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[opensuse] network card in 11.1 not configurable
by Istvan Gabor 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

Hello: I am trying to set up my network card and DSL network connection in openSUSE 11.1. It worked but I wanted to change settings so that I could use ssh through vpn channel. Therefore I started playing with the setup in yast. I also touched /etc/sysconfig/network directory (I have a backup) and removed files from it (which belonged to the previous setup). I have not changed anything in if-down.d, if-up.d and scripts directory. Now the system recognizes the network card but I can not edit it. The error message is: "RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (Not connected) BusID : 0000:00:13.0 Unable to configure the network card because the kernel device (eth0, wlan0) is not present. This is mostly caused by missing firmware (for wlan devices). See dmesg output for details." 1. Beforehand it worked and I could edit settings. 2. My network card is an onboard card, according to the motherboard's manual it is a RealTek RTL8100C. Is this equal to the above one, RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+? My motherboard is Gigabyte GA-7VM400MF-P. Any help is appeciated. Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] When is the next SuSE verion or release due ?
by Maura Monville 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

>From SuSE 11.1 to 11.2 or 12. Thank you, Maura -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: Video clips on a specific site -- Firefox vs Opera
by jdd-gmane 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

Stan Goodman a écrit : > I did try to install from Adobe, as I said, and it made no improvement. be aware that there are several places where a plugin can be set. One have to scan all of them and kep only one, not trivial. *[firefox]/plugin (the one I use) *~/mozilla...(sometime) */usr/lib/browser-plugin and someties more (I use locate to find them) > > I do not believe the problem is with Flash itself, because Flash works > perfectly on any number of other sites, but not on this one. but it works for me! ( libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32) what I did not so long time ago: * remove *all* flash plugin and verify firefox don't find it anymore (about:plugins) * dl the last from adobe, in tgz (not rpm) * install in firefox/plugins jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] jDownloader ??
by James Hatridge 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

HI all, I've got jDownloader installed, but I can't get this piece of !"§$!§ to work. Can someone give me a clue? I've got it installed in FireFox on SuSE 11,0. It seems to be all there, it just will not work! Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 Ebay ID: WartHogBulletin Skype ID: james-hatridge WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://warthog.18-t.com/ Many Enemies -- Much Honor! Anti-US Propaganda collection http://yankeegohome.18-t.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: RAID-1 speed -- RAID 1 for? Backup?
by Anders Norrbring 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

Linda Walsh skrev: > Anders Norrbring wrote: >> I'm wondering about the speed of a software RAID-1... >> If I use one very fast disk, and one pretty much slower, will the >> volume's >> speed be the faster or the slower? If using an ordinary hardware RAID >> most >> controllers gives the volume the highest speed possible, and then >> mirror in >> the background to the slower disk, but is the same true for a software >> RAID? >> >> Anders. > --- > Most likely NO FASTER than the slowest -- it might > be slower due to them being out of sync with each other on writes. > > You really don't want to use mismatched drives for a RAID. Use your > faster one as a primary and use the 2nd one as a backup disk -- if you use > xfs on drive 1, you can use xfs_dump to dump all extended file attributes > and access lists, as well as telling it what files or directories not to > include with the +d file_attr. > > You can use a tower-of-hanoi backup sequence to optimize space and restore > time -- and, of course, optionally compress the files when storing them > into the backup. Run it as a nightly cron job... > > Of course you probably aren't wanting this because you already have a > daily backup system in place, right? > I mean everyone know that comes before considering a mirrored RAID. > > :-) > -linda > Hi Linda.. Yes, I do nightly backups of the host system... The reason for considering the mirror is that it's virtual machines running on VMware and the host system is using a very high speed SAS array and I simply would like a hot backup "just in case". It's really not a big deal since the SAS array is RAID-5 with 2 hot spare drives, so I'm pretty certain drive failures won't be a problem, however the risk of disk trashing is always present in case of a "unclean" shutdown. Then a hot mirror of the VM drives can come in handy, at least for the IMAP and MySQL functions. I think I'll simply do some experimenting on the matter.. ;-) Thanks for your feedback! Anders. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Bad page state in process 'syslog-ng'
by Florian Gleixner 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

Hi, i recently updated the kernel of my OpenSuse 11.1 x86_64 to get rid of bug 531633 (nfsv4 broken) and thanks for giving me this fix. But now i always get bad state pages. Always in syslog-ng and always the same trace but every time another page. I also added a PCI card (budget DVB-S card) and so i'm not sure if this is a hardware bug or a software bug. Kernel is a xen kernel dom0 running 4 other domUs. Bug report: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551695 What do you think?

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[opensuse] configuring printer via YaST
by Marc Chamberlin 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

So I have a question - When I configure a printer via YaST, and get all done, is not YaST suppose to restart the CUP'S daemon? I should think so! The fact that it doesn't cost me a LOT of debugging time. I finally gave up on trying to use YaST and configured the CUP's server by hand. Once I got CUP'S up an running I discovered that YaST was NOT starting up the CUP's server daemon, by finally realizing that something was terribly unexpected was happening after using YaST, and by subsequently checking with an "rccups status". So, I am having to do an "rccups start" each and every time after I use YaST to configure my printer! (which starts the CUP's daemon without any problem) Why should I have to do this? Am running SuSE 11.0. x86_64 architecture. If this was the way YaST was designed, then someone needs to have their head examined! The pattern for configuring any other server, that I use, has been to restart the daemon for it automatically, when finished. And if YaST is suppose to restart the CUP'S daemon, why doesn't it check to verify that the daemon did indeed successfully restart, and report to the user, via a clear warning message, that the restart failed? I looked at the y2log file, which is about as clear and understandable as mud, and see several messages generated by something called Crash.ycp.. Are these failure messages? Such as - 2009-11-05 09:41:29 <1> marcslaptop(13748) [YCP] Crash.ycp:51 Read settings: $["all_failed":["printer.ycp"], "last_done":"printer_detection", "last_failed":["printer.ycp"]] 2009-11-05 09:41:29 <1> marcslaptop(13748) [YCP] Crash.ycp:68 Written settings: $["all_failed":[], "last_done":"printer.ycp", "last_failed":[]] If so, this is an ugly way to report a problem to a user! IMHO. I usually grep such log files for words like "Error" or "Warning" or even "[E]" and "[W]" with is sometimes used. And if these are error messages, then they give no guidance to a user has to how to fix such the problem... Marc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Videolan repo is on the Fritz.. repodata is missing..
by David C. Rankin 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

File '/repodata/repomd.xml' not found on medium 'http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.0/' Abort, retry, ignore? [_a_/r/i/?]: Same if you use the direct link to ftp5.gwdg.de -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] What happens to OBS repos when 10.3 went to discontinued?
by David C. Rankin 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

Marcus, all With 10.3 and its updates going to discontinued, where do the OBS packages go? I found OSS & Updates in discontinued w/o any problems, but I had one last box I needed to update. I looked and looked, but couldn't find the OBS packages. Where did the 10.3 OBS packages go? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] administering an MS Windows partition under Linux
by Boris Epstein 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

Hi all, If I have a dula-boot machine (Linux and Windows) would I have any good tools under Linux that would allow me to look at the content of the Windows boot partition, administer it, clean up the registry, remove viruses if any, etc? The Windows installation seems to be so defective as to be quite useless so I am trying to think of a good strategy for dealing with the situation. Thanks in advance for any and all advice. Boris. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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