November 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Swapping motherboards...
by Christopher Reimer 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

Greetings! My file server has a K6-2 motherboard that I'm going to replace with an Athlon motherboard. I have the system drive connected to the motherboard IDE controller, and two drives in a software RAID-1 configuration connected to a IDE controller card. I'm using SuSE 9.1 with the default kernal. In the past, I have swapped motherboards of similar types (e.g., Socket 7) without complications. Are there any special issues when swapping motherboards of different types? Thanks! Christopher Reimer

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9.1 Personal: 3Dfx Banshee X driver has bad signature...
by Christopher Reimer 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

I'm not sure if this has been reported or not since I couldn't find anything through Google or on the Suse website. It's possible that my Suse 9.1 Personal disc had a dirty spot for just one file. After switching out the motherboard, I decided to use an old 3Dfx Banshee 16MB card for my file server. The X driver file, XFree86-Mesa-4.3.99.902-40.i586.rpm, refused to install using YAST and SAX2 would bail out after starting up. When I tried to install from command line, the rpm reported that the file had a bad signature. I downloaded the file from the ftp server and it installed correctly without any additional problems. Thanks! Christopher Reimer

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installing php5 on 9.1
by it clown 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

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SIIG SC-PE4B12 booting and other drives
by Synthetic Cartoonz 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

I have a new (well, partially used) SIIG SC-PE4B12 ATA/133 PCI card. When the card is not plugged into the system it, of course, boots correctly with these existing devices/partitions reported in /var/boot.msg: <4>hda: SAMSUNG SV4012H, ATA DISK drive <4>hdb: Maxtor 6Y080P0, ATA DISK drive <4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 <4>hdc: HL-DT-ST GCE-8320B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 <4>hda: max request size: 128KiB <6>hda: 78242976 sectors (40060 MB) w/1824KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) <6> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 > <4>hdb: max request size: 128KiB <6>hdb: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(133) <6> hdb: hdb1 I can't produce a log of the drives when the system boots with the SIIG card installed, because the system never gets past this point above. The reason is that the presence of the card appears to have shifted all the drives around, so the system never gets past looking for the drives/partitions to mount. hda is now the first drive hooked up to the SIIG board. hdb, hdc, hdd are nowhere to be found and I'll bet money that the SIIG board reserved those IDs for all its possible drives per interfaces, because hde is the drive formerly known as hda -- the boot drive hdf is the drive that was hdb and hdg is the CD-ROM, hdc The system obviously finds the boot drive and its partitions (at least the boot partition), because linux is starting to boot. But, when it goes hunting for the remaining partitions on the drive it boots from, it's still looking for /hda6 instead of /hde6. Are partition names stored explicitly? (How do people hot swap drives?) The board and some other hard drives are going to be used in another system as non-booting data drives. I don't have that system built yet, but I wanted to test out the SIIG card and setup the partitioning for the drives. Is there a way to make the SIIG board play nice and make its drives line up last as e, f, g, h instead of a, b, c, d ? Is there a way to convince linux that the boot drive relocated to hde is really hda? Thanks, Ken Jennings

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Circuit screensaver
by Gary Hodges 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

SuSE Pro 9.0 The screensaver circuit locks X up hard. Can I just delete it from /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver or is their a better way?

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RE: Desktop sharing
by Martin 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

Quite often I'm in situation I need to start some xterm logging or other thing on my PC and later access it from some other or let someone else see the output. What I see people with XP/w2k around me doing is vnc. I know I can start vncserver on my 8.2 PC too, but what would be the safe way doing so and how can I just easy turn it on/off when needed. Thx, Martin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com

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RE: Suse 9.2 + wireless network
by Jimmy E Touma 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

