Strange Internet Problem
My SuSE 8.0 box has suddenly developed a strange problem with my dial-up Internet connection. I can connect to my ISP and ping any valid Internet address, but none of my browsers, mua's or Internet apps can access the net. Windows as a VMWare client on this same box has no problem accessing the net. I am using M$ Outrage to send this message :_( I was foolishly checking out a dsl modem yesterday, although I don't have a dsl connection yet and I set the Dsl Connection in Yast2. Could this be the cause of my problem or is there another possibility? How do I go about removing the dsl configuration? TIA Dave
On Thursday 06 March 2003 18:54 pm, Dave Barton wrote: Well, your subject line is certainly going to endear us to you... (not)
My SuSE 8.0 box has suddenly developed a strange problem with my dial-up Internet connection. I can connect to my ISP and ping any valid Internet address, but none of my browsers, mua's or Internet apps can access the net.
Sure sounds like a DNS issue to me.
Windows as a VMWare client on this same box has no problem accessing the net.
I was foolishly checking out a dsl modem yesterday, although I don't have a dsl connection yet and I set the Dsl Connection in Yast2. Could this be the cause of my problem or is there another possibility?
Any thoughts or suggestions about a possible solution would be welcome.
A show to us of 'ifconfig' and 'route -n' might help.
If I can't find a way of recovering Internet access for my Linux apps I am going to be forced back to windows, since I refuse to (YET AGAIN) reinstall Linux. Windows is not without it's problems, but the difficulties in resolving Linux issues are just too ridiculous to be true.
Dave
Well... <comment deleted> -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 03/06/03 18:59 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "A book may be compared to the life of your neighbor. If it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early." - H. Brooke
On Thursday 06 March 2003 18:54 PM, Dave Barton wrote:
My SuSE 8.0 box has suddenly developed a strange problem with my dial-up Internet connection. I can connect to my ISP and ping any valid Internet address, but none of my browsers, mua's or Internet apps can access the net.
I too have witnessed something similar to this. I would have a mozilla window open for a few days, and all of a sudden I can't access any sites. At the same time my kmail won't access my pop servers. So I checked the obvious. I was able to ping ip's and resolve names from a command line. ifconfig and route looked perfectly normal. From a command line I could do anything I wanted. I could telnet to a web site name port 80, and issue a get without any problem, but my browser and kmail wouldn't connect. The only solution I found was a reboot, and then it would work for a few more days. Has anyone else experienced anything like this ? Thanks, Ron
On Thursday 06 March 2003 19:12, Ron Joffe wrote:
On Thursday 06 March 2003 18:54 PM, Dave Barton wrote:
My SuSE 8.0 box has suddenly developed a strange problem with my dial-up Internet connection. I can connect to my ISP and ping any valid Internet address, but none of my browsers, mua's or Internet apps can access the net.
I too have witnessed something similar to this. I would have a mozilla window open for a few days, and all of a sudden I can't access any sites. At the same time my kmail won't access my pop servers.
So I checked the obvious. I was able to ping ip's and resolve names from a command line. ifconfig and route looked perfectly normal.
From a command line I could do anything I wanted. I could telnet to a web site name port 80, and issue a get without any problem, but my browser and kmail wouldn't connect.
The only solution I found was a reboot, and then it would work for a few more days.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this ?
Yes my windows box at work often locks up like that. I'll be using netscape and something will happen so that netscape stops downloading and then ie also will not work. I have to ctrl-alt-del and close down netscape and some other netscape thing that's running. Then ie works and i can bring up netscape again and it works.
Thanks,
Ron
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Thanks For your reply Bruce.
-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Marshall [mailto:bmarsh@bmarsh.com] Sent: Friday, 7 March 2003 10:01 To: SLE Subject: Re: [SLE] Last Try - Then I Give Up On Linux
On Thursday 06 March 2003 18:54 pm, Dave Barton wrote:
Well, your subject line is certainly going to endear us to you... (not)
I wasn't trying to endear (or otherwise) myself to anyone, just making a plain and simple statement of fact.
