users September 2011

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Soundblaster
by Antonio Montagnani 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

I have two similar PC (old Pentium but workin fine) In Pc no.1 I upgraded from RH8 to Fedora and it went fine: Soundblaster is working fine In Pc no.2 I made a fresh installation but in redhat-sound-config Fedora doesn't see any card, that was working on Redhat 9 after soundconfig... Where is the trick?? I assume that my Sounblaster is an old 16...but fine on a router/firewall. Tnx Antonio

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What happened to floppy drive support?
by n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 07 Jul '13

07 Jul '13

I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I create an emergency media that is flexible enough to be updated as required? JB

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oovoo.com
by Gregory P. Ennis 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Dear List, I was asked to assist connecting a Fedora linux system for video conferencing with oovoo.com. It is apparent that they support Mac and Windows. Does anyone have any experience in using the Mac installation for oovoo for Fedora? Can anyone make recommendations for connections that allow video conferencing with Fedora. Thanks much -- Greg Ennis PoMec Corporation www.PoMec.net

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Question on shredding a terebyte drive
by Dean S. Messing 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean. It originally had 2 partitions. I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted, and then as root ran shred -vz /dev/sdd The drive is capable of about 60MB/sec, but shred is only "shredding" about 25MB every 5 seconds according to its output. Since the default number of passes is 25, this works out to about 5 days. The `shred' process is running at 100% CPU, presumably computing the special random patterns for erasure. Since I have 4 CPUs would creating 4 unformatted partions on the drive and then running something like: shred -vz /dev/sdd1 shred -vz /dev/sdd2 shred -vz /dev/sdd3 shred -vz /dev/sdd4 in parallel cut my time? Would be just as secure? Thanks Dean

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No wireless (waiting for authorization) after awake from suspend
by Gene Smith 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

F15 on new HP dv7-6195 (i7/sandy bridge) cannot regain wireless connection after awake from suspend. In KDE, I see notification "waiting for authorization" and then a "key" icon appears over the wireless icon in tray. In gnome, a dialog pops up with my wireless key (correctly filled in) for me to confirm. After confirming, it keeps popping back up every 30 seconds or so. Never asks for my password, just wireless key. It is set to be stored in encrypted file. Wired ethernet connection works fine before and after suspend and wireless works fine only before suspend. I have tried rmmod / modprobe to remove / add back the wireless driver. Also, set selinux to permissive thinking it might be that type of problem. Only reboot, so far, brings wireless back. Any ideas? -gene

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Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.
by linux guy 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

Today I bought 2 3 TB hard drives to use in my new server. I'm writing this in case other people aren't aware that some of the traditional hard drive management methods don't work for drives larger than 2 TB. Specifically, fdisk and MSDOS type partition tables. Here is how I created a single partition on my 3 TB drives. Via parted. #parted -a optimal /dev/sdb (parted) rm 1 <- this removed the 2TB partition that fdisk made. NOTE: fdisk has a 2 TB limit, apparently forced by MSDOS style partition tables. Ever heard the story about how the width of a donkey ultimately determined the diameter of the space shuttle ? (parted) mklabel gpt <- this is NOT making a label for the drive. "man parted" is your friend. (parted) mkpart primary ext4 1 -1 <- this makes the partition itself, using the entire drive, which is what I wanted. (parted) print (parted) quit # mkfs -text4 /dev/sdb1 <- this formats the partition #e2label /dev/sdb1 myth <- this gives it a label, as used by mount in fstab, ie "LABEL=..." Via gparted. It turns out that the whole process can be done from within gparted, if you know what you are doing. The first thing you need to do is create the partition table. IF you have used fdisk on the drive previously, the partition table type is going to MSDOS, which has the 2TB limit. If you continue with the MSDOS partition table, gparted will allow you to select a 3TB partition to make, but it will give you the following error: partition length of 5860528002 sectors exceeds the msdos-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295 To get around this, select Advanced on the partition table options window and set the partition table type to gpt. Then you can proceed as you normally would to partition a drive with gparted. Ie add new partition(s), set the partition type, labels, etc. At this point you have an ext4 formatted 3TB drive. However, in F15 KDE at least, it doesn't seem to automount like a drive with an MSDOS partition table. The drive will not automatically appear in the Places column in Dolphin, for example. Nor will it appear in the list created by df. However, it is available to manually mount. Ie, #mount /dev/sdb1 temp, just like the old days.* And once you do that, it appears in the df list, though still not in the Places column in Dolphin. I hope this helps someone. *This might be particular to my machine being that the drive is a hot swap SATA device and I did not remove it and replace it. However, drives with MSDOS type partition tables auto mounted using the very same command sequence.

