How to set up wireless for text mode login
by Gordon Charrick
I've got Fedora 10 on my home "server" with an old wireless B card
installed. If I start X and run system-config-network I can successfully
bring up the wireless network using Network Manager, so support for my
wireless card is already built-in. But as soon as I "log off" and go
back to run level 3 (I boot up in level 3 and start X by hand) it shuts
down my wireless connection.
I'd like to set this machine up so the wireless network comes up
automatically at reboot. I've got the router set up with WPA2 and AES so
I need to store the key somewhere. Are there good instructions for doing
this somewhere?
Gordon
15 years, 3 months
firefox: show link target in hover box
by Christoph Höger
Hi folks,
due to place reasons I disabled my status bar (that widget on bottom) in
firefox on my f9 laptop.
Looks like I can easily waive all what's displayed on that widget.
Except for link targets from e.g. slashdot.
So there is that tiny hoverbox that can pop up for links, images,
buttons etc. Is there a way to force firefox to show a link target in
that hoverbox (after a delay)?
thanks
christoph
15 years, 3 months
How do I play this link ?
by linux guy
How do I play this link ?
rtsp://media.cbc.ca/cbc.ca/calgary/media/audio/wildrose/20090220electric_car_96661_CGY.rm
Thanks
15 years, 3 months
Keyboard layout trashed
by Colin Paul Adams
Help!
I've just re-booted my system after an update, and my keyboard layout
is wrong.
I have a Logitech deluxe 250 keyboard. I tried going into
System->Preferences->Hardware->Keyboard - it showed me a USA layout
(nothing else, although I am in United Kingdom, and my system has long
be configured that way). So I tried to add a layout. I could not find
my keyboard in the choices under Logitech.
Worse, every layout I looked at (and not just logitech) did not show
the full number of keys (the key between the left-hand SHIFt and the Z
- labelled \ on my keyboard is missing).
How can I select the correct layout?
--
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
15 years, 3 months
F10 "catalog installer"??
by Beartooth
My main menu, under System Tools, offers something called a
catalog installer. If I click it, I get an error popup telling me I have
to specify.
I stuck it briefly onto the panel, so as to be able to right-
click it and look at the Properties. Those tell me the command it
launches is
/usr/bin/gpk-install-catalog %F
What kind of cockamamie half-formed app is this? What is it
supposed to catalog? What I have -- in some way? What I could get -- in
some way? Is it actually related to the "gpk" it contains, or is that
just a way to get it?
And above all, what is supposed to go in place of that "%F" --
and how do we find such things?
If there is some way to get a better overview of software, either
on the machine or available, I'm all for it -- the one in gpk started out
bad, and has only gotten worse. Sheesh.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
15 years, 3 months
Dolphin doesn't see CD/DVD
by DB
Evening All,
Since my preupgrade from F9 to F10, it seems I cannot see my CD/DVD
players with Dolphin (nor Krusader). Have I killed something else while
trying to get viddeo & sound working with Skype? Or has something else
been moved to a new package & I've missed it??
Thanks all
Dave
PS I won't get started on the "joys" of trying to get sounds working......
uname -ar
Linux Fedora-Blue 2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 11
23:58:12 EST 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
15 years, 3 months
Fedora 10 64-bit & Wired Network Problems
by Rick Bilonick
I installed F10 64-bit from the DVD iso on a 64-bit Intel 4-cpu
computer. I had problems getting the wired network connection to work on
network "A" UNTIL I realized that the "network" daemon was for some
reason turned off by default. Once I turned it on via services,
networking worked fine (using a static IP). (There is an annoying bug in
the F10 gui for networking - the net mask gets changed to the gateway ip
which of course screws up networking - this appears to be fixed once you
upgrade the system but I had to manually fix the eth0 script to get the
netmask to the correct value.)
Now I've installed the same DVD iso on a dual 64-bit AMD Opteron system
that previously had run F8 (networking worked fine on network "A"). I've
made sure network is on. I've manually configured the eth0 script to
avoid the buggy network gui netmask problem. I can ping the gateway on
network "A". For some reason I cannot ping the DNS on this network. I
can connect to my home computer using its IP address using ssh. But I
cannot view web pages using the URL's. I switched to a different
ethernet port on a "different" network "B" with different fixed IP and
DNS that I know works (I use it for my F8 laptop every day) and although
I can ping the gateway and DNS, I still cannot view web pages. I just
now hooked my Ubuntu 8.10 laptop to network "A" and it connects
flawlessly and I can view web pages so I know the port works - both
ports on networks "A" and "B" work fine. But I cannot get the F10 AMD
computer to connect to either network and view web pages (I do as I said
get some connection using IP addresses and ssh).
