[opensuse] Fstab entry for 100Mb Iomega ZIP drives.
Hi, We have two comps around with Iomega ZIP drives and would would like to know, which self-made fstab entry is closer to the "truth". Of course the interface they are using is slightly different, but you could have some useful comments / corrections: SUSE 9.1 Pro; 100Mb Iomega ZIP drive [parallel] /dev/sda1/media/zippovfatnoauto,user,exec,sync 0 0 SUSE 9.1 FTP-install; 100Mb Iomega ZIP drive [IDE interface] /dev/hdd4/media/zipposubfsfs=vfat,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 e.g. the first one looks quite OK and works well; the second one works in fact, but KDE users first get a "Only root can mount" warning. fs=vfat looks strange anyway, I couldn't find a list with all available fs-types anywhere. Anyway in all the SUSE/Novel examples/howtos I know exclusively the floppy and/or CD drives are mentioned, for ZIPs the max. I could find was relating to the still unsolved extremely slow FAT-writing of open- SUSE 10.0. Thank you in advance, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Root password for the OpenSuSE LiveCD 10.3 ?
Hi, On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:29:47 +0200 Thierry de Coulon <.> wrote: > On Monday, 13. August 2007, Basil Chupin wrote: > > > > google is your best friend > > > > > > 1st hit > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=root+password+for+suse+10.3+live+cd&ie=utf > > >-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:official&client=firefox-a > > > > Oh, for chrissake, why can't you just simply state what the damn > > password is without going through this long-winded charade (of having to > > search for it on the internet)? > > I second Basil here. If you know the answer to a question, why not post it > simply? What's more, when you later find this message in an archive, chances > are the link is obsolete and the information is lost (ok, here we talk about > beta software, but this is a general observation). Correct, would be easier for others simply to read the password mentioned e.g. in a reply mail, than to surf for it! Most of us would do the homework for google-ing, etc. anyway, but I'm now on a mail- only 56k dial-up for _weeks_, having a 10.3 LiveCD from a friend with no instruction / password. Therefore I could ask the same and hope for a positive (=useful) answer. Regards, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Network card driver - update needed.
Hi, We have an openSUSE 10.0 router, working with two 3com network cards. I don't know the exact name/type of the "problematic" 10Mbit one, but read previously on the 'net that this particular one can cause tons of problems. And it really does. I wonder, how to start to update its driver; any advice please what to do next, if I know the module name, which gets loaded for that network card? Compiling kernel module and/or new kernel is no problem, but of course I attempt to limit the efforts needed and time invested. Thank you, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] SLES9 - SP4=?
Hi, Does anyone know by chance, when the SP4 for SLES9 will be published? I wonder, how long time it will be after SP1 for SLES10 was produced. Thanks, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Printing photos easily.
Hi, On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:11:27 -0500 Jim Sabatke <.> wrote: > > I had trouble with my HP R800 also. HP is not well supported under > Linux, or at least wasn't when I was setting up the printer. I print > from gimp using TurboPrint software found at: > > http://www.turboprint.de/english.html > > The cost has gone up thanks to the dollar falling against the Euro (29 > Euro, $39 USD) but it works really well. > Thank you for the idea, but to be honest, proprietary driver/software is no option for me/us. Anyway, I will keep your idea as a solution for the very last case and if all other options fail, will try TB's shareware to see, what I'm missing... BY the way, our printer doesn't seem to be listed here: http://www.turboprint.info/printers.html Regards, Agnes -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Printing photos easily.
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:14:52 -0400 ken <.> wrote: > On 07/25/2007 05:01 PM somebody named pelibali wrote: <...> > > At the end we managed to print the above four images via an > > OpenOffice.org template my boyfriend prepared few months ago and like > > that we succeeded. With Gimp I had bad experience in the past, so > > this way was not tried now. <...> > First, the hardware (your printer) needs to be capable of printing the > quality you want. It is; please refer to my original e-mail! As I wrote it earlier, using the simple OOorg template of my boyfriend worked well. In contrast it is still not the "easy-to-master" thing I need, mainly because it needs plenty patience and long clickety-clickety... Thanks, Agnes -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Printing photos easily.
