May 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] cannot see wireless networks (Suse 10.0)
by James D. Parra 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hello, Have a Linksys wireless card using the ndiswrapper for the driver. Although it has bee working like a charm for the past few months, a couple of days ago it could no longer see wireless networks. The Power LED is lit on the card, however the Link LED doesn't flicker periodically as though there is no TCP traffic or even a 'heart beat' flicker. 'ifconfig shows the MAC address of the card and ndiswrapper -l shows, 'lstinds driver present, hardware present'. Any ideas on how I can fix this? Many thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Adventures with pam_tally
by Michael Folsom 16 May '07

16 May '07

Folks: For some reason pam_tally is turning into more of a bear that I thought - One SLES10 I added the following two lines to the beginning of /etc/pam.d/sshd: auth required pam_tally.so onerr=fail no_magic_root account required pam_tally.so deny=3 no_magic_root unlock_time=90 reset all else remained the same.............(file at bottom of post) Anyway when I test it out with faillog it records the attempts but doesn't block after 3 tries. You can try a dozen time but when you put in the right password it still logs you in! All I want it to do is lock the account after 3 attempts and I can't figure out how - Know this list is about OpenSuse but I need help - it will be appreciated! Michael ------/etc/pam.d/sshd----------------------------------------------------------- #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_tally.so onerr=fail no_magic_root account required pam_tally.so deny=3 no_magic_root reset # auth include common-auth auth required pam_nologin.so account include common-account password include common-password session include common-session # Enable the following line to get resmgr support for # ssh sessions (see /usr/share/doc/packages/resmgr/README) #session optional pam_resmgr.so fake_ttyname -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] USB stick not mounted with "sync" option
by Darren Freeman 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi all, in OpenSUSE 10.1, my removable USB flash memory would be mounted by the hotplug subsystem with the sync option so I could yank it if it weren't flashing. However now that I've gone to 10.2, all my systems mount it without the sync option and I have experienced data loss without realising this. A workaround is to run "sync" as root before yanking, or unmount. Is this a bug or a deliberate change? How can I configure my preferred behaviour? Have fun, Darren -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] using minicom without beeing root
by Cristea Bogdan 16 May '07

16 May '07

Is there a way to run minicom without beeing root? Now, when I call minicom, I get the message: minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied -- Cristea Bogdan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] First we're stealing, now we're dying
by Pueblo Native 16 May '07

16 May '07

I guess there was a poison pill in those patents we pilfered: http://www.bangkokpost.com/090507_Database/09May2007_data05.php Alliterations aside, the only "myth" is in Hilf's own brain. There may be some developers out there who wore tye-dye t-shirts, travel in Winnebago vans, and had a taste for the tree, but there were just as many buttoned up developers that have never listened to the Grateful Dead once. And I love this line from that article: Hilf said that the Linux phenomenon had nothing to do with Linux, but rather it had a lot to do with Apache, MySQL and PHP. It was those applications which pulled Linux up with it, the "Visual Basic of open source." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Firewall/routes rules GUI
by Hans van der Merwe 16 May '07

16 May '07

I just checked out IT guy setting up routes and firewall rules on its Win2003 servers - really have come a long way - nice GUI with click, dropdown of machines/people/groups (ala ActiveDir). Dont get me wrong, I never touch the stuff, but its getting really difficult to argue Linux firewall, routing, print and file servers to the Win IT guy - there is just not anything (that I know of) that comes close to the ease of use (setting up routes and firewall rules especially). Can someone point me to something? At the moment all ammo I have is that Win is expensive and locks you into the Win platform (which is a point at out shop, seeing everything is already win based). E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ndiswrapper Help Appreciated
by Jerry Houston 16 May '07

16 May '07

I'm fairly new to Linux, but not quite a total novice. I've set up a little Linux machine for my wife, using ndiswrapper to install a LinkSys wireless NIC. I had very little trouble with that, and her machine connects to our network without a problem. However, trying to do the same for my Toshiba Satellite P-35 laptop has turned out to be quite an adventure. Although ndiswrapper confirms that the driver has been installed correctly, and that the right hardware is present, I haven't been able to connect to our WAP at all. The NetworkManager icon (SuSE 10.2) just continues saying "no connection." If it's simply impossible to use ndiswrapper with this Atheros wireless card, it would save me a lot of trouble to know that. On the other hand, if anyone here has actually gotten one of these set up and working, I'd sure like to have a chat with you! Regards, Jerry Bothell, WA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?
by Alexey Eremenko 16 May '07

16 May '07

hi all ! Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX ? They should stop being lazy all the day. That is not a feature-request but a bug. The lazy number one is: marcio ferreira and Stefan Hundhammer link: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264716 What's worse is that they tell me something like: "If you do that again I will formally ask a certain account of bugzilla to be canceled." How am I supposed it eat that as a community-member ? -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Install SuSE 102 along side 10.1 - What happens?
by Brian S. Schang 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hello: I'm writing in an attempt to understand how the SuSE installer will accommodate my existing installation. Background: (1) I have SuSE 10.1 successfully installed. (2) I have three hard drives connected: - /dev/sda : the "main" hard drive with SuSE 10.1 and swap - /dev/sdb : a new drive that is blank - /dev/sdc : data (3) I want to leave my SuSE 10.1 intact (untouched) on sda and want to install SuSE 10.2 on sdb. OK, the easy part. I can boot from the SuSE 10.2 DVD and install on sdb. This should be a piece of cake. Presumably an install of SuSE 10.2 on sdb will not touch sda or sdc. Now, the question -- what happens to the boot sequence?? For my setup today (if I understand this properly), I'll boot from sda. Upon boot the master boot record (MBR) will be read from sda and will launch grub on /dev/sda2/boot. The menu.lst file will define the "presets" and default that I have. What happens when I install SuSE 10.2 on sdb? - Will the machine still load the MBR from sda? [I think this is a hardware/BIOS issue?] - Will the machine still load grub from /dev/sda2/boot? - What will happen to my existing menu.lst file? Will it be overwritten (to only contain a 10.2 option) or will it be modified/appended (10.1 and 10.2 options)? The bottom line is that I don't much care, but I do want the option to boot into my working/existing 10.1 versus my experimental 10.2 setup. Will the install program handle this for me? Will I need to make some manual configuration changes after the SuSE 10.2 install? Thank you. Brian Schang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Turn sound off - OT
by Bob S 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hello SuSE people, Not really a SuSE question but IS a part of my OS. My wife loves Pysol. However, while it is playing it makes god-awful buzzing sound while it is running. It surely is that I have not installed Pysol-sound-server, not that I haven't tried by compiling the tar package. Anyway, I don't care about Pysol playing music/sounds while it is running. She prefers classical streaming music from the web using Amarok anyway. So, the question is: Can anyone tell me how to disable sound in Pysol? Thanks, Bob S. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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