[opensuse-factory] problem while installing opensuse10.3alpha3 on power

2007-05-16 Thread Mohammed Omar
- Forwarded by Mohammed Omar/India/IBM on 16/05/2007 12:30 - Mohammed Omar/India/IBM

Re: [opensuse-factory] problem while installing opensuse10.3alpha3 on power

2007-05-16 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Mohammed Omar wrote: Hi all, I tried to installed openSUSE10.3alpha3 on power machine(power4). I setup nfs server. I made the system to boot with first CD and tried to select nfs type of installation,but it showed network driver not loaded, please load n/w

Re: [opensuse-factory] test

2007-05-16 Thread peter nikolic
On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Andras Barna wrote: use the opensuse-test ML :) On 5/16/07, peter nikolic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi . Test only Pete . -- SuSE Linux 10.3-Alpha3. (Linux is like a wigwam - no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.)

Re: [opensuse-factory] test

2007-05-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 09:53, peter nikolic wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Andras Barna wrote: use the opensuse-test ML :) Don't top-post! Trim list boilerplate and signature blocks! On 5/16/07, peter nikolic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi . Test only Pete . Thanks .

[opensuse-factory] Fan issue with Sony Vaio vgn-fe41m

2007-05-16 Thread Alberto Passalacqua
Hello, a friend of mine tried to install openSUSE on a Sony Vaio vgn-fe41m, but he has an issue with the temperature, which appears only under Linux. Under Windows Vista, the temperature is in the range 35-40°C, while under Linux the minimum temperature is always around 54°C and the fans are

Re: [opensuse-factory] test

2007-05-16 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 peter nikolic schreef: On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2007 09:53, peter nikolic wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Andras Barna wrote: use the opensuse-test ML :) Don't top-post! Trim list boilerplate and

Re: [opensuse-factory] test

2007-05-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 11:01, peter nikolic wrote: ... Pardon !! . I see the jump down your throat mentality has bled over here as well B4 you yell at me for top posting take a look i am one of the main protagonists telling poeple NOT to top post . That was addressed to Andras Barna,

Re: [opensuse-factory] Alpha4 dependencies validation

2007-05-16 Thread peter nikolic
On Wednesday 16 May 2007, André Malin wrote: It seems to take ages to do the the dependencies validation when adding packages at the initial packages selection. Regards, Yes a very long time AMD 64 athlon with 2 gig Ram and it takes best part of 10 min to run thru the deps pete --

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE packages: PowerTOP / Kernel with CONFIG_TIMER_STATS

2007-05-16 Thread Timo Hoenig
Hi Gabriel, On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 21:56 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i have installed powertop but when i run powertop,it show me this comment, i use, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents/powertop uname -a Linux xps 2.6.18.8-0.3-default #1 SMP Tue Apr 17 08:42:35 UTC 2007 i686 i686

[opensuse] using minicom without beeing root

2007-05-16 Thread Cristea Bogdan
Is there a way to run minicom without beeing root? Now, when I call minicom, I get the message: minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied -- Cristea Bogdan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Re: using minicom without beeing root

2007-05-16 Thread Cristea Bogdan
I reply to myself. Changing the owner with chmod of the ttySn will do the trick. On 5/16/07, Cristea Bogdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to run minicom without beeing root? Now, when I call minicom, I get the message: minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied -- Cristea

[opensuse] Re: using minicom without beeing root

2007-05-16 Thread Cristea Bogdan
sorry, with chown On 5/16/07, Cristea Bogdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I reply to myself. Changing the owner with chmod of the ttySn will do the trick. On 5/16/07, Cristea Bogdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to run minicom without beeing root? Now, when I call minicom, I get the

Re: [opensuse] Start http at boot time

2007-05-16 Thread Petr Klíma
Joaquin Henriquez (MI/EEM) wrote: Hi there, I have a problem with the initialization at boot time of my http daemon. I put on the: /etc/init.d/rc5.d/S10httpd - /opt/http-2.2.4/bin/apachectl The S10httpd is dinamically link to the apachectl. The problem is that it doesn't start the http

