December 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Novell Database
by Erik Jakobsen 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Hi. I have found very good informations on: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/ Are there a database that tells all what there is to be found on the www.novell.com ?. I would say it was by random I found the coolsolutions, but glad I did it. Then now of course I wanted to know about all the stuff that can be found on the site. Anybody that can help me ? TIA Erik Jakobsen

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DNS troubles
by Ronald Wiplinger 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

On one machine I got some DNS troubles. I start dns, but it is not running without any reasons! Can you please give me a hand? # /etc/rc.d/named stop;/etc/rc.d/named start;/etc/rc.d/named status Shutting down name server bind9 - Warning: named not running ! done Starting name server bind9 done Checking for nameserver bind9 running # ps ax |grep name returns empty # tail /var/log/messages Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2111]: starting BIND 9.1.3 Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2111]: using 1 CPU Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: zone '0.168.192.in-addr.arpa' allows updates by IP address, which is insecure Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: zone 'xxx.com.tw' allows updates by IP address, which is insecure Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: zone 'xxxx.com' allows updates by IP address, which is insecure Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: set maximum open files to -1: permission denied Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53 Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, xx.218.36.50#53 Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1, 192.168.0.254#53 Dec 26 18:03:50 dns /usr/sbin/named[2113]: running One more time in single steps: dns:~ # /etc/rc.d/named stop Shutting down name server bind9 - Warning: named not running ! done dns:~ # /etc/rc.d/named start Starting name server bind9 done dns:~ # /etc/rc.d/named status Checking for nameserver bind9 dead dns:~ # Why? How to track it down? bye Ronald Wiplinger

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New machine problems, looking for culprits
by Paul Alfille 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

A new AMD64 bit machine, new SUSE 9.3, should be heaven. Machine hangs after a few minutes of use, but I can't tell why. I hope someone recognizes a problem part so I can address it. Parts: Motherboard: Asus A8V-E includes: Disk controller: VIA SATA and IDE drives Network: Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E gigabit sound, usb, firewire on board CPU: AMD Athlon64 XP3500+ Graphics: Gigabyte PCI-Express 6600GT (NX66T128D) Attempts: WinXP: Embarassingly stable. SuSE9.3 (64bit) crashes Fedora Core 4 64-bit crashes Ubantu64 crashes DamnSmallLinux (embedded under XP with QEMU) stable!!! Obviously SuSE is my choice. I keep trying online update, hoping that the system will stay up long enough to complete and that a fix is coming. Any thoughts? Paul Alfille

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help needed for setting yast install sources
by Istvan Gabor 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Dear suse users: I have some problems using yast installation system. My problems are: 1. I can't find kamix if I search for it. However I checked the ftp site and kamix is among the packages there (in SL-10.0-OSS/ inst-source/suse/i586/). Why is it not shown in yast? 2. I would like to downgrade qt3-3.3.5 to qt3-3.3.4. But yast shows only 3.3.5 even in the version window. Currently my install sources are set up like this, in this order, all of them are enabled, refreshing is enabled for all too: 1. ftp.novell.hu/pub/mirrors/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/ distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source/ 2. ftp.novell.hu/pub/mirrors/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/ distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source-java/ 3. ftp.novell.hu/pub/mirrors/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/10.0/SUSE- Linux10.0-GM-Extra/ 4. ftp.novell.hu/pub/mirrors/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/ supplementary/KDE/update_for_10.0/yast-source/ 5. ftp.novell.hu/ pub/mirrors/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/ supplementary/GNOME/update_for_10.0/yast-source/ 6. packman.inode.at/suse/10.0/ In the last line there is the suse evaluation DVD but that is disabled. Thanks, IG _____________________________________________________________________________ Töltse az év végét sztárokkal! Ingyen filmek egészen Újévig a T-Online Tékában! http://www.t-online.hu

