June 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SUSE 9.3 Samba and Firewall issue
by Kshitij Velhal 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi folks, I think this is very well known issue. But still could not find a right solution for this till Now. (It's there in 9.2, 9.3 and even Fedora 3 and 4 for that matter) Here's the problem: I have SUSE 9.3 installation with samba configured. I have firewall running with ports 137,138 UDP and 139 TCP opened. All windows machines (2K and XP) in my home network are able to access shares and printer on my SUSE box. They can ping the box or browse the shares using DNS name ("Linux" in this case) But SUSE linux box cannot access any of these machines by their DNS names. Its not possible to browse and find computers from konqueror using smb:/ However I can access the windows boxes using their IP without any problems. If I turn off the firewall on Linux Box I can also access the windows boxes by their DNS names. I am not able to figure out which firewall rule is blocking nmb daemon's capability to browse the network. I am using YaST to configure the firewall. (Not familiar with backend - iptables) Can anybody tell me (or point me to) the solution for this problem. I am sure its just a matter of setting/modifying a rule in firewall. but not aware of what it is. Please note there is no firewall on any of the windows boxes. Thanks for help -Kshitij

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Toshiba A75 S125
by Mario Jr 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hello friends, Does anybody know if the Toshiba notebook model A75-S125 has any know problem with Linux (SUSE)? Am i going to face problems installing the wireless, sound, etc card ? Thanks in advance, -- Mario Junior ----------------- ISP Network Admin

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apt4rpm source.lst changes
by Mike 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I've noticed that the gnome2 and kde have been removed from the source lists for SuSE 9.0. Have these programs been moved to another location? This is the new list: rpm ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt SuSE/9.0-i386 rpmkeys base update-prpm update gnome misc xfree86 xorg mozilla samba3 ximian suser-rbos suser-guru suser-gbv usr-local-bin suser-tcousin suser-scorot suser-sbarnin suser-jogley suser-ollakka labplot funktronics packman packman-i686 kernel-of-the-day wine suse-people suse-projects kde-unstable security-prpm security --

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Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 under Kernel 2.6.8.24
by Martin Deppe 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi all, I just got a box with a "Hercules 3D Prophet 4500" graphics card and expirienced that it is not supported propperly. Does anybody know how to install it? I allready downloaded the sources for the driver from www.powervr.com for that card but couldn't compile it. It says "/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h" doesn't exist. I couldn't find that file on my box. Any ideas how to compile and install that one? Thanks Martin

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SuSE 9.3 FTP and CD isos !?
by Guillermo Ballester Valor 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hello all, This evening I saw a lot more 9.3 rpms in SuSE mirrors and the five SuSE 9.3 CDs isos !!!. I think that this time SuSE 9.3 FTP version is available. As example , see ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/9.3/iso Kudos for SuSE ! Guillermo -- Guillermo Ballester Valor gbv(a)oxixares.com Ogijares, Granada SPAIN Linux user #117181. See http://counter.li.org/ Public GPG KEY http://www.oxixares.com/~gbv/pubgpg.html

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9.2 Prof. - Install crash
by Regis Matejcik 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I'm trying to install SUSE 9.2 Professional on a friends computer - Compaq Presario, 660mghz, 128K ram, 15gig hard drive. The original system hard drive crashed and I installed a new hard drive, since my friend had none of the original Windows system cd's, I told her I could install SUSE and it should work fine for her use - Web browsing, email, and light word processing. I also bragged a bit about SUSE not crashing and getting overrun with viruses and such. For my own information I booted the system with a Knoppix disc after I installed the new hard drive and it booted fine and recognized the new drive - so I figured I hadn't made any bone head install mistakes (jumper settings and such.) Then when I put in the first SUSE disk, the SUSE splash screen displays, then the install option screen displays, (I chose, install from CD) then the detail scrolls right up to the line, "starting YAST". Then instead of seeing the YAST screen, the display just runs a very dim diagonal static. Any ideas on what might be causing this? Thanks, Regis Matejcik