Hi, I am having the same problems as described in a previous message as shown below. I can ping my gateway but I am unable to get out to the internet. Here is some info: Output of /sbin/ifstatus wlan0 1 wlan0 device: D-Link DWL-650 11Mbps WLAN Card 2 wlan0 configuration: wlan-bus-pcmcia 3 dhcpcd running 4 7: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,NOTRAILERS,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue 5 link/ether 00:40:05:de:41:93 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 6 inet 192.168.0.108/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global wlan0 7 inet6 fe80::240:5ff:fede:4193/64 scope link 8 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 9 current lease for wlan0: 10 IPADDR=192.168.0.108 11 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 12 GATEWAY=192.168.0.1 13 DNS=68.105.161.20,68.1.18.25,68.10.16.30 14 DHCPSIADDR=0.0.0.0 15 DHCPCHADDR=00:40:05:DE:41:93 16 REBINDTIME=75600 17 wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"default" Nickname:"linux" 18 Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:66:C5:6 B:C6 19 Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3 20 Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off 21 Power Management:off Output of /sbin/ifconfig 1 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:0D:09:20:11 2 inet addr:192.168.0.105 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 3 inet6 addr: fe80::203:dff:fe09:2011/64 Scope:Link 4 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 5 RX packets:9607 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 6 TX packets:9114 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 7 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 8 RX bytes:3472936 (3.3 Mb) TX bytes:860332 (840.1 Kb) 9 Interrupt:201 Base address:0x8000 10 11 lo Link encap:Local Loopback 12 inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 13 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host 14 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 15 RX packets:29249282 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 16 TX packets:29249282 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 17 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 18 RX bytes:2340183505 (2231.7 Mb) TX bytes:2340183505 (2231.7 Mb) 19 20 wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-40-05-DE-41-93-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 21 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 22 RX packets:1060 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 23 TX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 24 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 25 RX bytes:90116 (88.0 Kb) TX bytes:7482 (7.3 Kb) 26 Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100 27 28 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:DE:41:93 29 inet addr:192.168.0.108 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 30 inet6 addr: fe80::240:5ff:fede:4193/64 Scope:Link 31 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 32 RX packets:1060 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 33 TX packets:54 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 34 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 35 RX bytes:77364 (75.5 Kb) TX bytes:7430 (7.2 Kb) 36 Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100 37 Output of dmesg (last line) martian source 192.168.0.105 from 64.233.161.104, on dev wlan0 966 ll header: 00:40:05:de:41:93:00:0f:66:c5:6b:c4:08:00 192.168.0.105 is the address of eth0. I can get out on the net under XP wireless and eth0, but not through wlan0. With 9.1 I had to start dhcpcd to get out using the wireless but that doesn't work anymore with 9.2. Thanks Jim ________________________________________________________________________ X-Message-Number-for-archive: 214176 Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:11:17 +0100 Message-ID: <BAY21-F183IhA1qfT7e00001685(a)hotmail.com> Subject: [SLE] Suse 9.2 + wireless network Hi, I'm trying to connect my latop to an open wireless network and I can't figure-out why any address IP is a allocated to my laptop. I'm using the hostap_pci drivers. The ESSID is ok and so is the Access Point. ifstatus wlan0 gives : wlan0 device: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01) wlan0 dhcpcd is still waiting for data wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"default" Nickname:"linux" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:3D:09:54:59 Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3 Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=35/70 Signal level=-65 dBm Noise level=-100 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:1490 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:68 Invalid misc:13 Missed beacon:0 iwlist wlan0 scanning gives wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:3D:09:54:59 ESSID:"default" Mode:Master Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6) Quality:0/70 Signal level:-63 dBm Noise level:-100 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Bit Rate:22 Mb/s Extra:bcn_int=100 Extra:resp_rate=20 The ifcfg-wlan0 generated by Yast is : OOTPROTO='dhcp' MTU='' REMOTE_IPADDR='' STARTMODE='auto' UNIQUE='WL76.Y1PWjKOI+W6' USERCONTROL='no' WIRELESS_AP='' WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='open' WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto' WIRELESS_CHANNEL='' WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0' WIRELESS_ESSID='' WIRELESS_FREQUENCY='' WIRELESS_KEY='' WIRELESS_KEY_0='' WIRELESS_KEY_1='' WIRELESS_KEY_2='' WIRELESS_KEY_3='' WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128' WIRELESS_MODE='Managed' WIRELESS_NICK='' WIRELESS_NWID='' WIRELESS_POWER='yes' WIRELESS_WPA_PSK='' _nm_name='bus-pci-0000:00:09.0' and dmesg¦tail gives : wifi0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected) wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:0f:3d:09:54:59 wifi0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected) wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:0f:3d:09:54:59 wifi0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected) wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:0f:3d:09:54:59 martian source 255.255.255.255 from 192.168.0.1, on dev wlan0 ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:0f:3d:09:54:59:08:00 Any ideas what goes wrong ? Chris.

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Network adapter drivers
by Glenn Williams 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

Hello: I am back again after many months absence. I still have a copy of SuSE version 9.1 on my laptop. It is pretty useless right now, but let me explain. I have never been able to find a driver for the D-Link DWL-650+ PCMCIA wireless network adapter card in my laptop. (Actually that is not entirely true. I did purchase a wireless network adapter driver that uses a Windows wrapper to install it. But I was never able to get to work. Or maybe it was the other way around - a Windows driver in a Linux wrapper.) As I see it, there are two major hurdles that stand in the way of my using Linux on the laptop. One is the lack of a wireless network adapter card driver, and the other is a good voice recognition program for Linux. If any of you have knowledge of breakthroughs in either of these areas, I would greatly appreciate hearing the details. Regards, Glenn

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Nagios and nrpe
by Ralf Prengel 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

Hallo, has anyone informations how to read systeminformations via nrpe. I ve absolute no idea how to configure for example reading hard-disk informations from a remote system. Nrpe ist running via xinetd on the remote suse 9.2 but how to configure the nagios-server? Thanks

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Radeon 9600XT Revisited
by Mark Annandale 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

oops, sorry should have added this to my last message..... It would also appear that ATI do not have any support for X-Org stuff and only XFree. Is this the case? My reason for asking is that I would like to try out a few games supplied with 9.2 and at the moment the graphics are incredibly slow and I get an error message about "No 3D graphics card found2. As far as I am aware the Radeon 9600Xt is capable of 3D. Thanks again. Mark

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