Hi, I'm new to linux and this evening attempted to print some of my photos... First I tried the newest Picasa under my openSUSE 10.0, but it resulted _draft_ quality _B/W_ prints, even that 1200 DPI has been setup generally for our HP DeskJet 5940. Picasa's template is generally OK, because could place easily e.g. four of my photos on a single A4 page, but the draft quality I couldn't overcome. Of course I tried the options (theoretically) resulting better quality printouts and also checked the printer's default settings, which was normal quality/color. Therefore have no idea, how to work around this, because Picasa has quite limited print setup options under Linux and search at Google didn't help at all. At the end we managed to print the above four images via an OpenOffice.org template my boyfriend prepared few months ago and like that we succeeded. With Gimp I had bad experience in the past, so this way was not tried now. Would you give me please any hints/ideas on your preference when printing photos; I would be quite interested to hear some possibili- ties. Thank you, Agnes -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Iomega parallel port drive
Hi, On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:29:18 -0500 Clark Sann <...> wrote: > Anyone have any idea how I can get a 100 MB Iomega parallel port drive > to work. I've connected it, have a zip drive in the drive, and > rebooted. AFAIK, the system did not recognize the drive. I've spent an > hour googling and am afraid I will have to recompile the kernel to add > support for this think. Heck with that! I bet openSuse has an easier > way. I've also browsed around Yast but couldn't find anything there. > Finally, I installed 2 programsgtkzip and ziptool. Neither work. > > Thanks for your help! > > Clark I'm sorry, can't recall the details how I exactly installed years ago my parallel Iomega 100Mb drive on a laptop running SUSE Linux 9.1! Maybe two info helps you, 1. needed the ppa module loaded, 2. the device can be mounted now e.g. via fstab /dev/sdaX /media/zippovfatnoauto,user,exec,sync 0 0 sdaX could be easily sda4, if originally formatted media... Regards, pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often [OT]
Hi, On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:44:50 +0100 Hartmut Meyer <.> wrote: > > It's a shame, that on the opensuse list several of the oldie-related > > threads ended up with the answer "do update" :( > > There are hardly any scenarios where one could give any other advise but to > upgrade from an old/unsupported version to a newer/supported version. > > 9.1 might be "better" for you, but unless your system is not connected to any > network (including internet dialup) staying on an unsupported system simply > isn't a good idea. > I agree with you, but would add three extra points: while having few- several old systems even preparing updated/patched rpm packages for them is not so difficult and (e.g. for me) brings back the time invested. This could also happen without the help of SUSE/Novell; doesn't work in all situations, but valid alternative for most of the cases. That's like a homework ;) In the same time I think there is _noone_ having old SUSE releases and ha- ving no idea on the outdated nature of these systems! As extra addon, please consider people still using win95/98 or even newer systems with no updates as all, because sitting on dial-up or being lazy; kiddies will find THEM, and likely not the old Linux-es... Regards, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:06:54 -0500 Stevens <.> wrote: > I am 2 months into Suse 10.2 and I still do not have a polished system > running as well as my old Suse 9.1 that I ran for over 2 years. No wonder that some people got stuck with "old" releases! I also kept SUSE 9.1, which I consider best even if unsupported. During the beta tests I ran into several newer releases, but they just became more robust. It also could be, that I simply don't use features others nee- ding edge-stuff are interested in, therefore all the 10.x-s got repla- ced on the spare partition I have and now have an extra SUSE 9.1 there;) It's a shame, that on the opensuse list several of the oldie-related threads ended up with the answer "do update" :( Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]
Hi, On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:19:33 -0900 John Andersen <.> wrote: > > > > does this mouse require the rf dongle to be clipped under the mouse when > > not in use as it does on the Logitech i have that is almost a year old > > and still on the same pair of AA cles i installed when it was given to me > > last year i use it every day on my laptop running suse 10.2 and most > > evenings .. > > > > The point of the clipping that Peter mentions is that this > often turns off the mouse for travel. Other mice have switches. > > Since the OP has a laptop, I wonder if he dumps the mouse > in the bag with the computer only to have its buttons depressed > constantly while in the bag, wasting battery? > Thanks for all of your answers; there are plenty of things to check/ measure/etc! My mouse is an optical one as it was asked and has a little switch on its bottom side. It's always just turned ON, when it is in use, otherwise it's OFF! All the day the whole stuff is on my desk and if it would get temporally into a bag or something, the mouse would be anyway OFF. (+ the mouse travels in its original plastic wrap, where there is no way to push any buttons!) I have a three years old Acer TravelMate 803LMiB having Bluetooth as well. Maybe they really interfere with the mouse's dongle, later running at 27MHz as stated on its bottom side. This I will check first, because when patched my 2.6.5 kernel to use a BT headset, had serious quality problems and maybe that disturbing signals originally "came" from my mouse's hard- ware... In addition I would consider not to make any bug reports for the oldie Acer laptop, because nobody would care! It's _old_ and during the first week WinXP was erased from it, so was in fact never used "as it should be". Acer would even not think that anyone just keeping all the genuine M$ recovery-type media in the cupboard; far away from the production sys- tem. Pelibali:) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Wireless mouse battery life [OT?]
