Ethernet Card not detected
by Smith, Herb
All,
I successfully helped my son get FC5 running on one of his machines
yesterday (Intel Celeron, 256MB Ram). It seems to be mostly fine except
that it did not recognize the 3Com Etherlink III card (it is fairly old,
but I don't know if that basic technology has changed or not). When I
go to Network Device Control, there is no device indicated.
Is there a log from the boot process that I can check to see if an error
was encountered in the detection process?
Is there a tool to detect and/or test the ethernet card?
I just need some idea where to start debugging what the issues are.
Although not a complete bonehead, I'm a pretty big newbie when it comes
to this network stuff, so any info would be helpful.
TIA,
Herb Smith
17 years, 9 months
Port Redirection in Fedora
by R. G. Newbury
I ran OS/2 for many years, although I had some DOS programs which I
continued to use inside a VDM (Virtual Display Monitor).
A DOS VDM could not actually access the hardware.
I would set up a print under OS/2 to 'talk' to LPT1. Then I could set up
a virtual printer, the same as real one, aimed at LPT2, and then
re-direct the LPT2 output to LPT1.
The DOS program thought that it was talking to LPT2, as it was actually
dealing with the re-direction code.
The same thing can be done under Windows with a program called RedMon,
so that you can 'print' to Ghostscript and get PDF output.
My question.
How do you re-direct output from a virtual port to a real printer spool,
under Fedora?
Geoff
17 years, 9 months
repost creating ext2
by dcooke＠efn.org
Message: 17
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:26:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: "david c cooke" <dcooke(a)efn.org>
Subject: requesting help creating ext2 file
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Message-ID: <2598.216.160.118.81.1156811169.squirrel(a)216.160.118.81>
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Have existing HDD with old Fedora operating system
that I made USB external for data backups.
If I have it on at boot time with the new FC5 machine,
it can't handle and hangs the process. I can't see it
after boot.
Can I make an entry to /etc/fstab, like hdb or hdb2, to get the drive in
rw mode? Probably format then partition the beast before installing a
filing system, whatever type you think is best suited?
Thanks,
David
Just a follow-up-
As most at the forum can already tell, I am now learning new software and
so any kind of information concerning commands and procedures that should
relate to /etc/fstab or other files that I can edit, I must be able to
read the drive first?
Also, I have been looking at the GUI User Mount Tool if I can use this
just as easily or in addition to the command line.
Any information will be greatly appreciated.
17 years, 9 months
Fedora 64-bit Graphics Problems on Install
by John Trager
Hello All,
Here is a rundown on my computer:
AMD Athlon64 3800+ with 2GB RAM with ASUS AV8 Motherboard
The first thing I tried to do was to download the Fedora 64-bit version onto a single DVD, which was no problem.
I then tried to install it on my SATA hard drive with a 200GB Partition... when it probes my video card, the screen goes dark for a bit, and then after sometime, I get vertical lines on the screen, and some more garbage later on... It appears that the video driver isn't working correctly. It is selecting the NVIDIA 6600 driver... Is there a way to tell the install program to use the VESA driver (generic) for the graphical install???
I did try to install it using the Text version, and it went through fine, but there was NO GUI interface... I guess when one does this it uses the standard VESA driver (generic)?
MY FIRST CHOICE is to get the 64-bit version working, but I have also tried the RAD HAT ENTERPRISE 32-bit version. This for the most part works fine, but there are some issues which I think is related to the 64-bit install. When I install the 32-bit version, it probes my computer and picks the VESA driver (generic), which then works fine. Now, I have tried the NVIDIA 6600 display driver in the list for graphics hardware... and when I do this it does the same thing as with the 64-bit install! Something doesn't seem right with these drivers, or am I doing something wrong??? I used the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-pkg1.run file on the PNY Technologies website. I typed "init 3" before install it. I didn't change some of the other things that are mentioned by various people (Change Driver "nv" to Driver ?nvidia"...) because there was no file there yet called "XF86Config". As a matter of fact, after I installed this driver, I still do not see this file! However when I boot up the Linux System, I see the NVIDIA LOGO on my monitor... and there is also a NVIDIA X Server type area in one of the pull down windows (system settings?)... Where would this driver appear? Would it take the place of the NVIDIA 6600 driver under display hardware? I'm new to Linux...
Am I better installing the 32-bit Fedora version or the 64-bit version? It sure would be nice to see a 64-bit version operating on this machine!
Thanks for any help!