RE: [opensuse] Start http at boot time

2007-05-16 Thread Joaquin Henriquez (MI/EEM)
I have a problem with the initialization at boot time of my http daemon. I put on the: /etc/init.d/rc5.d/S10httpd - /opt/http-2.2.4/bin/apachectl The S10httpd is dinamically link to the apachectl. The problem is that it doesn't start the http daemon when I do a restart of the

Re: [opensuse] Start http at boot time

2007-05-16 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joaquin Henriquez (MI/EEM) wrote: I have a problem with the initialization at boot time of my http daemon. I put on the: /etc/init.d/rc5.d/S10httpd - /opt/http-2.2.4/bin/apachectl The S10httpd is dinamically link to the apachectl. The problem

Re: [opensuse] Re: using minicom without beeing root

2007-05-16 Thread Sean Craig
You may try adding the relevant user to the uucp group. That worked for me Regards Sean Cristea Bogdan wrote: sorry, with chown On 5/16/07, Cristea Bogdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I reply to myself. Changing the owner with chmod of the ttySn will do the trick. On 5/16/07, Cristea

Re: [opensuse] squeak

2007-05-16 Thread Russell Jones
Dave Howorth wrote: Does anybody know if squeak - the smalltalk dialect - is available for Suse. I'm specifically interested in Suse 9.3 but news on other versions is also useful And these: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11793.html

Re: [opensuse] Penelope

2007-05-16 Thread Russell Jones
Vince L wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2007 04:58, Pueblo Native wrote: if you like this is 'sexual' reproduction after the fittest have been found. Whether or not you agree with that judgement is another matter. A better analogy might be symbiosis. Or XPCOM or perhaps XUL as mitochondria

Re: [opensuse] Public Key? (WAS First we're stealing, now we're dying)

2007-05-16 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Barton wrote: Original Message Subject: Re:[opensuse] Public Key? (WAS First we're stealing, now we're dying) From: G T Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SuSE Users List opensuse@opensuse.org Date: Tue 15 May 2007 19:25:12 EST

Re: [opensuse] First we're stealing, now we're dying [OT]

2007-05-16 Thread Russell Jones
Pueblo Native wrote: I guess there was a poison pill in those patents we pilfered: http://www.bangkokpost.com/090507_Database/09May2007_data05.php Alliterations aside, the only myth is in Hilf's own brain. There may be some developers out there who wore tye-dye t-shirts, travel in Winnebago

Re: [opensuse] Turn sound off in pysol

2007-05-16 Thread Russell Jones
Bob S wrote: Hello SuSE people, Not really a SuSE question but IS a part of my OS. My wife loves Pysol. However, while it is playing it makes god-awful buzzing sound while it is running. It surely is that I have not installed Pysol-sound-server, not that I haven't tried by compiling the tar

Re: [opensuse] ndiswrapper Help Appreciated

2007-05-16 Thread Russell Jones
Jerry Houston wrote: Mike McMullin wrote: IIRC Atheros is better served by mad-wifi. Go the the opensuse site and search for mad-wifi and/or Atheros. There is adequate info there to allow you to get it up and running under 10.2. Indeed, it seems so. Thanks to everyone for your help with

Re: [opensuse] FW: IPTABLES

2007-05-16 Thread Jerome R. Westrick
Hello Tage... You didn't mention why you wanted to do this, but port since 3389 is the RDP port I assume you want RDP access to your WINDOWS 2003 machine from the internet. You didnot mention any type of securtiy you have in place. So Assuming you want what I do all the time, namely secure

Re: [opensuse] ndiswrapper Help Appreciated

2007-05-16 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:54:38AM +0100, Russell Jones wrote: Jerry Houston wrote: Mike McMullin wrote: IIRC Atheros is better served by mad-wifi. Go the the opensuse site and search for mad-wifi and/or Atheros. There is adequate info there to allow you to get it up and running under

