August 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Newbee friendly Linux help & documentation searchengine or site ?
by Winston Graeme 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

I have been using Linux for now 5 years & still manage to find documentation from few to many years ago which give answers to questions/problems users still now have .... such as "How to mount NTFS partition" or "Maximum disk-through-output" or "DSL-Howto" - each with lots of interesting info & things to learn. I am not suggesting that penguin-newbees or anyone should or must read the friendly/fine/f... manual but that access to these should be really easy & user-friendly. On forums like linuxquestions.org there are tons of users again & again asking the same or similiar questions. I know tldp.org exists but it seems more like an archive than a user-friendly place of quickly finding an answer to a problem (i aint dissin tldp ... its a huge amount of lovely info). So after many irrelevant words : Is there a user-friendly site or searchengine which takes its info from Linux-sites all over the web giving quick answers to problems ? ... ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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Wireless is useless
by robbinsc＠email.arizona.edu 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

I've recently updated to Beta 2 - (via the CDs, using the update as opposed to reformatting and reinstalling). From what I can tell, wireless still does not work properly. A bit of background: Card: Dell Truemobile 1300 (mini-pci, b+g) Driver: Linuxant Driverloader Network Device: eth1, wlan0 I've set it up on both devices. When I go to this card in the Yast - > "Network Card" -> "Network Card Configuration Overview", I see both my ethernet and my wireless card, detected properly. Using hwinfo gives all proper information about the card. The first red flag I get is when I go to edit the wireless device properties. The error is: "The device does not have a driver module. The driver may be built into the kernel." I assumed this wasn't a problem, as I had the driverloader software ready to go. However, when I go to change the device type from ethernet to wireless, I get this error: "You have changed the device type from the one that has been detected. This only makes sense if you know that the detection is wrong." Again, I understand the warning. I KNOW the device is wireless. I move to proceed. I still can not get an IP from my wirleess router. Another interesting thing to note - when I call "ifstatus wlan0" or any combination ifup or ifdown, I get this error: linux:/var/log # /sbin/ifdown wlan0 wlan0 no such interface ERROR: interface wlan0 is not available ERROR: interface wlan0 is not available /var/log/messages doesn't show me anything useful. I read in this bug report: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=103740 That pc card support "is in a broken state". However, my card is detected fine. Does the "PCI Device Driver" applet in Yast -> System need to be configured with the device and the driver? This has been tried as well to no avail. Does anyone have any info or any similar problems with their wireless card? Is it worth filing a new bug report? Thanks -Chris

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VMware Installation Report SL10B2
by Martin Mewes 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Hi all, this will be my last post for two weeks as I am on vaccation from saturday on and need to clean up my office desk tomorrow ... a bit ;-) I will surely miss B3 and B4 during that time but as long as Eberhard from GWDG keeps up synching :-D I will post-post the Installation Report for B3 and B4 even if they are useless to that point. http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/User:Macmewes/VMware In addition the Webmin/usermin progress will stop as well, but maybe someone will take some time and test my packages as I do think they will work for B3 and B4 as well as for RC1 etcpp without renaming them. http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/User:Macmewes/Webmin It is really a joy to see openSUSE becoming a good deal and a chance for me to directly contribute to my favourite flavour of linux. Keep it up :-) Martin Mewes -- ###################################################################### http://www.webmin.com/ | Webbased Administration Tool for http://webmin.mamemu.de/| Unixoid Systems :-) Webmin Translation Team ######################################################################

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Promise FastTrak TX2200 SATA in 32bit 9.3
by Charles Smith 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Hello, Well after searching the lists for a couple days now I finally decided to ask. Has anyone installed this card and gotten it to work with SuSE 9.3? I ordered it because Promise's site listed SuSE as a supported OS, come to find out their driver is only compiled for 9.0. The closest thing built into the included modules is the "sata_promise" driver, which is said to only be for Promise TX2/TX4. Is there driver source somewhere I can build for the 9.3 kernel? If this is a wash (which I am beginning to accept), then what 2-port SATA PCI card could I purchase that will just work with 9.3? I already have two SATA NCQ drives or I would just go IDE at this point. My intention was to set up RAID-1 mirroring, but I no longer care whether it is hardware or software RAID at this point, so long as I can get SuSE to see the drives. Thanks in advance, -Charles

