Re: USB modem install on FC4
by Jean François Ortolo
>
> Yes Sir
>
> The udev rules file shows me some serial/comm interfaces, some of them
>with the word "USB" in it, but I don't know which one to choose.
>
> Furthermore, I tried ttyUSB0 by running 'udevinfo ttyUSB'. It
>succeeded but this interface was not being added to the network tool
>interfaces list. By 'succeeded' I mean the ttyUSB[0-9]+ were added to
>the /dev directory.
>
>
I apologize
I made this:
/sbin/MAKEDEV ttyUSB
which temporarily added all ttyUSB interfaces to the /dev directory.
However, the network configuration tool interfaces list wasn't updated,
which I presume is because the udev database was not modified.
May be I'm wrong.
The first problem should be to choose the right usb interface to setup,
among the serial/usb in the udev rules file.
The second, to make this interface appear in the network tool list.
Thank you very much for your help.
Best regards.
Jean-Francois Ortolo
18 years, 7 months
How to test NIC performance?
by Dan Hensley
Since my first post about this got no replies, I'll rephrase.
I am experiencing extremely high latency with my network interface. AMD
X2 64, Gigabyte K8N Pro-SLI, using the built-in gigabit NIC which I
believe is using the forcedeth driver.
Transfer speeds are fine, but latency is ridiculous. Does the forcedeth
driver have known issues like this? Do I need to invest in different
hardware?
I'm not sure how to test the performance of my NIC to try to
troubleshoot why this is so bad. Can someone point me in the right
direction?
Thanks,
Dan
18 years, 7 months
mplayer problem
by John Wendel
Latest mplayer from livna installed.
I'm getting the following error from mplayer, which plays the video, but
no audio. Xine does the same thing (except I don't see any error messages).
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: Failed to initialize the decoder!
ADecoder init failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec for audio format 0xFF.
I've got all the codecs from the mplayer website installed and it does
play most AAC audio.
Any clues will be appreciated.
Thanks,
John
18 years, 7 months
Multiple language support in OpenOffice 2 - Cannot change default document language
by Sean Carlos
Upgrading openoffice.org from
openoffice.org-*-1.9.125-1.1.0.fc4.i386.rpm
to
openoffice.org-*-2.0.0-3.2.1.i386.rpm,
I find it is no longer possible to change the default document language
- it is hard wired to the interface language.
Tools -> Options...
Language Settings -> Languages
In the lower part of the pane, there is "Default languages"
The label "Western" and associated drop-down is now grayed out. The
value is taken from the Interface Language in the same pane. So if I
change the user interface to "Italiano" and restart OO, I then see the
document default language as "Italiano" - but I cannot change it back to
English, even just for the current document, as is the expected
behavior. I have verified this with just the Italian and German
language packs installed.
Has anyone else seen this? If not, I'll file a bug.
_________________________________
Sean Carlos
http://www.antezeta.com/
18 years, 7 months
Wnat to contribute development of Fedora
by Lalit Kumar
Hi,
I want to contribute in development of Fedora.
If mentors can allot me some devvelopment work, it will be very nice.
I would like to work preferably on C, C++.
For rest I may need some sorts of help.
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Bye,
Lalit Kumar
Open Source Software Engineer
18 years, 7 months
amarok 1.3.5 and mysql???
by oleksandr korneta
hey,
I just discovered amarok-1.3.5-1.fc4(a)i386.rpm in Fedora Extras, and
wanted to install it hoping that this will solve the bug I have with my
amarok 1.3.3 (it crashes on a 50% of my mp3 saying "TagLib: Compressed
frames are not supported"). In fact I was extremely surprised to see
that it pulls mysql (???) as dependency for itself! Whatta...?
mysql-based mysic manager on a desktop machine? Isn't this a bit too much?
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regards,
Oleksandr Korneta
18 years, 7 months
digital signature / openssl > open office help
by kwhiskers
I have been trying to digitally sign an open office writer document (odt).
