July 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] WiFi card slow to start
by Thierry de Coulon 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Hello, I'm stuck with a problem. I've got a PCI WiFi card (using the rt61 chip) in a machine runing SuSE 9.3. I've managed to instal the driver and configure the /etc/Wireless/RT61STA/rt61sta.dat file - although I may have made some mistake there, teh docs are not very clear. The point is: interface ra0 is there. However, if I do an iwconfig, I get this: RT61 Wireless ESSID "" (no access point) ... blablabla... So I have no connection. The ssid name is given both in the rt61sta.dat file and in Yast, although YAST insists on configuring wlan0... Basically, getting online is not difficult: "iwconfig ra0 essid any", and everything works. The problem is that this machine is meant to be installed in a place where other people can use it. They will *not* be Linux specialists and I do *not* want to give away the root password, so I have to find a way to run this command (or anything that brings the same result) at boot. I tried a command in boot.local, but it fails because device is "down". I also tried a script in /etc/rc.d/rcS.d but to no avail. Maybe someone who knows better than I do has an idea. Is it possible to give users the right to execulte just one command (iwconfig)? Thierry -- Stupidity is like a fractal; universal and infinitely repetitive. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Smart Package manager
by jim tate 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Where do I find a working version of Smart Package for Suse10.1. Without the 10,000 dependencies that are needed. Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help(a)opensuse.org

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[SLE] How to redired outside http address to local box?
by Roland Turcan - RoTurSoft 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Hello all, I have (maybe) very stupid question. I need to simulate our company server on my SuSE 9.2 box, because: 1. I don't want to change public server content 2. I don't have access to that server 3. I need to test my software, which on the end will use addresses from our company server to download something, but I need to simulate various situations and the easiest would by on local box. How to do that? Thanks. Greetings, TRoland. -- 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

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[SLE] spam
by Tage Danielsen 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Hello on the list I am using suse 9.3 with postfixand spamassasing, but i get a lot of spam anyway. Does anybody know how to stop mail from .biz? And I want to stop mail who have an URL for .biz Thanks in advance /tage

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[SLE] Weird Kernel Panic/Crash
by david rankin 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Mates: Have you ever seen anything like this??? It looks like something or some bit of memory got really weird and pissed off. Server lived another 5 minutes then died. A reboot fixed it. Any thoughts?? [david@bonza ~]$ Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:23 2006 ... bonza kernel: Bad page state at prep_new_page (in process 'xinetd', page c14e9000) Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:24 2006 ... bonza kernel: flags:0x2002006c mapping:c0a4b3e4 mapcount:0 count:1 Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:24 2006 ... bonza kernel: Backtrace: Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:24 2006 ... bonza kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:31 2006 ... bonza kernel: Bad page state at __free_pages_ok (in process 'swapper', page c14e9020) Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:31 2006 ... bonza kernel: flags:0x2002006c mapping:c0a4b3e4 mapcount:0 count:1 Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:31 2006 ... bonza kernel: Backtrace: Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:31 2006 ... bonza kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:42 2006 ... bonza kernel: Bad page state at prep_new_page (in process 'imapsd', page c15f4800) Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:42 2006 ... bonza kernel: flags:0x2002006c mapping:d75b5b24 mapcount:0 count:1 Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:42 2006 ... bonza kernel: Backtrace: Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:42 2006 ... bonza kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Bad page state at __free_pages_ok (in process 'swapper', page c15f4820) Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: flags:0x2002006c mapping:f0a24564 mapcount:0 count:1 Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Backtrace: Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Bad page state at __free_pages_ok (in process 'swapper', page c15f4840) Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: flags:0x20001024 mapping:f7fc62dc mapcount:0 count:2 Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Backtrace: Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Bad page state at __free_pages_ok (in process 'swapper', page c15f4860) Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: flags:0x20000000 mapping:00000000 mapcount:0 count:1 Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Backtrace: Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Bad page state at __free_pages_ok (in process 'swapper', page c15f4880) Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: flags:0x2002002c mapping:c0833904 mapcount:0 count:1 Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Backtrace: Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Bad page state at __free_pages_ok (in process 'swapper', page c15f48a0) Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: flags:0x2002006c mapping:e93ef924 mapcount:0 count:1 Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Backtrace: Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Bad page state at __free_pages_ok (in process 'swapper', page c15f48c0) Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: flags:0x2002002c mapping:ef55f7a4 mapcount:0 count:1 Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Backtrace: Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Bad page state at __free_pages_ok (in process 'swapper', page c15f48e0) Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: flags:0x2002002c mapping:ef55f7a4 mapcount:0 count:1 Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Backtrace: Message from syslogd@bonza at Mon Jul 31 15:18:47 2006 ... bonza kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed -- David C. 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[SLE] sensors question
by Bob S 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Hello SuSE people, Running 10.0 on AMD64. After installing the package, I ran sensors-detect in Konsole. Did all of the probing, testing, etc. Then it suggested additions to two config files before it finished. The following is a paste from the Konsole. To load everything that is needed, add this to some /etc/rc* file: #----cut here---- # I2C adapter drivers modprobe i2c-viapro modprobe i2c-isa # I2C chip drivers modprobe eeprom modprobe w83627hf # sleep 2 # optional /usr/bin/sensors -s # recommended #----cut here---- Question is What file does that get added to. I have only an rc.status file and a rc.splash. Doesn't look like that statement should go into either of them. Once that is done and the program is configured how is the program called? Just type "sensors" in the Konsole? Bob S. -- 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

