Re: Brother Wireless Printer
by R. G. Newbury
>> Note that you will likely have to set up the printer AT THE PRINTER END,
>> for the static IP address you have selected. Although it is supposed to
>> be possible to do it with DHCP, I have never been able to make that
>> work..as the IP always moves as things are powered up and down..
>You /can/ set up DHCP servers to always assign the same address based
>on the MAC (ethernet) address of the device. I use a CENTOS
>installation on an old Dell box to handle the DHCP duties on my home
>network and have the main machines always get the same IP so that I
>don't have to manually configure the IPs all the time.
>Note in configuring "static DHCP" your "static" machines should be
>defined in a different range than your dynamic IPs. For the "standard"
>Fedora dhcp daemon, this is a set of extra stanzas in hte config file.
Of course, but this depends upon the programmability of the DHCP server.
Lots of home routers cannot reserve IP addresses. My Netgear router can
do this, but my Linksys ones cannot, even with the DD-WRT code....
16 years
Fedora 8 i386 or X86_64 for duo core 2 laptop
by L
Hi,
I tried to install Fedora 8 on a new laptop with duo core 2. Could someone
point me to pros and cons of i386 vs x86_64 kernel? if this was discussed on
this list, please point me to? I have suspended this mail list for a peirod
of time.
thanks
Y
16 years
diNovo Mini keyboard now works!
by Tom Horsley
I was asking about the diNovo Mini keyboard a while back,
and can now report that it does work under fedora 8 if
I add the magical kernel boot parameter:
usbhid.quirks=0x046d:0xc71f:0x00080000
Full story at: http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/mini.html
Don't worry: A usbhid patch is in the works to incorporate
the above magic into the driver so the parameter will (eventually)
not be required and the touchpad will work out of the box.
Thankfully, this got it working as a USB device, so there is no
need to try and figure out how to make it automatically
connect (and stay connected) as a bluetooth device (something
which appears to be impossible with the current state of bluetooth).
16 years
What's all the hype over Ubuntu?
by Arch Willingham
I first started dabbling with Linux about three years ago. The way I ended up using Fedora was it was the first link I clicked on that worked (I think it was FC3). Since that time, I have around fifteen machines running it. All of them run FC8 except my laptop which, as of yesterday, is running the beta of FC9.
With that said, I have never seen any other version of Linux running except Fedora. What's all the hype around Ubuntu? I realize I could download an install a copy but I never really saw any reason to since FCx seems to work great.
I'm not trying to start a battle of which is better...just trying to get an idea of why its seems so popular.
Thanks!
Arch
16 years