May 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] Keyboard goes caps-mad after a while in KDE 3.3.0 / 9.2
by Dumb Waiter 04 May '05

04 May '05

Without any configuration changes my Logitech wireless keyboard started acting crazy. When I boot to KDE, everything is ok, but after a while the kbd just goes "Caps on", automatically. Hitting the caps key then brings small letters - excepting the top row that only prints parentheses etc; no numbers. Even shift does not change that. Also, the cursor keeps "painting" the text for example in Kate or Kmail in a weird manner. The selfsame keyboard works fine when I switch to my Windows pc via my KVM switch, so it is not a battery issue. I tried to push the kbd's ps2 and mouse's usb plug well in, too. And if I logout from KDE and re-login as the same user, the kbd works fine for a while, then goes nuts again. This started maybe a fortnight ago. If have tried to find answers in the net, but am in a bl**dy pinch workwise, so if this problem is known to someone I'd be grateful for a push to the right direction. Setting: -Logitech Cordless Desktop Pro (the mouse part unused; I've got a MX500 USB mouse instead), the kbd is in a PS2 hole. The Pc is IBM Intellistation pro M and the kbd has worked in my Suse for about a year without problems. -Suse 9.2, KDE 3.3.0, I.Q. 58.. Mike

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CUPS
by Colin Carter 04 May '05

04 May '05

Hi, I had CUPS installed, up and running. Suddenly I get the message that cups is NOT running, and that there are no printers. I checked: rpm -q cups and it is still there. How do I start it? Regards, Colin

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Re: [SLE] Excellent 9.3 Review
by Greg Freemyer 04 May '05

04 May '05

It all sounds good, I'll be upgrading. Now I just wish SuSE still had a live CD. With 9.2, I installed it on a couple of work machines permanently, but an awfull lot of what I do is using standard Linux tools controlled by shell scripts to work with temporarily attached drives. (A simple example is making a dd image file of a clients disk drive, then running md5sum on the original drive and the imagefile. This is the first step in a Computer Forensic examination and I did it a hundred or so times in the last year.) Currently the company has another half dozen machines that have only Windows installed, but when "I" use them I boot the 9.2 LiveCD and just run my scripts from a thumb drive. I also occasionally boot the LiveCD directly on the clients computer. So to use 9.3 on the office I will either have to setup a Linux boot partition or quit using those machines. :( And in client machines, I will not be able to use 9.3 at all. :( PS: I assume that 9.3 has a boot cd with rescue mode, but I need a solution that is designed NOT to modify the standard disks, but instead defaults to read-only use of the system. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century

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Patrol for Unix/Linux
by Ben Higginbottom 04 May '05

04 May '05

Hi Folk's, I was wondering if anyone has experience with BMC Patrol on any flavour of Unix/Linux, and more importantly where in the hell it installs its init scripts to. I've found a few of them in /opt/bmc but in no place sensible. Also what are your opinions of it and have you come across anything better; so far I've pulled lots of pretty graphs off the console, but nothing really (to me) valuable. Regards, Ben

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Unison-gtk
by Even Sandsmark 04 May '05

04 May '05

I am looking for Unison-gtk i am using it on my debian machines, however i am unable to find a rpm or source package. alien does not do the job, seg. fault, i could probably work some more on that one, but it is not that good. i have been googling, searching rpm search, suse and debian but i can not find it. it is highly unusual, but i think the source have imploded regards Even

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Need Help with Smartlink Modem on Suse 9.3
by St. Hanne 04 May '05

