Re: What Version of Suse?

Hi Uwe Hi Chris,
Thanks for all your helpful advice. But I am going to appeal to your
good nature and ask for a bit more help please :-)

I did the install last night and all went smoothly I did not have much
time to explore the system as it was quite late when I finished.

I have encountered a couple of what I am sure are small glitches but I
am not sure!

1. when the machine boots it seems I have two OS options to boot from,
they seems to have the same name but one has a forename of "failsafe"
I
only have two questions What is it? and should it be there?!

2. When I try to run my WiFi connection I have encountered a number of
issues.

sometimes the WiFi will keep asking for the full router password (Not
very convenient for other users) or I get a message asking me for a
keyring password (again not very convenient for other users) then the
system asks me if I want to allow the program access to the keyring at
all times, I say yes. But at reboot I still get asked for the key ring
password again Grrr! :-(

Any ideas? I am not familiar with this keyring application and cant
find many options to work with, I seem to have two keyring's a
"session" and a "default" 

Do I have to have a password for keyring? if not how do I clear it? Do
I even need keyring or is it a key part of Linux security I know I had
it on my Ubuntu installation but it never caused these issues then.

I do appreciate this is a security issue but I do not want to have to
issue my other users with the main key to the WiFi Router as they will
never remember it unless they write it down on the PC! and the same
with the keyring password.


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On 03/14/2008 nitrofan wrote:
> 1. when the machine boots it seems I have two OS options to boot 
> from, they seems to have the same name but one has a forename of 
> "failsafe" I only have two questions What is it? and should it be

> there?! 

Yes, it is there by default. It boots the kernel with some compatibility
options. It has the same purpose as the Windows safe mode.

2. When I try to run my WiFi connection I have encountered a 
> number of issues.

Please open a new thread for this, with a good subject. This way you'll get
others' attention.

Uwe

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nitrofan wrote:
> Hi Uwe Hi Chris,
> Thanks for all your helpful advice. But I am going to appeal to your
> good nature and ask for a bit more help please :-)
> 
> I did the install last night and all went smoothly I did not have much
> time to explore the system as it was quite late when I finished.
> 
> I have encountered a couple of what I am sure are small glitches but I
> am not sure!
> 
> 1. when the machine boots it seems I have two OS options to boot from,
> they seems to have the same name but one has a forename of
"failsafe" I
> only have two questions What is it? and should it be there?!

The failsafe option usually passes some parameters to disable
things like ACPI, DMA and the frame buffer on the virtual consoles.
Why disable those things?  Sometimes there are incompatibilities
with new/unknown/broken chipsets (the main reason anyhow).

> 
> 2. When I try to run my WiFi connection I have encountered a number of
> issues.
> 
> sometimes the WiFi will keep asking for the full router password (Not
> very convenient for other users) or I get a message asking me for a
> keyring password (again not very convenient for other users) then the
> system asks me if I want to allow the program access to the keyring at
> all times, I say yes. But at reboot I still get asked for the key ring
> password again Grrr! :-(
> 
> Any ideas? I am not familiar with this keyring application and cant
> find many options to work with, I seem to have two keyring's a
> "session" and a "default" 
> 
> Do I have to have a password for keyring? if not how do I clear it? Do
> I even need keyring or is it a key part of Linux security I know I had
> it on my Ubuntu installation but it never caused these issues then.
> 
> I do appreciate this is a security issue but I do not want to have to
> issue my other users with the main key to the WiFi Router as they will
> never remember it unless they write it down on the PC! and the same
> with the keyring password.

That's a good question... unfortunately I have not seen the issue.
Try making a new post about this and see if someone else has see