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network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless
by Genes MailLists 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Often when I do backups on laptop, I'll plug in wired ethernet - NM happily switches the connection from wireless to wired - however it always leaves the wireless on as well + correct if its a different subnet than wired + arguably wrong if its the same subnet - probably a bug ? - or at least it should offer to shutoff wireless when the 2 subnets are the same. Since the route via wireless is active, the backup could/does use wireless instead of wired. So I usually right click the nm applet and disable wireless. Today - that option along with the disable netowrking option are grayed out and I can not uncheck the 'emable wireless/networking radio buttons. This is f13 - fully updated (+ some testing and 2.6.32.6-47 kernel from koji). NetworkManager is 8.1.4.git20100817. Anyway know what causes this or suggestions on how to deal with it ? Thanks .. gene/

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F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...
by Dan Thurman 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

I have a gateway M-6750 laptop which sports a Marvell TopDog wifi chip. I have obtained the latest drivers for this chip, and used ndiswrapper to hook itself to the XP/Vista topdog driver, and it at first appears to be working... although there are crash data appearing in the log files but other than that, it continues on working. I can use Firefox, and Pidgin and the network appears to work fine. But the minute I start Thunderbird, it appears the wifi/network performance is severely degradated as TB is trys to sync the IMAP server data with local data storage. It knocked out pidgin. gkrellm displayed Xorg was hitting CPU hard, Nautilus froze for a time, gnome terminal blocked text entry, basically, everything appeared eratic. But given several minutes of time for TB to settle down and to finish its tasks, the system seemed to return to some sense of normalcy - just slightly better. While this was going on, I thought I'd ping a local server to get some sense of what is going on with the network since I cannot think of a better diagnostic test, and the summary is shown below but watching each ping line, there appeared many times, complete line display stoppage running several seconds before the next display appears. 42 packets transmitted, 41 received, 2% packet loss, \ time 41873ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.754/359.603/2005.013/581.445 \ ms, pipe 3 Line by line data, the highest delay was 4000ms at that short time of testing. Is there anything I can do to see why there is network degradation and if it is related to ndiswrapper or not? I tried wired LAN and there is no network degradation?

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HP 6930p: mute button doesn't work properly
by Hoang Le 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

( I send this again in a new topic, thank to Patrick for telling me not to reply an existing mail ) Hi friends, I need help on my problem with HP 6930p multimedia keys - When built-in speakers are used, the button works correctly - When using external speakers/earphone, sound is always on ( even when mute button is on ). If I unplug, sound is back to the mute button's current state - In any case, system tray icon doesn't change ( even If internal speakers are used, mute button works, the sound state doesn't change to "mute" when sound is off ) I also notice that the microphone volume is very low compared to output sound. So when I use a recording program ( particularly Audacity ), the playback sound is unexpectedly low. I don't know if these problems are related, just in case they are ... Thank you, Hoang Le

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pkg for gnome daemon configuration
by admin lewis 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi, anyone know what package I've to install on fedora 12 to configure daemon/services startup ?

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Fedora 13 installation over vnc - Xvnc refuses connection
by Ambarish Sridharanarayanan 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

I'm trying to install Fedora 13 over VNC [1], with TigerVNC on Windows as the VNC client. In the middle, my connection dropped; when reconnecting, TigerVNC tells me "The server is already in use". Looking at the sources, it looks like the XVnc thinks there's an active connection, and it looks like was passed on a -nevershared option. And IdleTimeout=0 is also passed in. Any way to reconnect to the running Anaconda to complete the installation? I'd like to not have to run through Anaconda again. Thanks, Ambarish [1] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/sn-re…

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err:wineconsole:WINECON_Fatal Couldn't find a decent font, aborting
by Joshua C. 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi I needed to use wineconsole and after installing the latest available packages (1.3.1-1) I got the following message when trying to start wineconsole cmd: err:wineconsole:WINECON_Fatal Couldn't find a decent font, aborting Installing different fonts and "export LANG= en_US.UTF-8" didn't help. Does anyone have any idea? trying f13 and f14 gave me the same results although the current packages in f13 are v.1.2.0. --joshua

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Fedora 13-unable to boot from another SATA-1 ERR=22 displayed
by Sriranga(77yrsold) 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Sriranga(77yrsold) <withblessings(a)gmail.com > wrote: > On Dell optiplex-330 i have installed winXP sp3 on sata-0 and on sata-1 I > had installed Fedora 13 - Even though grub installed - unable to boot Fedora > 13. > i have installed Ubuntu 10-04 easily installed within windows itself using > wubi.exe. Till today I am able to boot winXP as well as ubuntu but unable to > boot Fedora13 In bios if I set sata-1 as first drive Fedora-13 will boot > otherwise no. since mosf of my work on winxP I am not position to use > Fedora13 even though installed. Everytime when started computer grub display > Err 22 - press any key... then to windows/ubuntu for selection. > > Now I repenting for having installed Fedora13. Now I am afraid to install > next versions of Fedora14 and decided to not experiment because I have > re-installed Fedora13 atleast 5 or 6 times resulting hard disk may damage. > DELL technical people are not co-operative to solve the problem of bios and > help to set right the bios so that user can choose any of harddisk using > boot sequence - instead of meddling with the hardware setup. >

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Scrub free disk blocks
by JD 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

Is there a Linux util to scrub free disk blocks and keep everything else intact ??

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DeltaISOs
by David 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

Is it possible to make a deltaiso without having both the older ISO and the Newer ISO on a local system. Example. Fedora-14-Alpha-x86_64-Live.iso was downloaded. A Fedora-14-Alpha-2-x86_64-Live.iso is availible for download. Can a deltaiso be made without downloading the newer ISO? makedeltaiso Fedora-14-Alpha-x86_64-Live.iso http://path/to/folder/containing/Fedora-14-Alpha-2-x86_64-Live.iso deltaiso -- David

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Unpatched major kernel
by Marcel Rieux 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

eldavojohn writes "On June 17th, the X.org team was notified by Invisible Things Lab of a critical security flaw (PDF) that affected both x86_32 and x86_64 platforms. The flaw deals with escalated privileges of a user process that has access to the X server. The founder of ITL said of the flaw, 'The attack allows a (unpriviliged) user process that has access to the X server (so, any GUI application) to unconditionally escalate to root (but again, it doesn't take advantage of any bug in the X server!). In other words: any GUI application (think e.g. sandboxed PDF viewer), if compromised (e.g. via malicious PDF document) can bypass all the Linux fancy security mechanisms, and escalate to root, and compromise the whole system.' This has apparently been a security flaw since kernel 2.6 was released. From the article, 'On 13 August, Linus Torvalds committed an initial fix, but several patches were added afterward for various reasons. The problem has been addressed in versions 2.6.27.52, 2.6.32.19, 2.6.34.4 and 2.6.35.2 of the kernel.'" http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/08/18/1534258/Linux-Xorg-Critical-Securit… ============== August 13 is 10 days ago. Kernel.org now says the latest stable version is: stable: 2.6.32.20 2010-08-20 http://www.all.kernel.org/ It was out 3 days ago. Any reason Fedora is not updating the kernel on what looks like a major flaw.

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