 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "del" kmix: ERROR: snd_ctl_open err=No such device kmix: ERROR: snd_ctl_open err=No such device ...and to the end: whenever i sent an email to suse-linux-e(a)suse.com my email come or it doesn;t after one, two hours. Mitja

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RE: [SLE] Cups, router with DHCP problem
by Khanh Tran 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Well, you can still use fixed IPs on all the computers if you like, but I'd suggest at least putting a fixed IP on the CUPS server. Some routers even have the ability to assign the same IP to a DHCP client every time, essentially making it fixed. Khanh Tran Network Operations Sarah Lawrence College -----Original Message----- From: FX Fraipont [mailto:fxf@skynet.be] Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 9:34 AM To: SuSE Subject: Re: [SLE] Cups, router with DHCP problem Khanh Tran wrote: >How were you assigning IPs before you bought the router > > Fixed IP's on all machines. I bought the router so I did not have to leave the server with the dsl connection on all the time. FX -- 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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KMail
by contiemilio＠virgilio.it 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Hi all here a problem that's driving me crazy. I do not succed in moving my e-mails from KMail of SuSE 8.1 to the one of SuSE 9.1 (just installed). Tnx for every help! Bye emilio

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log files for Kinternet
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Running SuSE 9.1 with KMail 3.3. Having run in a small problem with kinternet I would like to look at or to make a logfile where I can see what is going wrong everytime I want to connect to my ISP or the internet. Kinternet has the possibility to show a log file which they call "the complete log". What I am looking for is not part of that log. Problem: Using KMail with the first connection with my ISP via dial up after a certain wait I get the info "could not connect to host xyz" Using Konqueror I get a "The requested URL was not found on this server." If I confirm the error message in KMail or reload the URL in Konqueror I am in business. What I want to catch in a logfile is the conversation between my pppd and my ISP. Looked into man pppd and such but need now a solution in plain English.

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Umounting HD
by contiemilio＠virgilio.it 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Hi all, I have just installed SuSE 9.1 (waiting for 9.2) with KDE 3.2 desktop manager. Once I mounted a device it is impossible to umount it from KDE. I have to umount the device by command line umount -l /dev/device (umount -f fails). Any hint? Topic already discussed? Saludos emilio