John
17 years, 9 months
Maybe OT: Thunderbird Pasting Images
by Paul Lemmons
I tried to do something with Thunderbird today and was completely
flummoxed. I had taken a screen shot with KSnapshot and placed the
captured image in the paste buffer. I was not able to paste it into a
note I was trying to send. I could paste it into OOWrite so I know I had
it in my paste buffer. I triple checked that I was composing an HTML
formatted note, and was. I tried <ctrl-c><ctrl-v>,
<ctrl-ins><shift-ins>, right click copy/paste and many combinations of
the above; no cheese down any hole.
Am I missing something or is this a known limitation?
FC5
TB 1.5.0.5
yum update current as of 8/29/2006
--
Murphy Says:
Everybody who didn't want a pain shot when you were passing out pain shots wants one when you are passing out sleeping pills
17 years, 9 months
cdrdao gives the following strange warning
by Paul Smith
Dear All
cdrdao gives the following strange warning:
«WARNING: No super user permission to setup real time scheduling»
I have meanwhile done the following
chmod u+s /usr/bin/cdrdao
but with no success.
Any clue?
Paul
17 years, 9 months
QMAIL Issue
by eng.waleed
hi
I have mail server with fedora core 3 and Qmail package , I have problem that the messages from my server does not reach hotmail or any out server or reach after long time , any Ideas to check the problem
BR
17 years, 9 months
QTparted and NTFS resizing
by Nigel Henry
I know this isn't strictly FC, but am running out of harddrive space, and need
somewhere to put FC6, when I can psych myself up for another 8days of iso
downloads on dialup.
There is one fixed drive on this machine, which was all NTFS, but thanks to
webmin, is now a mix of NTFS, and FAT32 partitions. I now use one of the 5
1/4 slots for a harddrive caddy, as I run many distro's on this machine. The
one I want to resize is the original XP one (preinstalled on the aiii-friend
machine), which is now in one of the caddies.
Knoppix 5.0's QTparted, version-0.4.5-cvs gets the info ok for hdb (the fixed
drive), but when trying to get the info for hda (XP in the caddy) the
progress bar on the "get info" pane is at 100% and a few seconds later
QTparted crashes.
Any suggestions as to what is causing QTparted to crash when trying to get
info from the NTFS formatted XP drive?
XP is using 8.9GB of a 40GB drive, and the defrag analyse utility shows a lot
of data at the beginning of the drive, then a lot of blank space, then
another bunch of data with some unmoveable files, but there appears to be at
least half of the drive available for resizing. I'm not too bothered about
loosing XP, as even though it has quite a few music apps on it, I never use
it now, apart from updating the 3rd party security. System restore is
disabled, so that Norton Ghost can work on it.
Nigel.
17 years, 9 months
Enabling "localhost" for Applications?
by Russ Kinter
Hi All,
Am new to Fedora 5 and linux in general.
Is there something -a service(?)- I need to
to start to enable applications to connect on
localhost?
I am trying to run an application (FreeWRL)
that uses a tcp socket connection in a server/client
relationship using "localhost" port 9877.
The client part can't connect and times out
,though the server part seems to run fine
per se.
thanks!
Russ Kinter
17 years, 9 months
Re: How to restart alsa?
by Paul Smith
On 8/23/06, Tony Nelson <tonynelson(a)georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> >> Fedora appears to use ainit to start alsa (man 8 ainit, via "apropos
> >> alsa").
> >
> >Hi Tony. This thread was running a while back, and I think you mentioned
> >"ainit" then. I tried it on FC5, (Not the one with planetccrma on it). I
> >had some music playing using Mhwaveedit, which uses Alsa, and did an
> >"ainit stop" which returned me to the prompt, indicating it had stopped, but
> >the music was still playing.
> >
> >The man page for ainit indicates that it's to do with dmix, and dnoop, and
> >admittadly both used by Alsa.
> >
> >Have YOU managed to stop Alsa using ainit?
>
> No.
>
> "ainit tonyn stop" removes the lock files when I run it as root, and
> doesn't remove them when run as tonyn, but I can still play sounds after
> running it either way.
>
>
> >I don't if you've used the planetccrma stuff, which puts the alsasound
> >shellscript in /etc/rc.d/init.d, but this is what I get on FC2 for a stop,
> >and then start of Alsa using it (no music playing)
> ...
>
> I have not used PlanetCCRMA kernels. They appear to do it differently from
> Fedora.
Any progress regarding how to restart alsa on Fedora Core?
Paul
17 years, 9 months