When I click on 'digital signature', a window opens up stating that nobody
has yet signed the document, which is true. When I then click to pick a
signature with which to sign, none at all are listed in the second window
that opens and there is no obvious way to import digital signatures and
certificates.
I have looked on the open office forum and it was stated that open office
looks for the signature in the ~/.thunderbird (not installed), then
~/.firefox and ~/.mozilla directories. I have installed the required .pkc12
certificates in those 2 programs. According to the information given, when
the certificate bundle is installed there, it should now appear in open
office.
It doesn't.
Is there some different place to put the signature or certificate file in
the Fedora version of open office 2? Must I state this location, perhaps, in
the paths set-up in open office? What is the path to give and what is it
called?
First I tried using my digital signature from gnupg, which is in .asc
format, but that wouldn't import into mozilla or firefox. Then I tried to
convert it to pkcs12, but there seems to be no way to do so, so I had to
create another. I used openssl to create a .pem certificate which I then
converted into a .pkcs12 certificate bundle, which installed successfully
into konqueror, firefox and the old mozilla.
Furthermore, the open office forum suggested one make symbolic links from
the certificate databases of firefox to mozilla, so as not to have 2
unsyncronized certificate stores. After not having success with 2
certificate stores, I deleted one and made the other links.
Despite having followed all the directions, the available
signatures/certificates in open office are nil.
Where do I put signatures/certificates to have them be usable in open office
2.0? Should they occur somewhere under /etc/pki, perhaps? Where? What form
must they be? .asc, .pkcs12, .pem... what?
There seems to be some ambiguity in this, too, in that
mozilla/firefox/thunderbird want .pkcs12 certificates, which are actually
used for verifying the validity of web pages, yet the information in the
open office forum says that it is these directories that are read by open
office (they sure don't seem to be, unless there is some undocumented secret
way of activating it).
However, a pkcs12 file is a certificate, but open office does digital
signing. A digital signature is what is made with gnupg. Such a digital
signature is used to sign an email, for example, as in kmail or evolution. A
signature is not a certificate. I don't want to verify that a web page comes
from the domain to which is has been registered by a certificate authority
(CA), but rather, simply want to digitally sign a document, attesting to my
authorship.
I now have public & private digital keys, self-signed by me; I have a
self-signed digital certificate, issued by me... and still I have no
apparent way to sign a document I have written.
Does anyone have the answer?
18 years, 7 months
Re: TV load question.
by akonstam＠trinity.edu
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:52:19AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 08:53 -0500, akonstam(a)trinity.edu wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:44:17AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 08:34 -0500, akonstam(a)trinity.edu wrote:
> > > > Someone decided to have TV channels delivered to people on campus
> > > > through the internet to be viewed on computer screens.
> > > > In Windows this seems to be pretty automatic. The web site opens and
> > > > loads plugins for the mp4 and mp2 TV signals.
> > > >
> > > > Now my mystery is how to do this in Linux. Any advice out there?
> > > ----
> > > do you have mplayer installed?
> > >
> > > on my FC-3 system (at means Axel Thimm's repo)
> > >
> > > # rpm -qa|grep mplayer
> > > mplayer-1.0-36_pre5.rhfc3.at
> > > mplayer-fonts-1.0-6.at
> > > mplayer-skins-1.0-pre3_12.at
> > > mplayer-skin-mini-0.1-11.1.at
> > > mplayerplug-in-3.05-1.1.fc3.rf
> > >
> > > Craig
> > >
> > I have the following installed and mplayer works but the tv does not.
> > mplayer-1.0-0.lvn.o26.pre7try2.4
> > mplayer-fonts-1.1.0.lvn.3.4
> > mplayerplug-in-2.80.0.lvn.1.4
> > w32codec-1.0_20041107-11.at
> >
> > Which is one combination of mplayer that works on CNN video for
> > example but not on tv. I can try to install the skin and skins rpms if
> > you think that would help.