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Creative Webcam P00040
by Carlos Lorenzo Matés 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Hi. I have a such webcam and SuSE 9.0. this cam worked fine with SuSE 8.2, but in 9.0 doesn't work. in SuSE 8.0 there was a module named ov518_decomp this module don't exist in 9.0. the /proc/bus/usb/info shows information about the cam, and the module ov511 seems to load without errors, but xawtv claims that not /dev/video0 available. permisions for /dev/video* gandalf:/usr/src # ll /dev/video* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2004-08-31 00:47 /dev/video -> video0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 0 2003-10-02 22:46 /dev/video0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 1 2003-10-02 22:46 /dev/video1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 171, 16 2003-10-02 22:46 /dev/video1394 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 2 2003-10-02 22:46 /dev/video2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 3 2003-10-02 22:46 /dev/video3 output for xawtv gandalf:/usr/src # xawtv This is xawtv-3.88, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-243-athlon) can't open /dev/video0: Function not implemented v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway v4l2: open /dev/video0: Función no implementada v4l2: open /dev/video0: Función no implementada v4l: open /dev/video0: Función no implementada no video grabber device available output fo lsmod gandalf:/usr/src # lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted ov511 76800 0 pwc 44656 0 (unused) i2c-algo-bit 7944 0 i2c-core 15492 0 [i2c-algo-bit] snd-pcm-oss 49728 0 (autoclean) snd-mixer-oss 15576 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] nls_iso8859-1 2844 0 (autoclean) appletalk 22124 1 (autoclean) ax25 45556 1 (autoclean) ipx 18116 1 (autoclean) videodev 6272 1 (autoclean) [ov511 pwc] usbserial 20924 0 (autoclean) (unused) parport_pc 28648 1 (autoclean) lp 6304 1 (autoclean) parport 25608 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] nfsd 83568 4 (autoclean) isa-pnp 32712 0 (unused) ipt_TCPMSS 2392 1 (autoclean) ipt_TOS 1048 9 (autoclean) ipt_state 568 58 (autoclean) ipt_LOG 3384 62 (autoclean) powernow-k7 4033 0 (unused) snd-ali5451 14308 1 snd-pcm 74148 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-ali5451] snd-page-alloc 6676 0 [snd-pcm] thermal 6180 0 (unused) snd-timer 17024 0 [snd-pcm] processor 8312 0 [thermal] snd-ac97-codec 45400 0 [snd-ali5451] fan 1472 0 (unused) button 2380 0 (unused) snd 40388 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-ali5451 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec] battery 5600 0 (unused) soundcore 3940 0 [snd] ac 1696 0 (unused) ds 7212 1 yenta_socket 10784 1 pcmcia_core 47328 0 [ds yenta_socket] st 29680 0 (autoclean) (unused) sr_mod 14616 0 (autoclean) sg 35232 0 (autoclean) keybdev 2156 0 (unused) mousedev 4340 0 (unused) joydev 5440 0 (unused) evdev 3840 0 input 3488 0 [keybdev mousedev joydev evdev] usb-ohci 20104 0 (unused) usbcore 64332 1 [ov511 pwc usbserial usb-ohci] raw1394 18288 0 (unused) ieee1394 188260 0 [raw1394] af_packet 13192 1 (autoclean) 8139cp 14344 1 mii 2640 0 [8139cp] ip6t_LOG 3736 2 (autoclean) ip6t_REJECT 1528 3 (autoclean) ip6table_mangle 2744 0 (autoclean) (unused) ipt_REJECT 3288 3 (autoclean) iptable_mangle 2168 1 (autoclean) iptable_filter 1708 1 (autoclean) ip_nat_ftp 2992 0 (unused) iptable_nat 16366 1 [ip_nat_ftp] ip_conntrack_ftp 3920 1 ip_conntrack 18084 3 [ipt_state ip_nat_ftp iptable_nat ip_conntrack_ftp] ip_tables 11328 10 [ipt_TCPMSS ipt_TOS ipt_state ipt_LOG ipt_REJECT iptable_mangle iptable_filter iptable_nat] ip6table_filter 1804 1 (autoclean) ip6_tables 12224 4 [ip6t_LOG ip6t_REJECT ip6table_mangle ip6table_filter] ipv6 227456 -1 (autoclean) [ip6t_REJECT] key 70456 0 (autoclean) [ipv6] ide-scsi 11056 0 scsi_mod 101236 4 [st sr_mod sg ide-scsi] ide-cd 32416 0 cdrom 29216 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] lvm-mod 65508 0 (autoclean) ext3 88552 5 jbd 52480 5 [ext3] any help appreciated Greetings. Un Saludo. Carlos Lorenzo Matés

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RE: [SLE] Cups, router with DHCP problem
by Khanh Tran 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

How were you assigning IPs before you bought the router? Khanh Tran Network Operations Sarah Lawrence College -----Original Message----- From: FX Fraipont [mailto:fxf@skynet.be] Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 9:02 AM To: SuSE Subject: [SLE] Cups, router with DHCP problem I have bought a router which includes a dhcp server. Installation was straightforward, the router has IP 192.168.1.1 and the five Lan machines get their IP through the dhcp server included in the router. My lan has 2 SuSe linux boxes and 3 windows boxes. One of the linux boxes has a Samsung ML1710 laser printer and a HP deskjet attached to it. Before I put in the router, each lan box could print to my printers via cups + samba. Now printing does not work any more, and I'm trying to find a solution. Actually there are two problems: 1. the linux box does not find the cups server on the machine the printer is attached to 2. the windows boxes, which were configured to print to http://IP address:631/printers/ml1710, can't anymore because the the dhcp server gives a different IP each time a box comes on. How do I configure this. I would greatly value the expertise of more experienced users. Thanks FX -- 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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Cups, router with DHCP problem
by FX Fraipont 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

I have bought a router which includes a dhcp server. Installation was straightforward, the router has IP 192.168.1.1 and the five Lan machines get their IP through the dhcp server included in the router. My lan has 2 SuSe linux boxes and 3 windows boxes. One of the linux boxes has a Samsung ML1710 laser printer and a HP deskjet attached to it. Before I put in the router, each lan box could print to my printers via cups + samba. Now printing does not work any more, and I'm trying to find a solution. Actually there are two problems: 1. the linux box does not find the cups server on the machine the printer is attached to 2. the windows boxes, which were configured to print to http://IP address:631/printers/ml1710, can't anymore because the the dhcp server gives a different IP each time a box comes on. How do I configure this. I would greatly value the expertise of more experienced users. Thanks FX

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RCA Lyra 1090
by Steven Pasternak 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

I have an RCA Lyra 1090 and want to get it to work under SuSE 9.1 kernel 2.6.9. When I plug it in, it is automatically mounted as subfs, but says that there is no media when I go to access it. When I mount it as anything else besides subfs and vfat it says: 'mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, or too many mounted file systems' and when I mount it as vfat I get this: 'mount: /dev/sda1: can't read superblock' I heard somewhere that a digital-camera driver works, but 1. I don't know which it is 2. I don't know how to load the driver. can anyone help?