Re: [opensuse] Re: using minicom without beeing root

2007-05-16 Thread James Watkins
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 09:19, Sean Craig wrote: You may try adding the relevant user to the uucp group. That worked for me Ditto. It's a more flexible method if you have other users that need minicom access as well. BTW, this may be a silly question to ask on a linux list but does anyone

Re: [opensuse] Problem with CD Creator

2007-05-16 Thread Ladislav Slezak
Mike Diehl wrote: [...] Then I get a box that says: Errror Error while writing settings. Once again, the error message is worthless and there doesn't seem to be a log file to be had anywhere... You can find the log in /var/log/YaST2/y2log Any ideas about how to proceede? This is

Re: [opensuse] Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience?

2007-05-16 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:03 +1000, Mohammad Bhuyan wrote: Anybody with Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience. My default installation is causing lots of trouble. Frequent boot time hang (Primarily at activating device mapper ...) and high frequency FireFox crashes (that's where I

Re: [opensuse] using minicom without beeing root

2007-05-16 Thread James Knott
Cristea Bogdan wrote: Is there a way to run minicom without beeing root? Now, when I call minicom, I get the message: minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied What permissions do you have on ttyS0. On my system is shows crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 64 2006-11-25 06:43 /dev/ttyS0 Try

Re: [opensuse] Re: using minicom without beeing root

2007-05-16 Thread James Knott
Cristea Bogdan wrote: I reply to myself. Changing the owner with chmod of the ttySn will do the trick. That's the wrong way to do it, as other users still won't be able to use it. The proper method is to add yourself to the group it belongs to, which is uucp. -- Use OpenOffice.org

Re: [opensuse] ndiswrapper Help Appreciated

2007-05-16 Thread Russell Jones
Marcus Meissner wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:54:38AM +0100, Russell Jones wrote: Jerry Houston wrote: Mike McMullin wrote: IIRC Atheros is better served by mad-wifi. Go the the opensuse site and search for mad-wifi and/or Atheros. There is adequate info there to allow

RE: [opensuse] cannot exec `cc1`: No such file or directory

2007-05-16 Thread Chiu, PCM (Peter)
Thanks, Darryl, Installed gcc-fortran-4.1, and the same piece of code compiles okay. What does that lead us with compat-g77-3.3.5? Peter -Original Message- From: Darryl Gregorash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 May 2007 19:02 To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] cannot

RE: [opensuse] cannot exec `cc1`: No such file or directory

2007-05-16 Thread Chiu, PCM (Peter)
Thanks, Markus, Is that file really vanilla fortran77 ? Why does g77 try to start the C-Compiler ? Don't know, really. I assume, as the error message reflects, that it is something to do with the installation (of g77), and not the code itself. There is no g77 for gcc-4.x. g77 is

Re: [opensuse] Re: using minicom without beeing root

2007-05-16 Thread James Knott
James Watkins wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2007 09:19, Sean Craig wrote: You may try adding the relevant user to the uucp group. That worked for me Ditto. It's a more flexible method if you have other users that need minicom access as well. BTW, this may be a silly question to ask

RE: [opensuse] Install SuSE 102 along side 10.1 - What happens?

2007-05-16 Thread Chiu, PCM (Peter)
Depending on your hardware, you normally have two options: a. leave your MBR as it is on sda, and add in a boot entry in your /boot/grub/menu.lst to boot up your 10.2. b. from BIOS - boot tab, select which drive to boot up. In this instance, you will have to write the MBR on sdb. Hope that

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-16 Thread Druid
Your family tree lacks any branches, right? Please, go see a doctor and tell him you have a problem of lack of attention and care. Which is not going to be fulfilled by me, so stop trying, kid... gosh Marcio --- druid -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [opensuse] Re: using minicom without beeing root

2007-05-16 Thread James Watkins
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 12:39, James Knott wrote: One of the features of Windows, is that many of what should be user level apps have to be run as root. With some apps, you can configure them to run as admin, even when the user doesn't have admin privileges. However the appropriate

Re: [opensuse] Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience?