My SuSE 8.0 box has suddenly developed a strange problem with my dial-up Internet connection. I can connect to my ISP and ping any valid Internet address, but none of my browsers, mua's or Internet apps can access the net.
Sure sounds like a DNS issue to me.
Possible, but unlikely.
Windows as a VMWare client on this same box has no problem accessing the net.
I was foolishly checking out a dsl modem yesterday, although I don't have a dsl connection yet and I set the Dsl Connection in Yast2. Could this be the cause of my problem or is there another possibility?
Any thoughts or suggestions about a possible solution would be welcome.
A show to us of 'ifconfig' and 'route -n' might help.
Does this help ? ====================================================================== ======= ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:D1:72:4A inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:baff:fed1:724a/10 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:819 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:2294 (2.2 Kb) TX bytes:68862 (67.2 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:326 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:326 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:26992 (26.3 Kb) TX bytes:26992 (26.3 Kb) vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:01:00:00 inet addr:192.168.51.1 Bcast:192.168.51.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fe01:0/10 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:111 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) ====================================================================== ======= route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.51.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet1 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 ====================================================================== =======
Well... <comment deleted>
No need to delete your comments, I can take it ;) I am desperate to get this box back on-line, so any advice would be really appreciated. Regards Dave
On Thursday 06 March 2003 18:43, Dave Barton wrote:
Thanks For your reply Bruce.
-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Marshall [mailto:bmarsh@bmarsh.com] Sent: Friday, 7 March 2003 10:01 To: SLE Subject: Re: [SLE] Last Try - Then I Give Up On Linux
On Thursday 06 March 2003 18:54 pm, Dave Barton wrote:
Well, your subject line is certainly going to endear us to you... (not)
I wasn't trying to endear (or otherwise) myself to anyone, just making a plain and simple statement of fact.
My SuSE 8.0 box has suddenly developed a strange problem with my dial-up Internet connection. I can connect to my ISP and ping any valid Internet address, but none of my browsers, mua's or Internet apps can access the net.
Sure sounds like a DNS issue to me.
Possible, but unlikely.
Windows as a VMWare client on this same box has no
problem accessing
the net.
I was foolishly checking out a dsl modem yesterday,
although I don't
have a dsl connection yet and I set the Dsl Connection in
Yast2. Could
this be the cause of my problem or is there another possibility?
Any thoughts or suggestions about a possible solution would be welcome.
A show to us of 'ifconfig' and 'route -n' might help.
Does this help ?
====================================================================== ======= ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:D1:72:4A inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:baff:fed1:724a/10 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:819 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:2294 (2.2 Kb) TX bytes:68862 (67.2 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:326 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:326 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:26992 (26.3 Kb) TX bytes:26992 (26.3 Kb)
vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:01:00:00 inet addr:192.168.51.1 Bcast:192.168.51.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fe01:0/10 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:111 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) ====================================================================== ======= route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.51.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet1 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 ====================================================================== =======
Well... <comment deleted>
No need to delete your comments, I can take it ;)
I am desperate to get this box back on-line, so any advice would be really appreciated.
Regards Dave
Do you have a network connected to the eth0 ethernet card? How do you connect to your ISP (dial-up, cable modem, etc.)? You mention being able to ping an internet address, do you mean by name or number? Do you leave your mua, browser, and other internet applications running all of the time? Is it possible that these applications are binding to the 192.168.0.2 ip address on the eth0 interface and causing problems with a dial-up connection? -- Kelly L. Fulks Home Account
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Dave Barton wrote:
I wasn't trying to endear (or otherwise) myself to anyone, just making a plain and simple statement of fact.