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Poweroff/ACPI problems in upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2
by Ford Prefect 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Hello. I was disappointed to find that on upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2 on my Gericom Ego laptop (Centrino 1.7G, AMI BIOS) that PROBLEM 1: unless I put "acpi=off" in the boot options, I get a kernel OOPS which results in KDE startup dwelling on the "initializing peripherals" stage for ages and then giving up (initialisation progress window disappearing). I don't want to include all the ACPI debug messages but here's some stuff: ... ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @ 0x000f58e0 ACPI: RSDT (v001 A M I OEMRSDT 0x06000428 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1ffd0000 ACPI: FADT (v002 A M I OEMFACP 0x06000428 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1ffd0200 ACPI: OEMB (v001 A M I AMI_OEM 0x06000428 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1ffdf040 ACPI: SSDT (v001 AMI CPU1PM 0x00000001 INTL 0x02002026) @ 0x1ffd3e50 ACPI: DSDT (v001 1003 10032400 0x00002400 INTL 0x02002026) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408 ACPI: local apic disabled ... ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found! ... ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line) ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present) ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1, 8 throttling states) ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (53 C) dswload-0292: *** Error: Looking up [ACST] in namespace, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS psparse-1133: *** Error: [NULL NAME], AE_ALREADY_EXISTS Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000010 printing eip: c020c901 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] ... PROBLEM 2: The OS is unable to switch the machine off, whether ACPI is enabled or not. Any suggestions, please? Thanks, Matthew ___________________________________________________________ Win a castle for NYE with your mates and Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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upgrade 9.2 partitions question
by steve-ss 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

I want to upgrade a box from 9.1 to 9.2. The only partition I can select for upgrade is / (the one with fstab on it). All the others are marked 'unknown'. What about these others I have, /var, /usr, /srv and so on? I want to upgrade those as well. Will yast mount them and upgrade those too? Confused, Steve.

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trouble in .ycp module compilation
by Pengcheng Zou 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

hi, i am trying to compile the yast2 package (yast2-2.9.75), when i try to make, i got the following errors: make[3]: Entering directory `yast2-2.9.75/library/types/src' /usr/bin/ycpc -c -M. -I. -q Hostname.ycp Hostname.ycp:15 [Interpreter] Loading module 'IP' failed Import.cc(import):100 [libycp] No matching component found Hostname.ycp:15 [Parser] Can't load module 'IP'. i read the ycpc code, and notice it tries to import 'IP' module, but failed. however, the IP.ycp is compiled OK and IP.ybc is sitting right in the same directory. it seems to be the problem of Y2ComponentBroker, and could be related to the YaST environment not properly setup (I have to admit i am using RH9 to do the compilation). one thing strange is that genericfrontend.cc in yast2-core contains a 'main' routine, when tries to link ycpc with liby2, i got the duplicate 'main' routine error, so i have to remove the 'main' routine in genericfrontend.cc to compile ycpc. wonder if someone here could give me some hint on that, or point me to some YaST2 development document (i searched the web but found almost nothing useful). Thanks in advance,

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Re: [SLE] split Double Layer DVD into 2 nomal DVD's ???
by Johnny Ernst Nielsen 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Lørdag 20 november 2004 04:25 kvad Donn Washburn: > Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > > Good day, > > > > my command line futzing is very rusty so please forgive me. > > > > What is the point of this: > >>cp -a suse/i586 /data/tmp/suse92/ > >>cp -a suse/i586 /data/tmp/suse92/suse > > > > Does it copy the same source directory to two different > > destination directories? > > If so, why? > > > > Best regards :o) > > Johnny :o) > > Hey Johnny; > > Take a look at "cp -Rp" it might save you some work. Good dag Donn, I know, but that was not the reason for my question. Someone asked if someone else could see anything wrong with the script code splitting a double layer DVD. I ran over the code, and tripped upon the above two lines. To me it looks like they make two copies of the same stuff and thus will cause the data to take up double space. Whatfore? Best regards :o) Johnny :o)

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wlan acx_pci problems
by steve-ss 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Hi. We have a dlink 520+ which Yast identifies as acx_pci. I see that there is a firmware patch in YOU for the acx100 chipset. I've tried downloading firmware from other sources but I've no idea which directory to put it in. I've tried /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware but no go. -has anyone got this card to work in 9.2? -Where is that YOU rpm on the SuSE server? I don't want to download it and install it on another box, I just want the rpm. THanks Steve.