2007-05-16 Thread Jerry Houston
Mohammad Bhuyan wrote: Anybody with Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience. My default installation is causing lots of trouble. Frequent boot time hang (Primarily at activating device mapper ...) and high frequency FireFox crashes (that's where I spend most of my time, so really high

Re: [opensuse] ndiswrapper Help Appreciated

2007-05-16 Thread Jerry Houston
Russell Jones wrote: Jerry Houston wrote: Mike McMullin wrote: IIRC Atheros is better served by mad-wifi. Go the the opensuse site and search for mad-wifi and/or Atheros. There is adequate info there to allow you to get it up and running under 10.2. Indeed, it seems so. Thanks to

[opensuse] Tech news blog - Gonzales proposes new crime: 'Attempted' copyright infringement | CNET News.com

2007-05-16 Thread ken
'Anyone using counterfeit products who recklessly causes or attempts to cause death can be imprisoned for life.' So if they make a movie of Alberto and someone shows a bootleg of it and someone in the audience dies laughing, the bootlegger gets life.

Re: [opensuse] ndiswrapper Help Appreciated

2007-05-16 Thread Mike McMullin
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 06:08 -0700, Jerry Houston wrote: Russell Jones wrote: Jerry Houston wrote: Mike McMullin wrote: IIRC Atheros is better served by mad-wifi. Go the the opensuse site and search for mad-wifi and/or Atheros. There is adequate info there to allow you to get it

Re: [opensuse] Firewall/routes rules GUI

2007-05-16 Thread Russell Jones
**Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 15:19 +0100, peter nikolic wrote: On Tuesday 08 May 2007, Damon Register wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: Thx, ye I know about these, but really go take a look at the new Win2003 firewall config builder - I think the OSS

Re: [opensuse] Firewall/routes rules GUI

2007-05-16 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:45 +0100, Russell Jones wrote: **Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 15:19 +0100, peter nikolic wrote: On Tuesday 08 May 2007, Damon Register wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: Thx, ye I know about these, but really go take a look

Re: [opensuse] Tech news blog - Gonzales proposes new crime: 'Attempted' copyright infringement | CNET News.com

2007-05-16 Thread Tony Alfrey
ken wrote: 'Anyone using counterfeit products who recklessly causes or attempts to cause death can be imprisoned for life.' But if you kill someone with an authentic version, it's OK. -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd Rather Be Sailing -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] Tech news blog - Gonzales proposes new crime: 'Attempted' copyright infringement | CNET News.com

2007-05-16 Thread James Knott
Tony Alfrey wrote: ken wrote: 'Anyone using counterfeit products who recklessly causes or attempts to cause death can be imprisoned for life.' But if you kill someone with an authentic version, it's OK. The NRA will love that one. ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org --

Re: [opensuse] First we're stealing, now we're dying [OT]

2007-05-16 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Russell Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-16-07 05:25]: Look, I'm happy for people to speculate until the cows come home, but please mark non-technical posts as [OT] or take them to the OT list. No, the proper action is to take them to the OT list if they are OT. There is no other! -- Patrick

Re: [opensuse] First we're stealing, now we're dying [OT]

2007-05-16 Thread M Harris
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 04:21, Russell Jones wrote: Look, I'm happy for people to speculate until the cows come home, but please mark non-technical posts as [OT] or take them to the OT list. Patrick and I already had this talk... and just marking them as [OT] isn't good enough... they

Re: [opensuse] Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience?

2007-05-16 Thread Matthias Titeux
Le Mercredi 16 Mai 2007 06:03, Mohammad Bhuyan a écrit : Anybody with Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience. My default installation is causing lots of trouble. Frequent boot time hang (Primarily at activating device mapper ...) and high frequency FireFox crashes (that's where I spend

Re: [opensuse] FW: IPTABLES

2007-05-16 Thread S Glasoe
On Wednesday May 16 2007 5:27:48 am Jerome R. Westrick wrote: snip Excellent method to use SSH in a situation such as Tage's. Well a big explanation based on a whole bunch of assumptions... If you decide to go this way, I can help give you some tips on improving the default SUSE SSH

