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Re: How to set up network interface from scratch - newbie
by Hartono Nugroho 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:18:18 -0400 From: Filippos Klironomos <PresarioD(a)gmail.com> >> I just install USB wireless device using ndiswrapper and the interface is >> wlan0. I run iwconfig setup (ISSD, key, etc) and wlan0 already recognize my >> router MAC address. I try to set up using network config but my device does >> not show up in the choices. >> >That is usually the hard part! Could you please post what the result of >iwconfig wlan0 is. And after you have set up ESSID with something like >iwconfig wlan0 essid $ESSID could you post that as well? Then just try >ifconfig wlan0 >and see what you get. In order to use the wireless device with network >config I think you have to set up a new device while ndiswrapper is >running and then it will show up as an option. Frankly though I never >use the network config interface. I like the hands on 'iwconfig', >'ifconfig' command line... Hi I finally can install it. After I do ndiswrapper -m it will appear in network config. How do you set the interface to be a dhcp client using ifconfig command line? All that I can see it can only set up a static IP.

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MPlayer / xine
by Joe Dumais 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I downloaded and configured the two subject programs. They work fine on audio files and streams, but not video. MPlayer, on .wmv streams, reports asf redirect error. Xine crashed with an xiTK sigsegv error. I have all the win32 codecs DLLs configured. With xine, the -V Xv option does not work and reports an <xv> problem. Is there a way to fix any of this?

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Losing data when I partion disk?
by Brandon Cirella 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I have 2 hard drives. I want to partion the second hard drive. It already has about 4 gigs of data from Windows on it. When I partion the disk, will any of my hard drives be wiped? Could I possible lose data?

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yum Q (again)
by Gene Heskett 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Greetings; Yum version is 2.0.7, FC2 upgraded from RH8 machine. 1. I thought I had killed the automatic yum invocation, but it apparently came back on for some reason and ran last night, which is puzzling. 2. yum proceeded to update a bunch of stuffs last night sometime, stuff that included libxml2, but its apparently a fresh package as its dated yesterday in the cache. 3. yum etc is still working, which after previous experience, plumb amazes me! 4. Whats wrong with this exclude line in my yum.conf inserted below that would cause it to ignore my exclude of libxml2 stuffs? ------------------- [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 obsoletes=1 retries=20 [updates-released] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates baseurl=http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$release… exclude=kernel* kde* xorg* cups* gimp-print* pango* gimp* gtk2* libxml2* libxslt* -------------- -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.28% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.

