March 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Replacement Motherboard Recommendation?
by David Colburn 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

> Hi David. Have you checked the SuSE hardware compatibility database > on the SuSE website? There are other more general Linux ones if you > do a Google search too. I used to always look there but the problem is that models, sub-model chipsets, bios features, etc. change so quickly that one may buy the same model mobo today and again in 30 days and see different compatibility. I am hoping to have more success getting a specific recommendation from someone who has purchased something recently. Thanks! dmc -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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SMTP Auth howto for 8.2 Professional.
by Preston Kutzner 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

List, I'm trying to set up smtp auth in our network. I've got our mail relay working with it, but I can't seem to get it working under 8.2. I know SuSE does some funny things with their config files due to Yast, so I'm wondering what I'm missing. I have it pretty much set up as the relay (at least all the main config files for postfix and sasl), and it's set to use the saslauthd mechanism through pam. However, smtpd won't authenticate, it fails every time. What am I missing as far as the SuSE way of things goes? Thanks in advance. -- Preston Kutzner

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kde 3.4 help
by chuck holland 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

Could someone give me detailed instructions on how to update to kde 3.4.....Please dont assume that I know anything cause I probly dont. Thanks inadvance Cj

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Replacement Motherboard Recommendation?
by David Colburn 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

Mobo died on my wife's desktop. I have an AMD Athlon 2500+ and Kingston MEM256 DDR 2700 I'd like to reuse. Preference would be for a mobo with as few extras to fail as possible. I'd *prefer* to not have a nic, sound, or video on the board. Stability and native Suse 9.2 compatibility are high priorities. Thanks! dmc -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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Compiling Courier-imap Problems
by Lucky Leavell 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

I downloaded (from Suse FTP site) and recompiled courier-imap from source to add support for MySQL in the authentication modules. Configuration, compiling and installing according the the INSTALL file went with only minor problems EXCEPT the install failed to update the files in /usr/sbin or /etc/courier. Is there some way to assure this gets done without having to manually modify the makefiles? Did I miss something in the recompile process? (I did untar the download file and run configure and make as a non-root user; make install was run as root.) Thank you, Lucky Leavell

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is this a virus?
by steve 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

Everytime I send a message to this list I get this message: <message> Your message Sent: Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:19:37 +0100 did not reach the following recipient(s): > "<lwatcdr(a)eclipsecat.com>"; The e-mail account does not exist at the organization this message was sent to. Check the e-mail address, or contact the recipient directly to find out the correct address. ------------------- Full Headers of the Undeliverable Message ------------------ To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Received: from lists.suse.com (lists.suse.de [195.135.221.131]) by www6.web2010.com (8.12.10/8.9.0) with SMTP id j2QJK574010553 for <lwatcdr(a)eclipsecat.com>; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:20:05 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200503262019.37644.mail(a)steve-ss.com> </message> It's the sort of message you get when you send a cc with a typo in it. Is it my setup, my ISP, SuSE, or none of the above? Cheers, Steve.

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Grub, F2, and bootsplash
by Paul W. Abrahams 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

I want to make it unnecessary to press F2 when I boot up SuSE 9.1 in order to get the text screen. There are instructions on what to do on the SuSE website for lilo but not for grub. There was also an extensive discussion of this topic a while ago. Yet no matter what I try I still can't get the text screen, though I can make the progress bar hold still. :=( Apparently the key is to insert a parameter splash=something, either in /boot/grub/menu.lst or via Yast (my preferred approach). But I'm still unclear on which of the following I should be inserting: append splash=0 splash 0 splash silent splash verbose And does it go in the section associated with the particular kernel I'm booting or in the global section? Precise instructions would be much appreciated, particularly since this must be something a lot of people want to do. Paul

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Suse 9.2 dwl-520 firmware
by Jeremy Baker 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

I am trying to automate the loading of firmware into a dlink 520 rev E pci wireless card. Previously, in the redhat world, I put a line in modules.conf like: alias wlan0 hostap_pci post-install wlan0 /usr/bin/hostap_fw_load wlan0 but that was a 2.4 kernel. Now I would like to put something in modprobe.conf like: install wlan0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install hostap_pci && /usr/sbin/hostap_fw_load wlan0; but it should follow the alias line. When I look in modprobe.conf, it doesn't resemble the redhat one at all, in fact I can find anything that references hostap_pci or wlan0 at all. Where does suse setup the alias, and where can I put my firmware loading line? Jeremy Baker

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firewire 9.1 puzzle
by Paul Grope 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

I was running 8.2 on an old Micron Millenia 500 and everything was fine, albeit a little slow considering not only the processor but the 256M memory limitation. I had an external hard drive using the Lava Firewire to IDE controller. (http://www.racoindustries.com/lavafwidecontr.htm) Since I couldn't add memory, I decided to upgrade the memory board. I slipped in a Biostar M7NCD with an AMD Sempron 3000 and a gig of ram. I replaced all the old drives and everything was working fine. In fact, I was so encouraged by the performance that I decided to upgrade to Suse 9.1, which I have been running on my laptop but never put on this old desktop because of the lack of memory. Well the 9.1 installation went fine and I've been able to get everything working but the external drive connected via the above controller. Here's what I've been able to figure out: My internal firewire controller is working and recognized by linux. When I plug in an external LaCie drive, KDE auto-recognizes and linux recognizes the LaCie as /dev/sda, just what I would expect. I plugged the Lava external controller with harddrive into a windows machine, and windows recognized (at least the vfat partition). so I know that the controller, cables and drive are all working. Then I decided to try the Lava controller on my laptop, also running 9.1. It does not recognize the drive. so I say "aha!" this would seem to be a problem with 9.1. My questions are: Is there a fix? Any suggestions on trouble shooting? Would 9.2 "cure" this problem? Any other ideas?

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Ipod - mini woes
by Gary Ernst 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

Has anyone gotten a mini Ipod to work with SuSE 9.2 ? I've tried both USB and firewire. USB receives errors when I plug it in. While I don't receive errors with firewire, gtkpod still reports that the mini ipod is disconnected. Any ideas. Gary Ernst

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