Hi, I have a Fujitsu Siemens "Mini RF.Mouse" wireless mouse connected to my laptop via its own USB dongle. First I used "normal" 1,5V AAA-type batteries and max. 2 weeks they were empty. Now I'm using rechargeable 1,2V AAAs (850mAh) and they last no longer than 10 days with 1-2 hrs of daily work. The system is SUSE 9.1... My question concerns the following: my brother uses the very same type of mouse and his lasts on the Win* platform for 2-3 _months_ with daily 1-2 hrs of use. We tried to exchange mice, but they behaviour the same, so likely no hardware is defected. How this huge time difference is possible? We checked also the batteries, but maybe the mouse background is also an important point. e.g. I use a pretty white and almost flat plate now, where sometimes I see my pointer shaking, without even touching the mouse. (This behaviour didn't happen on the laptop of my brother, when using _my_ mouse & background.) In the case of my brother's laptop the USB ports are at the side where he uses the mouse (right side), but my Acer has ports only on the another, left side. Could that 15cm->40cm (~3x) make such decre- ase in the battery life(s)? Did anyone test the same mouse/battery combo on various SUSE rele- ases? Was there some improvement visible? I would be interested mainly in a comparison of 9.x and 10.x. The same question as arose earlier, is anyone aware of a huge difference between Win* vs. SUSE? Thanks for any comments/ideas to improve the lifetime of my batteries and would also appreciate any weblink on this topic to have a general idea, which kind of background would be the best, etc. Thank you, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Bluetooth headset vs. SUSE 9.1 (!) Pro.
Hi, Various reasons made me stuck with SUSE 9.1 Pro (kernel 2.6.5) on my laptop and I'm happy with it: except my BT headset everything just works! (On the same hardware, testing of openSUSE 10.x series was also done and e.g. with 10.2 it was just 5 minutes to get the very same Logitech BT headset work. In general it's linux and btsco-compatible.) To make my headset-installation story lasting several months short: works, but... On the latest official YOU-kernel I wasn't able to compile _any_ btsco-releases and through Google I found out that kernel-patches (and general bluetooth update?) will be needed. First alsa (packman), the bluez-libs and -utils were updated and then with a slightly modified btsco patch (for kernel 2.6.7; http://www.gargan.org/linux/snd-bt-sco/kernel-2.6.7-8.24-08-04.patch ) recompiled my complete kernel. Now the snd-bt-sco kernel module can be loaded and the BT-headset works now, but there is a crucial problem: only the btsco version 0.2 can be used, which takes the voice settings as 0x0040 and this makes the quality (extremely) bad. Btsco version 0.3, which in fact compiles and installs, but is not able to use the 0x0040 setting as defined by the kernel module; it rather says that 0x0060 should be used. With the older module loaded that particular 0x0060 setting doesn't let the BT headset emit anything:( Even no background noises, as it just had e.g. with the working btsco-0.2. So the whole stuff considered to be useless at the end. The readme on the above site stated that the patch should work with the "new" 0.3 version, but it didn't in my case... I'm confident, that after all of this there should be a way to get btsco-0.3 working as 0x0060 on my laptop, just having no further idea, how! My concern is that with the 2.6.7 patch I miss the steps "in-between" and simply some older components of my 2.6.5 kernel didn't get updated/fixed. I also read about bluetooth 1.1 and 2.x, which could cause the above 0x0040 working, but 0x0060 not anomaly; recently I started to look around for git-patches to investigate. I would specially appreciate, if anyone using such an old SUSE 9.x system with a working BT headset or simply knowing the bluetooth stack more would comment this. I'm sorry for the long post; skipped the complete (hardware) details to make it shorter and so general as it is just possible. Thank you, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] vnc on dial-up and why 5800 is open?!