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Unhandled exception in anaconda crashes upgrade of RH9 to FC2
by Mike Fleetwood 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi All, After a few issues trying to upgrade my RH9 to FC2 I have finally come to an impasse because anaconda keeps crashing with an unhandled exception. This occurs when trying to detect the existing RH9 installation. Hopefully someone can help. Upgrade attempts: 1) Upgrade fails to detect my AdvanSys SCSI adapter. 2) Discovering that the AdvanSys driver in kernel 2.6 is not up to date and FC2 doesn't support it. 2 methods of trying to load it by hand from installation CD 1 fail. Finally find: Advansys SCSI Cards and Fedora Core Linux http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/drivers/advansys/ and am using a CD containing advansys-fc2-boot.iso to boot and start the upgrade from FC2 install CD 1. Now the upgrade fails to detect my existing RH9 installation and only offers to install a new FC2 installation. 3) Boot with 'linux upgradeany' command. When detecting my existing RH9 installation anaconda reports the unhandled exception. 4) Remove /etc/redhat-release and boot again with 'linux upgradeany'. anaconda now finds an unknown Linux distribution to upgrade. As soon as [Next] is clicked anaconda reports the same unhandled exception. 5) Impasse. Other relevant facts: Hardware is a PC with an Athlon CPU and 1 GB RAM. Installation CD passes checksum test. /dev/sda2 contains / FS of my RH9 installation. In the anaconda dump below the local variable desc contains 32 NULs. They are just converted to (^) and (@) for display in this email. Thanks in advance, Mike -- __ __ _ _ ___ ____ _ ___ ___ _ ___ ___ _ | \/ (_| | _ / _ \ | ___| | / _ \/ _ \| |_ _ _ _/ \/ \ _| | | |\/| | | |/ | ___| | _| | |_| __| ___| __| \/ \/| O | O / _ | |_| |_|_|_|\_\\___| |_| |____\___|\___||____\_/^\_/\___/\___/\___| Start of the anaconda dump: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 766, in nextClicked self.setScreen () File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1102, in setScreen new_screen = apply(self.currentWindow.getScreen, args) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/examine_gui.py", line 143, in getScreen itemlabel.set_markup("<small>%s (%s)</small>" %(desc, devname)) TypeError: GtkLabel.set_markup() argument 1 must be string without null bytes, not str Local variables in innermost frame: box: <gtk.VBox object (GtkVBox) at 0xb7aedcd4> b: <gtk.VBox object (GtkVBox) at 0xb7aedd74> chroot: /mnt/sysimage item: <gtk.MenuItem object (GtkMenuItem) at 0xb7aede3c> self: <examine_gui.UpgradeExamineWindow instance at 0xb7db338c> devname: /dev/sda2 upboxtmp: <gtk.VBox object (GtkVBox) at 0xb7aeddc4> dispatch: <dispatch.Dispatcher instance at 0xb7da3bac> id: <instdata.InstallData instance at 0xb7b9202c> vbox: <gtk.VBox object (GtkVBox) at 0xb7ca65a4> r: <pixmapRadioButtonGroup_gui.pixmapRadioButtonGroup instance at 0xb7db35ec> itemlabel: <gtk.AccelLabel object (GtkAccelLabel) at 0xb7aede64> filesystem: ext3 intf: <gui.InstallInterface instance at 0xb7b9246c> part: sda2 uplabelstr: The following installed system will be upgraded: desc: ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ Dispatcher instance, containing members: intf: InstallInterface instance, containing members: intf.icw: InstallControlWindow instance, containing members: intf.icw.displayHelp: True intf.icw.releaseNotesViewerPid: None intf.icw.help: <TextViewBrowser object (GtkTextView) at 0xb7da152c> intf.icw.help_sw: <gtk.ScrolledWindow object (GtkScrolledWindow) at 0xb7da170c> intf.icw.nextButtonStock: <gtk.Button object (GtkButton) at 0xb7da14dc> intf.icw.dispatch: Already dumped intf.icw.reloadRcQueued: 0 intf.icw.ii: Already dumped intf.icw.installFrame: <gtk.Frame object (GtkFrame) at 0xb7da1eb4> intf.icw.debugButton: <gtk.Button object (GtkButton) at 0xb7da1fcc> intf.icw.table: <gtk.Table object (GtkTable) at 0xb7da1d9c> intf.icw.releaseButton: <gtk.Button object (GtkButton) at 0xb7da17ac> intf.icw.hbox: <gtk.HBox object (GtkHBox) at 0xb7da1a2c> intf.icw.helpFrame: <gtk.Frame object (GtkFrame) at 0xb7da1e64> intf.icw.windowList: [] intf.icw.window: <gtk.Window object (GtkWindow) at 0xb7da8374> intf.icw.helpState: True intf.icw.releaseNotesStartViewer: 0 intf.icw.prevButtonStock: <gtk.Button object (GtkButton) at 0xb7da139c> intf.icw.configFileData: {'TitleBar': pixmaps/anaconda_header.png, 'Title': Red Hat Linux Beta, 'Splashscreen': pixmaps/first.png, 'WelcomeScreen': pixmaps/splash.png} intf.icw.bin: <gtk.Frame object (GtkFrame) at 0xb7da4eb4> intf.icw.handle: 22 intf.icw.releaseNotesStartViewerAttempts: 0 intf.icw.buttonBox: <gtk.HButtonBox object (GtkHButtonBox) at 0xb7da11e4> intf.icw.hideHelpButton: <gtk.Button object (GtkButton) at 0xb7da1f2c> intf.icw.currentWindow: UpgradeExamineWindow instance, containing members: intf.icw.currentWindow.intf: Already dumped intf.icw.currentWindow.doupgrade: True intf.icw.currentWindow.parts: [('sda2', 'ext3', '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00')] intf.icw.currentWindow.dispatch: Already dumped intf.icw.currentWindow.upgradeoptionmenu: <gtk.Menu object (GtkMenu) at 0xb7aeddec> intf.icw.currentWindow.uplabel: <gtk.Label object (GtkLabel) at 0xb7aed11c> intf.icw.currentWindow.individualPackages: None intf.icw.currentWindow.chroot: /mnt/sysimage intf.icw.currentWindow.ics: InstallControlState instance, containing members: intf.icw.currentWindow.ics.nextButtonLabel: None intf.icw.currentWindow.ics.helpButtonEnabled: True intf.icw.currentWindow.ics.searchPath: ('/mnt/source/RHupdates', './', '/usr/share/anaconda/') intf.icw.currentWindow.ics.prevButtonLabel: None intf.icw.currentWindow.ics.grabNext: 0 intf.icw.currentWindow.ics.title: Upgrade Examine intf.icw.currentWindow.ics.nextButtonInfo: None intf.icw.currentWindow.ics.prevButton: gtk-prev intf.icw.currentWindow.ics.html: intf.icw.currentWindow.ics.helpEnabled: 3 intf.icw.currentWindow.ics.nextEnabled: 1 intf.icw.currentWindow.ics.htmlFile: upgradeexamine intf.icw.currentWindow.ics.prevEnabled: 1 intf.icw.currentWindow.ics.cw: Already dumped intf.icw.currentWindow.ics.nextButton: gtk-next intf.icw.currentWindow.upgradeoption: <gtk.OptionMenu object (GtkOptionMenu) at 0xb7aedb94> intf.icw.currentWindow.root: ('sda2', 'ext3', '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00') intf.icw.currentWindow.id: InstallData instance, containing members: intf.icw.currentWindow.id.dbpath: None intf.icw.currentWindow.id.firewall: Firewall instance, containing members: intf.icw.currentWindow.id.firewall.ftp: 0 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.firewall.http: 0 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.firewall.enabled: 1 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.firewall.smtp: 0 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.firewall.telnet: 0 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.firewall.selinux: intf.icw.currentWindow.id.firewall.ssh: 0 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.firewall.portlist: intf.icw.currentWindow.id.firewall.trustdevs: [] intf.icw.currentWindow.id.firewall.ports: [] intf.icw.currentWindow.id.rootParts: [('sda2', 'ext3', '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00')] intf.icw.currentWindow.id.upgradeDeps: intf.icw.currentWindow.id.upgradeRoot: [('sda2', 'ext3')] intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup: XSetup instance, containing members: intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.skipx: 0 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.imposed_sane_default: 1 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate: XF86HardwareState instance, containing members: intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.probed_physical_height: 0 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.probed_video_ram: 32768 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.videocard_PCIBus: None intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.colordepth: 24 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.monitor_name: Unprobed Monitor intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.dri_enabled: 1 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.monitor: monName: Unprobed Monitor monID: Unprobed Monitor monHoriz: 31.5-37.9 monVert: 50-70 physicalWidth: 0 physicalHeight: 0 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.videocard_name: ATI Rage 128 Pro Ultra intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.video_ram: 0 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.videocard_driver: r128 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.videocard_options: [] intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.vsync: 50-70 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.physical_height: 0 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.probed_vsync: 50-70 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.physical_width: 0 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.hsync: 31.5-37.9 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.probed_physical_width: 0 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.xconfig: None intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.all_resolutions: [640x480, 800x480, 800x600, 1024x600, 1024x768, 1152x768, 1152x864, 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1400x1050, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1900x1200, 1920x1200, 1920x1440, 2048x1536] intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.videocard: primary: 0 vidCards: [<rhpl.videocard.VideoCard instance at 0xb77dd74c>] Primary Video Card Info: device: fb0 descr : ATI|Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF server: Xorg cardManf: None vidRam: 32768 carddata: {'CHIPSET': 'ati', 'SEE': 'ATI Rage 128 (generic)', 'DRIVER': 'r128', 'NAME': 'ATI Rage 128 Pro Ultra', 'NOCLOCKPROBE': ''} devID: ATI Rage 128 Pro Ultra fbmodes: None fbbpp: None intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.videocard_PCIFn: None intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.probed_hsync: 31.5-37.9 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.resolution: 800x600 intf.icw.currentWindow.id.xsetup.xhwstate.videocard_PCIDev: None intf.icw.currentWindow.id.accounts: <Type Accounts> intf.icw.currentWindow.id.keyboard: Keyboard instance, containing members: intf.icw.currentWindow.id.keyboard.info: {'KEYBOARDTYPE': pc, 'KEYTABLE': uk}