Re: [opensuse] using minicom without beeing root

2007-05-16 Thread M Harris
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 01:26, Cristea Bogdan wrote: Is there a way to run minicom without beeing root? The cool thing about *nix is that there are 100s of ways to do everything... ... I use sudo for this purpose. I used visudo to edit the /etc/sudoers file, to grant my

[opensuse] Re: Mico$oft Wants Royalties

2007-05-16 Thread James Hatridge
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 03:39, M Harris wrote: On Monday 14 May 2007 19:09, S Glasoe wrote: And this has what to do with a technical issue with openSUSE Linux? If you cared a whit about the technical issues with Novell openSUSE (let While I agree with you that we should stay in the know

Re: [opensuse] Re: 10.0 freezes after the latest xorg updates

2007-05-16 Thread Matthias Hopf
On May 15, 07 11:10:22 -0500, M Harris wrote: video apature (to 64M) and I turned off AGP Fastwrite. The system seems Yes, you're right. Fastwrite has been the constant source for troubles. Always disable it. Always. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____ __

Re: [opensuse] FW: IPTABLES

2007-05-16 Thread Tage Danielsen
Jerome R. Westrick wrote: Hello Tage... You didn't mention why you wanted to do this, but port since 3389 is the RDP port I assume you want RDP access to your WINDOWS 2003 machine from the internet. You didnot mention any type of securtiy you have in place. So Assuming you want what I do

Re: [opensuse] Re: 10.0 freezes after the latest xorg updates

2007-05-16 Thread M Harris
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 12:08, Matthias Hopf wrote: video apature (to 64M) and I turned off AGP Fastwrite.  The system seems Yes, you're right. Fastwrite has been the constant source for troubles. Always disable it. Always. Well, that being the case... maybe I will experiment with

Re: [opensuse] Re: Mico$oft Wants Royalties

2007-05-16 Thread M Harris
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 04:45, James Hatridge wrote: #3 In the future I will not pay M$ no matter what. Well, that is what I thought too. And I am willing to pay a distributor for linux (Novell, whoever) because I value their time, their creativity, and I realize they need to eat

[opensuse] LightZone on SuSE10.2

2007-05-16 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
hi list, - in the latest edition of Linux Format (pg 11) an article talks of a Photoshop/GIMP compeditor, now available for Linux. And free as in beer, not speech. Named LightZone. - I downloaded the sw and had it running in a matter of seconds...on SLED10, ahem. I got it from

RE: [opensuse] Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents - May 28, 2007

2007-05-16 Thread James D. Parra
This is a good article; http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12212/53/ Even if hypothetically there are patent infringements in the Linux kernel, then the open source community would do the right thing and remove the offending code and, because open source development moves so rapidly, that

Re: [opensuse] USB stick not mounted with sync option

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Freemyer
Please ignore the previous e-mail. I was cleaning out my drafts folder and inadvertently clicked send instead of delete. On 5/16/07, Greg Freemyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/1/07, Darren Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, in OpenSUSE 10.1, my removable USB flash memory would be

Re: [opensuse] Re: Mico$oft Wants Royalties

2007-05-16 Thread George Stoianov
On 5/16/07, M Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2007 04:45, James Hatridge wrote: #3 In the future I will not pay M$ no matter what. Well, that is what I thought too. And I am willing to pay a distributor for linux (Novell, whoever) because I value their time, their

[opensuse] Adventures with pam_tally

2007-05-16 Thread Michael Folsom
Folks: For some reason pam_tally is turning into more of a bear that I thought - One SLES10 I added the following two lines to the beginning of /etc/pam.d/sshd: auth required pam_tally.so onerr=fail no_magic_root account required pam_tally.so deny=3 no_magic_root unlock_time=90

Re: [opensuse] LightZone on SuSE10.2

2007-05-16 Thread André Malin
Le May 16, 2007 03:07:51 pm Verner Kjærsgaard, vous avez écrit : hi list, - in the latest edition of Linux Format (pg 11) an article talks of a Photoshop/GIMP compeditor, now available for Linux. And free as in beer, not speech. Named LightZone. - I downloaded the sw and had it running in a

[opensuse] Re: Adventures with pam_tally

2007-05-16 Thread Michael Folsom
Folks: Sorry should of looked at logs before posting - while my new confguration clears up some error messages it still doesn't work! Turns out reset, no_magic_root are no longer used and deny should be with auth not account! M- .../etc/pam.d/login.