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HP DL320 G2 ide - Kernel problems (handled not solved) hang after format
by Kevin F. Berrien 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

I installed SLES 9 on a brand new DL320 G2 today (from HP gem within the month). This is a ServerWorks chipset & megaraid IDE. The guy at Novell was nice enough to get me some complimentary phone support despite the fact Suse/Novell doesn't offer install support as RH does. Thanks! Reasonable reps rule! No install phone support is a bad idea, Novell, btw. The install CD would boot into Yast, but after formatting root it would hang with the clock hourglass icon spining. After working on it, we found that the Installation - Safe Install solved the issue. Thus, the system was booting with the kernel params idedma off, acpi off, apm off. The kernel appears to have problem with this controller. Upon post install boot, the system has kept these settings. In speaking with the engineer, I now need to try removing the off statements one by one and see which is having an effect. Or else perhaps the HP drivers will help. I post to get the info out there (in case anyone does a search) and see if anyone has had the same issue, did they determine more specifically the issue? Kevin

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Konqueror Applet
by Erik Jakobsen 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Hi. On my SuSE 9.2, I want to open webmin in my server, and there to use the filemanager. There's applet problems then: Applet:Failed And this comes up too: Class could not be loaded: FileManager Backtrace: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Class:FileManager at org.kde.kjas.server.KJASAppletClassLoader.findClass(KJASAppletClassLoader.java:248) at org.kde.kjas.server.KJASAppletClassLoader.loadClass(KJASAppletClassLoader.java:281) at org.kde.kjas.server.KJASAppletStub$2.run(KJASAppletStub.java:187) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534) How can I get out of that problem ? Erik Jakobsen

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YOU update check time getting longer
by John J. Foster 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Good evening, I've been running 9.1 for about 6 months now, after learning Linux on Fedora Core. I'm far from what anyone in their right mind would call accomplished, however. I normally check for, and apply, security updates on a daily basis. I've noticed over the past month or so that just the process of checking for updates via YOU has grown to about 10 minutes time. Today I logged nearly 3MB of data transfer just for the check. I ended up only needing about 80K of actually program updates. What actually takes place here? What is being downloaded? I have YOU set to delete updates from disk after they've been applied. Are there cache files that need cleaning? Is there an index that needs rebuilding? Are there better, finer grained solutions than YOU? Thanks in advance, John -- Thanks to spin, we can incarcerate our citizens at the rate of 1200 per week...and still live in the land of the free.

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Re: [SLE] I'm tired--9.2
by DC Parris 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

---------- Original Message ------------- Subject: [SLE] I'm tired--9.2 Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:42:22 -0500 From: Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Hello, all--and probably goodbye-- I know you have been helpful thruout all this time-- I've been with SuSE since 7.1, but I've had it. The mail program (KMail) seems to forget its SMPT information, it also forgot its screen mode, now having to click twice on a message, and then having it come up in a little quarter- screen window. I've never been able to get any kind of sound, much less video, even tho the built-in noises work. Open Office will no longer open. I don't know where I go from here-- back to XP, for a while, I guess. I have a copy of Free-BSD, which I've never tried, but I guess I will. (9.1 crashed in such fashion that nothing would revive it. Before then, 8.2 gradually deteriorated to unusability. 9.2 has _already_ degraded to unusability.) This is a fairly modern machine, and XP runs perfectly on it. I guess I will be watching for a few days, while you all flame me, but enough is enough. Thank you for the help you have offered over the years. --doug Ironically, I just led a guy to install SUSE 9.2 because his WinXP crashed inexplicably. He wound up having to reinstall WinXP. That's just to say your milage will definitely vary. Just don't do anything to stress out XP, like turn on your computer - that's all it took for his to crap out. Anyway, he loved the SUSE 9.2 install. He's impressed. Sorry to hear you're tired. I've had a better experience, I guess. Besides, Now that I'm finally rid of proprietary software, I could hardly turn back. Here's to your swift return to the list! Regards, Don -- DC Parris Matheteuo Christian Fellowship webdev(a)matheteuo.org http://matheteuo.org/ Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anywhere anytime!

