su, su -, sudo
by Gayal
Wuts the different between su, su - root and sudo ?
--
Signing Off with Regards,
Gayal Rupasinghe
(SU-APIIT)
17 years, 9 months
FC5: ipw3945 wireless (at last)
by d p
Firstly thanks to Manuel for your instructions. Sorry it has taken so
long for me to do so, but i have had "other challenges" getting set up
on this notebook, including losing the previous emails.
I still don't really know why I failed to sort out the ipw3945 myself,
because the only real difference in your system was to start with a
kernel.rpm where I used yum update. Also you included "modprobe
loop" , and I still don't know what that does.
Ironic that I made sure I bought a laptop with this wireless system
because I thought it would be as easy as the previous ipw2915.
Again, thanks to all who helped.
DP
South Australia
17 years, 9 months
Gimp problems on FC5
by Douglas Phillipson
The Gimp Version 2.2.10 seems to have a problem under FC5. Create a
new project, add a new layer, draw something in it, add a second layer,
your keyboard will no longer work for the GIMP or any other app on the
desktop. Anyone else have this problem?
DSP
17 years, 9 months
Re: wifi, ndiswrapper and 2.6.17 kernels...
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
Kim Lux <lux(a)diesel-research.com> wrote:
>I run FC4 on an HP ZD7280 laptop that has a Broadcom wifi modem in it.
>I've been running it with ndiswrapper on a variety of kernels for the
>last 2 years. It has worked great.
>
>So, this weekend I upgraded to a 2.6.17 kernel and now wifi doesn't
>work. And I can't get it working. I tried ndiswrapper versions 1.14
>and 1.23. uname -r = 2.6.17-1.2143_FC4smp.
>
>I heard that 2.6.17 ships with bcm43xx. The driver files for my wifi
>modem are bcmwl5 and bcmwl5a.
>
>/sbin/lsmod | grep bcm43
>bcm43xx 440009 0
>ieee80211softmac 36673 1 bcm43xx
>ieee80211 37641 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
>
>/sbin/lsmod | grep ndiswrapper
><empty>
>
>What am I missing ? How do I get it running ?
>
Check dmesg output. The only way I got bcm43xx to work on my HP zv6015
was by turning off WEP authentication at the AP. This may be a problem
that is specific to my AP.
You don't mention using fwcutter to set up the firmware for bcm43xx.
fwcutter (available from extras I think) includes a README file
regarding how to extract and then configure the firmware for the bcm43xx
module. More documentation at
http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=Documentation. You can also try a google
search for "bcm43xx fwcutter".
Cheers,
Dave
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-- Ambrose Bierce
17 years, 9 months
question about FC3 update kernel
by xubin.lin＠worldplus.com.cn
Hi,
I try to update the kernel 2.6.10 on my FC3. I use "make defconfig" and
then add some Filesystem modules and usb drivers. Build the kernel ok.
but when I reboot and try to load my new kernel. It failed and the message
like this:
...
Warning unabel to open an initial console...
the grub.conf is like this:
...
title Fedora Core (2.6.10)
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10 ro root=/dev/hda8 rhgb
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10.img
...
I have no idea about why this hanppened and what I could do now?
thanks,
gundomcz,
060829
17 years, 9 months
wifi, ndiswrapper and 2.6.17 kernels...
by Kim Lux
I run FC4 on an HP ZD7280 laptop that has a Broadcom wifi modem in it.
I've been running it with ndiswrapper on a variety of kernels for the
last 2 years. It has worked great.
So, this weekend I upgraded to a 2.6.17 kernel and now wifi doesn't
work. And I can't get it working. I tried ndiswrapper versions 1.14
and 1.23. uname -r = 2.6.17-1.2143_FC4smp.
I heard that 2.6.17 ships with bcm43xx. The driver files for my wifi
modem are bcmwl5 and bcmwl5a.
/sbin/lsmod | grep bcm43
bcm43xx 440009 0
ieee80211softmac 36673 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 37641 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
/sbin/lsmod | grep ndiswrapper
<empty>
What am I missing ? How do I get it running ?
--
Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
17 years, 9 months
grub for triple boot
by Thufir
The slave hard drive on my box is dual boot windows/linux. The master
also has linux. This makes for three OS's. Only the master hard drive is
booting at the moment, which I'd like to fix. All data has been backed
up.
When I attempt to boot windows I get an excerpt from /boot/grub/grub.conf
as follows:
title Other
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
Other meaning windows (which I should change). Prior to installing linux
to the master, windows on the slave booted fine. However, linux on the
slave didn't boot. To expedite things I just went ahead and installed
linux on the master, as that seemed easiest at the time.
I know that grub can be edited, but I don't how it should be changed.
Perhaps this is related to the MBR on hdb? I don't mind re-installing
windows to hdb, I wanted to repartition anyhow.
