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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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