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Strange audio problem.
by Fred A. Miller 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

I've a strange problem with 9.2 that I've not had before, and haven't been able to find the "fix" for it. As root, any mixer works....finding the Crystal Audio chipset. As user, trying to run KMix, for example, returns a "can't find mixer" error. Obviously, it's a permissions problem, and one that shouldn't have happened. Does anyone know what files I need to change permissions on, or is that the "fix?" Thanks, Fred -- "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin 1759

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Kontact Notes dissapear
by Thom Nuzum 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

After creating a note in Kontact it will vanish after closing and opening Kontact. Anybody else using Kontact have this? -- ___ _ __ ||_|/ \|\/| _|_|_ _ ._ _ / \_|_ _ ._ _| _._|_ _. _ _ ._ _ || |\_/| | |_| |(_)| | || (|/ |_(/_| |(_|(_| |_(_|o(_(_)| | | \__

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9.2 upgrade woes, BIG TIME!
by Sid Boyce 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

I faffed around with I don't know what and got 9.1-Pro to 9.2-Pro upgrade on my x86_64 laptop using the DVD and it's fine. On this x86 box nForce2 chipset and Athlon XP3000+, I ran into the same problems that I saw on the x86_64, did the same sort of faffing around with no luck. It goes off analysing the system and gets to choosing the root partition, if I give it /dev/hda1 (9.1 120G), it says it can't mount the dvd (either on /dev/hdb or /dev/hdd) and fails, same for the floppy if a floppy is not in place. I try to choose the /dev/hdc1 (old 9.0) as root, it's happy. hda1 is a 120G IDE (UDMA100) and hdc1 is 160G IDE (UDMA 133). I've swapped cables over on mobo, so hda1 is now the 160G it's happy as usual, hdc1 (120G), it fails to mount it. I can go to CTRL-ALT-F2 and mount the drive as /mnt, just what 9.2 is attempting. Filesystem check/debugreiserfs using the 9.2 DVD or CD, says it's fine. I've got another 160G that I shall rsync the 9.1 disk to and see if it's happy with that for the upgrade. Summat's very wrong with 9.2 as seen with the shinannegins of Pete Nickolic and others. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====

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RE: [SLE] VPN client under 9.2
by Sharpe, Richard 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

It is Symantec running on Windows 2000 Server sp4. -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Westrick [mailto:jerry@westrick.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:02 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] VPN client under 9.2 You need to mention what software your corporate is using, Then most probably go look on thier website... Most VPN software is proprietary, both the CLient and the Server need to be from the same company. It might be using an open standard though, you never know... Jerry On Wednesday 17 November 2004 17:08, Sharpe, Richard wrote: > Hi > > I am trying and failing to find out how to get a VPN client > running SuSE 9.2 to access my corporate Windows VPN server, can anyone > point me in the right direction or have a howto doc ? I would > appreciate this quite a bit > > Thanks > > Rich > > > > Richard A Sharpe > > (DBA) Sqlserver/DB2 > > Amherst Technologies > > 40 Continental Blvd > > Merrimack, NH 03054 > > PHONE .......(603) 579-6180 / (800) 431-8031 > > Cell phone ..(603) 320-7785 > > FAX .(603) 578-1072 > > EMAIL rsharpe(a)amherst1.com > > "Tenemos que tener fe" ("We must have faith") -- 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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USB 2.0 Problem
by Jose Thadeu Cavalcante 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Hi, After I install SuSE 9.2, my flash driver USB 2.0 (Apacer) stop to work. I think the problem is due IRQ bios configuration. I think this because, my other flash driver work, it is an USB 1.1. Also, my scanner and my sony dsc p71, all it are USB 1.1. I have other problem with IRQ and ethernet card, but it is solved after reconfigure the bios. The strange is that had no problem with SuSE 9.1, on the same hardware). My motherboard is an ABIT KV7. Someone can help me? Thank you Thadeu

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KDE Menu Editing, joke? 9.2
by Joe Polk 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Okay, we have yet more KDE menu problems carrying over to 9.2. This is sad, to me. I have menu items that have submenus with say "Board Games" that actually launch Chess. Other submenus have the game as a subitem proper. Is there just something about KDE that good menuing and menu editting is beyond the window manager? -- <<JAV>>

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Glade 2.6
by Raúl Moratalla 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Hi, is there any rpm package of Glade 2.6? I currently have installed glade 2.5 on Suse 9.1 and I'm not able to compile Glade 2.6 due to some problems during compilation process. Does anyone know where can I download a rpm package? Cheers, Raul

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Apache and multiple Virtual Hosts best practices
by Eric Wagar 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

