PPPoE over WLAN
by Andreas Waldenburger
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
14 years, 2 months
Re: How to play .AU files with Fedora?
by William W. Austin
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 ..."
14 years, 3 months
Linux software for Motorola Razor phone?
by William W. Austin
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 ..."
14 years, 3 months
Network problems on new FC4 box - please help.
by William W. Austin
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 ..."
14 years, 3 months
latest selinux policy update errors
by Mark Haney
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
14 years, 5 months
Domain of sender address ... does not resolve
by Bill Davidsen
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
14 years, 7 months
Re: [ale] [SOLVED] Unable to Run Citrix x86_64, missing libXaw.so.7
by Marc Ferguson
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.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> --
> James P. Kinney III
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>
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.
14 years, 8 months
bluetooth mounse becomes erratic when network load is moderate.
by Wendell Nichols
I have a bluetooth mouse which works nicely most of the time, but if I
run a process which consumes network resources (and my network is
wireless) the pointer lags behind the mouse movement. Even playing
music via an nfs mounted disk is enough to cause this problem. Anyone
else see or overcome that?
wcn
14 years, 9 months