August 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

OT - is there an off-topic list?
by Daniel Bauer 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi everybody I thought there was a Suse "off-topic" mailing list for things not directly related to Suse/Opensuse - I can't find it on the opensuse website... Doesn't it exist anymore or did I just mean there was one? Daniel (I am looking for a place to ask if registering a domain name should be done somewhere else than network solutions, because WHOIS always leads to a webpage saying network solutions is the worst registrar) -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch

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Suse's new competition: Paris Hilton(!!!)
by stephan beal 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

You're not going to believe this: http://bbspot.com/News/2006/08/paris-hilton-tinkerbell-linux.html "First," she [Paris] writes, "I think The Open Source Movement is, like, really hot. I've been dabbling with coding for ages, but it's taken me some time to find the courage to release it." i had to check the calendar to make sure it's not an April Fool's joke. -- ----- stephan(a)s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts

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Mobile phones: How to get photos off a Nokia 6230 via USB
by Joachim Schrod 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hello, I have a Nokia 6230 mobile phone (not the 6230i) and a USB cable to connect it to the computer. I don't have a serial cable. I'm looking for a way to download pictures from the phone. When I connect the phone to the USB bus, lsusb lists the phone correctly, the module cdc_acm is loaded, and a device /dev/ttyACM0 is created. That made me hope that at least some support is there. Up I go in search for an application. I searched on Google, but didn't find anything in the first 60 or so matches. I tried digikam, but that doesn't recognize the phone. Autoscan doesn't work, and manually adding some arbitrary cameras that look like phones doesn't work either. gphoto2 is only for serially connected cameras, AFAICS. The same with gnokii. If that is not true, I would appreciate experience reports to know that I have to dive deeper in the documentation than I did. Then I stumbled over gammu. The example configuration file had the information that the 6230 phone has actually no USB chip and needs to be accessed over a protocol called dku2 or dku2phonet and via the /dev/ttyACM0 that got created. I thought `great', configured and tried it -- but to no avail: gammu --identify outputs a message that the phone does not answer. My 2.5 questions: -- Has anybody had success to connect this phone via USB and access it on Linux? If yes, with which application? -- Which applications are supposed to work with USB-connected phones or cameras? I.e., for which application is it sensible to investigate further? TIA for any answer, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany

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Re: [SLE] Squid problem in 10.1
by Hans du Plooy 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 17:11 +0800, w01F wrote: > maybe some services or processes wasn't started which squid depends on > when it get started at booting time. I don't see how that would be an issue. If I restart it it doesn't complain about about service depenancies, and it works. Just on startup not. Hans

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Re: [SLE] Suse's new competition: Paris Hilton(!!!)
by "Michael E. Jaggers" <mej＠mindspring.com> 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

>Before you start, don't forget make clean Now, see, that's the problem. I never thought I'd hear the phrases "make clean" and "Paris Hilton" used in the same discussion. Mike

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Help with 10.1
by Debi Dorman 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi everyone. I am a novice to SUSE Linux. I recently, with the help of a friend, updated my 9.3 to 10.1. After doing so, I have yet to be able run an update with YOU. Also, tried copying my DVD media to my HD, and it did not copy some of the fiels in some of the folders. Did a media check and it said "md5sumwrong" I purchased the SUSE 10.1through Amazon.com I also have the 6 CDs. Could my problem be related to a bad DVD? Should I try to reinstall? Any help or suggestions would be most appreciated. Thank you. Debi

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Kernel version
by Stevens 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Yesterday I installed a new kernel: "Linux version 2.6.5-7.276-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #1 Mon Jul 24 10:45:31 UTC 2006" is what dmesg says which I read as being built as of 7-24-2006. I am looking for an updated rtl8150.c network driver that contains a section for a ZyXEL USB ethernet device. I thought that it was included in the 7-24 build since it is included in 2.6.18-rc2 of 7-15-2006. Do I just not understand the process? On a related note, what kernel version can I run in my Suse 9.1 system? I show the highest number available to be 2.6.5-7.276 for 9.1. What happens if I try to install the 2-6-18 kernel? Will the system hose up? Fred

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Re: [SLE] installing a webcam
by Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

>>> James Knottjames.knott(a)rogers.com> 30/8/2006 13:19 >> >You can run most apps with either desktop. And yes, you can install >both desktops and choose at login. In fact, you can even have both >running at the same time, when you start another desktop. > Thanks, James. I'll try to install Kopete in the Gnome desktop. But it will be great to have both Gnome and KDE available in the same box. I've been looking for KDE packages in Software Manager and the are plenty of them. Please, what packages I must install to have a fully functional KDE desktop as a startup option? Thanks! Best regards, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez XEN, Resources Management

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Wired network card not available after booting
by Marco Mans 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi! I'm running SuSE 10.1 on my Toshiba Tecra S3 laptop for a couple of months now. Since the installation I got a strange problem. After booting the networkmanager shows only my wireless network card. The wired network card is not available. When I run YaST/Network Devices/Network Card the network card is recognised and work perfectly (I don't even have to complete the wizard!). So since SuSE 10.1 my working day starts always with YaST!!!! Does anyone knows how to solve this? This is my wired network card: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15) Thanks in advanced. Marco Mans

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Re: [SLE] Acrobat Reader 7 on SuSE Linux 10.1 [The End of a Mystery]
by Lívio Cipriano 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Well... like I suspected... the explanation was to simple... The hamster stuff :-) I tried to load acroread with beagle and zen turned on/off, I timed it with time command and I checked the running processes with ps -A and aux. Acroread, in the first run tooked 2 min to load and after was very irregular, so it was a obvious case of hogging. Solution: uninstall the SuSE version, download and install the Adobe version (has only 45Mb instead the 90Mb of SuSE). Now, I don't bother to count the time it takes to load... Might be that SuSE has good reasons to alter the original packages, but, I must confess, don't see an obvious reason for that. The same happens with eclipse. I use the plain download version. I only have to uncompress it to /opt and choose a java location. Lívio ----- Original Message ----- On Thursday 31 August 2006 03:13, Lívio Cipriano wrote: > Well... I just deleted my ".adobe" config dir and now loads must > faster. > > Mystery solved? As you so wonderfully put it: "... the explanation can be a mystery" :)

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