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PCMCIA Wireless Best Practice
by Patrick Nelson 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

FC3 Up to date I have a couple systems that are connected to the internet and also connected to a private network that is wireless. These systems act as firewalls and gateways and mailservers. Enough background here is the problem (maybe). I think I might be doing something wrong although I can get things working ok, but any network restart shuts down my wireless network pcmcia cards on these systems and I have to reboot to bring them back up. Just default install doesn't work so, I have a specific process to bring the cards on line: 1. set up the cards with system-config-network and then disable them at boot 2. move the run order of pcmcia init script (s24) beyond the network init script (s10) 3. reboot the system This causes a couple of delays with some of the daemons between s10 and s24 (like named) but at least it works. The problem with this working solution is that if I (or any app) does a service network restart, the pcmcia card no longer responds (although the light on the card does stay on). I've tried doing the sequence of: service network stop service pcmcia stop service network start service pcmcia start to mimic what happens when the system boots. But this does not work and I would really just like to have service network restart work anyway. So I was waiting on a rainy day to figure out what is wrong and what would be the best way to fix it. And I have read through the documentation of pcmcia-cs and it states that I may need to edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file so that network init works correctly. So my question is: what is the best configuration of this wireless card, on a system that has a NIC as well? .

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re: Minimizing a window makes it inaccessible.
by Peter Lesterhuis 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

> > > After an update to X11 I had some errors in the >gnome desktop, and canceled the restart of some items >when they failed to start. > > Since that time I find that when I minimize a >window, I can't get it back again. > > Does anyone have any ideas what I need to get >started again? > Right-click on the bottom panel, select "add to panel", scroll to "window list", click on it and press "add".

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Chicken and egg madwifi question
by Gordon Charrick 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

I'm running fc3 on my computer and almost ready to upgrade to fc4. I have a wireless card using madwifi from atrpms.net. If I upgrade to fc4, I'll be running 2.6.11-1.1369. Axel's web site only has a prebuilt module for the latest 2.6.12 kernels and I haven't been able to find any old modules on the net. Trying to build the module using the source rpm gets me this: $ rpmbuild -bb madwifi-0.9.4.12-16.rhfc4.at.spec error: line 1: Unknown tag: %kmdl madwifi So, my choices are the following: 1. Figure out how to build the module from the source rpm. Anyone know what I'm missing to build it? 2. Do the upgrade and have the 2.6.12 kernel and madwifi module already downloaded and hope I don't run into a dependency problem. 3. Find someplace on the net that archives old madwifi modules for the original fc4 kernel version. Obviously, number 3 is the best choice, if I can find such a site. What's the best solution to the problem?

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How to use news-protocol?
by Strong 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

I want to visit this URL: news://news.lokigames.com/loki.games.heroes3 but the browsers say, It's not supported... What should I install to make it available for me? Thank You. -- Best regards, Strong.

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Kaddressbook forgeting changes
by Dotan Cohen 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

In Kaddressbook 3.4.2 on FC4 I find that if I edit a contact (change his name, add/remove categories) that when I open it up again, the changes are lost. I DO hit save in the contact when I update, and I DO hit File-> Save before I exit the program. Why won't it save? I have saved in the past (some months ago), using the same procedure that I use now. I tried googling for "Kaddressbook save", "Kaddressbook lost addresses", and "Kaddressbook forgetting" but found nothing relevant. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/communications_technology/cellphones.php

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Lost front speakers with 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 (SB Live 5.1 Gamer)
by spmirowski 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

Hello, I installed 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 yesterday. Sound worked fine on the prior 3-4 or so kernel releases. The only sound option that remained on the Playback tab of Volume Control was a 3 bar EMU10K1 PCM controller, which I have never seen before. I added Wave Surround in to get the rear speakers working. There is no longer an option for Master and if I check on Wave, etc, it wont add it to the sound panel. Plain PCM option is also missing. Thanks, Stephen

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kernel-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4, problem noticed
by Kevin Verma 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

Hello, I have noitced an issue with kernel-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4, where /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables will hang. As noticed hangs while unloading the iptables modules. This also cases an hold to shutdown. I will like to know if anyone else have noticed the same. Thanks for reading,

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Installation problems with Fedora Core 4
by Anthony Tse 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

l have got the problems when l install the fedora core 4 when l press enter in the install main menu, it will then go to choose the language and the keyboard type which is fine. After that, l will receive the message asking me "what type of media contains the packages to be installed?". There are 4 options to choose from: Local CDROM Hard Drive NFS image FTP HTTP However, my image is burn into DVD and the original image checksum is correct. So l think all the packages is within the DVD and it should be automatically detected. How to solve the problems as state in the warning message?

