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setting up network interface - 8.2
by Sam Lewis 30 May '04

30 May '04

Hi there Running Suse 8.2, I'm trying to connect via an Ethernet card to my router, which according to its manual has the default IP 10.0.0.2 . I've set my computer's IP to 10.0.0.100 and Gateway + DNS to 10.0.0.2 (firewall turned off). The pcmcia (cardbus) Ethernet card seems to work, but when pinging the router I get the following message: 'Network is unreachable'. The command 'rcnetwork restart' tells me that my that shutting down is 'skipped' and starting is a 'hotplug' event. How do I set up an network interface with pcmcia hotpluging; what could be the problem? Cheers, Sam

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Re: [SLE] Konqueror Audio CD Browser Not Working
by wmeler 30 May '04

30 May '04

I got past the complaint about "Protocol not supported". I needed to install kdemultimedia3-CD.rpm. However, now I am getting: An error occurred while loading audiocd:/: Access denied to /dev/sr0 I took your advice and unchecked "determine device automatically". I tried /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrecorder and /dev/sr0. None seem to work. (I always get the message above now.) Recommendations? Thanks in advance, wmeler -----Original Message----- From: "Mark A. Taff" <marktaff(a)comcast.net> Sent: May 30, 2004 1:25 AM To: wmeler <wmeler(a)earthlink.net> Subject: Re: [SLE] Konqueror Audio CD Browser Not Working All right, try this. First, I believe KDE uses cdparanoia for the backend of the audiocd io slave, so make sure it is installed. Second, in Control Center --> Sound & Multimedia --> Audio cd's --> CDDA settings tab --> CD Device, uncheck "determine device automatically" and enter in the proper device. Then try audiocd:/ in Konqi again. HTH Mark On Saturday 29 May 2004 06:12 pm, wmeler wrote: > My problem isn't ejecting CDs. It is getting Konqueror's Audio CD Browser > working. I do not have 9.1, but I would love to get this working as it is > my understanding that one can rip straight from this browswer. My Audio CD > Browser ALWAYS (from the time I log in) gives the error "Protocol not > supported" "audiocd". Any help in fixing this would be appreciated. > > I am sorry about the confusion I caused in talking about mounting CDs. > However, I cannot even play a CD from any application whatsoever. This > used to work before I installed KDE3.2.2. This seems to be the only thing > that does not work. > > Thanks, > wmeler > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Mark A. Taff" <marktaff(a)comcast.net> > Sent: May 29, 2004 4:53 PM > To: wmeler <wmeler(a)earthlink.net> > Subject: Re: [SLE] Konqueror Audio CD Browser Not Working > > On Saturday 29 May 2004 12:31 pm, wmeler wrote: > > I have a few problems. Getting #1 below to work would be my top > > priority, because I want to be able to rip my CDs into MP3 format very > > easily. (I could not get abcde to work, and I would much prefer to use > > konqueror directly.) > > > > 1) I am using KDE 3.2.2. I cannot get Audio CD Browser working. I > > installed the latest kdeaddons3-sound.rpm, kdemultimedia3-extra.rpm, > > kdemultimedia3-sound.rpm, and kdemultimedia3-video.rpm files today from > > the SuSE download site if this matters. > > > > 2) Regarding my CD-ROM, k3b v0.11 can copy a data CD just fine, but > > cannot copy an audio CD. It complains about not being able to open > > /dev/sr0 (but reads just fine from sr0 when worrying about a data file). > > I cannot mound an audio CD, but can mount a data CD. > > > > I managed to read an audio CD successfully using xcdroast, but would > > prefer to use k3b for everything if I can get it working. > > > > If I do an "eject sr0" it ejects a CD-ROM just fine. > > > > 3) I also have a CD-RW that can do things like burn mp3s from k3b. > > However, it cannot mount even a simple audio CD from KDE. I think maybe > > my setup has been a bit mangled by k3b_setup. As root, f I do an "eject > > /dev/hdc" it says "eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument" > > > > Here is a partial listing of my /dev directory: > > >>>ls /dev/cd* -al > > > > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 19, 128 Sep 9 2002 /dev/cdouble0 > > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 19, 129 Sep 9 2002 /dev/cdouble1 > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 18 03:22 /dev/cdrecorder > > -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 18 03:22 /dev/cdrom > > -> hdc brw-r----- 1 root disk 24, 0 Sep 9 2002 > > /dev/cdu535 > > > > >>>ls -al /dev/hdc > > > > brw------- 1 wmeler disk 22, 0 Sep 9 2002 /dev/hdc > > > > Here is my /etc/fstab file: > > >>>cat /etc/fstab > > > > /dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults > > 1 1 /dev/hdb1 /data1 auto noauto,user > > 0 0 /dev/sda1 /dos/C vfat > > users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0 /dev/sdb1 > > /windows/D vfat > > users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0 /dev/hda1 > > swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts > > /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc > > /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto > > 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto > > ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto > > ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy > > auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 auto > > noauto,user,exec 0 0 #HOTPLUG B3Fu.mrp5DZ2Q9VE /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 auto > > noauto,user,exec 0 0 #HOTPLUG B3Fu.UBr3z+wAy2B > > > > > > Cheers, > > wmeler > > Hi. > > First off, you don't mount audio cd's. You just stick them in and play > them, so it is normal that you can't mount an audio cd. > > Second, the error you get when you eject a cd is likely because a process > still has control of the cdrom. You can only eject devices that aren't in > use. This happened to me last month, and it took me awhile to debug it. > > Konqi has a habit of holding on the cdroms even after you are done with it, > so as far as eject is concerned, it is still being used. KDE also has some > problems with dead kio_auio slaves being left around. There are already > bug reports for these, but please feel free to go vote for them. :-) > > I have attached two scripts to solve the eject problem. Install > instructions are inside each script. > > As far as copying audio cd's goes, I haven't tried it, but you generally > need to use ripping software (gRip?). Also, FWIW, on KDE cvs-digest, K3B > seems to have some problems with faulty cdroms when it comes to audio cd's. > > Hope this helps. > > Mark > > > > Cheers, > wmeler Cheers, wmeler