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[SLE] Install of 10.1 - Not Happy!
by Andy Goss 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Having followed this list for a couple of weeks, and successfully installed 10.0 in a test partition, I decided to install 10.1 from the Linux Magazine DVD in the same partition. The install was fairly intuitive, though I was concerned that the expected GRUB placement option did not appear, so I aborted and tried again, this time looking in "expert", where there seemed to be confirmation that GRUB would go in hda3, where I wanted it. Further down the track, in hardware configuration, the graphics card entry read "no proposal", and an error was flagged. But as the installer seemed to have no problems with my graphics card I went ahead. The update found only two very minor items, so I added Zen, rug, and the Audacity I needed to test as a priority. Problem 1: The installation finished, but instead of KDE I was presented with a command line login, presumably due to the graphics card error. Somewhat cheesed off, I rebooted. Problem 2: in spite of the appearance of having put GRUB in hda3, the install had evidently put it in the MBR of hda, wiping the previous GRUB that booted my everyday FC4 on hdc. Not Nice. Having rebuilt GRUB I am back in FC4. I had intended to move to SUSE 10.1 instead of FC5, but now I am considering Kubuntu Dapper, which successfully upgraded from Breezy online. I have yet to trawl the archives for a solution to these two problems, and it is far too late at night here in the antipodes to start now. The graphics card one sounds familiar, but the GRUB issue is new to me. Every other install I have done has been very clear as to where GRUB is to go, though FC4 consistently failed to put it anywhere, so fortunately I had kept notes on how to create it. I have been very impressed by the quality of the correspondence on this list, so I hope I can find solutions and continue to run SUSE into the future. Andy Goss -- 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

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[SLE] Strange mouse behavour.
by Douglas Dotson 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

I'm running 10.1 on an HP dv8000. I sometimes get some strange behavour that seems to relate to mouse movement. For example, I bring up the start menu and select shutdown. The shutdown window pops up with the various options (shutdown, restart, etc). When I move the mouse over to the window, it dissappears when the mouse pointer touches it. If it try it a few times I can eventually get inside the window to select a option. Also, if I navigate around the window and enter it from the right side to get to the buttons, it works OK. Anyone seen anything like this before? Thanks! Doug

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[SLE] ifservices scripts for tun device
by Sunny 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hi, I have a tun0 device, created by the openvpn connection to another machine. I need to start some script _after_ the vpn is fully initialized - i.e. after the tun0 device is set up (it takes a little time). I tried to set this script as a service, which runs after all other services (incl. openvpn) are started, but it still fails, because it tries too early, before the tun device is up. So, looks like I have to go trough another route - like using all the infrastructure under if-up maybe, i.e. using ifservices-xxxx. I have created /etc/sysconfig/network/ifservices-tun0 directory, and put there links to the start/stop scrip, but it never gets kicked. Any ideas what's wrong, or how I can apporach this problem? Thanks -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Windows is a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit graphical shell for an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -- 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

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[opensuse] How to contribute to XGL hardware database?
by Peter Flodin 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Is there a procedure to report results to the XGL hardware database? For example I have a laptop with an ATI Mobility adapter, that works very well, but in Desktop Enhancements it gets reported that the card is not in the database. Ideally there should be a button right in that interface to report back. Something similar to the Ubuntu Device Database Collection utility, that collects hardware info, asks you a few questions as it runs through some basic tests, and then uploads the data, all voluntary of course. It even gives you the submission ID back, so in any bug reports you can quote it. Pflodo Peter Flodin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help(a)opensuse.org

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