January 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Re: local network to ADSL router not available after boot - manual reconfiguration needed
by Peter Breger 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Thanks to first responses by Joe Morris and John Andersen -- further details added in this post below Peter Breger wrote: > Hi! > > I have a perplexing problem connecting to my ADSL router and local network. > > After every boot I have to use YasT to reconfigure network device, that > is to say - delete it - press next etc. Card is then shown in Yast as > not configured. > > Then I have to use YasT to configure it anew with DHCP setting, (and > choose cable connect on the general tab). When YasT has configured > everything, the command ifconfig gives the correct set of details and I > can indeed connect to internet via router. Joe Morris 29/1/2007 : First, what is your suse version? If this is openSUSE 10.2, are you using traditional ifup or Network Manager to control your NIC? -----> PB: I have openSUSE 10.1 installed, use Network Manager choice from YasT in the procedures described. > > But after rebooting, the network is again not available. After boot, > command ifconfig yields a strange address 169.254.36.45 for eth0. > I have to then repeat the above YasT procedure of deleting and then > reconfiguring network card as described to have a connection. > John Andersen 28/1/2007: Is this router an internal piece of hardware or an external adsl router? ----> PB: It is an external US Robotics Cable Router with ADSL modem > If I choose boot on the general tab, then this does not work either. > > If I do not delete the configuration first with YasT, but just edit the > configuration, then I do not get a IP-address assigned via DHCP, and > cannot connect to network. ifconfig gives no IP-address for eth0. > > Thanks for any tip what to look for in which config files. I tried to > locate other config files relevant for boot process which might contain > contradictory info - no real success. > > I had a look at the help page on en.opensuse.org/SDB on ADSL router, > which makes perfect sense to me. Suggestions for other documents also > welcome. > > I also tried approach with static addresses, but essentially same > problems arose - it worked after many YasT interventions, back and > forth, but never after reboot. > > Oh, before I forget - Firewall is always OFF at present to avoid > interference. > > Thanks to any brave soul answering!! ;-) > > Peter > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Configuring WiFi on ThinkPad R31 & SUSE 10.2
by James Knott 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

I am trying to configure the WiFi interface, using KWiFiManager in SUSE 10.2. While I can configure the various configs, they don't seem to take effect or at least not permanently. For example, I can see networks and if I don't enable encryption in Yast, I can connect to unencrypted networks, but not my home network, which is encrypted, even though encryption and keys are specified in KWiFiManager. If I then enable encryption in Yast, I can connect to my home network, but no longer connect to open networks. Is there something I'm missing? Suggestions? tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] (incomplete) list of possibilities (and impossibilities) to play mp3 on SuSE 10.2
by Zhang Weiwu 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

I think I have called enough attention (and created a lot of confusion) to the mp3 issue, thank you for caring about this and discuss about it. As more people start paying attention on issues the issues are likely getting solved faster. And this post is for the users who look for an answer like me: List of players that play mp3 by default: * MPlayer (from packman) * VLC (video lan client, from their repository) * realplay BMP (no known easy solution yet): people who failed to play mp3 with BMP simply has installed OpenSuSE's bmp (bmp-0.9.7.1-43.i586.rpm) which have mp3 ability stripped. I was told packman offer a BMP package with mp3 support ( http://packman.links2linux.de/package/bmp I failed to install this package because it has no SuSE 10.2 version. It rely on a .so file that do not exist on my SuSE 10.2. So, currently there are yet no known solution to play mp3 with BMP without using commandline. There is also a package called audacious which is a fork of BMP, however for me it doesn't play mp3 as well, YMMV. Banshee (said there is an easy solution, but doesn't work for me. YMMV) SuSE's native banshee package do not support mp3, a replacement package helix-banshee is said to support it. This package is said to be only existing on DVD version's non-oss section. I didn't install by DVD (I use network install) and for me the helix-banshee package do not exist even in opensuse's Internet's non-oss repository. I managed to get and installed a helix-banshee package from ftp.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-Factory-non-oss/inst-source-extra/suse/i58… (but I don't know why today it's no logner there). This package installs fine but still not able to play mp3. Maybe some of you who successfully made banshee work can let us know where you get which rpm that works. If it's true this rpm only exist on DVD version, can we do something to encourage Novell to put it to the non-oss section on offical repository? Totem, Rhythmbox, xmms (easy solution avaiable!) There are easy solution avaiable! But I don't know what. My Totem can play mp3 just fine, my Rhythmbox also, but I knew a fresh SuSE installation cannot. I have installed a lot of packages I googled around for mp3 support and now I don't know which package made mp3 possible. I removed these packages from my system but Totem and Rhythmbox still play mp3 file so these packages should not be responsible for mp3: gstreamer010-plugins-ugly helix-banshee-engine-gst xine-lib libxine I also tried to remove totem and re-install it when disabling packman repository (only to find out if I am using packman's totem). Being sure I am using OpenSuSE oss' totem, I am still able to play mp3. I am really eager to know which package enabled Rhythmbox and Totem, because I am going to recommend other users to use these packages. I knew solution must be easy because when I was trying to solve this problem recent days I strictly control myself only use google and GUI so that all solutions I can find must be usable for novince users. Reference resources: how to enable mp3 playback on xine-based players: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=509097 Listed all restricted formats that stripped from SuSE (but not include all solutions to workaround them, maybe for legal concern): http://en.opensuse.org/Restricted_Formats P.S. I hope we do not forget to mention in all messages posted about solving mp3 problems: that if possible, use ogg which has higher quality and is always playable on all Linux and a lot of players on Windows too. P.S. I am no specialist in this area (just an user) but I think simply blame Novell for not having mp3 native support in OpenSuSE is not very helpful for solving this problem (when most of the fault is on the mp3 patent holder not Novell). Novell need to know exactly what way users expect them to do in order to follow, a unclear request of "give us mp3 support" to my understanding is not the best. I suggest we have clear request like this: 1. Can novell help us by making Helix-banshee the default banshee package in OpenSuSE? 2. Can novell help user live easier by making non-oss another default installation source? (yes I am among the people who dislike closed source too) 3. Can novell let us know how they _tried_ to get related parties to agree SuSE use mp3 for free, and if the community can do anything to help? 4. Can novell give user friendly message on most cases when it cannot play mp3, to ask user to visit a how-to guide on a website maintained by community? This how to guide must be complete and easy and with screenshots, hosted on a website in China or any other countries where copyright and patents are difficult to enforce. I would do that if requested, I am in China. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Bootloader Problems Still
by charles＠daphatbell.com 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