> ----
> I believe that the skins are what make it a standalone player (not a
> plug-in in firefox for example)
>
> Normally, when you browse to a page that would open a stream, it would
> search for a mime-type and that would be the clue as to how to handle
> it. I presume that you open a browser and connect to a specific link -
> you probably need to give us more details of what is happening and where
> things stop working - and I would suggest on fedora-list since there are
> people who are a lot more knowledgeable than I on this stuff.
>
> Craig
This post is too long but let me briefly explain. First the broadcast
stream if retrieved from a Windows server which in turn retrieves it
from a Linux server. It is stated by the producer of the distribution
software that it works in IE (Windows) and Safari (OS/X). They say
flatly that it does not work with firefox and I am trying to find out
why. (By the way where do you find the skins rpm? Everywhere I found
it it would not download).
I am always mystified how you add a plugin or expand the extensions
for a file type like video/mpeg. Anyway mplayer works on a variety of
video file types by mp2 and mp4 are not among them. So I would like
to add them. I tried by changing the pluginreg.dat and the
mimeTypes.rdf files but to no avail. The video files are not
recognized.
Any further ideas out there.
-------------------------------------------
Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
telephone: (210)-999-7484
18 years, 7 months
RE: FC4 does not work, "out of the box" for me; GUI/X11 fails
by Dan Thurman
Ok, here is what I recall....
1) Starting from scratch, insert the boot cd
2) Select the linux text, to do a text-based installation
3) Follow all the steps, choose your software (I chosed 'everything')
4) When it reboots one of two things came up for me:
a) At first, Grub reported a text-based message: "GRUB>"
So, I was perplexed and did not know what to do. So,
instead of trying to solve this one, I chosed to reboot
with the Fedora Rescue disc
b) After the second time I re-installed from scratch, grub
came up find with the splash screen and all that, but then
when I came to figuring out how to modify grub to boot runlevel
3, it was (and still is) not possible to me to figure out this
step. Please reply and tell me how this one is done please
so that I know how? Of course this would be the easiest place
to get into runlevel 3 and yum update and my problems could have
been MUCH easier.
5) Fedora Rescue mode
a) Hit 'Enter', the default mode
b) Drivers are loaded (if any), then choose language, then keyboard
and anaconda starts up.
c) "Setup Networking" appears
Choose 'Yes', then configure as needed (I choosed manual, not DHCP)
and added the IP address and mask., Click 'OK' then complete by
adding the gateway, primary, secondary, tertiary as needed and
click 'OK'
d) In 'Rescue', choose: 'Continue' (it will attempt to find the sysimage)
and allow you to mount the sysimage if found. I haven't tried the directly
to command shell mode at any time.
e) Mount the sysimage: chroot /mnt/sysimage
f) Now, you are "in" the environment (whatever it is), and you may think that
you are in single user mode but you have networking active.... so... you
may think that you can yum update here.... right?
Well... *some* files do yum install - but others that as it seems to me
mostly the ones with library installations appear to send out error messages
that the scriptlets are failing and messages in the errors shows the %prenum,
%postnum type messages.
Hope this helps....
Dan
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From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Les Mikesell
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 12:33 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: RE: FC4 does not work, "out of the box" for me; GUI/X11 fails
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 14:06, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> If you knew
> that you just have to put boot run-level at level 3 to BYPASS
> the GUI System, how can you do it?
You can interrupt the default boot and change this at boot-time.
> Ah, ok... but then you have this FEDORA RESCUE DISK... and
> all I would need to do, is to mount the sysimage, edit the
> inittab file and reboot -- HOWEVER -- before you mount the
> sysimage, there is a NETWORK CONFIGURATION step - and you
> are thinking - AH! YUM UPDATES!!! I would bet you a pretty
> penny YOU HADN'T THOUGHT OF THAT!!!
>
> I did. So I reported it so that others won't fall into this trap!
I wish you had been more specific about how if failed. I would
have expected this to work too. Do you remember any details
about what it did wrong?
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