I have an Apache web server with a few virtual hosts. The ftp is handled by proftpd, and I have multiple users defined. These users have their own uid and gid. The problem comes when Apache is uid apache and need to write to the said directory. I am wondering what other people have done to deal with this. Do people just set all the ftp users uid/gid to the same as the Apache uid/gid on the system? Obviously this would be an ok solution because apache uid/gid != root. What are the other ways you guys have dealth with this? Thanks eric

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USB Mount issue: 9.2
by Joe Polk 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

I've noticed this in Novell Linux Desktop and SuSE 9.2. My attached USB drive mounts as: /media/usb-000000000383:0:0:0p1. That's just odd. Any idea why? Also, my SCSI card is no longer supported, it seems. My internal ZIP drive doesn't show up anywhere and I don't see my adapter in dmesg. :( -- <<JAV>>

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Re: [SLE] Balmer threatens Asian governments who want to use Linux
by DC Parris 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

---------- Original Message ------------- Subject: Re: [SLE] Balmer threatens Asian governments who want to use Linux Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:01:50 -0600 From: Peter B Van Campen <peterb(a)vancampen.org> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com On Friday 19 November 2004 10:16 am, Gil Weber wrote: > A fascinating article on CNN.com at link below. Balmer threatens > governments using Linux with lawsuits over alleged intellectual > rights infringements. Classic quote from Ballmer at end of article: > > "We think our software is far more secure than open-source software. > It is more secure because we stand behind it, we fixed it, because we > built it. Nobody ever knows who built open-source software," he > added. > > Chutzpah!!! ;o) Here's the link to story. > Gil > > http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/biztech/11/19/tech.microsoft.reut/index. >html Hi, Remember that Steve Balmer is SB which is re-arranged BS! PeterB _____________________ Poor, poor, poor Steve. It's really sad to see him stoop to that level. Next, we'll see him try to order the Marines into China to enforce MS' IP rights. Shortly after, he'll be on the street corner with one of those "will work for food" signs. Hey! Here's a great idea. He and SCO's chief can start a new business where they sue everyone else's customers for not doing business with them. Yeah, that's the ticket! Don -- DC Parris Matheteuo Christian Fellowship webdev(a)matheteuo.org http://matheteuo.org/ Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anywhere anytime!

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Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.2 and future packaging
by Jim Sabatke 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Jack Malone wrote: > where you located jim, im in the us . if your us i can send you one. > > jack I'm in Wisconsin. And I sure would appreciate it. I'll send you my snail mail offline. Thanks, Jim

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RE: [SLE] ipw2100 1.0.1..help!!
by Khanh Tran 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

What version of SuSE are you running? Which firmware are you loading? Khanh Tran Network Operations Sarah Lawrence College -----Original Message----- From: Thom Nowakowski [mailto:Thom@chambers.no-ip.info] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 3:18 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: [SLE] ipw2100 1.0.1..help!! Hi guys, here was my issue at first; I tried connecting with my Compaq X1000 laptop to a wireless router It's a centrino chipset I set up the essid and crypt correctly...got a signal and was connected. The wireless router issued me a ip address, iwconfig confirmed I had an address I tried pinging my router...unreachable, checked route -n and noticed I didn't have a default gw. Added a default gateway hoping that would fix it..NOPE, no luck! Link says 100..ultimate line quality. My router says I'm connected to it..however I can't ping anything!! I pinged my laptop ip to be sure, I got a reply. Went to freenode.org and tried asking around. They thought maybe I needed to upgrade the driver. Downloaded and installed ipw2100 1.0.1, but now it won't load, getting the following error; WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211 (/lib/modules/2.6.8-24-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100/ieee8 0211.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) Unloaded all ieee modules...still didn't help. Can someone please help me? I have no idea what to do next?? Thanks!! Thom

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bash, single quotes, double quotes, escape characters
by Jason Joines 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

I'm trying to do an ldapsearch in a bash script. I need to be able to expand a variable and use a NOT (!). If I use double quotes around the filter like this: ldapsearch "(&(cn=$LOGIN)(!(usertype=student)))" bash complaines about "bash: !: event not found" and doesn't even execute the command. If I use single quotes around the filter like this: ldapsearch '(&(cn=$LOGIN)(!(usertype=student)))' the command runs but the variable does not get expaned. If I use a backslash escape like this: ldapsearch "(&(cn=$LOGIN(\!(usertype=student)))" ldapsearch complains about "ldapsearch: ldap_search_ext: Bad search filter (-7)" Any ideas? Jason Joines =================================

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Another 9.2 oddity
by Joe Polk 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

I'm getting: find: . changed during the execution of find I get this alot when using find. I've only seen this in NLD 9.0 and SuSE 9.2. Anyone know why? -- <<JAV>>