[opensuse] cannot see wireless networks (Suse 10.0)

2007-05-16 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, Have a Linksys wireless card using the ndiswrapper for the driver. Although it has bee working like a charm for the past few months, a couple of days ago it could no longer see wireless networks. The Power LED is lit on the card, however the Link LED doesn't flicker periodically as though

Re: [opensuse] LightZone on SuSE10.2

2007-05-16 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* André Malin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-16-07 17:23]: Has anyone in our community succeded in getting it launched on SuSE10.2 ? Anyhow, if one has got 5 minutes spare time, give it a whirl :-) I tried on 10.1 x86_64. The older version runs fine, but the newer version acts like it doesn't

Re: [opensuse] kmail duplicating message

2007-05-16 Thread Will Stephenson
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 21:03:56 Andrew Colvin wrote: On Monday 14 May 2007 10:21:49 Will Stephenson wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2007, Andrew Colvin said: Will, I will gladly test it out. I did some changes to my filters (on the broken version) to see if it was caused when moving between imap

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents - May 28, 2007

2007-05-16 Thread George Osvald
On Thursday 17 May 2007, James D. Parra wrote: This is a good article; http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12212/53/ Even if hypothetically there are patent infringements in the Linux kernel, then the open source community would do the right thing and remove the offending code and,

RE: [opensuse] cannot see wireless networks (Suse 10.0)

2007-05-16 Thread James D. Parra
Sometimes mine will do that, so what I usually do is su pccardctl eject pccardctl insert rcnetwork restart Basically, I just want to get the card to restart itself, and then get reinitialized. ~~ Have a Linksys wireless card using the ndiswrapper for the driver. Although it has bee

Re: [opensuse] cannot see wireless networks (Suse 10.0)

2007-05-16 Thread Andrew Burgess
Try running dmesg | grep wlan0 and dmesg | grep ndiswrapper and see what shows up On 5/16/07, James D. Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes mine will do that, so what I usually do is su pccardctl eject pccardctl insert rcnetwork restart Basically, I just want to get the card to

RE: [opensuse] cannot see wireless networks (Suse 10.0)

2007-05-16 Thread James D. Parra
On 5/16/07, James D. Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes mine will do that, so what I usually do is su pccardctl eject pccardctl insert rcnetwork restart Basically, I just want to get the card to restart itself, and then get reinitialized. ~~ Have a Linksys wireless card

Re: [opensuse] cannot see wireless networks (Suse 10.0)

2007-05-16 Thread Andrew Burgess
I use KNetworkManager. Not sure if that would help really. Have you tried uninstalling the driver and reinstalling it? On 5/16/07, James D. Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/16/07, James D. Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes mine will do that, so what I usually do is su pccardctl

Re: [opensuse] cannot see wireless networks (Suse 10.0)

2007-05-16 Thread Andrew Burgess
Just do ndiswrapper -l to get the name of the driver and then use ndiswrapper -r driver_name On 5/16/07, James D. Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/16/07, James D. Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/16/07, James D. Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes mine will do that, so what

Re: [opensuse] Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience?