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Re: [SLE] export DISPLAY and xhost +
by Mark Gray 30 May '04

30 May '04

Anders Johansson <andjoh(a)rydsbo.net> writes: > On Saturday 29 May 2004 18.29, Mark Gray wrote: >> That explains that -- I did not look closely enough at SuSEconfig.xdm >> to see the bug, and just assumed that it was intentional. In any case >> doing things the SuSE way by editing /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager (or >> using yast) is almost always better than directly editing the config >> files themselves. (A painful lesson I have learned time and again :-) > The automated tools differ from distro to distro. The underlying config files > are almost always identical. That's all the reason I need to stay on the > lower level. I'd rather not submit myself to voluntary vendor lockin by only > learning a single vendor's way of doing things. > If you know how it's really done, doing it the suse way is a piece of cake. > The reverse is very far from true I came to SuSE after years of using slackware and redhat and found that directly editing the lower level files like I was used to doing was asking for trouble, or at least reduced functionality (slackware and redhat's automated tools were simplistic at the time compared to yast, and more trouble than they were worth). Unless you keep SuSE's files in sync with the lower level files you are throwing a spanner into their update and upgrade procedure. If their scripts leave your modifications to the lower level files alone (as they are supposed to:-), then you are missing out on any modification to the SuSE way of doing things. This is why I always do a clean install instead of an update on at least some of my machines. SuSE continues to evolve, and the thoroughness of their knowledge of the configuration possibilities for the software is inspiring. I do not have the time to reread all the underlying manuals cover to cover every six months like one needs to do if one is to take advantage of all the bells and whistles that have been added to each and every open source package. My tastes often conflict violently with SuSE's, and it usually takes me week or two to modify my installation to a "usable" state, but I always learn something new in the process, and usually will find SuSE features which I will "adapt, adopt, and improve".

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suse 9 and Netgear ma311 PCI wireless card
by Igor Stubailo 30 May '04

30 May '04

Hello, Please.. Anybody? I am trying to install a Netgear PCI MA311 wireless card on SuSE 9.0 and having lots of problems. Anybody knows how to make MA311 work on SuSe 9? The problems are: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First problem: why does suse think my essid is "test" ? I have set it the the proper name in YAST and I can set it from the command. linux:/home/julie # iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"test" Mode:Master Frequency:2.422GHz Access Point: 00:06:25:A8:0E:55 Bit Rate:11Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3 Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:121 Missed beacon:0 sit0 no wireless extensions. linux:/home/julie # iwconfig wlan0 essid 'mynetwork' linux:/home/julie # iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"mynetwork" Mode:Master Frequency:2.422GHz Access Point: 00:06:25:A8:0E:55 Bit Rate:11Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3 Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:846 Missed beacon:0 sit0 no wireless extensions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Second question: why should i need a pcmcia package for a pci nic? linux:/home/julie # ifup wlan0 ERROR: cannot find 'wlanctl-ng': please install package 'pcmcia' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Third question: what driver should i be using? One website recommended prism2_pci. Suse's site said to use modprobe to determine if the module was loadable? I think I currently have YAST using hostap_pci. in the directory with prism2_pci, I also have orinoco_pci linux:/home/julie # modprobe prism2_pci /lib/modules/2.4.21-99-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism2_pci.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg /lib/modules/2.4.21-99-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism2_pci.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-99-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism2_pci.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.21-99-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism2_pci.o: insmod prism2_pci failed The hostap_pci driver is loaded successfully (modprobe hostap_pci) but I cannot connect either via Ad-hoc or managed mode anyway. Thanks!