I get quite a few mails with similar subject lines or expressed in a similar tone in my professional capacity here at SuSE's London office. And these are usually on topics that go well beyond SuSE's free installation support (and anyway installation support is not my job). And, I'm sorry to say that although I reply to them all very politely (and I hope helpfully), I do find the implied tone which says "Help me or else I stop using Linux" rather irritating. There is a learning curve which you have to go through, and which I had to go through also. And Linux is getting easier and easier to use because of the massive work which a huge number of people (many of them unpaid as well as those employed by the distributions) have done to help you. When you first started using a computer there was a similar learning curve and similar frustrations involved in learning DOS or Windows or whatever it was (you may have forgotten, but there was...). But you probably didn't send a mail to Microsoft saying "Last Try - Then I give up on DOS". Why not? because: 1) you wouldn't have got an answer 2) you didn't think of it like that: you thought you were learning "to use a computer", not learning DOS or Windows or whatever. Well, now you're learning a different and better operating system, but the concepts are different, and you've got to do some re-learning. But it's worth it. Keep at it. In your answer to Olivier, you say sarcastically: Is this the better side of the Linux "Community Spirit" stuff I hear so much about ? The fact that this list exists and is so amazingly active shows that there certainly is a community spirit, and that people will give a lot of their time to help others. But they want to see that those others are trying to help themselves too and also share and understand something of that community spirit. They are not just unpaid helpdesk operatives. Best wishes Roger Whittaker -- Roger Whittaker SuSE Linux Ltd Appleton House 139 King Street Hammersmith W6 9JG ------------------ 020 8846 3923 ------------------ roger@suse.co.uk ------------------
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I get quite a few mails with similar subject lines or expressed in a similar tone in my professional capacity here at SuSE's London office. And these are usually on topics that go well beyond SuSE's free installation support (and anyway installation support is not my job).
And, I'm sorry to say that although I reply to them all very politely (and I hope helpfully), I do find the implied tone which says "Help me or else I stop using Linux" rather irritating.
There is a learning curve which you have to go through, and which I had to go through also.
And Linux is getting easier and easier to use because of the massive work which a huge number of people (many of them unpaid as well as those employed by the distributions) have done to help you.
Well, I completely understand your sentiments. I think there is this perception that since Linux and it distributors a few years ago were struggling to get Linux past the "it doesn't support much hardware" and "there aren't very many apps" to "Linux is for geeks and pros and not user friendly". Well, I can assure you it is. I joined this group a couple three years ago. I was a relative novice to Linux. Had started on Corel deb, dumped that for Mandrake 71 and spent about a year with that. I decided to pick up SuSE when the 2.4 kernel came out. I have to say that the style that SuSE has been using and perfecting is by far very user friendly. I have a better time installing and setting up SuSE Linux than W98 and XP. I think the thing that we see when we see these "help me or else" posts is two things. A) Many people come from a Windows mind set and in that Help from M$ is relegated to "if you have a problem either reboot, or go to safe mode - then reboot, or the ever popular "reinstall Windows" advice. So, this tend to put people in the mind frame of having to fight and expect hostility and condesention as part of the OS experience. And B) People assume that since the perception of Linux being a Geek system that they will be confronted by an arrogant crowd of systems admins and gurus and therefore take the stance of hostility based on this assumption. The fact of the matter it that about one year after joining this list I was offering advice to serveral "system admins" on how to do work arounds for the Xserver and Nvidia. Last year, to my surprise, I found that one of the most knowledgible people on the list took one of my emails I wrote to help someone set up Wine and put it in the unofficial SuSE FAQ. So, my point? It's simple. If you want to use Linux your going to have to take part in a community. If you come on like a bull in a china shop you'll be labelled a troll and ignored. But if your really trying to find out and learn a different way of using your computer than you have to accept the fact that a learning curve is enevitable and that your going to have to ask questions. A person that does this soon learns that this is probably the most user friendly group they're likely to find. I have made serveral on line friends that I trust and know will help, not only myself but other, It's also a little like a pecking order. Many of the relatively new user will get help from those such as myself, and then I in turn get "tutoring" from the more experienced and so forth. SuSE is committed to make Linux very user friendly. So much so that I hear rumors that they include non-programmers and IT/admin people to test the OS before it's released in order to get the perspective of the everyday common end-user. But then again, it's only a rumor! ;-) Cheers, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+aGWW7WVLiDrqeksRAqO9AJ430rYnPRAccVfKns8dOnYFx5cNIgCgjyen +3BUwD7FCXtJAJ0Rg+EoYGg= =IRTS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
I agree with Curtis here.. I have see Suse from the 4.3 era.. and what it is today is a cake walk in comparison to what it was some years back.. Dont give up on a world class technology, one cannot say that a BMW is bad because we do not know how to drive. All in all this list is gr8 and I do not know how in the earlier years I never looked at it for help, just shoot your problems across I am sure you will find a response from all the good smartians in this group. vishal Curtis Rey wrote:
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I get quite a few mails with similar subject lines or expressed in a similar tone in my professional capacity here at SuSE's London office. And these are usually on topics that go well beyond SuSE's free installation support (and anyway installation support is not my job).
