October 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

128 GB limit with USB / Firewire external HDD
by Fergus Wilde 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Don't think we have done this one recently, apologies if we have: Having run out of disk space on an external firewire 120 GB drive, I thought it would be fun to fit a bigger disk and installed a 400 GB drive into the enclosure. No dice, SuSE sees only 128GB of it. Explore, discover some enclosures appear to have limitations in this regard. Buy new enclosure, this one does USB2 & Firewire, and manufacturers rate it to 400 GB. Use YaST partitioner to provide a single partition - success! Partitioner sees: /dev/sda1 372.6GB Linux native /media/usbdisk 0 48640 And the device appears to mount OK: # mount | grep sda /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=reiserfs) So get on with rsync'ing data across, but it stops :-( Why? # df /media/usbdisk/ Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 134202876 134201336 1540 100% /media/usbdisk So different parts of the system appear to have different views of the disk and partition concerned: YaST can see the 400GB disk, but the filesystem can apparently only see 128GB again? The machine has ide disks with partitions > 128GB without difficulty. Because it seemed to matter in some related discussions at lists.suse.com: # rpm -qa | grep hal hal-0.5.4-6.2 hal-resmgr-0.1_SVNr59-2 This phenomenon appears in the same way on two separate machines running SuSE 10. Anyone got a clue how to get the system to 'see' the remaining part of the disk in the same way the YaST partitioner appears to see it? I do realise that there may be hardware issues here, but it would be very interesting to hear from anyone who has a large external usb2 or firewire disk running successfully. Cheers Fergus

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problem setting up samba on suse 9.3
by Istvan Gabor 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Dear SUSE users: I would like to use samba on my suse 9.3 box. I have set up the samba shares through yast. I also cheked the 'open port in firewall' option. But when I want to browse the windows/samba network, clicking on the desktop icon 'Network Browsing', then on the 'SMB Shares' icon in the upcoming window, I get the following error message: "Unable to find any workgroups in your local network. This may be caused by an enabled firewall." I checked my firewall settings and made sure that Samba Server is allowed, furthermore UDP ports 138 and 139 are enabled. Still can't browse the samba network. I can't even see my own shares. If I turn off the firewall I can browse the samba ahares and the samba network with no hassle. So it seems that the culprit is the firewall but which setting? I had no this type of problem in 9.1 and 9.2 Please help! Thanks, IG _________________________________________________________________________ Töltsd le Caramel első saját szerzeményét, és nyerj egy közös vacsorát vagy VIP-jegyeket a lemezbemutató koncertre! http://zenearuhaz.t-online.hu/index.php?m=info&albumid=14517&sp=74&sty=78

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Red-carpet or ZENworks for SuSE 10.0 Eval.
by Erik Jakobsen 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi. Where can I find the subject ?. Erik Jakobsen P.S. Please Anders!

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Network Problems after Xen Installation
by Andreas Ehmich 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hello, I installed Xen with this manual http://www.opensuse.org/Installing_Xen3 After reboot my network interfaces doesn't work. Is there a manual available howto configurate the xen bridge? Can this be done by YaST? Regards, Andi

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Capi with AVM Fritz Card PCI
by Christian Präger 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi, I want to use the AVM Fritz Card PCI 2.0 with Opensuse 10 on an AMD Athlon64. This ISDN card runs perfect with the HiSAX-Driver, but if I want to use the Capi-Driver I get following error code: error in /sbin/isdnctrl addif ippp0 I get the same error if I want to start the interface manually. I also downloaded and installed this two files: ftp://anonymous@ftp.gwdg.de:21/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/x86_64/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-GM-Extra/suse/x86_64/avmfritzcapi-2.6-40.x86_64.rpm ftp://anonymous@ftp.gwdg.de:21/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/x86_64/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-GM-Extra/suse/x86_64/km_fritzcapi-2.6-40.x86_64.rpm How can I get Capi work under Opensuse? Thanks Christian