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Sound card problems with SuSE Linux 9.3 Professional
by Braun Brelin 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hello all, I'm running with an AMD-64 system and a VIA integrated sound card. I've configured the card with alsaconf and it does work, but I'm finding the sound very disappointing. MP3's that played with good sound quality on my old system now sound distorted and "scratchy", as if I'm playing it too loud on an inferior quality speaker system. This works even if I'm using the same headphones I used on my old RH 9 system. Is there anything I can do to tweak the quality of the sound playback? I'm using SuSE Professional Linux 9.3 (the 32 bit version, even though I have a 64 bit CPU). Thanks, Braun Brelin

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RE: [SLE] SuSE installation on Dell PowerEdge
by Stephen Hughes 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi Unfortunately the server does not have a floppy drive. And interesting thing that I've come across is at the point where it hangs on console 3 the following: insmod /modules/aic79xx.ko insmod: error inserting '/modules/aic79xx.ko': -1 No such device insmod /modules/aic79xx-new.ko Any Ideas? Stephen -----Original Message----- From: Dave Chapman [mailto:linux-lists@ntlworld.com] Sent: 07 June 2005 11:48 AM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE installation on Dell PowerEdge On Tuesday 07 June 2005 07:40, Stephen Hughes wrote: > Hi > > I managed to get the SP1 cd and booted up off the disc but it does no go > any > > further than the output below: > >>> SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 Installation program v1.6.44 (c) > > 1996-2004 SUSE LINUX AG <<< > Starting hardware detection... > Activating usb devices... done > Searching for info file SuSE 9.3 sometimes needs a floppy in the drive. Try that. Dave -- 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 Disclaimer "Everything in this e-mail and attachments relating to the official business of Medscheme Holdings ( Pty ) Ltd ( Reg Number 1970/015014/07 ) is proprietary to the company. It is confidential, legally privileged and protected by law. Medscheme Holdings does not own and endorse any other content. Views and opinions are those of the sender unless clearly stated as being that of Medscheme Holdings. The person addressed in the e-mail is the sole authorised recipient. Please notify the sender immediately if it has unintentionally reached you and do not read, disclose or use the content in any way. Whilst all reasonable steps are taken to ensure the accuracy and integrity of information and data transmitted electronically and to preserve the confidentiality thereof, no liability or responsibility whatsoever is accepted if information or data is,for whatever reason, corrupted or does not reach its intended destination."

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RSS feed application
by Paul Cartwright 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

ok, I never really got into RSS feeds in XP, and I haven't had time to look into it for SUSE, so I'm asking what, if anything, people use to read RSS feeds on Linux.. don't tell me Google is your friend, please, I'm looking for personal favorites. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc

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/dev/hdb1 & 2 disappears with hotplug, maybe.
by johnswolter＠wolterworks.com 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

How can I restore the missing /dev/hdb1 & 2 entries(links?)? I've been using a 9.2 Pro box for going through a stack of older hard disks with various partition arrangements without using YaST to mount them. I also have been using external USB and Firewire drives as backups for various machines as a test. I connected the external drives at various times with hdb installed as well as when hdb was not installed. I just tried a drive as hdb and had trouble using mount to a /mnt directory and it says that hdb can't be mounted and is a 'special'(?) drive. I checked fdisk -l /dev/hdb and it shows all the LINUX types in the listing. I tried YaST's partitioner and while the partitions are shown I can not assign mount points. /sys/block/hdb exists as does /dev/hdb but /dev/hdb1 & 2, both primary partitions are missing. /dev/hdb5 inside an extended partition can be mounted as normal. It could be that udev is working and something is wrong with hdb1 & 2 but I tried Knoppix and I have no trouble mounting all three. I've gotten a feeling that the hotplugging may have done something. I did try the same drive in the external USB and Firewire cases and I noticed a long list of drives in /dev/disk/by-id which appear to be the IDE drives. In /dev/by-path I see what appears to be the external drives even though they are not attached. Can I just erase the contents of /dev and have them created at startup? Is that a really bad idea?

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