And, I'm sorry to say that although I reply to them all very politely (and I hope helpfully), I do find the implied tone which says "Help me or else I stop using Linux" rather irritating.
There is a learning curve which you have to go through, and which I had to go through also.
And Linux is getting easier and easier to use because of the massive work which a huge number of people (many of them unpaid as well as those employed by the distributions) have done to help you.
Well, I completely understand your sentiments. I think there is this perception that since Linux and it distributors a few years ago were struggling to get Linux past the "it doesn't support much hardware" and "there aren't very many apps" to "Linux is for geeks and pros and not user friendly". Well, I can assure you it is.
I joined this group a couple three years ago. I was a relative novice to Linux. Had started on Corel deb, dumped that for Mandrake 71 and spent about a year with that. I decided to pick up SuSE when the 2.4 kernel came out. I have to say that the style that SuSE has been using and perfecting is by far very user friendly. I have a better time installing and setting up SuSE Linux than W98 and XP.
I think the thing that we see when we see these "help me or else" posts is two things. A) Many people come from a Windows mind set and in that Help from M$ is relegated to "if you have a problem either reboot, or go to safe mode - then reboot, or the ever popular "reinstall Windows" advice. So, this tend to put people in the mind frame of having to fight and expect hostility and condesention as part of the OS experience. And B) People assume that since the perception of Linux being a Geek system that they will be confronted by an arrogant crowd of systems admins and gurus and therefore take the stance of hostility based on this assumption.
The fact of the matter it that about one year after joining this list I was offering advice to serveral "system admins" on how to do work arounds for the Xserver and Nvidia. Last year, to my surprise, I found that one of the most knowledgible people on the list took one of my emails I wrote to help someone set up Wine and put it in the unofficial SuSE FAQ.
So, my point? It's simple. If you want to use Linux your going to have to take part in a community. If you come on like a bull in a china shop you'll be labelled a troll and ignored. But if your really trying to find out and learn a different way of using your computer than you have to accept the fact that a learning curve is enevitable and that your going to have to ask questions.
A person that does this soon learns that this is probably the most user friendly group they're likely to find. I have made serveral on line friends that I trust and know will help, not only myself but other, It's also a little like a pecking order. Many of the relatively new user will get help from those such as myself, and then I in turn get "tutoring" from the more experienced and so forth.
SuSE is committed to make Linux very user friendly. So much so that I hear rumors that they include non-programmers and IT/admin people to test the OS before it's released in order to get the perspective of the everyday common end-user. But then again, it's only a rumor! ;-)
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I agree with Curtis here.. I have see Suse from the 4.3 era.. and what it is today is a cake walk in comparison to what it was some years back.. Dont give up on a world class technology, one cannot say that a BMW is bad because we do not know how to drive. All in all this list is gr8 and I do not know how in the earlier years I never looked at it for help, just shoot your problems across I am sure you will find a response from all the good smartians in this group.
