October 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Sharing a Printer with a Windows Machine
by Rick Friedman 25 Oct '08

25 Oct '08

OK... I know this is probably a loaded question but.... I just set up a wireless network in my home. My openSUSE 11.0 box is wired into my wireless router. My wife's laptop is connecting wirelessly into the network. Her laptop runs Vista. Our printer is an HP PSC 2210. It is connected to the openSUSE machine. Unfortunately, there is no way to wire it to the router. So, what is the best (I guess I really mean, *easiest*) way for me to share the printer with her laptop? If someone could point me to some step by step instructions, it would really help and be appreciated. Thanks, Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool.

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[opensuse] WLAN on battery
by Ivan Gustin 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

Hi, When I power on IBM ThinkPad R52 with AC power connected WLAN is always activated. But when I power on notebook only with battery, WLAN is never activated and I can't activate it on any software way I tried. It is not up to some BIOS option because Windows on the same machine always activate WLAN, with or without AC power. I suppose that is up to kernel power management control during boot, but I don't know where to set up to get WLAN always automaticaly activated (or, at least, to be able to manualy activate). Where should I look to configure such thing? I have OpenSUSE 9.3 on this notebook. Thanks for any help or direction. -- Ivan Guštin, ivan(a)elin.hr, (098) 366346 ELIN, www.elin.hr, (052) 623491

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[opensuse] What's the best approach for "submitting" patches?
by Per Jessen 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

I've just this afternoon spotted a problem in the spamd init script - it's easily fixed, and I could easily create a patch. I am mostly unfamiliar with building RPMs and the build service and such, so I tend towards just opening a bugreport and be done with it. What's the best way to go about such an issue? /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Getting Rid of postfix and exim on my laptop
by Dominique Leuenberger 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 08:59 -0400, Ruben Safir wrote: > You an idiot with a keyboard. I think this thread went far away.. please step all back from your keyboard when it comes to this thread and simply let it die in silence. Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] (openSUSE 11.0) Recommended PCI Parallel card for old style printer?
by Dominique Leuenberger 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:06 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote: > If the cable is dumb, how could any software on the computer > detect what there is connected at the other end of the cable? > In this case the workaround described in > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264219#c1 > should usually help but I guess there are totally broken > USB to parallel cables out there where only a special > driver software only for whatever special operating system > would make such totally broken USB to parallel cables work. This would be true assuming you can use such cables only and really only to connect a printer and that the printer would actually identify itself on the Parallel port (there are not to many doing this). But there are as well other usecases than connecting a printer on a parallel port... think about data links (not that common anymore, but still existing). What should a 'smart' cable report in this case? Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Ack! Kernel Updates
by Kai Ponte 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

<rant mode> So I guess I installed a kernel update yesterday. Suddenly, when trying to connect to work tonight, I was unable to (a) launch VirtualBox to load Vista (in order to use the Cisco VPN client within a VM) and then (b) failing that I was unable to launch the ciscovpn client. Both apparently needed kernel updates and both required about half an hour of checking to find where to do the bloody thing. </rant mode> -- kai www.filesite.org || www.perfectreign.com Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. - Dee Hock -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] (openSUSE 11.0) Recommended PCI Parallel card for old style printer?
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

Hi, Have just got a system back after a SATA connection snapped off the M/board. Unfortunately the m/board could not be salvaged and was replaced with a board with an Intel core 2 Dui processor. The motherboard chipset is: Intel 945GC + 1CH7 and its model is the 945GCT-M2/13333 V1.0A. Having a look on the manufacturers website for the board http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?CategoryID=1&… it is noticed that the board does not have a printer LPT port, as I noted when I tried to connect the parallel cable. Further searching reveals that the 945GCT-M# (v3.0) model does has an LPT connection. If I cannot get the PC shop to replace the board with the LPT one, is there a PCI card that is compatible with openSUSE 11.0 that will provide at least 1 LPT port for a HP LaserJet 5L? I have had a look on the openSUSE HCL as well as on Google for 'pci parallel card' and have been unable to find anything. Your help would definitelty be appreciated especially as I have just spent close to R3500 on updating this box, only to find it is now short on features. Hylton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] VEry strange message when I restart my net...
by Michael 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

Hello, when I restart my network then I get the attached messages. What is this all about: remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================== LOCAL(0) .LOCL. 10 l 53 64 377 0.000 0.000 0.001 +static.189.194. 192.53.103.108 2 u 61 64 377 50.792 -44.454 0.751 *netzwerkteufel. 192.53.103.104 2 u 54 64 377 58.991 -50.806 1.333 +static.188.194. 192.53.103.108 2 u 1 64 377 51.199 -45.102 1.120 ?? I have never seen this before.. Thanks for any hint Michael /michael # rcnetwork restart Shutting down network interfaces: ippp0 done eth0 device: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang] done Shutting down service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . done Hint: you may set mandatory devices in /etc/sysconfig/network/config Setting up network interfaces: lo lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8 IP address: 127.0.0.2/8 done eth0 device: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang] eth0 IP address: 192.168.55.200/24 remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================== LOCAL(0) .LOCL. 10 l 53 64 377 0.000 0.000 0.001 +static.189.194. 192.53.103.108 2 u 61 64 377 50.792 -44.454 0.751 *netzwerkteufel. 192.53.103.104 2 u 54 64 377 58.991 -50.806 1.333 +static.188.194. 192.53.103.108 2 u 1 64 377 51.199 -45.102 1.120 Checking for network time protocol daemon (NTPD): doneing ippp0 remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================== LOCAL(0) .LOCL. 10 l 54 64 377 0.000 0.000 0.001 +static.189.194. 192.53.103.108 2 u 62 64 377 50.792 -44.454 0.751 *netzwerkteufel. 192.53.103.104 2 u 55 64 377 58.991 -50.806 1.333 +static.188.194. 192.53.103.108 2 u 2 64 377 51.199 -45.102 1.120 Checking for network time protocol daemon (NTPD): doneing Setting up service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . done /michael # -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Default Printer Based On Network
by Kai Ponte 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

I have googled this and found many answers for how to script this in Wintendo, but not so much that's clear on how do do this in Linux (or openSUSE). I am writing this on my laptop - openSUSE 10.3/32-bit KDE 3.5 - system. I use it for work both at work in my office and at my home office. At work, I print usually to an HP LaserJet 1310 I have in my office. I also occasionaly print to a workgroup printer such as one of our color laserjets or a high speed b&w printer. At home, I print to my wife's OfficeJet, connected via Samba to her Win2K computer. I want to have the system auto-switch my default printer in KDE/CUPS based on teh IP Address of where the compuer is. Though I use DHCP at work, my first two octets are always the same - 1.2.x.x - and I have a fixed IP at home - 192.168.0.102. In googling, I see that there is a commandline to set the default printer - lpadmin -d printername - which I suppose could be added to an initrc bash file. -- kai www.filesite.org || www.perfectreign.com Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. - Dee Hock -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] new HP color lasers
by Gracia M. Littauer 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

anyone have experience with latest high end HP color lasers like HP Color LaserJet CP4005dn Printer? I want duplex printing & lot's of memory. Hard to choose without user feedback. -- Gracia...Cooleemee, NC Registered Linux user #263390 -ZENWALK 5.x http://www.flickr.com/photos/mynameistaken/ In his Discourse on the Method, Descartes summarizes his line of reasoning in the famous phrase, 'I think, therefore I am' (or in Latin, 'cogito ergo sum'). ... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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