04 May '05

Hello, I´m using Suse Linux since Version 8.2 and since Version 9.0 I´m using a Smartlink Winmodem for Internet Access. Unter Version 9.2 I had no problems with the rpm-packages coming from suse, so I tried to upgrade the system from 9.2 to 9.3 32bit Version. I used the smartlink-softmodem package 2.9.10-8 who installs the slmodemd binary and the kernel default 2.6.11.4-20a and the kernel-default-nongpl packages. The modem is found by YAST and so on. Unfortunely, the modem doesnt work, the ppp daemon dies. So I tried to start the slmodemd binary by hand with /usr/sbin/slmodemd --country=germany /dev/slamr0 This was the answer: error: mdm setup: cannot open dev `/dev/slamr0': No such device error: cannot setup device `/dev/slamr0' I searched for dev/slamr0 and found out, that there is no such node under /dev. Also there is no ttySL0 under /dev At this point I tried to make a blank installation of Suse 9.3 (the first was an upgrade from Suse 9.2) with the same result. So I tried to compile and install the driver by myself. Compiling runs with no errors, but during modprobe slamr I got: snippet dmesg <<<<<< slamr: unsupported module, tainting kernel. slamr: module license 'Smart Link Ltd.' taints kernel. slamr: SmartLink AMRMO modem. slamr: device 10b9:5459 is grabbed by another driver >>>>>> Then I found out, that in the Suse rpm package "kernel-default-nongpl 2.6.11.4-20a" a module /lib/modules/2.6.11.4-20a-default/extra/slamr.ko was installed. So I tried to install a new Suse 9.3 Version without the kernel-default-nongpl package and the smartlink-softmodem package and compile the driver by myself. But during modprobe slamr I got the same message "slamr: device 10b9:5459 is grabbed by another driver" I also tried the driver slmodem-2.9.10_netodragon.tar.gz from the netodragon.com page (which is the vendor of the PCI-Card) and the slmodem-2.9.9d.tar.gz from http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/, with the same result. I guess, that Suse has put the driver directly into the kernel and not as a loadable module, and this is why I cannot load the driver I build by myself. In the packages from Suse you can find a km_smartlink-softmodem-2.9.10-8.i586.rpm, which is described as "A package for building the SmarLink Modules in k_deflt and k_athlon." Here is the Output from scanModem tool from linmodems.technion.ac.il: >>>>>>>>>>> DO use the following line as the email Subject Line, to alert cogent experts: scanModem, Welcome to kernel 2.6.11.4-20a-default Occassionally reponses are blocked by an Internet Providers mail filters. So do in a day also check the Archived responses at DISCUSS(a)linmodems.org Code updated on: 2005_April_19 ------------ -------------- System information ------------------------ Welcome to SuSE Linux 9.3 (i586) - Kernel on System with processor: i686 currently under kernel: 2.6.11.4-20a-default There are emerging complications under 2.6.10 kernels. Concerning code for: Smartlink slmodem : slmodem-2.9.9b.tar.gz at http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/ has the current fixes. Related messages are: http://www.datiku.com/documents/2610_migration.php http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0409.3/0345.html http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fourth/msg03736.html . Lucent/Agere DSP/ltmodem: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fourth/msg03733.html Concerning Intel-536ep and 537 http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fifth/msg00280.html http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fifth/msg00881.html The kernel-2.6.11.4-20a-default was compiled with CONFIG_REGPARM, providing more compact and faster code. The kernel was assembled with compiler: 3.3.5 with current System compiler GCC=3.3.5 Checking for kernel-headers needed for compiling. kernel-headers have base folder /lib/modules/2.6.11.4-20a-default/build kernel-headers have base folder /usr/src/linux kernel-headers have base folder /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-20a Modem symbolic link is: /dev/modem -> /dev/ttySL0 Checking for USB modems None found Modem candidates are at PCI_buses: 0000:00:0c.0 Providing detail for device at PCI_bus 0000:00:0c.0 with vendor-ID:device-ID ----:---- Class 0703: 10b9:5459 Modem: ALi Corporation SmartLink SmartPCI561 56K Modem (prog-if 00 [Generic]) SubSystem 10a5:5459 Smart Link Ltd.: Unknown device 5459 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11 Memory at cfffb000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] I/O ports at d000 [size=256] -----PCI_IDs------- --CompilerVer- Feature List: Primary Subsystem Distr KernelVer kernel default CPU ./scanModem test 10b9:5459 10a5:5459 SuSE 2.6.11.4-20a-default 3.3.5 3.3.5 i686 SmartLink drivers support this modem: 10b9:5459 ALI 5459 SmartPCI561 10b9:5459 Subsystem: 10a5:5459 ALi Corporation SmartLink SmartPCI561 56K Modem (NetoDragon) == Checking PCI IDs through modem chip suppliers == Vendor 10b9 is Acer Labs, producing highly integrated motherboards and Ali components. The tight integration unfortunately ofter blocks identification of the modem chipset. Desired information may be gained by using a COMM console under MS Windows, and using ATI commands to elicit chipset and driver information. 10b9:5450 ALI 5450 and 10b9:5451 ALI 5451 are controllers for unsupported "sound modems" 10b9:5459 ALI545A SL1801 and 10b9:5459 ALI 5459 SmartPCI561 have SmartLink chipsets. These messages may aid setup of soft modems under 10b9:M5457 controllers: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-third/msg02518.html http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-third/msg02100.html The slmodem-2.9.9 support was developed for 10b9:5459, but there a range of reports the related 10b9:5457 modemd controllers: fully functional; functional only after a power on reboot from Microsoft windows; hang/crash upon initiation of modem usage. 