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CRON Question
by C Hamel 30 May '04

30 May '04

I am using a script donated by one of our group to keep my internet connection [hopefully] alive. I am having some problem w/the CRON e-mailing an error to me each & every time it executes --whether as root or <user>. The error follows: '/bin/sh: Line 1: /usr/local/bin/ck_internet: Permission denied' For some odd reason is is not appearing as a script, though right out of the box it states in line 1: '#!/bin/sh' as any script I've made does & is recognized. What's wrong!? Script follows: #!/bin/sh # # Script to check if modem is disconnected & try reconnecting # result=$(cinternet -i ppp0 -s | grep disconnect) #Checks the status of device dsl0 for the word 'disconnect' and stores the #result in a variable called 'result' if [ -n "$result" ] #Test to see if the value is not NULL then #OK the interface is down cinternet -i ppp0 -A #Start the interface. sleep 10 else #The interface is up - Just exit exit 0 fi -- ...CH SuSE 9 Works Linux user# 313696 Linux box# 199365

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Re: [SLE] Konqueror Audio CD Browser Not Working
by wmeler 30 May '04

30 May '04

My problem isn't ejecting CDs. It is getting Konqueror's Audio CD Browser working. I do not have 9.1, but I would love to get this working as it is my understanding that one can rip straight from this browswer. My Audio CD Browser ALWAYS (from the time I log in) gives the error "Protocol not supported" "audiocd". Any help in fixing this would be appreciated. I am sorry about the confusion I caused in talking about mounting CDs. However, I cannot even play a CD from any application whatsoever. This used to work before I installed KDE3.2.2. This seems to be the only thing that does not work. Thanks, wmeler -----Original Message----- From: "Mark A. Taff" <marktaff(a)comcast.net> Sent: May 29, 2004 4:53 PM To: wmeler <wmeler(a)earthlink.net> Subject: Re: [SLE] Konqueror Audio CD Browser Not Working On Saturday 29 May 2004 12:31 pm, wmeler wrote: > I have a few problems. Getting #1 below to work would be my top priority, > because I want to be able to rip my CDs into MP3 format very easily. (I > could not get abcde to work, and I would much prefer to use konqueror > directly.) > > 1) I am using KDE 3.2.2. I cannot get Audio CD Browser working. I > installed the latest kdeaddons3-sound.rpm, kdemultimedia3-extra.rpm, > kdemultimedia3-sound.rpm, and kdemultimedia3-video.rpm files today from the > SuSE download site if this matters. > > 2) Regarding my CD-ROM, k3b v0.11 can copy a data CD just fine, but cannot > copy an audio CD. It complains about not being able to open /dev/sr0 (but > reads just fine from sr0 when worrying about a data file). I cannot mound > an audio CD, but can mount a data CD. > > I managed to read an audio CD successfully using xcdroast, but would prefer > to use k3b for everything if I can get it working. > > If I do an "eject sr0" it ejects a CD-ROM just fine. > > 3) I also have a CD-RW that can do things like burn mp3s from k3b. > However, it cannot mount even a simple audio CD from KDE. I think maybe my > setup has been a bit mangled by k3b_setup. As root, f I do an "eject > /dev/hdc" it says "eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument" > > Here is a partial listing of my /dev directory: > >>>ls /dev/cd* -al > > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 19, 128 Sep 9 2002 /dev/cdouble0 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 19, 129 Sep 9 2002 /dev/cdouble1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 18 03:22 /dev/cdrecorder -> > sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 18 03:22 /dev/cdrom -> > hdc brw-r----- 1 root disk 24, 0 Sep 9 2002 /dev/cdu535 > > >>>ls -al /dev/hdc > > brw------- 1 wmeler disk 22, 0 Sep 9 2002 /dev/hdc > > Here is my /etc/fstab file: > >>>cat /etc/fstab > > /dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults > 1 1 /dev/hdb1 /data1 auto noauto,user > 0 0 /dev/sda1 /dos/C vfat > users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0 /dev/sdb1 > /windows/D vfat > users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0 /dev/hda1 > swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts > /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc > /proc proc defaults 0 0 > usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto > 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto > ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto > ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto > noauto,user,sync 0 0 /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 auto noauto,user,exec > 0 0 #HOTPLUG B3Fu.mrp5DZ2Q9VE /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 auto noauto,user,exec 0 > 0 #HOTPLUG B3Fu.UBr3z+wAy2B > > > Cheers, > wmeler Hi. First off, you don't mount audio cd's. You just stick them in and play them, so it is normal that you can't mount an audio cd. Second, the error you get when you eject a cd is likely because a process still has control of the cdrom. You can only eject devices that aren't in use. This happened to me last month, and it took me awhile to debug it. Konqi has a habit of holding on the cdroms even after you are done with it, so as far as eject is concerned, it is still being used. KDE also has some problems with dead kio_auio slaves being left around. There are already bug reports for these, but please feel free to go vote for them. :-) I have attached two scripts to solve the eject problem. Install instructions are inside each script. As far as copying audio cd's goes, I haven't tried it, but you generally need to use ripping software (gRip?). Also, FWIW, on KDE cvs-digest, K3B seems to have some problems with faulty cdroms when it comes to audio cd's. Hope this helps. Mark Cheers, wmeler