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gphoto2-2.1.6 for suse 9.2
by Makurin Roman 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Hi All! Where can I get gphoto2-2.1.rpm for 6 SuSE 9.2 ? I`ve got "cannon powershot a520" which supported only by gphoto2 2.1.6 -- Jabber: drolyk(a)jabber.ru

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RE: [opensuse] Suse 10 Beta 2
by Luis Vicente Castillo Corbella 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

-----Mensaje original----- De: robbinsc(a)email.arizona.edu [mailto:robbinsc@email.arizona.edu] Enviado el: Jueves, 18 de Agosto de 2005 3:59 p.m. Para: opensuse(a)opensuse.org Asunto: Re: [opensuse] Suse 10 Beta 2 Quoting Luis Vicente Castillo Corbella <lcastillo(a)gya.com.pe>: > Are 5 cds for beta2, the five cd, is extra or necesary for install the > sistem. > > Regards It depends on what you need. From what I remember, some kdelibs (kdedevel, a few others), and the kernel source were all on CD5. So if you need some of those, yes, probably need CD5. I'd say it's a good bet to burn and keep CD5 around just in case. -Chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help(a)opensuse.org Gracias amigo

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Suse 10 Beta 2
by Luis Vicente Castillo Corbella 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Are 5 cds for beta2, the five cd, is extra or necesary for install the sistem. Regards

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Re: [SLE] Downgrading to Xfree86 4.3.99
by James Wright 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

M. Todd Smith wrote: > Anything is worth a shot! > > Thanks > Todd 1.) find the XFree86 font RPM's Find the RPM's, if you have Suse 9.1 CD/DVD it easy otherwise use http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ and search for XFree86-fonts-100dpi-4.3.99.902-40.i586.rpm XFree86-fonts-75dpi-4.3.99.902-40.i586.rpm 2.) Install the RPM's but be careful The installation of the new XOrg X-Server uses the same directory's, don't overwrite them !!!!! The directory's are: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi Relocate the destination of the directory's with this RPM command: rpm -i --relocate /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpiOLD XFree86-fonts-100dpi-4.3.99.902-40.i586.rpm and rpm -i --relocate /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpiOLD XFree86-fonts-100dpi-4.3.99.902-40.i586.rpm now they are together with the "new" font files in the same directory tree. 3.) modifiy the fonts.cache-1 file In the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts there is the file fonts.cache-1 located. Make entry's for the new font directory's like the **OLD entry's below: cat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1 "CID" 0 ".dir" "URW" 0 ".dir" "ibm" 0 ".dir" "uni" 0 ".dir" "misc" 0 ".dir" "util" 0 ".dir" "75dpi" 0 ".dir" "Type1" 0 ".dir" "local" 0 ".dir" "truetype" 0 ".dir" "encodings" 0 ".dir" "75dpiOLD" 0 ".dir" "100dpiOLD" 0 ".dir" "100dpi" 0 ".dir" 4.) Modify the file XF86Config Modify the XF86Config file in the section of the FontPath entry's. Remove the unscaled tag's if there are some (Look at the IBM FAQ's for the unscaled tag and what to do) FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpiOLD" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpiOLD" 5.) Restart the X-Server Good luck! James W

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Bug 104870 - JFS not supported during installation
by Per Jessen 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Well, that was fast. The issue got closed an' all. No more room for comments or discussion nor were any explanations offered. Frankly, not a particularly good example of "open" SUSE. Chris Mason wrote: >JFS won't be supported by SUSE in the SL10.0 release. So, it won't be available from >the installer. Please elaborate - will it: 1) have support for using JFS filesystems? 2) have support for booting off a JFS filesystem? Kurt Garloff wrote: >And no, we'll not offer JFS from YaST. Any explanation as to why? And if at all, when will it be supported again? /Per Jessen, Zürich

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RE: [SLE] Changing Window Managers
by James D. Parra 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

>Why would you reboot? An easy way to see if the display manager, kdm, loads after a reboot. >The kid obviously doesn't have KDE installed or it would show up. Or he >broke something, either way, install, restart X, use. Was it obvious to you? It wasn't to me. If something was broken, an uninstall and reinstall sounds like a good recommendation. If wasn't loaded in the first then he'll notice there is nothing to uninstall and continue with the install. ~James

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