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, 3 months
Perl TK
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
Before, this application was working fine ! I am in Fedora 10 last
update (before means ~ 2 weeks !!)
Now, the file name is not anymore transfered and it never live the
widget !
I am also experiencing problem with JFileDialog
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Tk ;
use strict ;
my $types = [
['Text Files', ['.txt', '.text']],
['TCL Scripts', '.tcl' ],
['C Source Files', '.c', 'TEXT'],
['GIF Files', '.gif', ],
['GIF Files', '', 'GIFF'],
['All Files', '*', ],
];
my $main = MainWindow -> new () ;
my $filename = $main -> getOpenFile (-filetypes => $types) ;
if ($filename ne "") {
# Open the file ...
print $filename ;
}
--
---
==========================================================================
Patrick DUPRÉ | |
Department of Chemistry | | Phone: (44)-(0)-1904-434384
The University of York | | Fax: (44)-(0)-1904-432516
Heslington | |
York YO10 5DD United Kingdom | | email: pd520(a)york.ac.uk
==========================================================================
14 years, 3 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 7 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, 9 months
SELinux preventing D-Bus starting ConsoleKit etc - Was: F10 - pulseaudio not running
by Mike Fleetwood
I wrote:
> I can see that on my functioning desktops that before login, gdm has
> been granted read-write access, via ACLs, to the sound device files in
> /dev/snd/. After GDM login my user is granted read-write instead.
>
> On my broken desktop there are no ACLs granting extra permissions. I
> have now restored the original permissions on the /dev/snd/* files and
> added my user read-write access via ACLs. Still pulseaudio does not
> start.
>
> I also noticed that on my broken desktop, console-kit-daemon is not
> running. So far I have only found that console-kit-daemon may have
> been started with /etc/rc.d/init.d/ConsoleKit circa Fedora 8. That
> consoleKit service script been removed in Fedora 10 and I don't yet
> know how console-kit-daemon is meant to be started.
>
> Is console-kit-daemon running even relevant to GDM adding ACLs for the
> console user to access devices? Probably. Is this relevant to why
> pulseaudio fails to start? Don't know as even when standard file
> permissions, rather than ACLs, allowed access to /dev/snd/* pulseaudio
> died on startup.
>
> From my functional home desktop ...
> [mike@rockover ~]$ getfacl -p /dev/snd/controlC0
> # file: /dev/snd/controlC0
> # owner: root
> # group: root
> user::rw-
> user:mike:rw-
> group::rw-
> mask::rw-
> other::---
> (Same results of additional user mike ACL for all devices in /dev/snd/).
> [mike@rockover ~]$ ck-list-sessions
> Session4:
> unix-user = '500'
> realname = 'Mike Fleetwood,,,,'
> seat = 'Seat1'
> session-type = ''
> active = TRUE
> x11-display = ':0'
> x11-display-device = '/dev/tty1'
> display-device = ''
> remote-host-name = ''
> is-local = TRUE
> on-since = '2009-04-08T19:06:01.429138Z'
> login-session-id = '702'
> [mike@rockover ~]$ ps -ef | fgrep console-kit-daemon
> root 2477 1 0 Apr08 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon
> mike 23954 19225 0 12:05 pts/0 00:00:00 fgrep console-kit-daemon
>
> From my broken work desktop ...
> [mfleetwo@mfleetwo3 ~]$ su -
> Password:
> [root@mfleetwo3 ~]# chmod o= /dev/snd/*
> [root@mfleetwo3 ~]# setfacl -m u:mfleetwo:rw /dev/snd/*
> [root@mfleetwo3 ~]# ls -l /dev/snd/*
> crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 7 2009-04-22 13:13 /dev/snd/controlC0
> crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 6 2009-04-22 13:13 /dev/snd/hwC0D0
> crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 5 2009-05-06 12:15 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
> crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 4 2009-05-06 12:15 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
> crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 3 2009-04-22 13:13 /dev/snd/seq
> crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 2 2009-04-22 13:13 /dev/snd/timer
> [root@mfleetwo3 ~]# getfacl -p /dev/snd/controlC0
> # file: /dev/snd/controlC0
> # owner: root
> # group: root
> user::rw-
> user:mfleetwo:rw-
> group::rw-
> mask::rw-
> other::---
> [root@mfleetwo3 ~]# exit
> logout
> [mfleetwo@mfleetwo3 ~]$ pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
> I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
> I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
> I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
> [WARN 9224] polkit-session.c:144:polkit_session_set_uid(): session != NULL
> Not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
> [mfleetwo@mfleetwo3 ~]$ echo $?
> 1
> [mfleetwo@mfleetwo3 ~]$ ps -ef | fgrep pulseaudio
> [mfleetwo@mfleetwo3 ~]$ ck-list-sessions
>
> ** (ck-list-sessions:9244): WARNING **: Failed to get list of seats:
> Cannot launch daemon, file not found or permissions invalid
> [mfleetwo@mfleetwo3 ~]$ ps -ef | fgrep console-kit-daemon
I have identified that my issues are caused by SELinux. I have
rebooted with enforcing=0 to switch SELinux into permissive mode and
ConsoleKit and Pulseaudio start correctly and audacious plays music.
Even after performing a full relabelling of the SELinux security
context of all files by touching /.autorelabel and rebooting, SELinux
in enforcing is preventing D-Bus starting ConsoleKit and Pulseaudio
starting. Investigation into SELinux continuing.
E.g. SELinux in enforcing mode:
[root@mfleetwo3 ~]# id -Z
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:SystemLow-SystemHigh
[root@mfleetwo3 ~]# service messagebus status
env: /etc/init.d/messagebus: Permission denied
and SELinux in permissive mode:
[root@mfleetwo3 ~]# service messagebus status
dbus-daemon (pid 2736 2055) is running...
Thanks,
Mike
14 years, 9 months
spdif/iec958 stopped working
by Konstantin Svist
$ uname -a
Linux lain 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 23 23:08:10 EDT
2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# lspci -vvv -s 00:08.0
00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio
(rev b1)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82fe
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23
Region 0: Memory at fbe78000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
It used to work just fine in both analog & IEC958 modes. It was working
as of night of 4/29-4/30.
Overnight, however, the / filled up due to several large xbmc core
dumps. Last night the sound stopped working, which led me to discover
the filled up partition. After cleaning up about a gig, the digital
sound still doesn't work. Analog sound works just fine, though.
Somewhat interesting to note - when I enable IEC958 in the volume
control panel, the receiver switches from analog mode. (the computer is
an HTPC, both analog & digital outputs go to the receiver). I suppose
it's possible that the receiver died, but I feel software cause is much
more likely.
I didn't find any smoking guns in /var/log/messages - the only
audio-related message was about pulse not being able to run with real
time priority (which is normal, from what I gather)
14 years, 9 months