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how to use "fixed" graphic card setup in 10.0?
by Istvan Gabor 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Hello all: SUSE likes to "fix" things that work well. In earlier versions (9.0, 9.1, 9.2 and 9.3) Yast/sax2 graphic card setup was pretty straightforward. One could choose from a driver list which driver to use. This option is gone in 10.0. Also it was easy setting up different resolutions with the checkmarks. I can't find this in 10.0 either, there is only a pulldown list in which I can choose only one setting (eg XGA 1024x768) at a time. So my questions are: 1. How can I switch to the nv driver instead of nvidia? 2. How can I set these resolutions: 1024x768 an 640x480 so that ctrl-alt-+/- would result in the change. Thanks, IG _________________________________________________________________________________ Karácsonyi és Akciós csengőhangok a megújult Sztarsms oldalon - http://www.sztarsms.hu

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Re: Radio-Stream
by Ronald Wiplinger 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Taner Ayaydin wrote: > Hallo Liste, > > erstmal wünsche ich allen frohe Weihnachten und begebe mich an meine Frage. > > > > Ich habe vor, in unsere Community ein Online-Radio einzufügen. Habe mir mal > die Angebote auf www.radiostream.de <http://www.radiostream.de/> angeschaut > und überlegt, bei Preisen zwischen 99 - 279 Euro miete ich mir einen eigenen > Server und betreibe es selber. > Wie schon Wolfgang erwaehnte, mach Dich ueber den Musikschutz schlau, ... Aber da hab' ich was fuer Dich, schau mal auf: http://www.podsafeaudio.com und http://www.garageband.com Deren Musik kann man verwenden, man muss nur den Hinweis geben wo die Musik zu kaufen ist. Ich moechte Dich aber auch in eine andere Richtung lenken: Wann liest Du DIESE Meldung? Siehst Du mir auf die Finger wenn ich tippe? Ist es wirklich notwendig zu "streamen"? Ich habe meistens dann, wenn das Programm laeuft keine Zeit, und wann ich Zeit habe, dann ist das Programm vorbei. Die Loesung dazu ist Podcasting. Uebrigens ein neues Wort in der Britania Encyclopadie heuer aufgenommen. Es ist i.m wesentlichen nur eine Aufnahme des Programs und in MP3 (audio) oder MP4 (video) gespeichert. Es gibt kostenlose Speicherplaetze und auch kostenpflichtige. Hier kann man auch "Shownotes" dazugeben, was dem Hoerer auch helfen kann das Programm leichter zu verstehen. Zum Erstellen der Aufzeichnung gibt es auch kostenlose Programme (Audacity). Es gibt natuerlich fuer Windows mehrere Programme. Ein weiteres schoenes Detail ist, dass man RSS feeds dazu machen kann. Aber auch Shoutcast (und ich glaube auch Icecast) kann das. Kurz: Podcasting mit frei Verfuegbarer Musik koennte Dir viel Geld ersparen! iPod oder MP3 Spieler hat ja jeder schon. bye Ronald Wiplinger > Hab bei http://www.shoutcast.com/ vorbeigeschaut um mich kurz über die > Software schlau zu machen. Alles auf English. Oki, dann wars auch mal > vorerst damit :-) > > > > Meine Frage. Ist es arg kompliziert so etwas auf einem gemieteten Server zu > betreiben? > > Was für eine Bandbreite haben solche Server generell, um zu Wissen, wie viel > User bei 128kbs da ohne Probleme mithören könnten. > > Die 1000GB Traffic dürften wohl für den Anfang ausreichen? (1&1 L64) > > > > Für Tipps, Ratschläge und Hilfestellungen wäre ich sehr Dankbar. > > (Vielleicht kennt sich auch jemand damit aus, einen UKW Radiosender zu > gründen und kann mir Ansprechpartner und Infos zukommen lassen) > > > > Viele Grüße > > Taner > > > > > -- Ronald Wiplinger (CEO of ELMIT) http://www.elmit.com http://voip.elmit.com http://e-paper.elmit.com Tel. (M) +886.939.775.516 (O) +886.2.2835.7765 (ENUM) or FWD 511208 - I'm a SpamCon Foundation Member, #694, Verify it at http://www.spamcon.org PS: Spam prevention! Our system is protected with a spam prevention program. If you send us an e-mail, our system will send you a confirmation message back. Just reply to this confirmation message please. After receiving this confirmation message, our system will send the hold message (one) and all future messages (after the received confirmation message) to me without asking you again.