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Re: Problems with Grub
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

jtollefson(a)tj3systems.com wrote: >Good day all, >I've been trying to load up a second HD with Windows XP on it this >morning. I've been reading through the GRUB menu and alot of what I can >find on Google but still to no avail. Any suggestions? >My current grub.conf >title Windows XP > map (hd0) (hd1) > map (hd1) (hd0) > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > chainloader +1 > makeactive > >It looks like it starts to load the OS because the HD light comes on but >it just hangs. > My laptop's (HP Pavilion zv6015) grub.conf: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,2) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda6 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda3 default=0 timeout=9 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.13-1.1526_FC4) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb no_timer_check=0 initrd /initrd-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4.img title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1456_FC4) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb no_timer_check=0 initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4.img title Windoze XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 I keep Windoze on it since that seems the only way to get BIOS updates. Cheers, Dave

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More bugs in newest update of KDE in FC3/FC4
by Peter Magnusson 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

So, I got no reply on my other email. Nobody uses KDE? Nobody of the developers give a shit? Here is it again, with some more bugs I have found. Named 5 and forward.. Im sorry that I trused Fedora to update my computer but I really need to get KDE working again. I promise to put *kde* under Hold in apt.conf and NEVER EVER upgrade any kde packges again before I upgrade this FC3 box to a newer FC or something else. That will happend when FC3 isnt updated with security updates anymore. Or is it some other FC3 Repository that I have in my sources.list.d that is responsible for this mess? Right now I have dag.list dries.list freshrpms.list mirror-select.list newrpms.list os.list in sources.list.d. These are my kde versions right now: kdelibs-3.4.2-0.fc3.2 kdeartwork-3.4.2-0.fc3.1 kdevelop-3.2.2-0.fc3.1 kdemultimedia-3.4.2-0.fc3.1 kdegraphics-3.4.2-0.fc3.1 kdebase-3.4.2-0.fc3.3 kdesdk-devel-3.3.1-1 openoffice.org-kde-1.1.3-11.5.0.fc3 kdeaddons-3.4.2-0.fc3.1 kdebase-devel-3.4.2-0.fc3.3 kdegraphics-devel-3.4.2-0.fc3.1 kdeutils-devel-3.4.2-0.fc3.1 kdesdk-3.3.1-1 kdepim-3.4.2-0.fc3.1 kdegames-3.4.2-0.fc3.1 kdenetwork-3.4.2-0.fc3.1 kdepim-devel-3.4.2-0.fc3.1 kdenetwork-devel-3.4.2-0.fc3.1 kdelibs-devel-3.4.2-0.fc3.2 kdeadmin-3.4.2-0.fc3.1 kdeutils-3.4.2-0.fc3.1 It isnt named with some extension so I assume its from the offical Fedora team? So if this isnt gonna be fixed, is it just to remove these rpms and install the older again? Is it something that I need to think about? However, this doesnt fix exactly the same problem on my laptop that uses FC4. ## orginal text ## I discovered it on my FC3 workstation. But my FC4 laptop got the same problem. KDE in FC3 was updated from 3.2.2 (something, not sure) to 3.4.2 recently. 4 bugs in that KDE version: 1: When I iconify emacs (and this problem only applys to emacs) so I just see the menubar... Then emacs and the X server will use 100% cpu until I kill it. This is CLEARLY a bug. And its very annoying. It worked before the update. If I iconify emacs so the window is completely removed from the desktop this problem doesnt happend. 2: Klipper sometimes gets in a loop and popups an action window for URLs, new window within some seconds all the time. Very annoying. You have to clear the history to get rid of the problem. It wasnt like this in the previous version of KDE. 3: It amazes me that KDE STILL has problems with fonts that are changing between the KDE sessions. It has been like this for like... 4 years. Why is it so hard to solve? Now I use quite high and non-standard resolution (1792x1344) but a year ago I used only 1600x1200 and had the same problem then. Especially the font named "General font" are changing. If I set it to 10 it will be 10... When I logout and login again it might be the same or it will get so small all of a sudden and I have to change it to 11... And when I logout and login again... Then its too big. So I have to change back to 10. Why is this never fixed? But it can happend with other fonts also, but its more seldom. The taskbar crasched today, it was automaticlly restarted. But guess what? It was restarted with a much smaller fontsize. If I change it now it probably will be wrong when I logout and in again. 4: Delete is gone, I have to press shift to see it when deleting something from konq. I dont use the trash basket in KDE. Best would be if it was possible if KDE could ask me to delete files when I select some and press the delete key and not ask me if I want to put it in trash. Is that possible? ## even more bugs ## 5: kedit cant open files thats begins with "[", it says "You have specified a folder". 6: Konq cant open dirs that begins with "[". 7: Turning off Enable actions in Klipper crashes in taskbar most of the times. See bug 3.

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