Winhelp is empty?
by Heikki Pesonen
I do not know much about Linux. I am not quite young yet. I was very happy
when I succeeded to install Wine to my Fedora Core 5 by running "yum install
wine".
I wanted to run strategic war game SPWAW in Wine, but the large information
about Wine I can find from the Net is a bit confusing. From my desktop on
Applications > System Tools I find "winhelp". But when I open it - a
window, some kind of resource manager - there seems to be nothing. I also
wanted to find the wine-folder from my computer. I will suppose it were
located in /usr/bin but it is not there. If I write "find wine" or call for
the very famous dog Beagle (Why is it not installed in Fedora distribution?)
it does not help me any.
The usual "man wine" opens but a newbie would appreciate something more
readable.
As an intelligent (?) guess I will do the installing of SPWAW in the
following way:
mkdir SPWAW
cd SPWAW
wine install.exe
........
........
........ as in Windows98 or WindowsXP
And running the game:
mech.exe
17 years, 8 months
System freezes with smp kernel
by Todd Simi
Hi,
I've moved my hard drive to a new Core 2 Duo system and it freezes (Panics)
2 - 5 minutes after booting. I get about a page of debugging info, but
the two lines that are understandable to me are
BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#1, swapper/0 (not tainted)
BUG: warning at arch/i386/kernel/smp.c:540/smp_call_function() (not tainted)
My system is a
Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4Ghz
Asus P5W DH Deluxe
1GB Ram (Corsair PC-8000)
73GB WD Raptor
The system runs fine with the non-smp kernel
I'm trying to run vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp
Any ideas where to look first?
Thanks
Todd
17 years, 8 months
bad memory or PEBKAC?
by Thufir
I just purchased a, to me, generic mp3 player. I copied some songs over
to it with "drag and drop" from gnome, unmounted and all was good, it
played fine. Then I reconnected to the computer, dragged all the songs on
the mp3 player to the trash icon on the desktop (GNOME under fedora, FC5).
I emptied the trash, and refilled the mp3 player with new songs,
unmounting, of course.
not once, not twice, but many of the new songs cut out, and songs which
should be deleted from the mp3 cut in. It's not a problem with the files
as they play fine from the computer.
Is there some sort of test which I can run on the memory? Can I reformat
it as fat32, or will that wipe something out? I'm not convinced it's a
bad memory chip, yet.
If it's a bad memory chip, no big deal. The only reason I bought it was
because it was mismarked, $55, so I got a good deal, and sprung for the
$10 insurance at future shop. I can just bring it back for a "free"
replacement. I usually stay away from the insurance, but now I'm glad
that I have it. Actually, on careful read, they just give store credit,
which isn't so great...
It may be, painful as it is to admit, that PEBKAC.
Product Name:
MPIO 2GB MP3 Player (555 Audio)
To view this product, go to:
<http://www.futureshop.ca/prodlink.asp?P=0665000FS10077350&L=EN>
Curiously, it's only $10 more than the 1GB model.
-Thufir
17 years, 8 months
top posting netiquette
by Thufir
Hiya,
Of course, this is an e-mail list. I prefer to read it as an nntp group
via gmane. So, in e-mail top posting (for whatever reason) is the norm,
while, in nntp land (usenet), top posting is frowned upon.
I'm reading this list via gmane. Top posting is in or out?
-Thufir
17 years, 8 months
RE: where is Network Configuration Wizard?
by Styma, Robert E (Robert)
>
> Nope, that's not it unless their is another part of it that comes up
> almost half screen with a little wizard guy with a magic wand that
> opines as to how he's gonna help stupid and drooling you to set up a
> network, PPPoE, Serial or Blue Tooth internet configuration.
> Maybe if I
> just delete eth0 it'll show up? I've tried every other darn thing, and
> my $%$^@#^ static connection to my DSL modem set to
> passthrough mode has
> died. So, I'm using DHCP like a whipped runt puppy.
