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Winhelp is empty?
by Heikki Pesonen 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

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

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Check out this URL!
by Ric Moore 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Someone did a BUNCH of work!! http://www.100mb.nl/ Check out the source, too! Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================

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System freezes with smp kernel
by Todd Simi 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

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

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bad memory or PEBKAC?
by Thufir 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

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

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top posting netiquette
by Thufir 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

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

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RE: where is Network Configuration Wizard?
by Styma, Robert E (Robert) 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

> > 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

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No Medium Found when mounting file system
by dcooke＠efn.org 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

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

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where is Network Configuration Wizard?
by Ric Moore 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

How do I invoke it and what rpm provides it? Thanx! Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================

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X
by Peter Lesterhuis 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

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

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Wifi LED on Dell Latitude laptops
by wwp 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

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

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