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PPPoE over WLAN
by Andreas Waldenburger 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

Hi there, the network at my university requires me to first connect to the WLAN and then use PPPoE to actually use the intertubes. Connecting to the WLAN itself works flawlessly (*hem*), the PPPoE though is a bit troublesome. I first tried setting this up via the DSL tab in Gnome's NetworkManager, but that didn't work. The connection is listed (not very surprisingly) under the wired networks, not under the wireless ones. I tried to be sneaky and entered my wlan-adapter's MAC address in the "wired" tab, but that only made the entry disappear from the network listing entirely (in the menu that you see when you left-click the notification icon). I did manage to set up the connection by running pppoe-setup as root. And although I did configure it to start at system boot, this doesn't happen. So now I have to run ifup as root every time I want to connect to the internet. To make things more annoying the WLAN connection disconnects somewhat frequently (lousy administration), prompting me do do ifdown and ifup each time that happens. Any way to have this PPPoE connection up automatically, preferably via NetworkManager? Any help is much appreciated. /W

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Re: How to play .AU files with Fedora?
by William W. Austin 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Mike McCarty wrote: > I have some .AU files which have no association under GNOME. > I tried the "media player", and no sound comes out. > "Music Player" won't recognize them at all. > > What app should I associate to play .AU files? > I have some .AU files which have no association under GNOME. > I tried the "media player", and no sound comes out. > "Music Player" won't recognize them at all. > > What app should I associate to play .AU files? AU files are Sun audio files - I have a very large number of them on a Sun server. Many of those do not play well on either of 2 f7 boxen (dual-core Athlon, if relevant - YMMV). However, so far _all_ of the ones I have tried work find with /usr/bin/aplay which is part of the alsa-utils package. Good luck -- william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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Linux software for Motorola Razor phone?
by William W. Austin 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

This may have been answered before, but scanning the archives, I haven't found it (sorry...). My wife recently surprised me with a new gsm phone, a Motorola Razor. I already had the USB cable which works with it (use it with my camcorder), but a web search for Linux software to use the phone with one of my Linux boxen didn't turn up anything. Basically I want to synchronize the calendar and phonebooks, and be able to back up files from the phone to the computer (and restore). I'm running both FC4 and FC5 here so anything which would work with either of those would be great - and much apprecited. Thanks in advance, -- william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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Network problems on new FC4 box - please help.
by William W. Austin 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

I had to replace a disk (the one with all of the home directories on it) on an FC3 box, and so I bought a new drive (particulars unimportant). To make a long story short, I decided to put FC4 on this box, and so I installed the new drive and put the root filesystem on it. I still have the old FC3 root drive and can boot to either for comparison... Under FC3, I have no network problems that I can detect; however, under FC4 there are two distinct (related? no idea) problems which have eluded me. I have tried looking up both of these in the archives, but have had no luck (some similar issues, but nothing exactly like either of these unless I missed them). Problem 1: network card goes to sleep. This machine has 2 network cards, both on-board. The 1GB card L(Intel 82540EM) goes to the smartswitch to tolk to the local network, and does not show any problems. The other card (nVidia nForce2) is a 100MB card and talks to the DSL modem. Periodically I cannot connect to the internet at all - or even ping the DSL modem. This happens irregularly but about 5-10 times/day. If I reboot back to FC3, the problem does not occur. Network configurations between the two (FC3/FC4) are as identical as I can make them. The first few times the problem occurs, sometimes retarting networking works, but eventually a full sys reboot is the only thing which works. Problem 2: slow local network. Under FC3 throughput on the LOCAL network (1GB lan) is very fast. Under FC4, the best I have seen is ONE transfer of about 1.2 MB/s - and throughput drops to as low as 50-75KB/s at times. Again, this does not occur under FC3 but does under FC4. Again the same setup as nearly as I can make it. No workaround found so far. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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latest selinux policy update errors
by Mark Haney 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Is anyone else seeing these types of failures with the latest selinux updates? libsemanage.semanage_direct_remove: Module dpkg was not found. semodule: Failed on dpkg! error: %trigger(selinux-policy-strict-2.6.4-21.fc7.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 libsemanage.semanage_direct_remove: Module dpkg was not found. semodule: Failed on dpkg! error: %trigger(selinux-policy-strict-2.6.4-23.fc7.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 Should I file a bug report? -- Da mihi sis bubulae frustrum assae, solana tuberosa in modo gallico fricta, ac quassum lactatum coagulatum crassum Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support

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f10 gdm user hide
by Frank Cox 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

Is there any way to remove a user's name from the list on the initial gdm login screen? Related: Is there a way to reorganize the names? For example, if the list has Fred at the top and Sally under that, can the order be reversed so Sally is on top? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com DRY CLEANER BUSINESS FOR SALE ~ http://www.canadadrycleanerforsale.com

