latest ipw3945 kernel updates
by Louis Garcia
Dave or John planning on updating mac80211 and ipw3945 code for fedora7?
It's been working for the most part for me but I get frequent drops.
-Thanks
16 years, 11 months
FC6 ipw3945 on Dell D820 not working. What's the best way?
by David Kramer
SO I bought this brand new Dell Latitude D820. I've been trying to get
a fully working Linux install on it for weeks. I tried F7, but the new
suspend mechanism doesn't work on this laptop, and there's no way around
it, so I installed FC6. But with FC6, I can't get the ipw3945 wireless
working. I can't catch a break!
There seems to be several ways: the iwl* packages, the ipw* packages,
with or without Network Manager...
So scanning the internets and this list, this is what I have now:
[root@lexa ~]# uname -a
Linux lexa.thekramers.net 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 #1 SMP
Tue Jun 19 19:27:14 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@lexa ~]# rpm -qa | egrep '(3945|ieee)'
ipw3945d-1.7.22-4.at
ipw3945-1.2.0-18.3.fc6
ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6-1.2.0-18.3.fc6
ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2-4.at
ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6-1.2.16-18.fc6
ieee80211-1.2.16-18.fc6
libieee1284-0.2.9-3.2.2
[root@lexa ~]# lsmod | egrep '(3945|ieee)'
ipw3945 180000 1
ieee80211 46188 1 ipw3945
ieee80211_crypt 9216 1 ieee80211
ieee1394 294681 1 ohci1394
[root@lexa ~]# ps -e | egrep '(3945|ieee)'
3672 ? 00:00:00 ipw3945/0
3674 ? 00:00:00 ipw3945/1
3675 ? 00:00:00 ipw3945/0
3676 ? 00:00:00 ipw3945/1
3685 pts/2 00:00:00 ipw3945d
[root@lexa ~]# egrep '(3945|ieee)' /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth1 ipw3945
install ipw3945 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 ;
sleep 0.5 ; /sbin/ipw3945d --timeout=2
remove ipw3945 /sbin/ipw3945d --kill ;
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ipw3945
[root@lexa ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:1b:77:2c:64:c4
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=lexa.thekramers.net
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
ESSID=DONTPANIC
MODE=Managed
RATE='36 Mb/s'
CHANNEL=1
"iwconfig eth1" and "iwlist eth1 scanning" both produce good-looking
results, but the WiFi light is flashing very quickly, and "ifconfig eth1
up" doesn't get an IP address, nor does "dhclient eth1", which just
keeps trying.
So what am I doing wrong?
What does the fast blinking WiFi lite mean?
What's the difference between the iwp* packages and the iwl* packages?
Thanks. I hope I included enough information. I'm pretty desperate at
this point. This is an expensive laptop!
16 years, 11 months
FC6 i386 to FC7 x86_64
by Javier Perez
Hi
How do I go from a FC6 i386 system to a FC7 x86_64 system without data loss?
I had to change the motherboard of my MythTV system. Given the fact that
x86_4 support
was poor at the time I built it, I went i386 on the install. Now it looks
like x86_64 is better
supported and I want to move to a x86_64-only system.
I was able to upgrade from FC6 to FC7 in another system using yum only (I
think my
DVDwriter is toast, The FC7DVD came out a coaster). Therefore I'd rather use
the
yum/rpm way to upgrade. Nevertheless when I downloaded the x86_64 kernel,
rpm
refused to install/upgrade my current kernel to that version.
Is there a minimum set of programs that I have to update together to make
the switch to
x86_64?
Thanks!
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/\_/\
|O O| pepebuho(a)pananet.com
~~~~ Javier Perez
~~~~ While the night runs
~~~~ toward the day...
m m Pepebuho watches
from his high perch.
16 years, 11 months
linux IP watcher
by L
Hi
my ISP provides a non-statis IP. I am looking for a linux tool to watch ip
address change. that can monitor my public and local IP address. If IP
address changes it will send an email, to the address specified, with the
new IP address. This email also includes the computer name and time the
change occurred. This is useful for computers that have dynamically assigned
IP addresses, but need to be accessed remotely.