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cyrus vacation issues
by Darin Perusich 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

i don't know if this is specific to the cyrus-2.2.3 packages as distributed with SuSE 9.1 but the vacation functionality is pretty much broken. when vacation is enabled for a user the sender nearly never gets a reply message, i'm using squirrel/avelsieve for creating rules. this problem is related to the sieve-vacation-time-period.patch that SuSE is applying to the package. if i remove this patch and recompile the packages vacation works fine. -- Darin Perusich Unix Systems Administrator Cognigen Corp. darinper(a)cognigencorp.com

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ipw2100 1.0.1..help!!
by Thom Nowakowski 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Hi guys, here was my issue at first; I tried connecting with my Compaq X1000 laptop to a wireless router It's a centrino chipset I set up the essid and crypt correctly...got a signal and was connected. The wireless router issued me a ip address, iwconfig confirmed I had an address I tried pinging my router...unreachable, checked route -n and noticed I didn't have a default gw. Added a default gateway hoping that would fix it..NOPE, no luck! Link says 100..ultimate line quality. My router says I'm connected to it..however I can't ping anything!! I pinged my laptop ip to be sure, I got a reply. Went to freenode.org and tried asking around. They thought maybe I needed to upgrade the driver. Downloaded and installed ipw2100 1.0.1, but now it won't load, getting the following error; WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211 (/lib/modules/2.6.8-24-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100/ieee8 0211.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) Unloaded all ieee modules...still didn't help. Can someone please help me? I have no idea what to do next?? Thanks!! Thom

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Where can I find the RPM km_megaide ?
by Erwan. 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Hi, To make kernel RPMs I need km_megaide RPM but I don't where to find it. Thanks, Erwan.

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ftp and ftp-data
by Martin Mielke 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Hi all, just a dumb question: is the port for ftp-data always ftp-1 ? I mean: usually ftp == 21 and ftp-data == 20, so if I start a FTP server on, say, 50021, would ftp-data be 50020 by default? if not, where do I configure that ftpd's behaviour? TIA and regards, Martin

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Best video card, SuSE 9.2
by Joe Polk 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Q: Seeing as trying to get an NVidia card to work with SuSE is a cruel joke, what is the best alternative? Are ATI Radeon's any easier? I'm going through enough just to install 9.2 (mysterious "error occurred during installation"). To have to fight the NVidia install is exasperating. I'm willing to buy another card for simplicity's sake. -- <<JAV>>

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SuSE 9.2 missing packages in 5 cds
by Marios K. 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Hi, A friend of me, gave the 5 cds of suse 9.2 to install them. I am a suse user since version 8.0, and the the past two versions the installation have been made from the dvd's (version 9.0 and 9.1). I noticed that from the version of 9.2 a lot of packages are missing (a lot of devel packages) and ,one important package for me, the gcc-fortran. I searched the package list on the net and found that for example fortran is on dvd1. So, does the cd version os suse have less packages?

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Real Player 10
by Mitja 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

I have a problem with Real Player 10 under SuSE 9.2: if i want to play a ''ram'' file i got a msg: 'Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it.' Other problem is that when i open movie file (on the Internet), movie play but without sound. I installed Real Player from SuSE DVD. Mitja

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WLAN Card Problems
by Don Parris 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

I got a friend to try SUSE 9.2. Everything works out of the box for him - optical USB mouse, t.v. card, etc. Only problem is his D-Link wireless card. According to him: "It sets the eth0 fine, but then seems to die horribly on the wlan0. YaST recognizes the card correctly (i think... it gives it the right model number at least) and knows it's a wireless card, but it doesn't seem to be able to actually make the settings stick at boot." I don't know squat about wireless, but here's the relevant boot log message: Setting up network interfaces: lo lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8 done eth0 device: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01) eth0 configuration: eth-id-00:e0:18:a1:99:9e eth0 (DHCP) . . . . . <notice>pidofproc: dhcpcd 4675 IP/Netmask: 192.168.0.5 / 255.255.255.0 done wlan0 device: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01) wlan0 configuration: wlan-bus-pci-0000:00:0e.0 ERROR: command 'iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed' returned Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported. ERROR: command 'iwconfig wlan0 nick (none)' returned Error for wireless request "Set Nickname" (8B1C) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. ERROR: command 'iwconfig wlan0 key off' returned Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. ERROR: command 'iwconfig wlan0 key restricted c262281402' returned Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. ERROR: command 'iwconfig wlan0 essid NicknRob' returned Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. doneSetting up service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .done <notice>exit status of (network) is (0) I don't know what the log messages mean, though I can see there are definitely some issues. I believe he's trying to connect to the router that he uses for his cable Internet Access. I can see that his card gets assigned a MAC address, and then the DHCP gets configured. Then it dies. Can anyone help with this? Great chance to convert an already willing candidate. Don -- DC Parris GNU Evangelist http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime anywhere!"