Hi, On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:19:34 -0600 Wade Jones <.> wrote: > >On Sunday 11 February 2007 06:45, pelibali wrote: > ... > > The second related question is that on her computer I saw TCP 5800 > > listening. I didn't see it before she activated the desktop sharing > > and would be interested, how it could get opened. I didn't activate > > vnc through xinetd and chkconfig reports it (as supposed) to be > > deactivated. The only thing is that via KDE's Control Panel we acti- > > vated the above desktop sharing and immediately moved it to a higher > > port number. TCP 5800 I just saw accidentally and is anyway firewal- > > led; the particular port needed by me has been opened under the > > SuSEfirewall2. > > > Pelibali > > VNC uses port 5800 for the java based server, i.e. the client runs in a web > browser. I moved from KDE's default vnc server port (5900) to a higher one, so in fact no need for 5800! Any chance to deactivate that 5800 and keep only my custom port? As I mentioned earlier, I firewall 5800 anyway, but would be surely better to avoid listening on that particular java based server port. Thanks, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] vnc on dial-up and why 5800 is open?!
Hi, My mom's stock/boxed SUSE 8.2 is on dial-up. Sometimes I teach her to do tasks via vnc, being located in another country. I'm new to vnc, but the desktop sharing we do from her KDE session is simple and the thing works quite well... The only thing I would change is to avoid seeing her desktop image when connecting, which would surely accelerate the speed of the connection a lot. I use SUSE 9.1 with KDE 3.3.x, where there was an option to hide desktop background when connecting, but on her earlier KDE's Control Center there was no option like this and disableBackground=true in her respective config file was also without any effect:( Any idea/work-around please to achieve the needed effect or acce- lerate on another way the vnc connection's speed?! The second related question is that on her computer I saw TCP 5800 listening. I didn't see it before she activated the desktop sharing and would be interested, how it could get opened. I didn't activate vnc through xinetd and chkconfig reports it (as supposed) to be deactivated. The only thing is that via KDE's Control Panel we acti- vated the above desktop sharing and immediately moved it to a higher port number. TCP 5800 I just saw accidentally and is anyway firewal- led; the particular port needed by me has been opened under the SuSEfirewall2. Thank you for any thoughts, comments. Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Skype alternative needed for dial-up.
Hi, On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:07:28 -0800 Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 10 February 2007 13:20, Tony Alfrey wrote: > > pelibali wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Some time ago I skype-ed with my mom sitting on modem dial-up. > > Sounds kinky. > > > > I suggest Gizmo > > http://www.gizmoproject.com > > I've not had first-hand experience with Gizmo, but several of my > co-workers swear by it. Give it a try. I had downloaded that one already, but it doesn't work! Either my SUSE 9.1, nor my mom's SUSE 8.2 have gtk2 >= 2.6. I tried first their newest version, then went for several older releases, like 1.x and 0.x... Anyway, thanks for the idea, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Skype alternative needed for dial-up.
Hi, Some time ago I skype-ed with my mom sitting on modem dial-up. Few times it was quite OK, but recently the quality/speed is just horrib- le:( I'm on broadband already, so only her SUSE 8.2 comp' would limit the connection's speed... I did search on Google and came to other, mostly open software, which could be used for such voice-only contact. I have downloaded few of them, but before doing extensive trials on them, would ask for a feedback, if a customized (=well configured) skype or any other tools are in use somewhere through dial-up with quite enjoyable quality?! Thank you, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] remote access BUG in 10.2 can others confirm, and what wuold be fix?
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:00:59 -0500 ted leslie <.> wrote: > its happen now twice (my two and only installs of opensuse 10.2 on two > separate machines). > > the remote management (Xvnc), when turned on, > then you access from the client, you get the grey weave X screen but no > login box or anything, just X, no window manager or standard GDM start > up. > > I google'd and the standard fix is put a win. mgr. in the .Xvnc or .vnc > file, > but I don't think that is the fix, as the graphical greeter of a Suse > install is before you have decided on what user would log in, and there > is no such file on /root .. > and this certainly seems to be a bug as it never happened to me on many > pasted versions of SLED openSuse, etc. > > help For SUSE 8.2 and 9.1 using kdm this document helped me a lot; in par- ticular its 2nd part: http://www.ruwebit.net/viewarticle.php?id=91&chapter=-1 Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] How to make screensaver NOT to turn off screen.
