On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 09:27 +0200, Manne Merak wrote:

Rick Bilonick wrote:

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How does want prevent ZENWorks from causing problems? Every time I try to install a package, even from the SLED 10.1 DVD, ZENWorks is involved and can never be used - it ALWAYS times out after wasting a great deal of time?

I've tried using zypper but cannot get it to install an rpm that stored on the hard drive.

Rick B.

Try switching to Smart Package Manager if possible. The GUI is a bit quirky but if works like a charm.

Manne

Is this something that is likely to already be available in SLED 10.1? If it needs to be installed, what would the package name be? I haven't been able to install many packages due to the inability to resolve dependencies. For example, I tried to install blas which is on the SLED 10.1 DVD - yet it won't install because it needs libblas and gcc-fortran - neither of which are on the SLED dvd. This doesn't make much sense. (I wanted to install R which needs blas which needs ... .) I've been using Linux (almost exclusively Red Hat) for more than 10 years. Fedora has it's quirks (mostly having to use ndiswrapper to get wireless working) but most everything else is fairly straight forward. It's quite simple to use yum to install packages from the repositories and to add repositories. I had no trouble installing R and many, many other packages. With SUSE SLED 10.1, I can't install much, can't get to any repositories. IMO, it's the worst version of Linux I've ever used. Very little works easily. The one bright spot was the ease of connecting through the wireless card to my home lan using wep and to the office network using wpa. But even still, I can't connect to anything using ssh (ssh seems to connect to the remote host but it never comes back after giving the correct password - does come back and ask for the password again it I mistype it so I know I'm reaching the remote system). This weekend I plan to install a new hard drive and onto it Fedora 9. Otherwise, I don't think I'll ever get the system to be usable. The other alternative would be to install openSUSE 10.3 or 11.0 but given my experience with SLED, I don't have high hopes for openSUSE. Rick B. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-06-05 at 09:07 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:

I've been using Linux (almost exclusively Red Hat) for more than 10 years. ... other packages. With SUSE SLED 10.1, I can't install much, can't get to any repositories. IMO, it's the worst version of Linux I've ever used. Very little works easily. The one bright spot was the ease of connecting through the wireless card to my home lan using wep and to the office network using wpa. But even still, I can't connect to anything using ssh (ssh seems to connect to the remote host but it never comes back after giving the correct password - does come back and ask for the password again it I mistype it so I know I'm reaching the remote system).

You are using the wrong version. Both SLED and SLES are enterprise versions, designed to be deployed by the company expert and never touched by the employee. They include support and are expensive. You should really try the "plain" opensuse version, 10.3 or the 11.0 that will be released shortly. There is where you will find packages by the ton, and new versions of them. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFISAo4tTMYHG2NR9URApVpAJoDy3fRb+gcR9t5tAiD71+ge6VEMACfU9Gg iwAAqG3lA31bWmhvqSG2b00= =IchB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 2008/06/05 11:49 (GMT+0200) Andreas Jaeger apparently typed:

Rick Bilonick writes:

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How does want prevent ZENWorks from causing problems? Every time I try to install a package, even from the SLED 10.1 DVD, ZENWorks is involved and can never be used - it ALWAYS times out after wasting a great deal of time?

Please update to SLED10 SP2, it contains many fixes for ZMD.

If you're using openSUSE: Run openSUSE 10.3 or 11.0,

Unless of course you need need networking to work to W9x or OS/2 servers. CIFS is still broken, and at the rate it's going, it may be more than another year before it can be used with legacy servers. -- "Where were you when I laid the earth's foudation?" Matthew 7:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 13:49 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

Rick Bilonick writes:

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How does want prevent ZENWorks from causing problems? Every time I try to install a package, even from the SLED 10.1 DVD, ZENWorks is involved and can never be used - it ALWAYS times out after wasting a great deal of time?

Please update to SLED10 SP2, it contains many fixes for ZMD.

If you're using openSUSE: Run openSUSE 10.3 or 11.0,

Andreas

I downloaded and burned the SP2 dvd. I then updated the hp 2133. There were no error messages or warnings but now the wireless doesn't work. The network information is there in NetworkManager but no networks are detected (although there are many networks here). I have no idea what the problem is. I go into network configuration and the bcm4312 shows up but it doesn't appear to be activated (even though it's set to "activate on boot"). Rick B. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org