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Hi folks, my name is Trey. Hate to pester ya'll, but I am in need of some help. It's a long story, but the gist is I have to learn Unix, so I can setup a web,ftp,email server at my work. At many small print shops, almost everyone knows printing, not computers. So the fact that I can even run windows makes me a guru in that environment. Haha, can you say Macintosh. :) So my dumb self gets elected to figure it out. sigh... Anyway, I figure the only way to do this cheap is linux, so I gotta learn. Only way I'm gonna learn, is if I use it on a daily basis. So here I am, a bit lost. :) I have installed SUSE 8.1, and managed to configure my email & web browser. I'm getting the hang of KDE3, but I can't access my cd/dvdrom drive. It seems to see it, the the machine boots linux mentions it as a ide-scsi device. I've tried every way I can think of to mount it, but just can't seem to get it. My cd is a Slave on the 2nd IDE channel. (hdd) It's a plextor 20/10/40-12A Any thoughts or advice would be very appreciated. :) Thanks, -Trey
Hi, Have you checked this? http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/81_ide-scsi.html Jostein On 07.03.03,04:23, trey wrote:
Hi folks, my name is Trey.
Hate to pester ya'll, but I am in need of some help. It's a long story, but the gist is I have to learn Unix, so I can setup a web,ftp,email server at my work. At many small print shops, almost everyone knows printing, not computers. So the fact that I can even run windows makes me a guru in that environment. Haha, can you say Macintosh. :) So my dumb self gets elected to figure it out. sigh...
Anyway, I figure the only way to do this cheap is linux, so I gotta learn. Only way I'm gonna learn, is if I use it on a daily basis. So here I am, a bit lost. :)
I have installed SUSE 8.1, and managed to configure my email & web browser. I'm getting the hang of KDE3, but I can't access my cd/dvdrom drive. It seems to see it, the the machine boots linux mentions it as a ide-scsi device.
I've tried every way I can think of to mount it, but just can't seem to get it. My cd is a Slave on the 2nd IDE channel. (hdd) It's a plextor 20/10/40-12A
Any thoughts or advice would be very appreciated. :) Thanks, -Trey
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Yea, just tried that, I changed my initrd_modules to: aic7xxx reiserfs cdrom ide-cd ide-scsi ran the root console command, mk_initrd After creating a new desktop alias pointed at: dev/hdd I get this error now: The desktop entry file /home/trey/Desktop/CD%2fDVD-ROM Device is of type FSDevice but has no Dev=... entry. whew, :) -Trey
Hi,
Have you checked this?
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/81_ide-scsi.html
Jostein
I have installed SUSE 8.1, and managed to configure my email & web browser. I'm getting the hang of KDE3, but I can't access my cd/dvdrom drive. It seems to see it, the the machine boots linux mentions it as a ide-scsi device.
I've tried every way I can think of to mount it, but just can't seem to get it. My cd is a Slave on the 2nd IDE channel. (hdd) It's a plextor 20/10/40-12A Hi, If you device was found to be SCSI-emulated, then try mounting it on
<snip> the scd or sr devices. I saw in another message that you have the link pointing to hdd1. Just try hdd without the 1. If it still will not mount, then try mounting the device like this mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom If it mounts, then change your link on the desktop to reflect this. Be sure that there is a disk in the drive before you try and mount it. If this will not work, then try a different number til it mounts. -- Marshall "Nothing is impossible, We just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible, possible."
mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
Just gives me this error: mount: can't find /dev/sr0/media/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
If it mounts, then change your link on the desktop to reflect this. Be sure that there is a disk in the drive before you try and mount it. If this will not work, then try a different number til it mounts.
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Trey wrote:
mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
Just gives me this error: mount: can't find /dev/sr0/media/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
try this: mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom -t iso9660 then just to see if you can get away with it: umount /dev/sr0 mount /dev/sr0 if this last one works then you'll be fine with that, if not then you'll need a line in your fstab, but I doubt you will. Tom
On Friday 07 March 2003 06:29, Tom Wesley wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Trey wrote:
mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
Just gives me this error: mount: can't find /dev/sr0/media/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
try this: mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom -t iso9660
I get this: linux:/home/trey # mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom -t iso9660 mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only linux:/home/trey # mount /dev/sr0 gives me an error: linux:/home/trey # mount /dev/sr0 mount: can't find /dev/sr0 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab Is that bad? -Trey
then just to see if you can get away with it: umount /dev/sr0 mount /dev/sr0
if this last one works then you'll be fine with that, if not then you'll need a line in your fstab, but I doubt you will.