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modifies for use Smartlink-softmodem on ibm thinkpad T41
by Gianluca 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi everyone, The opensuse project is fantastic :-) ... and now I'm tring to get my contribution. I installed the openSUSE 10.0 release on my thinkpad T41, and the packages for modem installed on my laptop are in inst-source-extra directory, and are: - smartlink-softmodem - km_smartlink-softmodem In the package km_smartlink-softmodem for 10.0, the file armlibs.o is missing... so the slamr.ko module can't be generated... and modem doesn't work !! However, this problem is already fixed in the km_smartlink-softmodem for 10.1 release... but there are other problems with that package. In fact, the slamr.ko module doesn't be generated because in the Makefile provided by the package for generate the module there isn't the definition of KERNEL_SOURCE variable used at line 19: modules modules_add clean: $(MAKE) -C $(KERNEL_SOURCE) $@ SUBDIRS=$(CURDIR) EXTRA_CFLAGS=-I$(CURDIR) So, I add the line: KERNEL_SOURCE=lib/modules/`uname -r`/build and now the slamr.ko module can be generated and installed :-). But... another problem arises with my laptop. When the kernel initialize itself and search and load the modules for my hardware, it automatically load slamr module for modem... but it do that too early. I don't know why... but this behaviour blocks the modem!!! So, I blocked the loading of slamr by kernel booting (I moved the file slamr.ko in another directory)... and I modified the script slmodemd for loading the slamr module when the script starts. And now the modem works perfectly. :-) / line 56: #modprobe slamr/ line 57: insmod /usr/src/kernel-modules/km_smartlink_softmodem/slamr.ko I'm italian... and I'm learning english... so, be patience for my poor english... thanks :-) Ciao, Gianluca

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RE: [opensuse] suse in a windows network (authentication)
by Daniel Hatfield 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

> i was wondering if I could somehow make my suse (10) authenticate > versus my windows 2003 domain controller. I configured both ldap > client and kerberos client in Yast2. Authentication works (the > kerberos part).. but I still cannot log in because ldap isn't able to > fetch user account information from my active directory which is > because it's not using the kerberos credidentials to establish a > gssapi connection. > > So I set up shell/home information in /etc/passwd. No password. > Passwords are still being retrieved from the domain controller via > kerberos. Big surprise -> login works. If I now issue a ldapsearch > with the filter it already tried before (but with no valid bind) > "(&(objectclass=User)(msSFU30Name=testuser))" it starts a SASL/GSSAPI > authentication and successfully fetches the needed information. Why > doesn't ldap use gssapi on logins then.. or where can I tell it to use > it? Couldn't find any suitable option in Yast nor the config files > themselves. I don't know about using doing this with ldap directly, but if you have Kerberos working and you've successfully joined your computer to the domain. You're really close. Let's test to make sure. Do the following as root from the command line: To test Kerberos: kinit administrator The above command will prompt for a password. Enter the password of your 2K3 domain administrator. If you have renamed your domain administrator account use the name instead with the kinit command. If you receive no errors Kerberos is working. To test winbind: wbinfo -g The above command should give you a list of groups in you Active directory. Try it with the -u switch to see a list of users. Let us know what your results are and we can help you further. Cheers, Daniel

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SuSE 9.3 Printing - Trouble with HP Colour LaserJet 2600n
by Stephen Carter 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I'm looking for any option under SuSE 9.3 that will print at all to a HP CL2600n. At this stage I don't even care about colour. Just black would be nice. I've tried the LaserJet 4 & 5 , Colour LJ 2500 & 2550 drivers going through HPJetDirect and LPD (raw and text queues) to no avail at all. I've checked linuxprinting.org and unfortunately it doesn't mention that model at all. Any help would really be appriciated. Cheers, SteveC

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SONY DRU-800A DVD+-RW oppinions
by Sunny 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi, can someone recommend this device for using under SuSE? Someone had problems? Thanks -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

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Wlan doesn't start at boot time
by Ilker 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hi all, I just installed OpenSUSE 10.0 on my desktop PC.I almost solved everything and it installed my printer and scanner (wow, it made it automatically).I also managed to show my Linksys WMP54G wireless lan card.The operating system sees the card but everytime i boot into system, i have to type "dhcpcd -G http://192.168.1.1 wlan0" as root.On my last distro, i just changed the permissions as 755 and put a "script" includes that command into init.d and worked fine, but on SUSE i couldn't get it working.I even tried it with a suid bit but no luck.Is there any way to get it connected automatically at boot ? I don't want to use NetGO.

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