touchpad not working
by ambresh shivaji
Hi !!
I have recently installed Fedora 14 on my HP Pavilion dv3 2332tx laptop and
it has not detected the touchpad (that I checked using " xinput list ")
though
it's working fine on windows7 (preinstalled).
Please help me resolving this problem.
Best.
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Ambresh Shivaji
IOP Bhubaneswar
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it.
13 years, 2 months
extremely slow copy speed (50k/s)
by vinícius mota
Hello everybody,
I have this very weird problem, that I have noticed some 2 or 3 days ago,
and of a kind I have never heard before. I made a post in fedora.forum (
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=259047), but get no awswer
since then, and now I have been advised to post here too.
Briefly, the problem is that the copy speed between the partition in which I
am running my Fedora and another partition where I store backup data is now
50K/s, which is extremely slow by any standart (it has been usually around
10M/s, almost 200 times faster). This is for exemple much lower than the
copy speed between my computers in my lab and home, via internet, which is
obviously absurd. I have been using Fedora 64 for many years, and this is
the first time I have a problem that I cannot solve by myself, which is very
frustrating. Let me proceed with the details.
My laptop is a HP Pavillion Dv7 2080 ep, in which I have two disks of 250G
each. One of the disks is partitioned between two operational systems,
Fedora 14 64 and Windows 7 64, and the other disk contains the above
referred partition where I store my backups (I call it backup disk). The
problem happens when I try to copy anything from my home in Fedora to the
backup disk, and also when, while using fedora, I try to move data within
the backup disk itself. I first thought it could be a hardware problem in
the backup disk. Then I login into the windows and made a copy of some AVI
files (3G approx) to the backup disk, which went normally, within a few
seconds, thus eliminating this possibility. I move data within the backup
iself disk using windows also without any problem. I try therefore to make
the inverse process, a copy from the backup disk into my home folder in
Fedora. It went normally, copying 4 G also within few seconds, actually with
an excellent speed of 50M/s.
After searching in google, I saw some people also complaining of slow copy
speed (although they had 7M/s, more than 100 times faster than what I have
now), and one cause could be that the source file system (in my case the
Fedora home folder) would be near its full capacity. I therefore eliminate
everything that I could, around 15G, and now I have like 20G of free disk
space, which I think is more than enough for everything. The problem,
however, persists. Some people also said that it could be the type of files
and/or amount of data. I therefore tried several kinds of files (from raw
data files to AVI and RMVB regular video files), and several amounts of data
(from single files with a few Megas to folders with 20G) and in all cases I
had the same unacceptably low copy speed of 50K/s. Another possibility was
checking the disk via the command line "hdparm", but since I am not an
expert I could not identify anything wrong from its output. Anyway, here it
is for both disks (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb):
[root@localhost ~]# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 11320 MB in 1.99 seconds = 5681.38 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 204 MB in 3.02 seconds = 67.52 MB/sec
[root@localhost ~]# hdparm /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
multcount = 0 (off)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 30401/255/63, sectors = 488397168, start = 0
[root@localhost ~]# hdparm -Tt /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
Timing cached reads: 12044 MB in 1.99 seconds = 6046.50 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 206 MB in 3.00 seconds = 68.57 MB/sec
[root@localhost ~]# hdparm /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
multcount = 0 (off)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 30401/255/63, sectors = 488397168, start = 0
It seems therefore to be a problem in the software, caused by the updates,
since until 10 days ago it was everything ok. However, I usually make the
updates whenever they appear but make my backups much less frequently.
Therefore I don't know for sure what has changed in Fedora through the
updates since the last backup I made, when everything was working fine.
He is the line of my /etc/fstab file which defines my backup disk, with the
label common
LABEL=common /home/vinicius/Desktop/common ntfs
auto,user,sync 0 0
Thank you all for your attention and please apologise me for the huge text.
13 years, 2 months
Re: Dell Latitude 110L - Wireless reads as ethernet
by Vinzenz Vietzke
Am 10.02.2011 01:47, schrieb Micheal Parker:
> Vinzenz,
>
> Here are the results of the lspci for the wireless
>
> ____________________________________________________________________
>
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
> SMBus Controller (rev 03)
> 02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
> 02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
> Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
> 02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ -
> PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller Mobile (rev 03)
>
> __________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Tom
Tom,
as you have a Broadcom 4306 chipset and you have not done so, maybe
trying this tutorial could solve your problem:
http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/bcm43xx-yum-extras
Let me know if it worked! :)
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13 years, 2 months
Dell Latitude 110L - Wireless reads as ethernet
by Micheal Parker
Greetings all,
I am trying to get the built in wireless to work on a Dell laptop
Latitude 110L with Fedora 14 - when I run ip addr I get output that wlan0 is
link/ether - I believe this is my problem. I've check multiple forums and
cannot find a trouble shooting procedure to resolve this issue. When trying
to activate the wireless I receve a "cable not connected" error. The system
reads it as wlan0 but the link/ether leads me to believe this is a
configuration error with the wireless.
Any suggestions or pointers in the right direction is appreciated.
Tom
13 years, 2 months
(no subject)
by Peter Tot
hi, guys
i have a Lenovo ThinkPad edge 13 with a : 11/b/g/n wireless LAN mini-PCI
express adapter II, rtl8192se network adapter. i would like to use fedora
14 on this, but I need a detailed how-to to make this adapter work.
thnx
13 years, 2 months