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 10:31:21 -0500 Patrick Shanahan <.> wrote: > * Billie Erin Walsh <.> [02-04-07 10:20]: > > Random R. Decker wrote: > > > I have a problem with energysaving settings for my screen > > > I _Don't_ want the screen to shut down , but to have the screensaver > > > running _All_ the time. > > > How do I accomplish that. > > > > > That's a good question. I've got EVERY power setting I can find turned > > off and it still shuts down. I don't think there is a way. > > Check your bios. Mine has a setting that will sleep/minimize-power. > Look for dmps. If you run KDE, assuming SUSE 9.1 Pro: Right click on the desktop -> Configure Desktop -> Display -> Power Control -> uncheck [Enable display power management] box. + configure the screensaver of your choice. Best, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Running spec. commands on various dial-up providers.
Hi, On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 14:16:13 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R." <.> wrote: ... > You see, when I used dial up I also used different providers. Depending on > the provider, I have to use a different mail relay server, having to edit > the postfix transport file; not having that, I edited it by hand before > connecting. > > Had I been pissed enough, I would have written a wrap around script for > wvdial. The IP thing did not occur to me at that time, though. In most of my time I'm on SUSE 9.1 and making different profiles via scpm solved my similar problems. I still use it to change various configuration files; now having several home - home3D - institute - hotspot - budapest - girlfriend profiles. I have only simpler postfix configs, but was never a problem to change that via scpm switching. (The only issue I had was to get scpm remem- ber the proxy settings sitting in various files, but I managed to solve that. Anyway, openSUSE 10.x made that much more easy...) Regards, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Ordering the "FizzBall" game for Linux.
Hi, I don't mind to spend some money to get a great looking and lovely game, such as e.g. FizzBall ( http://grubbygames.com/fizzball/ ). This e-mail supposed to be in fact no advertisement, just collecting info if anyone ordered or even has it already... Any positive/negative feedback on this particular order/shipping is very welcome! Thank you, Pelibali Ps. Maybe a link to a review of that game doesn't hurt: http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/11/fizzball-well-designed-enjoyable-game.html When playing with the trial version, don't forget to turn ON sound! After a strongly task-overloaded period, a few hours of FizzBall-ing made my day ;))) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Running spec. commands on various dial-up providers.
Hi, On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 02:17:54 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R." <.> wrote: ... > An idea. > > If you do a dns check on the IP, with the command "host", the domain of > the IP will tell you the provider. You can do a 'grep' check on that name > to find matches. I think this can be the winner; thank you Carlos! (My original idea to check the provider names my friend defined under his kinternet looks a little ridiculous now...) Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Running spec. commands on various dial-up providers.
Hi, On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 21:50:19 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R." <.> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The Wednesday 2007-01-03 at 15:06 -0500, James Knott wrote: > > > > The only point we are missing here is to know how to get the name of > > > the "active" provider smpppd is using, somehow via the command line. > > > > Does it have to be the name of the provider? Why not use the IP info from > > ifconfig? > > The IP is given as a parameter to the script, no need to search for it - > or it should, at least. It is done for ip-up.local, dunno for if-up.d/ > Thanks for both of you for the ideas! Generally my naive idea was to extract somehow the _name_ of the provider and personally I didn't think about to use the IPs. To be honest I have even no idea, if my friend uses few free providers, how different their IPs are... e.g. earlier I had Hungarian freemail and freeweb dial-up and there was time when they used the same range of dynamic IPs, but the first supposed to provide exclusively SMTP/POP access and the later one "only" internet... I think the best will be to wait until I travel back to Budapest to have a look on his settings personally. Thank you, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Running spec. commands on various dial-up providers.
Hi, [SUSE 8.2; user-controlled (kinternet) modem dial-up.] A friend asked for my help, but this time having no access to any SUSE systems with dial-up would make it difficult for me to answer (&test) this. He would like to put a bash-script in /etc/ppp/if-up.d/ to run it everytime he dials any of his few providers and it supposed to do the following: if provider1 has been called, do something, if provider2 has been called, do something else. The only point we are missing here is to know how to get the name of the "active" provider smpppd is using, somehow via the command line. Any idea please? Thanks. Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] postfix e-mail header clean-up.