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Classpath
by Paul Constable 30 May '04

30 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm running SuSE 9.0 Pro, and want to do some development work but am unable to set CLASSPATH or PATH variables, such that:- i. I can get started. ii. I can deploy the application for all to use, where the CLASSPATH etc. is universal. Could anyone please help.. TIA. Paul - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The box says: Win98, WinNT or BETTER. That's why I installed Linux. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAtH7PAwmyZ1M9ITQRAhchAJ9QxwKdnctCwbJJmFZqCwWq4UI2DgCgj3Hy etheSM+epzYhDe6h7sEAK94= =JoqF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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MPlayer Libs Pbm SOLVED
by C Hamel 30 May '04

30 May '04

It suddenly struck me... what would happen if I simply created a symlink with a name mplayer likes to the lib name is doesn't like?? Well... it worked: #> ln -sf /usr/lib/libsmbclient.so /usr/lib/libsmbclient.so.0 Voila! -- ...CH SuSE 9 Works Linux user# 313696 Linux box# 199365

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Re: [SLE] export DISPLAY and xhost +
by Mark Gray 29 May '04

29 May '04

Anders Johansson <andjoh(a)rydsbo.net> writes: > On Saturday 29 May 2004 09.40, Mark Gray wrote: >> Exactly -- (Perhaps I chose the wrong email in the thread to provide >> the information for others like myself who can not spare the machine >> cycles to use ssh -X, but since the poster I responded to was under >> the impression that changing the kdm config file was sufficient to >> allow tcp connections, his email seemed like the right one to reply >> to.) > The only reason it is not sufficient is a bug in SuSEconfig.xdm. It is > supposed to check for user changes, and if it finds any, not modify the file. > However, in that script there is a bug that nullifies that. > > In all other cases, editing the config file is enough to make it stick, and it > will be here too, once suse fix the bug That explains that -- I did not look closely enough at SuSEconfig.xdm to see the bug, and just assumed that it was intentional. In any case doing things the SuSE way by editing /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager (or using yast) is almost always better than directly editing the config files themselves. (A painful lesson I have learned time and again :-)

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SuSE 9.1: Upgrading packages using apt made them unrunable
by Frederic Soulier 29 May '04

29 May '04

Hi I've been upgrading some packages like epiphany (epiphany-1.2.2-5) & gnumeric (gnumeric-1.2.12-3) using apt and now they don't work anymore! frederic@wallaby:~> epiphany /opt/gnome/bin/epiphany-bin: error while loading shared libraries: /opt/gnome/bin/epiphany-bin: undefined symbol: g_signal_accumulator_true_handled frederic@wallaby:~> gnumeric gnumeric: error while loading shared libraries: gnumeric: undefined symbol: gdk_threads_lock So it seems (most likely) that some other packages should have been upgraded as well (yes, no?) If yes why apt did not resolve the depencies properly? (maybe these packages are not packaged properly). Or I don't know what I'm doing ;) which is very plausible explanation! in my /etc/apt/sources.list =========================== rpm ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt SuSE/9.1-i386 funktronics gnome kde kde3-stable kernel-of-the-day mozilla packman packman-i686 security security-prpm suse-people suse-projects suser-gbv suser-rbos suser-scorot suser-tcousin update update-prpm wine xfree86 xorg rpm-src ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt SuSE/9.1-i386 funktronics gnome kde kde3-stable kernel-of-the-day mozilla packman packman-i686 security security-prpm suse-people suse-projects suser-gbv suser-rbos suser-scorot suser-tcousin update update-prpm wine xfree86 xorg -- ____________________________________________________________________ Frederic P. Soulier frederic(a)wallaby.uklinux.net OpenPGP key available on http://www.keyserver.net 1024D/BA6700ED 49A6 8E8E 4230 8D41 1ADE B649 3203 1DD2 BA67 00ED _____________________________________________________________________

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