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RE: [SLE] Problems with initrd after mkinitrd
by Carlos E. R. 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2005-12-26 a las 04:56 -0500, Patrick Freeman escribió: (Notes) Er... even if you answered in private, I'll answer to the list, as it could well be your server rejected my direct reply (dynamic ip); we'll see. And this way more people can comment on your problem. Another thing: you are using a mail program that breaks threading: it removes / does not respect "In-Reply-To" and "References" headers, and thus your emails appear disconnected from previous posts to the same thread. It would be better to use another one that does, at least in mail lists. > > That's the fix... but I don't see clearly what is the problem, the > > symptoms :-? > > Carlos -- thanks -- I guess I am curious *why* this is happening -- what > am I doing wrong? Or what is going wrong with the process (mkinitrd or > whatever). > > To clarify the problem, symptoms: On a set of identical machines, > making a change to the initrd (via mkinitrd, either adding a driver or > an updated driver) causes a subset of the machines to hang on loading > the new initrd and not on the balance of the set (The details should be > available from my original post, but I hope I have included everything > you might want to know). Ah, ok, I understand. No error messages, just hang? You could leave the verbose boot screen on by default to find out. I think that initrd is read by the boot loader, ie, grub or lilo, and it uses the bios functions to do this, as the kernel is not running yet. So, things to check could be: Is the bios updated? Is that file about the same position (track number) in the HD? Perhaps having a separate ext2 /boot partition, below track 1024 would help - or perhaps not. You could find out if there is a correlation in bioses versions/releases. Another idea could be to check if the other boot manager (lilo / grub) works better in your case. - -- Saludos Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDr9gvtTMYHG2NR9URAjRHAKCQGJhgd9rvyLpkx4F77w8I2qdXVgCeMpnu g5+4uJSp3QVPmAqepz3B3DA= =vmGA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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SUSE 9.3 Pro and 3 NICs
by Eric Hines 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Folks, I'm running SUSE Pro 9.3 on an Intel server board with two NICs built in (a GigE and a 10/100). I've since added a Netgear GigE as a 3d NIC. I'm trying to set this box up as a Samba server for a 2-subnet LAN that will have a mix of XP and SUSE machines. eth0 is supposed to face the Net (on ....1.2); the other two NICs are supposed to connect only to eth0 for access to the Net and to each other. The problem I'm having (or maybe not; I'm an extreme newbie with networking) is that every time I boot up the SUSE server, the NICs come out assigned differently: 1 boot: eth0 on 192.168.3.1 Intel GigE NIC eth1 on ...2.2 Intel 10/100 eth2 on ...3.1 Netgear 2 boot: eth0 on ...3.1 Intel 10/100 eth1 on ...1.2 Netgear eth2 on ...2.2 Intel GigE 3 boot: eth0 on ...1.2 Netgear eth1 on ...3.1 Intel GigE eth2 on ...2.2 Intel 10/100 and so on. Both IP address assignments to the NICs and which NIC is on a given ethx change, apparently at random. It would seem that cabling my subnets cannot be done if the NIC assignments keep changing on every boot up. How can I force the system to keep the NICs on a stable assignment--and one of my choosing? The above changes come whether I change the NIC assignments via YaST or do nothing at all before a reboot. Thanks for your help. Eric Hines There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. --Bertrand Russell

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Re: [SLE] suddenly no sound
by Steve Lett 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