10b9:5457 Modem: ALi Corporation [M5457 AC-Link Modem] SubSystem 1179:0001 Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001 has an AgereSoftModem chip which may be supported by the Smartlink slmodem-2.9.9 driver SmartLink at http://www.smlink.com/ owns vendor IDs 163c, 2000, 2003, and 2004 The official download site is: http://www.smlink.com/main/index1.php?ln=en&main_id=40 , but http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/ has older packages and new fixes. For the emerging 2.6.10 kernels, use the slmodem-2.9.9b.tar.gz therefrom. Read Slmodem.txt for details. ======= PCI_ID checking completed ====== Update=2005_April_19 A PCMCIA CardBus is not detected on this System. For information on modem port creation under the UDEV device file system see: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fourth/msg03299.html for Conexnant modems http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fifth/msg01177.html for Lucent/Agere DSP modems The following information blocks just query some ppp support items. ==================================================== grep -rs ppp /etc/modprobe.* ------------------------------------- /etc/modprobe.conf:# ppp over ethernet /etc/modprobe.conf:# the kernel 2.2 uses pppox /etc/modprobe.conf:# the kernel 2.4 uses pppoe /etc/modprobe.conf:alias char-major-108 ppp_generic /etc/modprobe.conf:alias char-major-144 pppoe /etc/modprobe.conf:alias net-pf-24 pppoe /etc/modprobe.conf:# the kernel 2.2 uses ppp.o as ppp driver, /etc/modprobe.conf:# the kernel 2.4 uses ppp_generic.o /etc/modprobe.conf:alias ppp0 ppp_generic /etc/modprobe.conf:alias ppp1 ppp_generic /etc/modprobe.conf:alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async /etc/modprobe.conf:alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe /etc/modprobe.conf:alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp /etc/modprobe.conf:alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate /etc/modprobe.conf:alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate /etc/modprobe.conf.bak:# ppp over ethernet /etc/modprobe.conf.bak:# the kernel 2.2 uses pppox /etc/modprobe.conf.bak:# the kernel 2.4 uses pppoe /etc/modprobe.conf.bak:alias char-major-108 ppp_generic /etc/modprobe.conf.bak:alias char-major-144 pppoe /etc/modprobe.conf.bak:alias net-pf-24 pppoe /etc/modprobe.conf.bak:# the kernel 2.2 uses ppp.o as ppp driver, /etc/modprobe.conf.bak:# the kernel 2.4 uses ppp_generic.o /etc/modprobe.conf.bak:alias ppp0 ppp_generic /etc/modprobe.conf.bak:alias ppp1 ppp_generic /etc/modprobe.conf.bak:alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async /etc/modprobe.conf.bak:alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe /etc/modprobe.conf.bak:alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp /etc/modprobe.conf.bak:alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate /etc/modprobe.conf.bak:alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate /etc/modprobe.conf.rpmsave:# ppp over ethernet /etc/modprobe.conf.rpmsave:# the kernel 2.2 uses pppox /etc/modprobe.conf.rpmsave:# the kernel 2.4 uses pppoe /etc/modprobe.conf.rpmsave:alias char-major-108 ppp_generic /etc/modprobe.conf.rpmsave:alias char-major-144 pppoe /etc/modprobe.conf.rpmsave:alias net-pf-24 pppoe /etc/modprobe.conf.rpmsave:# the kernel 2.2 uses ppp.o as ppp driver, /etc/modprobe.conf.rpmsave:# the kernel 2.4 uses ppp_generic.o /etc/modprobe.conf.rpmsave:alias ppp0 ppp_generic /etc/modprobe.conf.rpmsave:alias ppp1 ppp_generic /etc/modprobe.conf.rpmsave:alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async /etc/modprobe.conf.rpmsave:alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe /etc/modprobe.conf.rpmsave:alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp /etc/modprobe.conf.rpmsave:alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate /etc/modprobe.conf.rpmsave:alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate ------------------------------------- Resident PPP support modules are properly uncompressed . COMM services are not active DEVPPP=crw-rw---- 1 root root 108, 0 2005-03-19 20:36 /dev/ppp The current modem symbolic link is: /dev/modem -> /dev/ttySL0 The ports /dev/ttyS0 or 1,2,3 are for standard Controller chip modems No devfsd.conf file found, indicated absense of the devfsd daemon package for device file system (devfs) symbolic link support. DEVFSD= ---- dmesg queries ------- ACPI: local apic disabled ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. apm: BIOS not found. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) SuSE 9.0 has pre-compiled drivers supporting the following modem chipsets: Intel HaM and 536ep Conexant HSF (but not the HCF) Lucent/AgereSystems ltmodem (Digital Siggnal Processing type) IBM wmave Smart Link soft modems Unfortunately only the Intel HaM and 536ep are on the 3 CD Personal set, pending an update. Locations on the 6 CD Professional set are: CD4/suse/i586/smartlink-softmodem-2.7.9-89.i586.rpm - the slmodemd daemon CD3/suse/i586/km_smartlink-softmodem-2.7.9-89.i586.rpm - slmodem driver compiling CD4/suse/i586/hsfmodem-5.03.27mbsibeta02122600-92.i586.rpm - softmodem configuration CD4/suse/i586/km_hsfmodem-5.03.27mbsibeta02122600-92.i586.rpm -softmodem driver code installation report - http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fourth/msg00350.html CD4/suse/i586/ltmodem-8.26a-54.i586.rpm - a patch from SuSE may be needed for function installation report - http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fourth/msg00458.html CD4/suse/i586/Intel-536ep-4.51-200.i586.rpm CD4/suse/i586/Intel-v92ham-4.51-244.i586.rpm CD4/suse/i586/mwavem-1.0.4-110.i586.rpm Some pre-compiled SuSE 9.0 packages for the 2.4.21-99-default kernel are available at: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/SuSE-9.0/ including AgereSoftModem and the Intel537 modems IMPORTANT - The kernel-source-144/README.SuSE informs that the pre-assembled kernel-headers installed from the 9.0 kernel-source-99 have some flaws. Upgrading to a later kernel, such as 2.4.21-144 with matching kernel-source is the simplest may of avoiding problems. SuSE 9.1 comes with a SmartLink slamr.ko driver installed, aiding identification of softmodem codecs by: dmesg | grep slamr For the 9.1 Personal (single CD installation) winmodem packages have be downloaded from the SuSE 9.1 repository Should compiling drivers may be necessary, the following additional packages will have to be downloaded and installed: make, glibc-devel, gcc-3.3.3 and kernel-source. The kernel-headers are co-installed with the kernel-source. Thus subsequent driver compiling does Not require additional preparations. >>>>>>>>>>> Hope you can help me. Greetings from Germany Steffen Hanne -- mailto:oldventure@gmx.de -- mailto:oldventure@gmx.de +++ Neu: Echte DSL-Flatrates von GMX - Surfen ohne Limits +++ Always online ab 4,99 Euro/Monat: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

