February 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

epson ink level - SuSE-10 oss
by Mr Jiff 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

Anyone managed to check epson ink level using the kde printing manager. Seems to require raw mode, but then you can't specify a printer driver! mtink compiles but doesn't run, kink won't compile. Geoff

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eth0 now eth1 WTF? Network woes....The saga....[Long]
by david rankin 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

Mates, I have built a new box for the house, and it is testing my understanding of Linux. It is also testing logic. I know I'm aging, but I have ruled out Alzheimer's. Here is the scoop. When I first installed SuSE 10, the network would come up and it used eth0: Simply /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id-00:4c:69:6e:75:79 would bring up the Linksys card as eth0. This is how it worked. Then on a subsequent reboot the network doesn't come up. I mean loopback is fine, but the NIC fails to load and the error is "unable to load mandatory services.." Yes, I understand the mandatory devices loading and /etc/sysconfig/network/config. On reboot, the network fails. dmesg says it is now trying to load eth1? Ok, cp ifcfg-eth-id-00:4c:69:6e:75:79 ifcfg-eth1 rcnetwork restart -- presto! it comes up. So then I leave both ifcfg-eth-id-00:4c:69:6e:75:79 and ifcfg-eth1 in /etc/sysconfig/network. Some subsequent reboots work some fail. Latest reboot, network fails, /var/log/boot.omsg says it is now looking for: doneWaiting for mandatory devices: eth-id-00:4c:69:6e:75:79 19 Initializing random number generatordone <notice>startproc: execve (/sbin/resmgrd) [ /sbin/resmgrd ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=reiserfs TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=160 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/lib/klibc/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=3 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= PREVLEVEL=N LINES=64 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 splash=0 SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hda2 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/resmgrd ] Starting resource managerdone 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 0 eth-id-00:4c:69:6e:75:79 No interface found failedSetting up service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .failed I only have 1 NIC? What is going on? OK, next go round it complains that it is now looking for another hardware address for eth1 - no changes to the system... It is looking for the NIC at 00:04:5a:87:c8:43. WTF? OK, easy enough: cp eth-id-00:4c:69:6e:75:79 eth-id-00:04:5a:87:c8:43; rm eth-id-00:4c:69:6e:75:79. rcnetwok restart -- it works! Reboot. I understand that the pci bus and the order that devices are activated and their addresses are dynamic. But where do I stop the randomness?? doneWaiting for mandatory devices: eth-id-00:04:5a:87:c8:43 19 17 eth1 device: Linksys NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11) eth1 configuration: eth-id-00:04:5a:87:c8:43 eth1 IP address: 192.168.6.16/24 doneSetting up service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .done OK, great -- for now. Obviously, I can't have a server that when it goes down, it comes up and the network (for whatever reason) is "guessing" at the hw address for the NIC. What in the heck is going on? So the questions: (1) why is my system now wanting to load the NIC as eth1 instead of eth0? (2) how in the heck is the hardware address changing? (I set the kernel parameters noapic and nolapic in grub to try and cure it -- no joy) I have read all the discussion on eth0, eth1 -- I know it doesn't matter what binding the system makes, but I just want to find a way to have my NIC come up each time in case I'm 1000 miles away when the power exhausts the UPC. Do I go to a straight ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 setup in /etc/network/sysconfig? Do I put both eth-id-00:4c:69:6e:75:79 and eth-id-00:04:5a:87:c8:43 in there (seems like a lame Band-Aid approach) What is the best way to solve this conundrum??? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN LAW FIRM, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com --

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SuSe 10, ATI Radeon - no X.
by M. Todd Smith 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

Hey all, We got have a new box in the office that we are trying to load SuSe 10.0 on. It has a generic onboard ATI card (radeon VE), and after going through all the setup I can't for the life of me get X working. Now I'm used to troubleshooting 3d problems with ATI cards, however I've never had a problem with ATI 2d on one of these machines. When I do 'init 5' the only error I see is (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOBLANK: Invalid argument. in the Xorg log. Any attempt to start x results in the monitor going into powersave mode I'd really like to get X working on this machine .. anyone have any ideas? Cheers Todd -- Systems Administrator ---------------------------------- Soho VFX - Visual Effects Studio 99 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 303 Toronto, Ontario, M6K 3J8 (416) 516-7863 http://www.sohovfx.com ----------------------------------

