[opensuse] From a Newbie

Hi Guys,   First of all greetings and congratulations for building such a wonderful linux distro.   I have a long 8 years of hardcore windows programming, delved a lot into windows internals, embedded, systems stuff. After this bout, I thought I had enough of ms windows and shifted my

Re: [opensuse] missing ksyms from my kernel

Hi, Just a follow up on this. Now I installed the suse kernel-source-2.6.16.21-0.13 rpm. Then I tried to compile the kernel from source and generate an rpm with the "make rpm-pkg" options to make. I manage to build the rpms for the kernel but I get this message towards the end of the bui

[opensuse] UML kernel on opensuse 10.0

Hi, I'm trying to build a uml kernel in suse10, but either I'm doing something wrong or it is broken. Any hint? kernel is current 2.6.13-15.11 make menuconfig ARCH=um make linux ARCH=um CHK /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-15.11/include/linux/version.h CHK arch/um/user-offsets.h make[1]: `arch/

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE Mirrors and p2p for easier ISO distribution

Seth Arnold wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:56:14AM +0200, Marcus Rueckert wrote: >> JFYI download.opensuse.org and software.opensuse.org are doing >> redirecting to mirrors aswell. > > Why redirect instead of CNAME? 1. It allows the redirector to check beforehand if a given file is on a mi

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE Mirrors and p2p for easier ISO distribution

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:56:14AM +0200, Marcus Rueckert wrote: > JFYI download.opensuse.org and software.opensuse.org are doing > redirecting to mirrors aswell. Why redirect instead of CNAME? Thanks pgpMwy5SHVoT8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [opensuse] Hardware compatibility DB on opensuse.org?

Am Donnerstag, 31. August 2006 18:58 schrieb Christophe Veber: > Hi, > > is there a hardware compatibility DB on opensuse.org? I recall there was > something like this with Suse Linux... > > Christophe Hi, have you looked at this: http://en.opensuse.org/Hardware ? Maybe that is what you are looki

[opensuse] Hardware compatibility DB on opensuse.org?

Hi, is there a hardware compatibility DB on opensuse.org? I recall there was something like this with Suse Linux... Christophe

[opensuse] missing ksyms form my kernel

Hi, I downloaded and compiled a 2.6.16 vanilla kernel from kernel.org for my suse 10.1 box. Now I am trying to compile and install some drivers/modules for this kernel. Everything goes well and the drivers/modules get generated and produce some RPMS for me to install. The problem I run int

[opensuse] 10.2 Alpha3 => Alpha4 ?

How should I upgrade from Alpha3 to Alpha4 when it becomes availlable? Is an update via you/... possible/reasonable or should I do a complete re-install?