wifi on dell latitude 531
by François Patte
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Bonjour,
Does anybody know how to get wifi working on dell latitude 531?
Thanks for any informations.
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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 44 55 35 61
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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15 years, 11 months
mplayerplug-in and trailers at Apple.com
by Andre Costa
Hi,
I've been happily using mplayerplug-in to watch movie trailers on
http://www.apple.com/trailers for quite some time, but lately I've
been denied access to some movies with a "get latest quicktime"
message (other movies still play as they used to).
These are the versions I'm using:
mplayerplug-in-3.50-33.fc8
mplayer-1.0-63_rc2.fc8
mplayer-fonts-1.0-7.at
mplayer-skin-mini-0.1-11.2.at
Anyone knows a way to work around this? Or should I just wait for
newer versions of MPlayer / mplayerplug-in?
BTW: still using Fedora 8.
Regards,
Andre
15 years, 11 months
Re: #4 -- how to not lock the screen
by Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, g wrote:
> i have gone back thru old post and tried again to locate just where kde hides
> config for locking desktop, it still evades.
I did find, rather someone on the list told me,
but it didn't matter.
Thank you for the effort.
I discovered the program: /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver .
I have no idea why it was running on a KDE desktop:
My desktop has a captital K stepping in a gear in the lower left corner.
>From another virtual terminal,
xwininfo -tree -root
showed me a 1280x1024 window named gnome-screensaver.
I couldn't xkill it, but ps gave me its process ID.
As a stopgap, I copied it to another name, removed the original,
and made an empty file with all-zero permission bits.
Presumably this will cause me trouble at update time.
> in a previous post, i suggested 1 -> 4, you tried 1, 2. no joy, which leaves;
>
> 3) r & r kde.
> 4) someone else this list | kde 'tech list' | read source.
>
> now, i would suggest skip #3. there was no 4-a. i doubt you want to go thru
> 4-c.
I didn't understand r & r anyway.
> so best bet would be 4-b. if that fails, then return to 3) r & r kde.
>
> 5, which i did not want to mention, if 3 does not work, would be r & r 'x'.
>
> fedora list is where kde 'hackers' hang out.
>
> i do believe that you will get a favorable response from kde as that is where
> actual 'writers' for kde hang out and they do respond to post.
>
> i do wish i could have helped you find a solution, but it was not meant to be.
>
> so, from my firefox bookmarks:
>
> K Desktop Environment = http://www.kde.org/
>
> K Desktop Environment - KDE Mailing Lists = http://www.kde.org/mailinglists/
>
> another suggestion, if you want stable, 'centos' or 'scientificlinux'. i tried
> 'centos' a few kernels back, removed it after about 10 minutes of wading thru.
>
> at that time, it just was not what i needed, so i am now going to install
> 'scientificlinux'.
These are other distros, right?
I'd read of scientificlinux lately, but don't remember where.
> with 'higher level of minds' that are involved with 'fnal' and 'cern', i do
> believe 'scientificlinux' will be more to what i need and have been looking
> for.
>
> good luck to you in finding a solution and even more so at ndus.
Thanks.
--
Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised)
are called Hardware; those program instructions that you can only
curse at are called Software."
15 years, 11 months
FC 9 Installation IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error (2)
by Daniel Kirsten
Hallo,
there is a photo under
http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~kirsten/pics/fedora.jpg
-------------------------------------------------------
I try to install Fedora 9 on a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi2550
using a DVD. I use text bases installation due to Radeon HD2700.
When the installation program installs the rpm-packages from the DVD,
it stops after some hundred packages and gives a long python-related
error message ending by
IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error
Then, the installation terminates...
Is there any solution or workaround for this issue?
Best regards, Daniel
15 years, 11 months
how to not lock the screen
by Michael Hennebry
I recently installed FC8 and haven't been able to find
the incantation to tell FC8 and KDE not to lock my screen.
How do I tell them not to lock my screen?
--
Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised)
are called Hardware; those program instructions that you can only
curse at are called Software."
15 years, 11 months
OpenOffice and Graphics
by Srikanth Konjarla
All,
I am trying to open a M$ word document with graphics and unable to view
pictures while the text is displayed properly. The OpenOffice version is
2.4.1. However, the same file is opened and all the graphics are
viewable on a Ubuntu (8.04) machine which is running OpenOffice version
2.4.0 and 2.4.1. Not sure where and what to look for to find and fix the
issue.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Srikanth
15 years, 11 months
Live CD Question: Boot from USB for initrd but load system from different location?
by Richard Shaw
I have a laptop on loan that I want to use Fedora with but I don't
want to modify the disk partitions for obvious reasons (its not mine,
it's on loan). I got the livecd working on a USB memory stick but I
didn't like having it sticking out all the time, plus after a while of
running it seemed to get I/O errors and locked up on me. I
successfully installed the livecd to a SD card in the multi card
reader using livecd-iso-to-usb, however, the system will not boot to
it.
So my question is: How would I go about using the USB stick to boot
from for the initrd/syslinux portion but then hand off the booting
process to the SD card in the card reader for the live image? That way
I could remove the USB stick after booting. I'm not real familiar with
the initrd but I assume I would have to recreate/modify one to include
the kernel modules for the card reader at the least.
An additional question is could I then have a persistent overlay on
the hard drive (NTFS partition)? That way when I'm done with the
laptop I can just delete the overlay file. It would also keep the
writes going to a hard drive instead of wearing out my flash memory.
Thanks,
Richard
15 years, 11 months
use wireless router as wireless NIC?
by Dave Stevens
I have an office that moved recently. Before it was using a Linksys wrt54g
wireless router, dsl from the telco (telus). Now it is adjacent to another
office set up the same way. Rather than continue to pay double we'd like to
share the cost and the connection. Can anyone suggest whether or how I can
program my router to pick up the wifi signal from the next office and get it
into my box? F7 if it matters.
Dave
--
In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual
solution to the so-called war between good and evil. My books are not
conceived in terms of such a war, and offer no simple answers to simplistic
questions.
-- Ursula K. LeGuin
15 years, 11 months
Install problems
by Bill Neidert
I ran fedora 8 on this system but had to replace the motherboard. The new one has the Intel X38 chipset. I can't find anywhere a list of what is supported. I have a fedora 8 live cd and it boots fine and works. When I try to re-enstall fedora 8 or 9 from installation disks I get the following error when I run in the text mode:
/dev/sdg:"isw" and "ddf1" formats discovered (using ddf1)
ERROR: ddf1: cannot find virtual drive record on /dev/sdg
At this point, the system locks up and I haven't been able to get a prompt to try to find out whats happening. Any Ideas?
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards
Bill
15 years, 11 months
