August 2006 - Grml - lists.mur.at

ndiswrapper solved
by Martin Yazdzik 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Dear friends, The ndiswrapper is a broadcom chip issue, combined with the kernel 2.6.17 enabled the bcm43xx module by default. My experimentation was trying to load the wrapper, then when it did not work, rm the other interfering modules. This did not work. Solution for those who use broadcom wireless(almost all dell laptops): in order(important) rmmod bcm43xx ndiswrapper -i /wherever/the/hell/it/is modprobe ndiswrapper nano /etc/network/interfaces iface wlan0 inet dhcp iwconfig wlan0 essid blah key whatever ifup wlan0 One must, for some reason, remove the other bcm modules first, as udev seems to grab the 43xx module for the wireless card, and I presume there is some sort of tree which holds the whole thing up. Now, onto installing.... BTW, grml-x works perfectly every time, and, once I got the internet up, everthing else appeare to work OTOB. Best, M -- "...children and young people feel instinctively the difference between those who genuinely wish them well and those who regard them merely as raw material for some scheme." --Russell

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Bring up network on boot up
by T 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Hi My network is not initiated on grml 0.7 hd install boot up. I have to manually started it up afterward. I'm wondering why this is happening. - Is it because my network service is not up? grep network /etc/runlevel.conf 35 - S /etc/init.d/networking - Is it because I've changed my dhcp client from pump to dhclient? - or something else? thanks

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JFYI: grml2hd - setting a password with >8 chars
by Michael Prokop 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Hoi, to all of you who are running a grml system or plan to do so: Affected software ================= grml2hd - install grml on harddisk Problem ======= Setting the password in grml2hd is done via chpasswd. If you provide a password it will be set correct and login is possible with the provided password. But login is also possible with providing just the first 8 characters of the password. Fix for existing installations ============================== Please run 'passwd' manually after hd-installation (for normal user and user root). So if you are using passwords with more than 8 characters please run: # passwd and # passwd <username> where <username> is the user with UID 1000 on your grml system. This makes sure that login is possible only with the full length password. Fix for upcoming grml2hd installations ======================================= Please run: # apt-get update ; apt-get install grml2hd before running grml2hd itself so you get the fixed and up2date grml2hd version. Additional notes ================ The issue has been documented also at: http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_0.8 Credits ======= The issue has been discovered and reported by Matthias Kopfermann. thx for notice && regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc

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grml 0.8: how to use my 3com pcmcia card?
by Werner Flamme 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just installed grml 0.8 on a Toshiba Satellite 4070CDT. There is no internal network card, so I use a pcmcia card, 3com's 589. The main problem of this machine are 64 MB RAM :-( "hwinfo --pcmcia" gives no output, so does "hwinfo --netcard". The modules pcmcia, yenta_socket, and 3c589_cs are loaded. Still ifconfig does not give me eth0 - "no device available". grml ;-) What modules do I have to install to make this card run? It worked with 0.7, so there may be a chance to run it on 0.8 too... On my VMWare, everything runs fine, but it's just a pcnet32 card... Regards, Werner - -- Werner Flamme, Abt. WKDV UFZ Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle GmbH, Permoserstr. 15 - 04318 Leipzig Tel.: (0341) 235-3921 - Fax (0341) 235-453921 http://www.ufz.de - eMail: werner.flamme(a)ufz.de -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE4JIJk33Krq8b42MRAvkdAJ9LV91JE3GOo+/Gmi5we/VfRXfOPwCcCiFw QTFiMrD74nX2+F4+WXVu2FY= =8FhC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[OT] crystal-tux auf der webseite
by Robert Giebel 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Huhu, erstmal Glückwunsch an Mikap zur gelungenen Release :) Dann noch eine Frage an den jenigen, der sich für die Webseite verantwortlich fühlt: Wo ist dieser Crystal Tux ohne jegliche Dekoration her? Ich hab den schon eine Weile gesucht, bisher nur mit irgendwas "dran" gefunden. danke für alle, die dies trotz Off-Topic beantworten können oder versuchen :) Robert -- Robert Giebel robert.giebel(a)giebelconsult.de http://www.robertgiebel.de/ http://www.keinsinn.de/ http://www.giebelconsult.de/

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still no ndiswrapper
by Martin Yazdzik 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Dear friends, 8 is great, but, without ndiswrapper, useless to me. modprobe ndiswrapper apparently loads the module, as the relevant section of lsmod "usbcore 967768 ndiswrapper,usb_storage,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd" shows it to be present, but iwconfig wlan0 tells me there is no such device. The only difference I can see in wlan folder in etc is that there is some sort of srcipt. The point is, the module does nothing, and I cannot connect to the world. Any ideas? Best, M -- "...children and young people feel instinctively the difference between those who genuinely wish them well and those who regard them merely as raw material for some scheme." --Russell

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checkinstall still broken?
by T 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Hi When I saw the following checkinstall error messages [1], I tried to update my checkinstall. But, I realized that the errors are still not fixed [2]. Can somebody confirm that checkinstall is still broken? Is there alternative solutions? I noticed a package obsoleted by checkinstall named installwatch, but that one is not usable either: % installwatch -o filename make install cp subs blib/script/... make: *** [blib/script/...] Segmentation fault thanks tong [1] Installing with "make install"... ========================= Installation results =========================== ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/installwatch.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/installwatch.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/installwatch.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Copying documentation directory... /var/tmp/CRYUGPnUAOUBcOHNbaJM/installscript.sh: line 13: 19471 Segmentation fault mkdir -p "/usr/share/doc/..." **** Installation failed. Aborting package creation. [2] grave bugs of checkinstall (1.5.3-3 -> 1.6.0-1) <open> #342578 - checkinstall leaves system in unusable state #342633 - checkinstall leaves system in unusable state #354389 - Checkinstall segfaults with latest Sid update #356864 - checkinstall: LD_PRELOAD is wrong Summary: checkinstall(4 bugs)

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Re: persistent root?
by Mark 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

The root user is a special problem, but Mika offered a reasonable hack: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/161 Mark

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mplayer OSD problem
by T 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Hi, I can not view the onscreen display (OSD) status information of mplayer. Can anyone verify if you can please? FYI, about OSD: o Toggle OSD states: none / seek / seek + timer / seek + timer + total time. I think it might be font related, but I didn't notice anything wrong from the mplayer output message. Thanks

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disable ipv6
by T 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

hi how can I disable ipv6 in grml2hd envrionment? thanks

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