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Adaptec driver problem (I think)
by John Quentin Heywood 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey Folks, I have an Adaptec 29160 Ultra 160 SCSI adapter, to which I have connected an HP StorageWorks DAT 72x6 autoloader tape drive. The Adaptec card checks out on its own onboard diagnostics, and it sees the tape drive. When I boot SuSE 9.1, the tape drive lcd gives a "SCSI Error: Check Interface" error message. dmesg tells me: host 0 channel 0 id 5 lun16777216 LUN larger than allowed by host adapter and: Adaptec AIC7xxx EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA Driver Rev. 6.2.36 <Adapted 29160 Ultra 160 SCSI adapter> aic7892: Ultra 160 Wide Channel A, SCSI ID=7, 32/253 SCBs It seems to me like the driver is not reading the LUN correctly. I know the current driver on the unofficial Adaptec page (Justin's Linux Page) is listed as 6.3.6, and SuSE 9.1 uses 6.2.36. That page had SuSE rpms, but the latest SuSE version they were built for was 8.2. I don't know if this was fixed in this newer driver, but I figured it would be worth a try. Could anyone tell me: (1) what I need to read/do to be able to upgrade this driver? (2) any other ideas to fix the underlying problem? I would be very grateful. John - -- John Quentin Heywood Adjunct Professor of International Law Digital Media Librarian & Information Architect American University Washington College of Law 202-274-4329 heywood(a)american.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBniKMgYU8OFyQRP4RAgTxAJ0bEUp94krlBoaHOfEVisjPHTBkLQCdFX4d 7c+OHQzlP3Wei8I0syWU9nI= =LR/1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Detatchable menus
by Paul Howie 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

I remember being quite fond of the detachable menus in KDE when I first tried linux (redhat 7.2 iirc) but I found the rest of the linux experience a bit too much at the time. Since then I've become a regular SuSe user and a KDE devotee, but I can't seem to find a way to bring the detachable menus back, either for the K menu, or application menus. Does anyone know how I could do this? Thanks in advance.

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Configure background
by Susemail 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

In Konqueror under the View menu there was an option to 'configure background'. How do I do this in 9.1 and 9.2? Thanks, Jerome

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Webmin
by Bruce Marshall 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Webmin 1.170 is now available from www.webmin.com and it supports SuSE 9.2

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3ware 7006-2 , SuSE, i865G
by oss 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Hello world. I've a serious hardware problem. More than one year I've used D865GBFL (Intel motherboard) with 3WARE Escalade 7006-2 ATA RAID Controller with two Seagate Barracuda 120G ATA disks and SuSE 9.0. And I've tested it with new SuSE 9.2 (all worked fine). Now I've got D-Link DFE580TX Four-port ethernet card. After installation of this adapter into my computer the server started to hang from several seconds/minutes of work. It happens and with another PCI a card - Cronyx PCI (8port RS232 controller (http://www.cronyx.ru)). I have not had time to establish the driver of these devices at all! But! All works well if to establish my 3WARE 7006-2 and simple Intel Ethernet Card i82557. Strange. Who knows, why my controllers do not work in pair with 3WARE Escalade 7006-2 ? P.S. I've tested it situation with another intel mother board D865GLCL (i865G chipset too). The result is the same. But All my devices are work fine on a 440BX chipset. (Test on a old ASUS motherboard without needed productivity) Thank you for any future help. Nick.

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icecast
by Paul Constable 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

I have been trying to get icecast running on SuSE 9.1 Pro, having satisfied most dependancies, I thought I had everything covered . When I try to start the server it complains that 'libssl.so.4' is missing, and I have installed OpenSSL which should have satisfied this need. Where can one obtain the missing library or is there a SuSE rpm of icecast anywhere. Any help would be gratefully received.... Paul

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Remote Control
by Gustavo Adolfo Cerezo Vasquez 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Receive a Cordial Greeting , I would like to control a graphical application from a remote console or terminal program. For example, I run the Mplayer in order to play a video and I want to send the control keys sequences from other window (konsole) or a remote pocket pc console. How could i do that ? Thanks in advance, Gustavo Adolfo

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