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Core2 install stymied on old (i686) computer...
by George Williams 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

I have an old machine which won't boot from cdrom, nor from a USB device. I was able to install RH9 from a floppy, but that doesn't seem to be supported any more. I have the disk space to copy all CDs onto a disk (which will not be munched by the install process). Is there any way to boot from that?

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AMD cpu slows down (I think)
by Trevor Smith 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

I'm trying to find info on my laptop problem but can't find anything really explanatory. I assume it's something to do with CPU speed auto-setting on battery power and your site seems to be relevant. My situation: I have a Compaq Presario 2197CA, AMD Athlon XP-M 2800+ CPU. With Fedora Core 1, no problems on AC or battery power. After upgrade to FC2 with kernel-2.6.5-1.358, originally no problem (I don't recall). But at some point I updated the kernel to kernel-2.6.8-1.521 and possibly then, possibly because of some other "upgrade" my computer slips into a different mode when on battery power. In this "mode" it becomes extremely, irritatingly slow to use. A command shell takes visible time to scroll/update. GUI windows take maddening seconds to draw, etc. Research leads me to believe that this is a "feature" of the Powernowstuff or something, but it is definitely not a feature I want. A found a web site (http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/cpufreq/powernow-k7.shtml) that says: "This meant that until version 2.6.6 of the kernel, Powernow was non functional on these laptops." and "Compaq Presario 2100. Has 14 PST tables. None of which match the cpuid of the processor (0x7A0)" I conclude that this means that my original FC1 and FC2 kernels (pre-2.6.6) would have had disfunctional support for Powernow but that my new kernel has "fixed" support for this. And this, I assume, is the source of my problem. However, I can find no docs about how to control Powernow or, better yet, turn it off (I use my laptop at school and home and I rarely use battery power so it's not an issue for me). After my long ramble, 4 questions: 1. am I correct in my assessment of the situation, do you think? 2. how could anybody want to use a system that is struggling to update windows and such, no matter how much longer it made their batteries last? 3. is my problem more likely the result of poor/nonexistent graphics acceleration which causes the CPU to do graphics work as well as system work, thus when the CPU is slowed down, graphics slow down? 4. how can I turn this damn Powernow thing off? Thanks in advance. -- Trevor Smith // trevor(a)haligonian.com

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Dare I ask the question?
by john brennan-sardou 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

Hello all, Having waited impatiently for fedora three to come out, can you give me any idea as to when the final will hit the scene? Ok you will say when everything is top notch (as usual). I have had problems with fedora two (essentially because of my lousy material) and I am raring to go for fed3. The test 3 looks really good. Thanks for any information (even in weeks or months as to when it will come out. john brennan-sardou

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gnome-terminal full screen: slow!
by Carles Cufi 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

Hi there, My gnome terminal seems quite slow in full screen (1400x1050), specially when scrolling with vi inside long files. I wonder if this normal, since the rest of the system goes quite fast, and xterm just scrolls really fast... All other programs scroll reasonably fast, gnome-terminal seems to be the exception. Of course, it depends on its size, if I resize to be a small window then it runs fast enough. Thanks for any help! Carles

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Re: How about the support of FC for laptop?
by Arjan van de Ven 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

> I would avoid Intel graphics. Nvidia works out of the box even with the > opensource driver... > and except for brand new releases of FC, their binary driver work well. > > Intel graphics are painful. They are integrated with the BIOSes, and > needed special hacks just to > get some video memory earlier... and stick suck badly wrt. to getting > proper display modes too > > I thought Intel was great, and Nvidia bad. Experience has taught me > otherwise. I guess it all comes down to bios; I've seen a lot of cases where nvidia didn't work; even with the binary driver (nvidia focusses on the desktop chips not so much on the laptop ones). So.. whatever you buy google first to see if others could make the laptop work.....

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