Tom
linux:/home/trey # mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only linux:/home/trey # cd /media/cdrom linux:/media/cdrom # ls . KOF2K1insert.zip linux:/media/cdrom # Yes! Thank you all very much! Surprising how much that makes sense, now that I see the tree instead of the forest. :) -Trey
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Trey wrote:
On Friday 07 March 2003 06:29, Tom Wesley wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Trey wrote:
mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
Just gives me this error: mount: can't find /dev/sr0/media/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
try this: mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom -t iso9660
I get this: linux:/home/trey # mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom -t iso9660 mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only linux:/home/trey #
mount /dev/sr0
gives me an error:
linux:/home/trey # mount /dev/sr0 mount: can't find /dev/sr0 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
Nah this isn't bad, it means the device is working fine. The first command seems to have mounted ok, but there is not entry in fstab. Try as root: vi /etc/fstab and add a line in that points to your device, maybe /dev/sr0 /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 Tom
I'm trying to install an IRC client. What can I do to get it to run without errors? Thanks, -Trey ------------------ linux://usr/local/bin/xchat-2.0.1 # ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH linux://usr/local/bin/xchat-2.0.1 # ---------------------
On Friday 07 March 2003 20:27, Trey wrote:
I'm trying to install an IRC client. What can I do to get it to run without errors? Thanks, -Trey
------------------ linux://usr/local/bin/xchat-2.0.1 # ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH linux://usr/local/bin/xchat-2.0.1 # ---------------------
Install packages from the cd's for compiling. You'll need gcc, make, etc Tom
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 15:27, Trey wrote:
I'm trying to install an IRC client. What can I do to get it to run without errors? Thanks, -Trey
------------------ linux://usr/local/bin/xchat-2.0.1 # ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
That might give you a clue. With out a compiler you cannot compile programs.
linux://usr/local/bin/xchat-2.0.1 # ---------------------
Any one have any luck getting the freeswan verion included with 8.0 up and running.
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:27:44 -0600
Trey
I'm trying to install an IRC client. What can I do to get it to run without errors? Thanks,
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH linux://usr/local/bin/xchat-2.0.1 #
You need to install the c compiler gcc. Do a search in yast2 software install, and install gcc and libgcc. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
my bad, just got this: linux:/home/trey # mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only linux:/home/trey # is that right? if so, how do I change directory so i can run ls to see if its right? Sorry for keeping ya'll busy, but I'm not very good at this. -Trey
On Friday 07 March 2003 4:40 am, Trey wrote:
linux:/home/trey # mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only linux:/home/trey #
is that right?
yes -- CD's are generally read-only media (I'm ignoring CDRW for the moment)
if so, how do I change directory so i can run ls to see if its right?
The mount command took two parameters: /dev/sr0 --- the "physical location" where the OS sees "the hardware" /media/cdrom -- the "logical" location where the OS sees the FILES So to answer your question, you would do a "cd /media/cdrom". -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net
Dave Barton wrote:
... , but the difficulties in resolving Linux issues are just too ridiculous to be true.
Dave
It looks like you Have given up. With such a subject "last try" it is impossible to help you, ridiculous (?) to even try it. Olivier LICHTENBERGER
-----Original Message----- From: U L Y S S E S [mailto:olivier.lichtenberger@numericable.fr] Sent: Friday, 7 March 2003 10:16 To: Suse-Linux-E Subject: Re: [SLE] Last Try - Then I Give Up On Linux
Dave Barton wrote:
... , but the difficulties in resolving Linux issues are just too ridiculous to be true.
Dave
It looks like you Have given up. With such a subject "last try" it is impossible to help you, ridiculous (?) to even try it.
Olivier LICHTENBERGER
Gee thanks Oliver. Your comment was so really helpful, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Is this the better side of the Linux "Community Spirit" stuff I hear so much about ? Dave
U L Y S S E S wrote:
Dave Barton wrote:
... , but the difficulties in resolving Linux issues are just too ridiculous to be true.
Dave
It looks like you Have given up. With such a subject "last try" it is impossible to help you, ridiculous (?) to even try it.