Hi, I have postfix running (SUSE 10.0), but would need a cosmetic fix for it. Several existing clients sending e-mails through that SMTP server and wouldn't like to keep that part in the headers _where_ they came from... So I'm in fact looking for a way to change the headers as all the e-mails running through postfix would originate from the server itself. Is there any way to easily achieve that? Thank you, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] SUSE 8.2 vs. flashplayer v7.0.68
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:14:44 +0100 Sven Burmeister <.> wrote: > On Tuesday 12 December 2006 22:02, pelibali wrote: > > The flashplayer 7.0.68 doesn't work under Konqueror on SUSE 8.2, > > other browsers can use its plugin. My mom uses 100% Konqueror for her > > surfing and she would need flashplayer. I wouldn't like to provide > > her outdated releases, maybe could convince her to change to mozil- > > la or preferably to an updated opera. > > 8.2 is outdated, there are no more security patches. Even 9.2 is outdated. > You > should update to openSuSE 10.2 which is available for free and provides > flash7 and. If you need it, flash9 beta works on 10.2 too. Thank you; updating 8.2 is not an option on her p2-300 (from '98) / 256Mb / dial-up... When SUSE 10.0 came out, I tried it almost immediately and to be honest, there was simply no way to work with KDE's extreme slow speed. In contrast 8.2's KDE is surprisingly responsive, so most likely mom will get Opera 9.x and her SUSE 8.2 will be kept as long it runs (=hopefully still few/several years). KDE is also a fix point :( Pelibali Ps. Another unresolved problem with 10.0 was the poor Iomega-ZIP (FAT) write speed, which would render her main backup media to the useless category. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Kmail vs. a particular special character (SUSE 10.0)
Hi, I have a SUSE 10.0 router/printer-server with several 9.x and a single 10.0 client. Surprisingly when my girlfriend (SUSE 10.0) prints out an e-mail con- taining Hungarian special chars, all look OK, except one, which is "á". This letter is in fact fine if you take _what_ is printed, but if you take the minimal squares all the letters can be surrounded, the mentioned char is not at the middle, but strongly shifted, resulting that it almost touches the neighboring character. This issue is not present on any of the 9.x machines. How to start to troubleshot the situation; should I simply check the font settings under her Kmail client or what could be the culprit? Is there any indication/report showing that on 10.0 there was a font with some special chars corrupted? I googled for this, didn't find a similar problem description/solution. Thank you, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] icewm configuration.
Hi, On both 9.1 and 10.0 I attempted to configure icewm a little to show me a clock with 24h and display network load also for eth1. I have only system-wide icewm config files, but even editing them directly (I tried several ways!) didn't make the needed changes and e.g. root still gets still different looking icewm desktop, than a user! I wanted to unify and anyway I was surprised to see why eth0 AND eth1 were not both showed on the panel/tray. I would appreciate any help in pointing me how to achieve the needed changes, independently if the way is through direct editing of con- fig files or e.g. using icewm configuration tools. Thanks, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] SUSE 8.2 vs. flashplayer v7.0.68
Hi, The flashplayer 7.0.68 doesn't work under Konqueror on SUSE 8.2, other browsers can use its plugin. My mom uses 100% Konqueror for her surfing and she would need flashplayer. I wouldn't like to provide her outdated releases, maybe could convince her to change to mozil- la or preferably to an updated opera. Do you have an idea please, how I could figure out, what Konqui's problem is with that "new" flashpl release? Maybe a simply font issue, and either the original web-install nor the source rpm- "rebuilt" flashplayer worked... Thanks, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Kmail constantly annoys with certificate problem.
