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latest ipw3945 kernel updates
by Louis Garcia 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

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

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FC6 ipw3945 on Dell D820 not working. What's the best way?
by David Kramer 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

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!

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FC6 i386 to FC7 x86_64
by Javier Perez 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

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! -- ------------------------------ /\_/\ |O O| pepebuho(a)pananet.com ~~~~ Javier Perez ~~~~ While the night runs ~~~~ toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch.

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linux IP watcher
by L 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

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

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[F7] Most reliable RAID level
by Stuart Murray-Smith 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

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

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kmail problems after recent update
by Genes MailLists 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

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 ...

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FC6 + fglrx + xgl + dualhead + 2 desktops problem
by ArcosCom Linux User 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

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

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Booting F7 Installation DVD
by Dave Cross 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

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...

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gnome-terminal's uglification in Fedora 7
by Sam Varshavchik 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

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.

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A useful thing
by Karl Larsen 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

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

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