----- Original Message ----- To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] suddenly no sound Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:41:08 -0500 > Hi Steve, > I've gotta run, but here's an idea: delete the file > /etc/modprobe.d/sound, run > YaST again and see if you can configure the sound card. Merry Christmas! > - Carl Did that and then it did recognize the CLabs sound card at next start up, the system knows it's there and suggests a setup, so the card itself seems working but I cannot configure it. It won't save the setup options giving the error: An error occurred during the installation of CT4780 SBLive! Value The kernel module snd-emu10k1x for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. Indeed Carl's response to "SuSE 10.0 not responding to "shutdown-r now" seems to apply here. Not mentioned in the previous post as I didn't associate it... I just did a kernel upgrade along with the other YOU suggested updates after installing the video card. Just really looking to get newest drivers, but I remember there was a note about the kernel upgrade and rebooting afterward. It didn't warn me that it was gonna trash my system completely. ;-( But that's kind of what's happening here, a general crapping out of lots of things... Control Center reports Release 2.6.8-24.19-default Since my original post, I've tried a couple of other things and am having serious problems. Thunderbird opens and crashed closed immediately. K3B won't open at all, even by root. KCDRecorder won't open at all, even by root. Audacity Amarok pretty much everything multimedia seems screwed up, though Firefox still works and it browses OK. Open Office works, printer OK, mouse OK... I'm wondering if I shouldn't just reload 9.2 from scratch to clearup the mess, get the system stable, and then update all BUT the kernel. --But don't I need the kernel upgrade? It shows as a security issue... Should I just get the iso for 10.0 and upgrade to that? Or is that a worse can of worms? Upgrade to 9.3 and update kernel and all amd see what happens? I'm more and more confused about what to do... I'm not so skilled but I can sure make a mess of things in a hurry. lol... Thanks for any feedback. I'm anxious to see what opinions are out there about either fixing or replacing. And Merry Christmas from West Tennessee, U.S.A.!n Steve In a world without walls or fences, who needs Windows or Gates? Registered Linux User #287453 ---------------------------------------- '87 Street Comanche #24/100 '92 Cherokee '88 Grand Wagoneer '87 Grand Wagoneer '81 Wagoneer ...and they say there's only one... --------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] SUSE 9.3 Pro and 3 NICs
by Eric Hines 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

>Subject: Re: [SLE] SUSE 9.3 Pro and 3 NICs > >At 12/25/05 07:51, James Knott wrote: >>Eric Hines wrote: >> > At 12/24/05 18:53, James Knott wrote: >> >> Eric Hines wrote: >><snip> >> > >> > Alternatively, how do I use YaST to do this? I've been in YaST|Network >> > Devices|Network Card|<NIC>|Edit and edited the IP address for each. I >> > can't find any place to pin a NIC to a particular ethx, though. And >> > both the addresses and the ethx change on each boot--e.g., eth0 will >> > have on NIC (by MAC address) and one IP address after one bootup, and >> > after another bootup it'll have a different NIC and a different IP >> > address (and both will be completely different--it won't simply be a >> > NIC/IP address pairing from another ethx on the earlier bootup). >> >>I'm not sure what you're getting at here. If you use the ifcfg files, >>you'll always configure the correct NIC. If you need to refer to the >>NICs in a script, you use the full name. >> >><snip> > >One of the problems I have--and I'll try editing the files directly, >to guarantee that I'm configuring the correct NIC with the correct >information--is that it doesn't seem to make any difference how I >configure each NIC--or whether I configure them at all--on one boot >up, eth0, say, will have NIC1, with IP address 2, attached to it, >and on a subsequent bootup, eth0 will have NIC2, with IP address 3, >attached to it, even though I have done nothing at--just boot up, >run ifconfig -a to see what's where, then shut down. Similarly, >there's no pairing between NIC and IP address--these change on their >own, also: NIC3 with IP address 1 on one bootup will have, on the >next bootup, IP address 3 attached. > >Also, even editing the files directly, I could see no way to pin a >NIC to a specific eth. How do I do that? > >Thanks > >Eric Hines Reading the man page on ifstatus, and probably with a large dose of a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, I'm reminded of further events that I should have reported at the outset. When I installed the Netgear NIC, SUSE found it right off and offered to let me configure it, which I did, via the YaST that SUSE presented. However, on each of the next several (5-6) cold boot ups, SUSE found the Netgear all over again and presented YAST for me to configure the Netgear. As I entered the YAST module, I saw that the Netgear was already configured, from my earlier setup. SUSE has stopped newly finding the Netgear lately, and it shows up (as it did even when it was being "newly found," and I was declining to configure it yet again) in ifconfig -a as though it's working properly. It's like the Netgear never got properly registered in the kernel. How can I check this, and how can I register it, if that needs to be done? Additionally, this is what I may be beginning to understand: eth0 is an interface 00:11:11:...:A2 is a device (i.e., a NIC) ifcfg-eth-id... with IP addresses, and so on, is a configuration. I don't care if NIC/ethx pairing remains constant, all I care about is whether NIC/IP address remains constant. Is this right? All I have to do is solve the wandering NIC/IP address pairing problem? Thanks Eric Hines There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. --Bertrand Russell