Hi, I have SUSE 9.1 with KDE 3.3.1 and have problem with Kmail 1.7.1 :( I setup a secured pop3 connection (port 995 with auth; SSL with plain text) to our mail server and every time I fire up Kmail to download my e-mails I get the following popup(s): The IP address of the host pop.whatever.net does not match the one the certificate was issued to. Details, Continue, Cancel [Continue] Would you like to accept this certificate forever without being prompted? Forever, Current Sessions Only Here independently which choice I do, except a shorter period when it will be not asked again, but after restarting Kmail the very same pop-ups appear for sure. Any idea or trick to hide this somehow?! (FYI: Updating 9.1 or moving to another provider are no valid options. KDE 3.3.2 could help, but.) Thank you, Pelibali -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Re: [SLE] amazon.de vs. (new) RealPlayer of 10.x
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:40:36 +0100 Juergen Weigert <.> wrote: > On Nov 11, 06 20:52:22 +0100, pelibali wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:31:59 +0100 > > Joachim Schrod <.> wrote: > > > > > The solution is to grab the old codecs from a Realplayer8 > > > installation. Since you're asking for amazon.de, a German > > > description is probably helpful for you: http://linuxwiki.de/RealPlayer > > > > Thank you, works flawlessly! Starting from the linked page I got to > > http://de.gentoo-wiki.com/RealPlayer_10_Gold for exact instructions, > > where I'll be able to download codecs of version 8 (or even better 9!) > > and how to install them. > > Takes maybe one single minute, but worth to do it... > > Cool solution! > Please open an enhancement issue at bugzilla.novell.com > So that this gets fixed in the next Realplayer release. > > thanks, > Jw. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220580 Pelibali:( - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] flash-player-7.0.68.0-1.2 crashes - please confirm
Hi, On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:56:24 -0800 Kai Ponte <.> wrote: > On Sunday 12 November 2006 01:46, Michael Schueller wrote: > > Hello List > > > > I´ve got a Problem with the latest flash-player-7.0.68.0-1.2 on a > > certain Side. > > > > http://www.wuehlmaeuse.de/highend.html > > > > Though I'm using flash 9 beta, it works great in Konq and Firefox. > > I have 9,0,21,55 installed. > I tested it on my SUSE 9.1, having the latest official Firefox pro- vided via YOU (MozillaFirefox-1.0.8-0.2), where I have a flash- player of the YOUpdated SUSE 10.0 I have "rebuilt from src.rpm" (flash-player-7.0.68.0-1.1)... The page starts loading (=an ugly head is animated), then Firefox suddenly (+reproducibly) disappears/freezes. Pelibali - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Re: [SLE] amazon.de vs. (new) RealPlayer of 10.x
Hi, On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:31:59 +0100 Joachim Schrod <.> wrote: > Amazon uses the content that is supplied by the recording companies. > Some of them use an older RealAudio format that is not supported by > the current RealPlayer. Mostly it's older record; I kept > http://www.amazon.de/Acoustic-Soul-India-Arie/dp/B5A1PR as an > URL that makes problem. > > The solution is to grab the old codecs from a Realplayer8 > installation. Since you're asking for amazon.de, a German > description is probably helpful for you: http://linuxwiki.de/RealPlayer Thank you, works flawlessly! Starting from the linked page I got to http://de.gentoo-wiki.com/RealPlayer_10_Gold for exact instructions, where I'll be able to download codecs of version 8 (or even better 9!) and how to install them. Takes maybe one single minute, but worth to do it... Kind regards, Pelibali - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Re: [SLE] Explanation for two interesting attacks.
Hi, On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 18:36:09 +0100 Anders Johansson <.> wrote: > > Oct 12 21:53:40 moorczy kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-ICMP-CRIT IN=ppp0 > > SRC=210.6.34.56 DST=145.236.115.203 LEN=56 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=42 > > ID=15399 PROTO=ICMP TYPE=5 CODE=1 GATEWAY=210.6.33.94 > > [ SRC=145.236.115.203 DST=210.6.33.94 LEN=46 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=40 > > ID=63342 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=1029 DPT=23792 LEN=26 ] > > This is an ICMP redirect, telling you that if you want to get to 210.6.33.94, > you need to use 210.6.33.94 as a gateway. It doesn't look like an attack > (hint: not everything dropped by your firewall is an 'attack') as much as a > misconfigured router (specifically the one with IP 210.6.34.56) Yes, thank you; in fact that is why I asked, because couldn't decide for sure, if its a real attack or not! Needless to say that this host in Hong Kong was very likely never visited by me or my family. Probably random try or was sup- posed to come against the comp previously using "our" dynamic IP. > > Oct 13 13:26:52 moorczy kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULT IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= > > SRC=192.168.1.10 DST=145.236.212.120 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=127 > > ID=15580 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1270 DPT=139 WINDOWS=8192 RES=0x00 SYN > > URGP=0 OPT (020405B401010402) > > This is a standard Win98 style NETBIOS network browse. Hmmm. I don't think that a Linux-only small network, hanging on a freenet provider would be normally contacted from outside with 192.168.1.x-type internal IP address. But the fact is that there every 20 seconds a kiddie or alike is knocking. Regards, Pelibali - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