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Package Recovery
by Greg Wallace 04 May '05

04 May '05

Every time I have to recover my old 8.1 system from backup, I have to go back out to the web and pull down a large number of updates. Recently, I trashed it when I was trying to create a disaster recovery backup so I could move up to the latest SuSE version. There are over 60 package updates out there that I now have to pull down, mostly security related. Some time over the past 2 /12 years, there were two YOU package updates. It seems like lots of things (maybe everything) that were patched after those updates are not recoverable from a YAST backup (at least I think that's the cause of this). I'm wondering if there's a way to backup ALL of my packages separately so that I can recover them from that backup after I recover my system itself. That would sure save me a lot of time and effort in my recovery process. I may very well trash this thing again before I get this disaster recovery process in place and I will want to test that recovery before I move on to a later version, so I could very well trash it then. I looked into some of the RPM commands, but didn't find one to back up packages. I would think there would be a way to do that built right into RPM (but maybe I'm wrong). Packages SEEM to be spread out through multiple directories instead of all being in one single location (isn't that true?). If (when) I hose myself again, I would like for the recovery to be a little less painful. Any help appreciated. Greg Wallace

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cups configuration
by David Bear 04 May '05

04 May '05

I am totally new to cups, but have been using lprng for years. I created 3 raw queues. Now I want to create filter queues that will point to the raw queues. The raw queues are for use with samba. The filter queues will be used by other linux applications. Using yast2, when I attempted to create the filter queue, I think I want to create a cups queue, I choose 'cups client' and I get a horrible message that: "If you setup the cups client-only configuration, you will not be able to configure local printers or queues of other remote servers. all changes made will be discarded.." yikes. I don't want to loose what I've already configured. What does this message imply? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax: 480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing"

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Yast2 Firewall or DNS on SLES9
by Chadley Wilson 04 May '05

04 May '05

Greetings I migrated from RedHat to SLES9 this weekend. I have configured my DNS for an internal network, The problem I am faced with is the server itself is not resolving, is there a reason why this would happen? The name server is ns.teq The fileserver is preload.teq the stations are station10 to 110 I can pin any station or preload from any station. But not ns.teq, dig ns.teq shows it is resolving, dig -x <ip-addr> shows reverse dns to be working. Dhcp must be working and assigning the correct resolv.conf settings, as ping above is working, Is it the firewall causing this. If so how do I fix it? TIA -- Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================

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Update address...
by Fred A. Miller 04 May '05

04 May '05

I had the update ftp site and pub address to update 9.3 via Yast (LOTS of KDE files) before I did a clean install. I lost the address and now can't come up with it? Would some kind soul list it here again? Thanks! Fred -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."

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