Best Laptop Experience with Fedora
by Edmon Begoli
Hi,
I am thinking of buying a Laptop to run Fedora 12/13/ ... on it.
I am member of the Fedora project and I want to have a laptop only for
development and testing of the code, packages and new releases on it.
So far I had mixed luck with wireless cards/drivers and video cards,
so I want to
ask community of Fedora users:
what Laptop in below $600 or $700 would they recommend as the machine
with the best Fedora experience.
I am also looking for the easy hard drive swap in and out solution,
so that I can swap complete distros by swapping hard drives
(I have dual boots and USB but I find hard drive swapping more
convenient for what I am doing. I can explain my motivation in more
details if needed)
Thank you,
Edmon
14 years, 1 month
on updated f12 system, wireless suddenly vanishes
by Robert P. J. Day
a bit of a mystery here ... after wireless has worked just fine on
this laptop for months on end, i show up at a friend's place after
work, fire up the laptop, expect to connect to his wireless same as
usual and ... nothing.
check the network settings thru network manager and not only is
wireless not active, the setting is greyed out so i can't even select
it to activate it. how odd.
"ifconfig -a" shows a wlan0 interface, but it's not up. then
there's iwconfig:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
if i try to scan with that interface:
# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
#
and
# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132
#
time to start googling, of course, but all of this came on suddenly
and for no apparent reason. thoughts?
rday
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Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.
Web page: http://crashcourse.ca
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday
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14 years, 1 month
NetworkManager, is it important?
by Gergely Buday
Hi there,
yesterday I configured my fedora 12 box. With NetworkManager I could
not make it to have network after boot. At last I removed
NetworkManager and createad an S07network link in /etc/rc5.d to
/etc/init.d/network. It worked - good old Unix wisdom. With
NetworkManager there was even the problem that after manually starting
network Firefox switched to offline mode - an annoying problem that my
users cannot manage.
What do I miss if I do not have NetworkManager? In what circumstances
do I need it _really_ ?
Cheers
- Gergely
14 years, 1 month
Fedora 12-KVM-Windows 7
by Jim
Fedora 12/Kde
Installing Windows 7 in KVM and Fedora 12 , would win 7 be slower in virt.
Good or Bad Ideal ?
14 years, 1 month
Adobe Flash Player X86_64
by Henry Wyatt
Downloaded and extracted flashplayer for F12 64 bit Firefox, I go to
terminal and cd directory to my downloads dir and see libflashplayer.so
file, but I do not know how to move it to mozilla plugins directory.
--
Henry E. Wyatt, Jr.
14 years, 1 month
Broadcast support for 'nc'
by Marcus Leech
I can't help but notice with my FC12 system, that the 'nc' command
doesn't support the '-b' (broadcast)
option.
Other Linux distributions have supported that option for *years*. Why
doesn't Fedora?
--
Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
http://www.sbrac.org
14 years, 1 month
Re: Make aspell work right??
by Rex Dieter
Beartooth wrote:
>
> (Followups set to gmane.mail.alpine.info)
>
> I'm running the following : on my own machine (this address)
>
> alpine-2.00-8.fc12.i686 set to /usr/bin/aspell --dont-backup --mode=email
> check
>
> where rpm -q yields aspell-0.60.6-7.fc12.i686
Do you have any aspell dictionaries installed? (Hint: aspell no longer has
any hard deps to pull in any).
-- Rex
14 years, 1 month
Acer Aspire AS7540-1408 a decent fedora (13) laptop?
by Robert P. J. Day
i am once again in the market for a newer fedora laptop, and this
one seems like a decent bargain (open box discount):
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo...
mostly i'm paying a few extra bucks for the 1600x900 display, but
does anyone see any fatal flaws in this system from a fedora
perspective?
minimally, i want:
* 64-bit processor with H/W virt support
* at least 3GB RAM (4 would have been better but, eh ...)
* HDMI port
* 802.11 b/g/n
so this *seems* to fit the bill -- does anyone see any show-stoppers?
thanks.
rday
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Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.
Web page: http://crashcourse.ca
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday
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14 years, 1 month
Epiphany slow to load some sites ?!?
by Bill Case
Hi;
Epiphany, which used to be my fastest browser, has slowed right down
when loading some sites. About 50% of them.
I filed a bug a couple of months ago. The report back was that "Can't
fix. An Adobe Flash problem." Is this then the final answer for me?
Can I no longer use epiphany? Is there a new Flash package I can
download from Adobe Systems Incorporated? I didn't see one.
Can anyone expand on what is happening to Epiphany. The Gnome mail list
and forum are useless.
--
Regards Bill
Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28
Evo.2.28, Emacs 23.1.1
14 years, 1 month
f12 gnome turn off bluetooth command
by Natxo Asenjo
hi,
with F12 the bluetooth applet has a new option: turn (on|off), which
is a great thing to have. Considering that many laptop users have a
bluetooth device, is there a gconf option or something to have it
start turned off to save battery? We can alwasy turn it manually on if
we need it.
I have been searching with the gconf-editor but couldn't find
anything. Any hints appreciated.
TIA,
--
Groeten,
J.Asenjo
14 years, 1 month