Olivier LICHTENBERGER
Being fair to him, I *THOUGHT* it earlier this week when I had my DVD drive disappear. The help I got here changed my mind
Windows is not without it's problems, but the difficulties in resolving Linux issues are just too ridiculous to be true.
You are correct on both points, Dave. I'd have to say you are encountering a learning curve, nothing more. When you say you can ping any internet address, do you mean ip address or a name (such as www.njmc.com)? If you can ping an ip address but you can't ping a name, the problem is your dns configuration is incorrect. Check out /etc/resolv.conf and you should find the problem. The file should look something like this: search njmc.com nameserver 10.0.0.1 nameserver 10.0.0.2 Note your nameserver ip addresses and search domain will be different. The "search" field should contain the domain name or names of hosts that you may access only by hostname and not by the fqd (ie mail vs mail.njmc.com). -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Dave Barton wrote:
My SuSE 8.0 box has suddenly developed a strange problem with my dial-up Internet connection. I can connect to my ISP and ping any valid Internet address, but none of my browsers, mua's or Internet apps can access the net.
DNS issue for sure :).
Windows as a VMWare client on this same box has no problem accessing the net.
Who cares about that really....Nice to know, in some way, but first paragraph gave the game away as you have connectivity.
I was foolishly checking out a dsl modem yesterday, although I don't have a dsl connection yet and I set the Dsl Connection in Yast2. Could this be the cause of my problem or is there another possibility?
Yes this is most likely the cause...What did you exactly setup? Will you be getting a PPPOE connection, or straight static?
Any thoughts or suggestions about a possible solution would be welcome.
If I can't find a way of recovering Internet access for my Linux apps I am going to be forced back to windows, since I refuse to (YET AGAIN) reinstall Linux. Windows is not without it's problems, but the difficulties in resolving Linux issues are just too ridiculous to be true.
Well you did mess with the configuration...Same thing with anything. Mess with a car engine without knowing, don't be surprised if it suddenly won't start. In this case there is no reason to run back to Windows, nor re-install anything. just go through and re-setup your dial up. Not done dial up's in so long I cannot be much help there. Matt PS Wish they made a missing manual for Linux written for people coming from Windows to Linux specifically.
Dave
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OK it was a DNS problem. I went into Yast2 "modem configuration" and unchecked "Modify DNS when connected" which made no difference, so I went back in and rechecked the option, which started everything working again. Thanks to all who responded positively to my request for help. You have restored my faith in the Linux "Community Spirit" ;-) Regards Dave On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 10:54, Dave Barton wrote:
My SuSE 8.0 box has suddenly developed a strange problem with my dial-up Internet connection. I can connect to my ISP and ping any valid Internet address, but none of my browsers, mua's or Internet apps can access the net.
Windows as a VMWare client on this same box has no problem accessing the net.
I was foolishly checking out a dsl modem yesterday, although I don't have a dsl connection yet and I set the Dsl Connection in Yast2. Could this be the cause of my problem or is there another possibility?
Any thoughts or suggestions about a possible solution would be welcome.
If I can't find a way of recovering Internet access for my Linux apps I am going to be forced back to windows, since I refuse to (YET AGAIN) reinstall Linux. Windows is not without it's problems, but the difficulties in resolving Linux issues are just too ridiculous to be true.
Dave -- Registered Linux User #288562 http://counter.li.org
Hi, What program do you use to connect to the Internet? Kinternet has been a bit quirky on me, so I use wvdial instead. That works all the time regardless of KDE upgrades. Jostein On 06.03.03,11:58, Dave Barton wrote:
My SuSE 8.0 box has suddenly developed a strange problem with my dial-up Internet connection. I can connect to my ISP and ping any valid Internet address, but none of my browsers, mua's or Internet apps can access the net. Windows as a VMWare client on this same box has no problem accessing the net. I am using M$ Outrage to send this message :_(
I was foolishly checking out a dsl modem yesterday, although I don't have a dsl connection yet and I set the Dsl Connection in Yast2.
Could this be the cause of my problem or is there another possibility? How do I go about removing the dsl configuration?
TIA
Dave
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