Any ideas on what is wrong? This is very frustrating. If I could get a
network connection I could upgrade the computer but I can't get to
square one.
P.S. I've looked at the eth0 script, the resolv.conf and hosts files and
everything looks fine. I've tried turning different things on and off
(like IPv6 and peer) but nothing makes a difference. I'm using DNS1,
DNS2, and DNS3 in the eth0 script and these appear appropriately in the
resolv.conf file.
I have never had this much trouble getting a wired network connection -
it almost always works by default.
Rick B.
15 years, 3 months
grub install failed with latest F10 update
by LPM
I have Googled this problem and tried everything I can think of to fix it,
but no luck. I hope someone can help.
I have a Nvidia based motherboard, two SATA drives running with NVRaid 1.
I upgraded to F10 from F8 and used the scsi_mod.scan=sync kernel option to
get around the RAID problem, then did the mkinitrd update, then updates
including kernel 2.6.27.9-159. All was well, and I have been using and
updating since Jan 12 until today.
With today's update, I finished the updates and rebooted and got the GRUB
prompt. OK, no problem, I booted from the F10 DVD, entered rescue mode,
and ran:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub
grub> find /grub/grub.conf
(hd0,2)
(hd1,2) [note that it is NVRaid1, so found both drives]
grub> root (hd0,2)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup (hd0)
checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes
checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5"exists... yes
running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)... 23 sectors are embedded
succeeded
running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+23 p (hd0,2)/grub/stage2 /grub/grub.conf"... failed
error 22t: no such partition
OK, I also tried (hd1,2), and got the same exact messages except for the substitution of (hd1)
I exited grub shell and tried grub-install /dev/sda
got: /dev/sda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive
my device.map file is:
(hd0) /dev/mapper/nvidia_adgbjghc
The device.map file is the same as it has always been, no change.
This is a Linux only machine, no dual boot. Partitions are:
/dev/mapper/nvidia_adgbjghcp1 vfat
/dev/mapper/nvidia_adgbjghcp2 ext3
/dev/mapper/nvidia_adgbjghcp3 ext3 /boot
/dev/mapper/nvidia_adgbjghcp4 extended
/dev/mapper/nvidia_adgbjghcp5 ext3 /
/dev/mapper/nvidia_adgbjghcp6 swap
I also tried booting the rescue with and without the scsi_mod.scan=sync
with no difference in the outcome. I have done this grub reinsall on
many different systems and never had this problem. Although they were not
RAID systems of any kind. I have never had to do a grub install on this
system until today. I don't know if it is related to NVRaid, RAID in
general, or something else.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, other than telling me to use Linux
software RAID. I want to get this configuration running.
Thank you in advance,
Lloyd
15 years, 3 months
DRM problem in Radeon - F10
by Renato de Oliveira Diogo
Hy
I have a laptop witch ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 witch Fedora 10.
This video card support up to 256M shared RAM mem. When I attributed 256M
all works fine. But when I set to 32M, begins show errors in display and
logged bellow:
====
Feb 26 23:47:37 thedark kernel: [drm:drm_buffer_object_validate] *ERROR*
Failed moving buffer. ec3be300 878 4000027 1000027
Feb 26 23:47:37 thedark kernel: [drm:drm_buffer_object_validate] *ERROR* Out
of aperture space or DRM memory quota.
Feb 26 23:48:10 thedark kernel: [drm:drm_buffer_object_validate] *ERROR*
Failed moving buffer. ec3b7700 878 4000027 1000027
Feb 26 23:48:10 thedark kernel: [drm:drm_buffer_object_validate] *ERROR* Out
of aperture space or DRM memory quota.
Feb 26 23:48:11 thedark kernel: [drm:drm_buffer_object_validate] *ERROR*
Failed moving buffer. ec3de500 878 4000027 1000027
Feb 26 23:48:11 thedark kernel: [drm:drm_buffer_object_validate] *ERROR* Out
of aperture space or DRM memory quota.
Feb 26 23:48:15 thedark kernel: [drm:drm_buffer_object_validate] *ERROR*
Failed moving buffer. e6067200 878 4000027 1000027
Feb 26 23:48:15 thedark kernel: [drm:drm_buffer_object_validate] *ERROR* Out
of aperture space or DRM memory quota.
====
Exist any configuration that I setup the limit of mem the DRM can use?
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Renato de Oliveira Diogo
Bacharel em Ciência da Computação
UNESP - Bauru
LPIC1 - Linux Professional Institute Certification - Nível 1
renato.diogo(a)gmail.com
renato.diogo(a)yahoo.com.br
15 years, 3 months