I am still having problems with this for some reason(s). I actually installed Mandriva this morning, got the bootloader to install and was able to boot to it without having to use the DVD disc. I did have a little trouble, but it was simple to fix because the problem was obvious. It was pointing to a non-existant swap partition. I changed what people had suggested yesterday in the menu.ist file and even edited the grub.conf file, but no matter what I did, the error still came up and although I changed the device from sda,7 to something else, it would put it back. The only reference to anything about hd0,0 is on the line for booting into windows. it says: "rootnoverify (hd0,0)" and the entry below it says: "chainloader (hd0,0)+1" I'm at a loss here. I thought I understood what M Harris was telling me yesterday but I'm not sure anymore. :-( the drive itself is sda0 It has a primary partition (sda1), then a extended partition with two logical partitions (NTFS) then the swap partition, the root partition and the home partition. The extended partition is sda2 which I understand is always the case with an extended partition. So the first (logical) partition would be sda5, the second logical partition would be sda6, the swap partition is sda7, the root partition is sda8 and the home partition is sda9. This is how Mandriva saw it as well. Now counting the partitions is what I think is confusing me. As far as the HD0,0) is concerned. Would it be like the following? sda1 = hd0,1 or 0? How about the extended partition? would sda2 become hd0,1 or 2? and so forth? well, it's almost noon and I'm getting breakfast ready! :-O Hopefully someone can make sense of this. Many Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Firefox phones home/Google
by Jan Engelhardt 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Hi list. Just when I wanted to debug a web problem, I saw tcpdump showing Firefox making silent requests to Google. (wtf at this point!) To reproduce: Open a random webpage (preferably one that does not reference external content, e.g. http://jengelh.hopto.org/ ; local files don't trigger it) 14:23:03.581788 IP 10.10.106.161.50386 > 134.76.10.66.3128: P 1:691(690) ack 1 win 5840 E....a@.@... j..L B...8"..%.g..P.......GET http://sb.google.com/safebrowsing/update?client=navclient-auto-ffox2.0.0.2p… HTTP/1.1 Host: sb.google.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20061023 SUSE/2.0.0.1-0.1 Firefox/2.0.0.2pre Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: UTF-8,* Keep-Alive: 300 Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cookie: PREF=ID=b81b7fa78ae17cf1:TM=1168225067:LM=1168225067:S=xIIiZGyQbydqdfSG Can I _please_ get information why there's spyware like this in Firefox? Added by SUSE? (I don't have the Google Toolbar installed, which, in itself, already transmits data unwanted, leading to congestion on modem lines.) Jan -- ft: http://freshmeat.net/p/chaostables/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] pcmcia freeview card
by Francesco Scaglioni 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Hi, Does anyone know of a pcmcia tv freeview card that works under SuSE ? Cheers F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Startup Messages
by Kai Ponte 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

When I start my systems, a whole bunch of messages fly by the screen if I press escape before KDE starts up. How do I get those messages? A few are causing me questions and I want to search on what they are/do before asking here. -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Keeping windows on workspaces?
by Justin Schoeman 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Hi, I have recently upgraded to opensuse 10.2, and switched to gnome+metacity. Everything works great, but I have one problem that I can't seem to figure out. I am one of those users that use a lot of workspaces, and place specific applications on each workspace. In my case, firefox is on workspace 7, and thunderbird on workspace 8. However, whenever I click on a URL in an email (using thunderbird on workspace 8), firefox is moved to the current workspace (workspace 8) and focussed. I would like to configure it so that firefox remains on workspace 7, but workspace 7 becomes active. KDE works like this, and Metacity 2.16.3 on my friend's Gentoo box also works this way. It seems that only Metacity under opensuse has this problem. Any ideas on how to configure it to work the way I want? Thanks, Justin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] XDMCP login setup
by Kerti Balázs Gábor 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Hello, How to set up, on openSuSE 10.2 the XDMCP based login? I would like to login from home to work PC openSuSE10.2. Balazs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Did smbfs really disappear in 10.2?
by Simon Roberts 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Hi All, I just came to try to make an SMB mount (looking to copy my girlfriend's files over from her I-hope-soon-to-be-old Windows machine) and in response to my attempt to do mount -t smbfs... I get prompted for a password for the remote machine (currently blank) and then the system responds with: ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page smbmnt failed: 255 What gives? Did smbfs really get removed from the default kernel on 10.2? I find that sufficiently suprising that I suspect something else is amiss, but I have two installs (mine--64bit, and hers, 32bit) and they both respond the same way. Oh, for background, smbclient works fine and is able to move files over from the windows machine, so I know that the remote end is at least running more or less correctly. If the kernel really lacks this capability. What do I need to do to get it back? Can I get it back? (It's going to be a really major loss if I can't!) TIA, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." Naguib Mahfouz ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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