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Domain of sender address ... does not resolve
by Bill Davidsen 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

I just did a new FC9 (fully updated) install, and it regularly rejects outgoing mail with the subject error message. The address does resolve, of course, so I'm not sure what it means instead of what it says. The nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf are the authoritative DNS for the domain, both are up, etc. Someone have a clue? -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot

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Re: [ale] [SOLVED] Unable to Run Citrix x86_64, missing libXaw.so.7
by Marc Ferguson 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The 32/64 bit dual lib shuffle. I have found that most closed-source, > commercial products are barely usable on 64-bit Linux because of the > hard coded lib needs. Sometimes a symlink to the 64-bit lib works. > Sometimes it causes a crash. > > yum install libXaw.i386 works if the base/updates.repo is tweaked to > include an additional i386 arch. Basically block copy the original one > and replace $arch with i386 in the block. > > 2009/1/26 Marc Ferguson <marcferguson(a)gmail.com>: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running Fedora 10 x86_64 and I'm trying to run Citrix Presentation > > server Clients for UNIX Version 10.x. When I try to run it, it basically > > says I'm missing libXaw.so.7. I found the solution, but I wanted to post > > this for reference. Basically you need to install libXaw.i386 even > though > > libXaw.x86_64 is present. > > > > [marc@unicron ICAClient]$ ldd wfica > > linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00110000) > > libXaw.so.7 => not found > > libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x0012a000) > > libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x06b6e000) > > libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x0036f000) > > libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00376000) > > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x001f9000) > > libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00184000) > > libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x00df5000) > > libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x00546000) > > libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0x001b0000) > > libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00b2a000) > > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x001d4000) > > libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00195000) > > libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00540000) > > libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x001b9000) > > > > I then do a search to see if I have this library installed. > > > > [marc@unicron ICAClient]$ sudo yum install libXaw > > Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit > > Setting up Install Process > > Parsing package install arguments > > Package libXaw-1.0.4-3.fc10.x86_64 already installed and latest version > > Nothing to do > > > > > > -- > > Marc F. > > > > www.fergytech.com > > Registered Linux User: #410978 > > > > "When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide, hmm good stuff!" -Marc F. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ale mailing list > > Ale(a)ale.org > > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale > > > > > > > > -- > -- > James P. Kinney III > _______________________________________________ > Ale mailing list > Ale(a)ale.org > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale > I may have spoken too soon. Interesting issue though. By installing the correct i386 library I was able to run the Citrix client via my web browser - I am unable though to run the client by itself. If I run /usr/lib/ICAClient/wfcmgr - I get this error: */usr/lib/ICAClient/wfcmgr: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory* So after some poking around, I found that OpenMotif is supposed to have libXm.so.3 library. I install both i386 and x86_64 packages from ftp://ftp.ics.com/openmotif/2.3/2.3.1/, which I got that link directly from http://www.motifzone.net/. I tried to run it after that and got the same error. So; I uninstalled then reinstalled the Citrix client, but I'm still getting the same issue. I've tried 4 different version of openmotif and I'm still getting the same error. *openmotif-2.2.3-2.i386.rpm openmotif-devel-2.2.3-2.i386.rpm openmotif-2.2.4-0.1.i386.rpm openmotif-devel-2.2.4-0.1.i386.rpm openmotif-2.3.1-1.fc9.i386.rpm openmotif-devel-2.3.1-1.fc9.i386.rpm openmotif-2.3.1-1.fc9.x86_64.rpm openmotif-devel-2.3.1-1.fc9.x86_64.rpm* Please help me understand this library issue. Thanks. -- Marc F. www.fergytech.com Registered Linux User: #410978 "When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide, hmm good stuff!" -Marc F.

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FC10 and freeNX
by Jim 07 May '09

07 May '09

Has anyone installed freeNX Server on FC10, how did it go ? I'am aware that you have to install xorg-x11-fonts-misc in FC10. Please no guesses from those who have installed it in FC 7, 8 , it has a different set of problems in FC10 . I have installed it in every FC since FC6.

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Unable to login after latest FC10 updates (i386 on Dell GX270)
by Al Dunsmuir 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

I'm running FC10 on 3 systems - 2x 32-bit (DELL GX260, D810 laptop) and 1x 64-bit (AMD quad). After applying all the recent updates, the D810 and AMD box are fine. Unfortunately, on the GX260 I can no longer log on - the Gnome logon panel appears to have all buttons in the bottom row and my user ID button displayed (low intensity) and inactive. This is my DNS, DHCP and Samba server, and these services continue to work in the background. Recommendations as to the appropriate bugzilla component for reporting the problem, and any first-pass problem resolution advice would be appreciated. I've checked the mailing list, but nothing popped up as relevant. Al

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