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Merry Christmas
by Francesco Scaglioni 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

Merry Christmas to you all

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Installing SUSE 10.0 on Toshiba laptop
by Randy Ritchie 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

I have a Toshiba 3490CT laptop with a blown Windows OS. I have a copy of SUSU 10.0 that I want to install on the laptop, but I can't get it to recognize the USB CD drive (all peripheral drives are external). I have tried using the boot menu, but that did not work. I also tried booting using Smart Boot Manager on floppy. It recognize the floppy drive, but still would not recognize the CD drive. I'm open for any suggestions....Thank you.

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Re: [SLE] SuSE 10.0 not responding to "shutdown-r now"
by Carl Hartung 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

Hi Martin, I'm posting my response and returning this thread to SLE. Please verify you're replying to the list address, only, before clicking 'Send'. On Saturday 24 December 2005 20:37, Martin Cordova wrote: <snip> > I posted the question because I suspected that it might be a well > known problem after kernel updates. I have never seen it before. Hi Martin, I asked for clarification because I've never seen that behavior before, either. When I was first learning YaST and SUSE (SuSE), I once made the mistake of combining a kernel patch with a bunch of other updates in YOU. The system became erratic and I had a devil of a time fixing things up after a hard reset. I could be "all wet" here, but I think your's was a milder version of this 'computer gone crazy' syndrome. FWIW, I have had no more problems with kernel updates after I adopted the following procedure: 1. I close all desktop applications. 2. I install all of the other relevant patches. 3. When YOU is done, I open it again to install the kernel patch. 4. After it closes, I immediately reboot using: K Menu > Log Out > Restart Computer. This procedure seems to always work and I feel comfortable recommending it. BTW, I got a bit curious after reading your original post and looked at the documentation for a recent SUSE kernel update. It contained an example of using 'shutdown -r' to reboot the system afterwards. Was this description (instruction?) what led you to reboot using 'shutdown -r'? regards, - Carl

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ipw2100 drivers
by jim 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

Where is the ipw2100 wireless drivers for Suse10.0 ? I have the ipw-firmware-5-6 installed, but I need the ipw-2100 drivers. Jim

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USB partition type and permissions
by James Knott 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

I've been testing a USB attached hard drive and noticed something peculiar. If I format the drive with Reiser or , only root can write to it. If I format FAT32, users can also write. Users can always read, no matter what format is used. It is not mounted with fstab. Any ideas as to why the difference? tnx jk

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sit0 with nemo on 9.3
by C. Brouerius van Nidek 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

After an update from mainly KDE 3.4 to 3.5 I got suddenly an setup box for nemo. Never used it nor did I know it but it may be installed because I was interested to see what it would do. I let it do the default install and have now three rows of small monitors in my panel. Two for the two ethernet-cards on my computer and one with a red cross for sit0. Have googled and found out that it has something to do with tunneling and maybe with wireless which I do not have and IPv4 and IPv6. Could somebody give me a more complete insight and answer me if I can get rid of this sit0 without problems?

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suddenly no sound
by Steve Lett 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