2007-05-16 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 09:01, Jerry Houston wrote: Mohammad Bhuyan wrote: Anybody with Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience. My default installation is causing lots of trouble. Frequent boot time hang (Primarily at activating device mapper ...) and high frequency FireFox

Re: [opensuse] Re: Mico$oft Wants Royalties

2007-05-16 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 14:22, M Harris wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2007 04:45, James Hatridge wrote: #3 In the future I will not pay M$ no matter what. Well, that is what I thought too. And I am willing to pay a distributor for linux (Novell, whoever) because I value their time,

Re: [opensuse] cannot exec `cc1`: No such file or directory

2007-05-16 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-05-16 05:25, Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote: Thanks, Darryl, Installed gcc-fortran-4.1, and the same piece of code compiles okay. What does that lead us with compat-g77-3.3.5? Presumably that package will provide compatibility with code written for g77-3.3.5, which is not necessarily

Re: [opensuse] Re: Mico$oft Wants Royalties

2007-05-16 Thread George Osvald
On Thursday 17 May 2007 10:11, Doug McGarrett wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2007 14:22, M Harris wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2007 04:45, James Hatridge wrote: #3 In the future I will not pay M$ no matter what. Well, that is what I thought too. And I am willing to pay a distributor for

Re: [opensuse] Re: 10.0 freezes after the latest xorg updates

2007-05-16 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-05-15 at 10:40 -0500, Sunny wrote: ... If I just open a text console (Alt-F2), and leave the machine in that state (with all kde stuff not logged out, all the applications started, etc.) it will not freeze. Even after a day, I

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents - May 28, 2007

2007-05-16 Thread Jim Flanagan
George Osvald wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007, James D. Parra wrote: This is a good article; http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12212/53/ Even if hypothetically there are patent infringements in the Linux kernel, then the open source community would do the right thing and remove the

Re: [opensuse] Start http at boot time

2007-05-16 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-05-16 at 09:15 +0200, Joaquin Henriquez (MI/EEM) wrote: I have a problem with the initialization at boot time of my http daemon. I put on the: /etc/init.d/rc5.d/S10httpd - /opt/http-2.2.4/bin/apachectl The S10httpd is

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents - May 28, 2007

2007-05-16 Thread M Harris
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 20:18, Jim Flanagan wrote: If Microsoft ever started talking specifics, about any little thing, they would be dead. Completely and totally dead. There is no way they can engage the community on ANY specific topic without debasing, degrading themselves into the lowest

[opensuse] parse-metadata

2007-05-16 Thread James Knott
Every now and then, such as now, my 64 bit SUSE 10.2 system becomes very sluggish. Top shows parse-metadata is hogging much of the CPU and there's also a lot of disk activity. Is there any way to reduce the impact of this or even get rid of it? tnx jk -- Use OpenOffice.org

Re: [opensuse] LightZone on SuSE10.2

2007-05-16 Thread steve reilly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 May 2007 17:47, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * André Malin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-16-07 17:23]: Has anyone in our community succeded in getting it launched on SuSE10.2 ? Anyhow, if one has got 5 minutes spare time, give it a

Re: [opensuse] parse-metadata

2007-05-16 Thread Druid
SUSEhelp To remove zmd and friends, type the following in a root console: rczmd stop; rpm -e libzypp-zmd-backend zmd zen-updater rug On 5/16/07, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every now and then, such as now, my 64 bit SUSE 10.2 system becomes very sluggish. Top shows parse-metadata is

Re: [opensuse] parse-metadata

2007-05-16 Thread M Harris
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 20:52, James Knott wrote: Top shows parse-metadata is hogging much of the CPU and there's also a lot of disk activity.  Is there any way to reduce the impact of this or even get rid of it? Yast - System - System Services (runlevel) - disable NOVELL zen next

[opensuse] 10.1 and 10.2 won't boot install media

2007-05-16 Thread Clark P. Case
Hi, I have a junker desktop notebook ( ECS A900 Desknote or I-buddie depending on where you look online) that I am trying to load openSuse on and it immediately reboots as soon as the dvd tries to load grub. Right at the boot loader. I have made a number of attempts to modify bios settings and it

Re: [opensuse] 10.1 and 10.2 won't boot install media

2007-05-16 Thread M Harris
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 22:38, Clark P. Case wrote: I was just hoping to find some obscure solution that would let me use my distro of choice. I think the old Suse 10.0 will load, but if I can get the latest on that would be best... I disagree whole heartedly... if you can load 10.0,