[root@arrakis ~]#
[root@arrakis ~]#
[root@arrakis ~]# mount -t auto -r /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win2k/
[root@arrakis ~]#
[root@arrakis ~]# mount -t auto -r /dev/hdb4 /mnt/gentoo/
[root@arrakis ~]#
[root@arrakis ~]# ll /mnt/win2k/
total 1368
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 150528 Jun 19 2003 arcldr.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 163840 Jun 19 2003 arcsetup.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jun 19 2005 autoexec.bat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 285 Jun 19 2005 boot.ini
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jun 19 2005 config.sys
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 8192 Jun 19 2005 Documents and Settings
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Aug 24 2005 found.000
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jun 19 2005 io.sys
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jun 19 2005 msdos.sys
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 8192 Sep 2 2005 My Downloads
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 34724 Jul 9 2005 ntdetect.com
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 214432 Jul 9 2005 ntldr
dr-xr-xr-x 25 root root 8192 Jun 19 2005 Program Files
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Jun 19 2005 Recycled
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 692224 Aug 26 2005 StubInstaller.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 37376 Aug 7 2001 uninst.exe
drwxr-xr-x 75 root root 16384 Jun 19 2005 winnt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 118 Aug 15 17:43 wizard_debug.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Jul 9 2005 WUTemp
[root@arrakis ~]#
[root@arrakis ~]# ll /mnt/gentoo/
total 101368
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 29 21:23 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 20 14:09 boot
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 24576 Mar 21 14:06 dev
drwxr-xr-x 57 root root 4096 Aug 9 19:31 etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 21 16:35 home
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Mar 20 15:16 lib
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Mar 20 14:09 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Mar 27 17:14 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Mar 28 02:20 opt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 14 2006 proc
drwx------ 19 root root 4096 Aug 10 03:22 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 20 19:59 sbin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103593867 Feb 25 20:24 stage3-x86-2006.0.tar.bz2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 14 2006 sys
drwxrwxrwt 32 root root 4096 Aug 9 20:25 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Mar 21 15:48 usr
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Mar 21 07:10 var
[root@arrakis ~]#
[root@arrakis ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf -n
1 # grub.conf generated by anaconda
2 #
3 # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to
this file
4 # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
5 # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
6 # root (hd0,0)
7 # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
8 # initrd /initrd-version.img
9 #boot=/dev/hda
10 default=0
11 timeout=5
12 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
13 hiddenmenu
14 title Fedora Core (2.6.17-1.2174_FC5)
15 root (hd0,0)
16 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
17 initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.img
18 title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
19 root (hd0,0)
20 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
21 initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
22 title Other
23 rootnoverify (hd1,0)
24 chainloader +1
[root@arrakis ~]#
[root@arrakis ~]# date
Thu Aug 24 07:01:45 IST 2006
[root@arrakis ~]#
--
Thufir
<http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/>
17 years, 9 months
how to get rid of sshd(pam_unix)message in syslog message
by jim martin
Hi.. I have the following entries *.info;mail.none;cron.none; /var/log/messages in
/etc/syslog.conf. And I found that it has these authentication entires
Aug 29 10:21:43 watch sshd(pam_unix)[10600]: session opened for user ffff
logged in the file /var/log/messages
May I know how to get rid of that ? I tried to add
authpriv.!alert;authpriv.!crit;authpriv.!err;authpriv.!warn;authpriv.!notice;authpriv.!info;authpriv.!debug;
on the same line and restart syslog and no effect.
Any help?
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17 years, 9 months
[OT] Wireless USB adaptors - any good?
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Hi Everyone,
Have any of you used one of those USB wireless adaptors? I'm referring
to the ones that look like USB memory keys.
The ones I've seen are always small, and I find it hard to believe they
would be very strong (i.e. receiving the wireless signal). Are my
assumptions correct or wrong?
Thanks,
Ranbir
--
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Linux 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 i686 GNU/Linux
19:15:09 up 3 days, 12:44, 3 users, load average: 0.89, 0.58, 0.43
17 years, 9 months
FC5 - Installing new software RAID1 with 2 SATA drives
by Tim Alberts
I am trying to use the Installation program with FC5 to setup a new
system with 2 SATA drives. The motherboard has a 'hardware raid' but
after a few years of monkeying with this system and drivers, software
raid is the correct way to go. However, I am installing FC5 on new hard
drives. The installation finishes, I reboot and the boot loader
sometimes isn't found at all, or is found, but doesn't have a kernel to
boot? The times that the installer puts a boot loader in without a
kernel, I type in the parameters:
root(hd0,0)
kernel...
initrd...
and the system boots for the first time and I get through the 'first
boot stuff (setting soundcard etc)', then I boot again (if I'm lucky)
and the system boots. However, at this point is the real symptom of the
problem. The raid never has both drives in each partition. The system
is configured to have /boot as /dev/md0 (/dev/sda1 + /dev/sdb1)... /
as /dev/md1 (/dev/sda2 + /dev/sdb2)... swap as /dev/md2 (/dev/sda3
+ /dev/sdb3) except the system is only using sda in partion md0 and sdb
in partion md1 and sda in partion md2. Never are both drives in their
assigned partitions.
So my first question, I've looked through the mailing list archives back
a few months and I see no related issues. Is anyone aware of bugs with
the software raid installation in FC5?
I guess my second question is a general 'help'?
Thank you in advance.
17 years, 9 months