I really don't understand how this happens. I have installed a new video card. Have not even gotten to the point of being able to try and setup that thing yet but the video is at least working at basic level. The sound system however has stopped responding. When I installed the new BFG nVIDEA 6600 card, I had read about how newer video cards run pretty hot. And this one is overclocked, so I thought it a good idea to shift the sound card down one slot to move it away from the video card. I checked the BIOS and although I recall from 'the past' that most times a BIOS setup screen allowed assignment of IRQ's to certain slots on the board. But in this newer SOYO K7VM333 board, no such setting. The system now starts up with this error showing in the bootup sequence: Starting Sound Driver: emu10k1 done Restoring the previous Sound Setting: failed but continues to loadup KDE, and after the desktop starts to stabilize, I get this; Error amarok amaroK could not find any sound-engine plugins. It is likely that amaroK is installed under the wrong prefix, please fix your installation using: cd /path/to/amarok/source-code/ su -c "make uninstall" ./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix` && su -c "make install" More information can be found in the README file. For further assistance join us at #amarok on irc.freenode.net. I have not yet attempted to perform this task, since I think the problem is not with amarok but with the sound system at its most basic level. Normally I get the KMix icon in the tray. Now I do not. I tried to start the Control Center and when I choose Sound & Multimedia / Sound System, it starts with this error: Error KDE Control Module There was an error loading the module. The diagnostics is: libresmgr.so.0.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Possible reasons: An error occurred during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned control module. You have old third party modules lying around. Check these points carefully and try to remove the module mentioned in the error message. If this fails, consider contacting your distributor or packager. So off I go to remove this errant libresmgr.so.0.1 since the system thinks it either orphaned or an old version...or have I misunderstood the error mssg.?... I used YaST to search for the term libresmgr and got no results. ?? Searching the system from / with all subdirectories... no results. ?? The system seems to complain about the presence of a file which doesn't exist. Also checking the SuSE Hardware Tool for Sound options and find that the sound card is not configured, showing removed. Nothing I did there seemed to help. I tried a lot of things here, various options for installation and setup of the sound card, and could not save settings and/or could not make the card recognized. So I shut down and moved the sound card back to the original slot. All remains the same with the alsa sound system still disabled, showing same error at bootup, but now the SuSE Hardware Tool does recognize the SoundBlaster card, yet it cannot save the config or setup info. Throws this error: An error occurred during the installation of SB AWE 64 The kernel module snd-emu10k1x for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. I know you gurus have some ideas where I should start and how to fix this mess. And maybe someone can offer some ideas/educated opinions about why such a mess was caused just by changing a video system hardware component? Among other things I'm curious about, I'd like to know why I can't swap PCI slots with this card and have it all still work just the same? For me, it isn't all about getting it working; its also about understanding why. Someone give me a push? I gotta get the sound working so I can start trying to setup the video card. Thanks! Steve In a world without walls or fences, who needs Windows or Gates? Registered Linux User #287453 ---------------------------------------- '87 Street Comanche #24/100 '92 Cherokee '88 Grand Wagoneer '87 Grand Wagoneer ...and they say there's only one... --------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Where does Lisa fit?
by elefino 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

Hi. Could somebody please explain to me where Lisa should fit, in the greater scheme of things... specifically a three or four machine home network behind a LinkSys router, where at least two machines will always be SuSE 10, one MAC OS X, and one sometimes Win 2K. I've read some about Lisa, but where I'm not clear is the overlap if one is using NFS, SAMBA or both. Or, more accurately, if one is attempting to get SAMBA or NFS to work. Does Lisa have a place in there (some useful, non-redundant functionality), or not? Does it conflict with any of the other approaches to network browsing/sharing? Is it a security issue (compared to, say, SAMBA)? I'm just looking for a general picture of when/where/why you'd want to use Lisa. It's been entirely off my radar screen until just recently. Thanks, Kevin

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Problems with initrd after mkinitrd
by Patrick Freeman 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