Re: [opensuse] 10.1 and 10.2 won't boot install media

2007-05-16 Thread M Harris
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 23:33, M Harris wrote: 10.2 has NO significant enhancement that makes the struggle worthwhile. 10.3 may be a different story... depends how much interoperability gets incorporated into it... :-P -- Kind regards, M Harris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] Help with graphics card

2007-05-16 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Hi again Petr and Mike. This is to thank You both for the help. It worked immediately the trick with nv :-) Erik Jakobsen BullGuard Anti-virus har skannet denne e-mail og fundet den fri for virus. Prøv BullGuard gratis: www.bullguard.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse-packaging] %fdupes

2007-05-16 Thread Stephan Kulow
Hi! We did some analysis on how much space is wasted by packages storing the same file twice (or more). While few packages waste megabytes (only 88 waste more than 1000Mib), 657 waste more than 20K - which sums up to 703MiB in total. Impressed? Consider using fdupes in your package. It's

Re: [opensuse-packaging] suse_update_desktop_file

2007-05-16 Thread Dirk Mueller
On Tuesday, 15. May 2007, Stephan Kulow wrote: You only read the second paragraph, didn't you? Why do you write emails where one has to read the stuff between the first and the last word? Dirk - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse-packaging] perl directories

2007-05-16 Thread Marcus Rueckert
On 2007-05-16 11:21:00 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: suse $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi'; installvendorlib='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8'; debian $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib

Re: [opensuse-packaging] perl directories

2007-05-16 Thread Richard Guenther
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2007-05-16 11:21:00 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: suse $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi'; installvendorlib='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8'; debian

Re: [opensuse-packaging] perl directories

2007-05-16 Thread Michal Marek
Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2007-05-16 11:21:00 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: suse $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi'; installvendorlib='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8'; debian $ perl -V:installvendorarch

Re: [opensuse-packaging] perl directories

2007-05-16 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:21:00AM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: suse $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi'; installvendorlib='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8'; debian $ perl -V:installvendorarch

Re: [opensuse-packaging] perl directories

2007-05-16 Thread Ludwig Nussel
Michael Schroeder wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:21:00AM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: suse $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi'; installvendorlib='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8'; debian $ perl

Re: [opensuse-packaging] perl directories

2007-05-16 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:59:40AM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: Ok, so there is no objection against removing the exact version number from the path at least? Nope, we can't do this because perl may change in an incompatible way (it did so in the past). Besides, $installvendorlib is where the

Re: [opensuse-packaging] perl directories

2007-05-16 Thread Richard Guenther
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2007-05-16 11:40:13 +0200, Michal Marek wrote: Actually unlike python, the perl directory layout doesn't prevent you from creating noarch packages, because it's /usr/lib/perl5 everywhere and the arch-dependent files go to

Re: [opensuse-packaging] perl directories

2007-05-16 Thread Richard Guenther
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2007-05-16 13:35:58 +0200, Richard Guenther wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007, Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2007-05-16 11:40:13 +0200, Michal Marek wrote: Actually unlike python, the perl directory layout doesn't prevent you from creating

Re: [opensuse-wiki] New Download Page

2007-05-16 Thread Francis Giannaros
On 5/14/07, Frank Sundermeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 10 May 2007 16:59, Frank Sundermeyer wrote: Hi, thanks for all the valuable feedback on the new download page. I have tried to implement the majority of your suggestion for improvement in the newest version which you can find

[opensuse-doc] LfL: Few Questions

2007-05-16 Thread Thomas R. Jones
Hello, I was wondering what the target grading was for readability? Also, is there not a common novell/suse/opensuse entity file for inclusion into all documents? Thanks. Thomas signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [opensuse-doc] LfL: Few Questions

2007-05-16 Thread Thomas Schraitle
Hi Thomas, welcome to opensuse-doc! :-) On Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2007, Thomas R. Jones wrote: I was wondering what the target grading was for readability? Well, I assume you mean for which readers we write, right? We try to target it to normal users but this term can be stretched. :) There are