Hope some one can help
Yuan
16 years, 11 months
[F7] Most reliable RAID level
by Stuart Murray-Smith
Greetings list
What is the preferred/most reliable level to implement software RAID
on a Fedora 7 server?
I know there may be many answers to this, and I'm keen to get a consensus :-)
TiA, and have a great day!
Regards,
Stuart
16 years, 11 months
kmail problems after recent update
by Genes MailLists
After the latest kmail update (kdepim-3.5.7-3.fc7) I have 2 things which
no longer work:
(i) filters - set to run on 1 inbox (exchange imap) and move to several
folders on a different imap server.
They no longer get run.
(ii) it no longer is able to expand addresses from the corporate ldap
server.
sigh ... i _really_ need a reliable functioning email program ...
16 years, 11 months
FC6 + fglrx + xgl + dualhead + 2 desktops problem
by ArcosCom Linux User
Hi guys,
I had installed xgl and appears to be working.
Now the problem is that on the right screen don't load the desktop, I can
only view a black screen and the mouse cursor appears as a "X" over that
screen.
I can play with beryl on the laptop flat fine (1600x1050 with 24bpp), but
not with the external LCD (1280x1024 with 24bpp). The right screen
(external LCD) works fine witout XGL, and appears to work fine with Xgl,
but the secondary desktop is not loaded into the secondary screen.
With "ps aux" I can see 2 Xorg process and only one Xgl process.
Perhaps I need to make modifications into any gdm configuration files?
What files I have to modify? How?
Perhaps I need to make modifications into xorg.conf to adapt it for Xgl use?
Please, I need help about this.
I think my xorg.conf file is fine, it allow me to play fine with 2
desktops (1 desktop per screen) without Xgl and with fglrx and/or nvidia
drivers, and I can play fine (with the same xorg.conf file) with beryl
only in the other screen only can see the mouse cursor as an "X".
I think (as I can see in ubuntu forums) that I need to modify any gdm
files to force to load 2 Xgl servers, but I don't know how to do that.
Any help?
Regards
16 years, 11 months
Booting F7 Installation DVD
by Dave Cross
I have a Philips Freevents X51 laptop and I'm having real problems
getting the F7 installation DVD to boot.
It boots to the initial screen, where you press "enter" to start the
installation, but at that point it seems that the keyboard is
unrecognised. Pressing any key has no effect at all.
I've used DVDs burnt from downloaded ISOs and the DVD that came free
with this month's copy of Linux Format. But they all fail in the same
way. The same DVDs have worked successfully on other computers.
Some time ago I successfully installed FC6 from DVD on this laptop and
it's currently running Ubuntu which I installed from a magazine cover
disk. But I'm getting frustrated with Ubuntu and want to come home to
Fedora.
Any advice?
Thanks,
Dave...
16 years, 11 months
gnome-terminal's uglification in Fedora 7
by Sam Varshavchik
Whose bright idea was it to change gnome terminal (actually vte), so that
spaces are no longer underlined?
$ echo -e '\e[4mHelp me\e[24m'
The two words get underlined, the space character does not.
Does anyone realize just how many terminal applications use underlines to
visually indicate text-entry fields? Now, they all disappear, and everything
looks like crap.
I can't think of any valid reason for this change in behavior, since xterm
still gets it right -- the space character is underlined. I can't wait to
hear what was the urgent reason for this change that uglifies so many
existing terminal apps.
16 years, 11 months
A useful thing
by Karl Larsen
When I partitioned my big 160 GB hard drive the first two are too small.
I want to, with fdisk make the first 2 partitions into one which will be
15 GB and big enough for F7.
Doing this will screw up Grub of course, but I now know what to do. I
will edit /boot/grub/grub.conf so that the new changed partitions are
right based on what fdisk prints out. This will be simple knowing what
to do :-)
I want to put F7 in this new partition and that will be simple but I
will need to fix Grub again since it will be using F7 as the grub home.
Then the hard part. I like the FC6 kernel I am using now and want to use
it on F7 which will eliminate one big minus I had to F7. How do I yum
the FC6 kernel onto F7?
Karl
16 years, 11 months