Thanks in advance for any input: I have struggled with this annoyance for some time - thinking that it was either hardware or something I was doing wrong. But now with up to 40 machines all getting the same treatment, between 30 and 60 % will hang on initrd after I run mkinitrd. I have been using mostly Western Digital WD400VE (2.5" notebook drives with an adapter) but have also seen this occur with the WD400JB (the 3.5" variant). Since all the machines have the exact same build and I do the same thing to all of them, yet some of them work and some don't - I can't believe that I am making a fundamental mistake (and I don't believe I am). On the other hand, the numbers are way to high and consistent to be obviously hardware. My base system is a SuSE 9.3 distro (although I've seen it with 9.1 to some degree) in which I have included the opensource highpoint driver which has been compiled locally. The /boot is in the / partition which is formatted with reiserfs. I have the following modules listed in /etc/sysconfig/kernel for MKINITRD_MODULES: "reiserfs scsi_mod hptmv xfs". The most consistent fix we have found is the tedious process of tarring up "/" (from a rescue disk), copying it to another machine (usually at this stage the machines are unique enough, that we can't lose data), writing zeroes to the first few sectors with dd, re-partitioning the drive, copying the tarball back to the disk and untarring. This requires re-installing grub which sometimes produces a hang on loading stage1.5. We are going to go away from the 2.5" drive anyway, but for the meantime (and until we have time to re-work the existing ~200 machines), I have to deal with it - and I am concerned since I saw it on the 3.5" drives, anyway. Before I push this issue back to the disk manufacturer, has anyone seen this kind of behavior before, or can you offer me any insight into what may be causing this? Thank you very much, Patrick W. Freeman Systems Specialist DATAllegro

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Re: [SLE] WRT54G wireless woes
by lerninlinux＠comcast.net 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Glenn Holmer <gholmer(a)ameritech.net> > Just got a Linksys WRT54G and putting it through its paces. PPPoE and > switch components work great, but I'm having trouble with wireless. I > had been using a 3Com access point, which my ThinkPad and Zaurus could > both see without issues, but neither can see the WRT54G. On the > ThinkPad, the output of iwconfig shows zeros for the WRT54G's MAC > address (i.e. it didn't associate), although kinternet's "wireless > connection" dialog and "iwlist scan" show it by ESSID with the correct > MAC address. Neither the ThinkPad nor the Zaurus have the access > point's MAC address specified. (I normally use 64-bit WEP, but also > tried with no encryption.) > > What might I have done wrong? I've spent hours twiddling bits on the > WRT54G. It's a version 5, and I upgraded to the latest firmware (for > that version, it's 1.00.4). The ThinkPad is running SUSE 10.0 and using > ipw2100 driver. > > -- > ======================================================== > Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) > ======================================================== > "...GNOME is a disease...just tell people to use KDE." > -Linus Torvalds > ======================================================== > > -- > 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 > > I picked up one of these recently, I got lucky and got an old stock version. I was reading up on these prior to buying (considering the openwrt, version) and found out that version 5 has problems. with staying connected. It has some new checkbox for one that seems to be giving problems. It also doesn't run Linux. Might check out dslreports or I even found one persons answer at Amazon, in their review.

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Merry Xmas to everyone ;)
by Laurent Renard 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

Thanks for your help and support ;) -- Laurent Renard

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alpha4:kdevelop3 is missing template tar.gz files
by Sean Kelley 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

Try to use kdevelop3 in alpha4 by creating a project from a template. You will get the following error: The template /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdevappwizard/qmakesimple.tar.gz cannot be opened Sean

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SuSE 10 SUPER
by Shibu Basheer 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

Today I installed SuSE 10 SUPER on a spare hard disk, and I just wante to say that I love it... it is much quicker, and KDE 3.5 is so slick. I did not find an english user group or forum for this version, so I thought I would post my question here. Had a question about the application manager called klik. Its a web based software manager, basically any user can browse applications listed, and click on it, it installs, and runs automatically. Although I like it, the apps dont show on the start menu, and the icons on the desktop are the same grey ones. Since klik installed and ran applicaiton as a non - root user, I wonder if the app is installed on my local home drive, but I cannot find the binaries in my home dir?

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Bugs
by John Meyer 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

BTW, what would be the best place to write for a potential bug in Suse? -- This e-mail is virii free, it has been sent from a computer running Linux.

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set native language user interface in firefox
by Istvan Gabor 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

Hello all: I have suse 10.0 i386 with the default mozilla firefox packages: MozillaFirefox-translations-1.0.7-0.1 MozillaFirefox-1.0.7-0.1 I would like to set firefox's user interface to Hungarian. I thought that was trivial but could not find any info how to do it even after 30 min googling. The start menu items and kde menus are Hungarian already. What is the right procedure? Thanks, IG _____________________________________________________________________________ Töltse az év végét sztárokkal! Ingyen filmek egészen Újévig a T-Online Tékában! http://www.t-online.hu

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