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Picking a partition for windows in Vmware
by Susemail 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

How/when do I tell Vmware to install Windows on the nice new fat32 partition I made for it? Thanks, Jerome

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GNOME KDE and fonts
by Roger Oberholtzer 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

On SUSE 10.0, latest KDE and GNOME: I run evolution in KDE. No real problems there. Except... I have set the default font for GNOME apps in GNOME's config tool (the gui). When I run evolution on KDE, it does not use that font unless I have run the GNOME config GUI and started the font selection dialog at least once since logging in. My font is properly being saved in GNOME's config (it is still selected when I run the config GUI). It is enough to simply start the font dialog. Any reason? Is there some generated settings file or gnome process that is not present until I do this? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems AB Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23

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by David Diaz 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

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EPSON 5900L vs SuSE10
by vince＠complex.elte.hu 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

hello, I have a problem to print on SuSE10 using EPSON EPL-5900L. So far I have tried with this: 1. I generated Epson-EPL-5900L-epl5900l.ppd and tried to set up in YAST>HARDWARE>PRINTERS 2. Installed ghostscript.omni. 3. Played with UTILITIES>PRINTING>PRINTING MANAGER No positive result in all cases...no patient nither any more :). Printing with LPR even tells me that there is no entry. What to do? Oliver

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Re: [SLE] epson ink level - SuSE-10 oss
by Kai Ponte 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

> Anyone managed to check epson ink level using the kde printing manager. Seems > to require raw mode, but then you can't specify a printer driver! mtink > compiles but doesn't run, kink won't compile. > > Geoff As a follow-up, after installing libinklevel (http://libinklevel.sourceforge.net/index.html) I configured kink correctly but then got the following nasty error when running make... \/usr/lib/qt3/include/private/qucomextra_p.h:87: warning: struct QUType_varptr has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor kink.cpp: In member function void KInk::add_device_to_list(int, int, unsigned char*): kink.cpp:159: error: invalid conversion from unsigned char* to const char* make[2]: *** [kink.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kai/downloads/kink-0.2.1/kink-0.2.1/kink' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kai/downloads/kink-0.2.1/kink-0.2.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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must boot from suse 10 DVD
by Gracia M. Littauer 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

SuSE version 10..clean install a few months ago SATA 160GB HD - 4 partitions xfs no major problems until last wk....I think the was an unnoticed quick power outage; I'm plugged into a APC surge stripe. Everything but the cpu was on. when I tried to reboot I get a little groan from my HD & a black screen with <GRUB loading Stage2.....> on the upper left side and no HD activity. I can boot from the SuSE 10 DVD by going to <other> in the option page & choosing <from installed system>. I tried <repair>, but it can't find any mounted partitions! this even though it boots from them. Yast shows them. We reinstalled the kernel, rewrote mbr, checked the bios, checked logs, checked /etc/fstab, checked my sanity! Any ideas, short of a new clean install & a 1500+ watt UPS!!! -- Gracia...Cooleemee, NC Registered Linux user #263390 - SuSE 10 Pro My country, right or wrong. If right, to be kept right, if wrong, to be put right.

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Share USB ports from a computer to other, Linux to Windows/Linux
by Daniel Carvalho 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

I have a Compaq notebook with Linux RedHat and Windows XP, with only one USB port, and a desktop with SUSE 10 Linux, with 6 USB ports. The issue is that, I broke the notebook unique USB port!!! I found in a store a small device (USB by network) that can share any USB device to the network (10/100). And so, the crazy idea I have in mind now is: to share one of the 6 USB ports from the SUSE desktop to my notebook with Windows and Linux RedHat. Some thing like "USB by IP" protocol!!! :-) Any body has a clue about it? does it make sense?

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