December 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Memtest and installing 9.3
by JB 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hi gang, I'm trying to install 9.3 on my girlfriend's system but having some troubles. All the hardware seems to be picked up fine, and everything works great up until it's time to install all the software I picked. It starts to install, but at random intervals and (I guess) random packages, it pops up windows saying such-and-such rpm cannot be installed (something about bad checksum). We tried this 6 times (a LOT of time went by doing this). I later thought 'maybe it's the RAM'. I wrote her an e-mail telling her to do the memtest86 thing, but she says it opens a console and wants a root login name and root password. Since we haven't been able to install anything there is no root anything. How do I get the thing to do the memtest if there's no root name or password? I really want her to try Linux and she's wanting to also, even her daughter is pretty enthusiastic about trying it out. Thanks, John -- Ragheads and illegal aliens...the world's cockroaches.

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KMail, Links In HTML
by Langsley 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hi all. I know that many members disapprove of HTML email but I often have times to use it and prefer it for some things. Now that that's out of the way: I have discovered that when I compose an email in which I use some colored text that any links I include in the message are changed from clickable links to plain text. I cannot seem to find any way around this. Any suggestions, other than not using HTML formatting, would be appreciated. I'm running SUSE 9.3 with KMail 1.8 and KDE 3.4.0 TIA. -- LTR Registered Linux user #280295 itisi(a)kvremcwb.com

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USB not working on Suse 10, AMD Athlon XP-M
by Apt Forrent 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hello, I am fairly new to Linux and need help with getting my USB to work. I have a laptop with AMD Athlon XP-M 2200+ w/ PowerNow Tech and have installed Suse 10 (without ACPI support because the system used to hang-up whenever I installed with ACPI). I have an optical USB mouse from Dell and the light (or laser) turns on when I hit the power button to turn the laptop on, but turns off as soon as Suse starts loading. I have tried the following commands thru the shell: linux:/home/boom # cd /proc/bus/usb/ linux:/proc/bus/usb # ls . .. linux:/proc/bus/usb # mount -t usbfs usb /proc/bus/usb/ mount: usb already mounted or /proc/bus/usb/ busy Please help me with this, if you want I can provide any output from any commands that I should run to help you better understand the problem. Many thanks. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Personals Skip the bars and set-ups and start using Yahoo! Personals for free

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User authentication server
by James Knott 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

I've been thinking about network authentication for Linux. I see that the alternatives are NIS, LDAP and SMB. I understand that NIS is considered obsolete, due to security concerns. My question concerns the ability to log on to the computer, when it's not able to reach the authentication server. For example, with Windows, when a user logs into a domain, the required key is downloaded to the computer, so that the user can later log into the computer, while disconnected from the network. Does the SMB method support this, as in Windows? Does LDAP? What about pros and cons, for either method, in a small network? What about one with both Windows and Linux computers? tnx jk

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Firewall stops internal ICMP.
by pelibali 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hi, I have a small home-net, where a SUSE 10.0 machine serves as a router. Everything works as expected, all the clients can surf / e-mail, whatever, but there is a smaller issue disturbing the harmony... We have dial-up connection and surprisingly I found, when we have no active connection, our clients _don't_ know about and they really wait until the initialized e.g. web-address will be timed-out. So in fact the router doesn't immediately let the clients know, that there is no connection and they have to find it out after a while, just "alone". Checking the firewall log showed me, that the ICMP (error-) messages don't arrive to the clients, because they get blocked (192.168.0.1 is the router, 192.168.0.6 is the client; in particular case trying to imap-ing e-mails from 146.123.123.123): Nov 26 11:28:17 trincsi kernel: SFW2-OUT-ERROR IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.0.1 DST=192.168.0.6 LEN=101 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=64 ID=3105 PROTO=ICMP TYPE=3 CODE=0 [SRC=192.168.0.6 DST=146.123.123.123 LEN=73 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=20782 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=59061 DPT=143 WINDOW=6368 RES=0x00 ACK PSH FIN URGP=0 OPT (0101080A0004BF9602DCDD03) ] Please could you suggest me a solution, how to get these ICMP packets arrive to my clients and let them through susefirewall? Maybe that's the same issue, but from clients I simply can't ping the router! I never needed it and don't plan to use something like that, but probably I would have to allow icmp somehow generally. I spent already hours with the configuration, until now no fruits. Any ideas are very welcome. Thank you, Pelibali

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ACX100 WiFi in SuSE 10.0 on AMD-64 broken.
by Peter Onion 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

I'm trying to get a Dlink AirPlus DWL-520+ going. I've used the YOU option to download the firmware, but as soon as Yast brings the interface up the machine crashes ! lspci says its 05:06.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 100 22Mbps Wireless Interface Has anyone else got one of these working on 64bit 10.0 ? Peter

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SuSE 10 Canon MP150- HELP !
by MindBender 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hello all, Have any body in this group have configured the canon MP150 sucessuly ? If yes, please tell me how? what driver to install? for now all the drivers I have tries so far was to no avail. Google in no help also. Thanks. |__|___|___|__\\|// - ?__|___|_____|___|_____| |__|___|___|__(o o)______|___|_____|___|_____| |__|___|___oOOO(_)OOOo____|___|_____|___|_____| email : ephlodur(a)rocketmail.com What we need is Awareness we can't get carelless. __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Deactivating hwscan in SUSE 10.0.
by pelibali 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Dear All, Earlier there was the command 'chkconfig hwscan off' existing, which just gives an error on SUSE 10.0. Is there a similar command for this system, or it's better not to touch the hal-based services?! Thank you, Pelibali

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schemaSpy
by Phil Burness 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Anybody using schemaSpy successfully on SuSE 9.3 or above? it keeps giving me an error with java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:199) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:219) at net.sourceforge.schemaspy.Main.getConnection(Main.java:429) at net.sourceforge.schemaspy.Main.main(Main.java:122) I've downloaded the mysql connector/J class from MySQL and installed it. I've tried defining $CLASSPATH to point to the install directory, and I've tried running schemaSpy with java -jar -cp path-to-connector/J-directory but it still gives the same error. Phil

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Fwd: @ problems samba and udev
by None Blank 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

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