[YLUG] OpenSuse 10.2 problems

[alastair green]

The camera now appears to be detected correctly.  I am not sure what has
changed since I last tried it (I have installed some recent updates when
prompted).  I'll bear the dmsg tip in mind for future reference though.

Thanks

Alastair

On 18/01/07, Richard Ablitt <richardablitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 18/01/07, alastair green <purplepangolin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have recently upgraded my home laptop from OpenSuse 10 to OpenSuse
> 10.2.
> > It went fairly smoothly but I still have a few niggles and wondered if
> any
> > of you could advise me:
> >
> > 1)My default gateway setting has been lost.  Each time I boot my laptop
> I
> > need to execute "route add default gw 192.168.0.1".  How can I make this
> > setting persist?  the network interface configuration tool appears to
> have
> > changed in this release in that it gives you two options to control
> > interfaces, ifup (default) and some other network control service whose
> name
> > I can't recall.  If I select ifup then the feild for setting the default
> > gateway via the wizard is disabled.
> >
> > 2)My digital camera (Canon Ixus 55) is not recognized when I plug it in.
> > There is no error message and I am not certain whether it has registered
> the
> > fact that anything has been plugged in.
> >
> > 3)Finally, whenever I launch YAST or anything else requiring root, I am
> > prompted for the root password (as expected) but then when I press OK
> > nothing happens.  I can work around this by getting root at a console
> and
> > then launching yast but I would rather get it fixed if I can.
> >
> > I am at work at the moment so I won't be able to try things out or add
> extra
> > info about error messages etc. until I get home.
> >
> > Any help or advice would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Alastair
>
> Did you do a clean install of 10.2, or an upgrade? If you've got a
> separate /home partition, it might help reinstaling if you've not
> already done so.
>
> For the camera, try looking at the output from 'dmesg | tail' a few
> seconds after plugging it in. Also, look in /dev to see if something
> like 'sda1'  appears.
>
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