>
> Question in my head here... do I need to set up a route from
> my machine
> to the dsl modem which has the address 192.168.1.254 ???
> I have the static IP set on this #%^#&! machine along with the DNS
> server to #$%^&* BellSouth, the $^(%#@$%^& gateway which is
> on the other
> end of the DSL modem that I have to get to. So, I think I
> need a static
> route to the #%*#%$ modem. I used to have to do that with
> serial $&$*$^
> modems as well. Something has to give here, and I believe it
> must be my
> understanding, which could certainly bear !@#$%^&* broadening.
>
> It's also been suggested to put the DSL modem into bridge mode. I
> literally have no clue about that, but I see that the #%&*% DSL modem
> can be set to that #$&*$#&!! mode. If anyone has a clue and
> need the IP
> #$%^# I will be more than #%^#^ happy to post it all &$#!$&^* here.
>
There are a bunch of people more expert than me about this on this list,
but here are a few of my observations.
First, whether you run the DSL modem in in Bridging mode or some other
mode (like PPPoE) is specified by your DSL provider.
You mentioned your DSL modem has address 192.168.1.254. This must be it's
LAN address since this is not a routable internet address. Therefore, it
must be doing Network Address Translation for you. Thus the gateway the
DSL modem uses on the other side of the NAT is not all that interesting to you.
You will need a default route that says send the packets to 192.168.1.254.
Now if the DSL Modem is running a little DHCP server on the LAN side, you can
use DHCP to pick up an IP address in the 192.168.1 range. If you do this, it
is likely you will also pick up the addresses of the DSN servers your ISP wants
you to use. If this is not working, assigning an IP address on the 192.168.1
subnet (192.168.1.3 for example) may also work.
You should now be able to ping yourself, ping the DSN modem, and ping some
address like 68.1.17.9 (cox.net). If you can do this, you have network
connectivity. If you can do an nslookup, you have access to DNS servers.
If not, you will need to configure them by hand. Your ISP's home page should
tell you what they are buried somewhere in the technical support section.
Of course, how do you find your isp's home page without a DNS server?
Try putting 72.41.223.250 in your /etc/resolve.conf (or use system-config-network)
as a starting point.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
Bob Styma
17 years, 8 months
No Medium Found when mounting file system
by dcooke＠efn.org
Have been getting messages at boot time-
Mounting Local File System: No Medium Found
and the other-
Mounting other File Systems: No Medium Found
Currently running kernal(2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp)
with new SATA, new machine
After boot up and running, file systems, at least the part of the OS that I use
seems to be okay, not to say something won't spook me later.
Does anyone know what might be causing this and/or what might I can do to correct this.
David Cooke
Seattle, WA
17 years, 8 months
X
by Peter Lesterhuis
Hi,
One of my boxes is running FC5, using a Linuxant driver for the wireless
connection to the router. Dureing the entire existence of FC5 I had no
problems. After the update to the present kernel ( 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5)
the connection to the internet broke down, without obvious reason. Tried
to reboot the system, but it hanged on udev. I followed suggestions I
found after googling (mainly changing the etc/udev/rules.d files, or
putting "acpi=off" in the kernel line of /etc/grub.conf. But neither
worked. I reinstalled.
I configured system-config-network. By the time I got it going I
couldn't launch any application. It must have something to do with X, I
think. This problem occurs after every reboot: when I have a working
network connection I can't start any application.
Any suggestions are wellcome.
Peter
17 years, 8 months
Wifi LED on Dell Latitude laptops
by wwp
Hello all,
does anyone get the wifi LED working with FC5 on Dell Latitude laptops? Here,
running kernel 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 and ipw2200-firmware-3.0-2, the wifi of my
D810 works as expected, and Fn+F2 turns it on or off, but the LED will
always stay off. Not that it is important, but I just wonder if that's
possible in any way?
Regards,
--
wwp
17 years, 8 months