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Best FOSS alternative for skype?
by Marko Vojinovic 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Ok, I just lost enthusiasm in further use of skype. Being closed source was bad enough already, but I tolerated it due to its good-enough quality, reliability and free-of-charge use for skype-to-skype calls. But now that Microsoft is taking it over, I suddenly lost faith that these good features will still be there from now on (not to mention Linux support). Thus the question: is there a FOSS VoIP app that provides roughly the same quality, reliability and free-as-in-beer service? I do know that there are such VoIP apps, but I am not familiar with the quality of service, availability and accessibility of each of those. I am willing to migrate and start persuading my existing skype contacts (which are scattered all over the globe) to migrate to a FOSS solution as well. But I cannot do that if this alternative does not provide functionality that at least matches that of skype. It has to be up to the task. So which one is on the top of the list, in your opinion? TIA, :-) Marko

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Samba problems. Samba master fight with Linksys E4200 wireless router with storage ?
by linux guy 16 Oct '11

16 Oct '11

I'm having a lot of trouble setting up a Samba share on a virgin F15 install. Right now everything works until I click on a shared file (via Samba). At that point I get a "the file or folder smb://nas/TEST does not exist" error. This is what smbclient shows for 192.168.1.10, ie nas, my Samba server. $ smbclient -U% -L192.168.1.10 Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.5.11-71.fc15] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- TEST Disk IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba Server Version 3.5.11-71.fc15) Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.5.11-71.fc15] Server Comment --------- ------- E4200 NAS Samba Server Version 3.5.11-71.fc15 Workgroup Master --------- ------- WORKGROUP E4200 For the longest time smbclient showed there was no master. Today, my E4200 wireless router, which has file sharing is showing up as master. I'm not sure if I should be OK with that or not. Given my smb.conf file, I was expecting nas to be the master. There doesn't appear to be a way to turn file sharing off in the E4200. Maybe if I set the workgroup on it to null ? # Samba config file created using SWAT # from UNKNOWN (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2011/09/19 21:06:20 [global] server string = Samba Server Version %v log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 wins support = Yes cups options = raw workgroup = workgroup local master = yes domain master = yes os level = 65 [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba printable = Yes browseable = No [TEST] path = /home/me/test/ guest ok = yes read only = no browseable = yes Any ideas on why Samba isn't working ? FWIW, I only used SWAT for looking at potential settings and setting a couple globals. The rest I've been doing by hand. And I've been restarting nmb and smb manually after each change. I'm finding the online documentation for Samba to be umm... wanting. I'll post up a little HOWTO when I get my NAS going. Thanks

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Atheros AR9285 wireless & F15
by Greg Woods 12 Oct '11

12 Oct '11

I cannot get wireless to work on my new Sony VAIO VPCEG laptop. It has the ar9285 chip in it. I am thinking this is a bug in the driver and wondering what I should do about it. Before I file an official bug report (with Fedora?), I want to know if anybody else has a machine with this chip in it that is working. I'd like to rule out my own stupidity first. I can state the following: 1) There is a hardware wireless switch, and it is on 2) I have tried both 2.6.38 and 2.6.40 kernels. 3) I have tried the latest compat-wireless driver from kernel.org 4) iwconfig can see the wlan0 device, but ifconfig does not. 5) Clicking wireless within NetworkManager: a) Airplane Mode shows as ON b) Wireless shows as unavailable c) Clicking wireless briefly turns it on and Disconnected, but then it goes right back to Off/Unavailable d) Turning off Airplane Mode appears to work, but doesn't change anything in c) above. 6) The wireless works fine in Windows 7 What is *really* frustrating about this is that it briefly worked a couple of times. During the install, it showed a list of available wireless networks and I chose mine, and entered the password. Then once, after several reboots for various reasons, it actually came up and worked, but as soon as I rebooted again, I was back to the same old same old and it has not worked since. Does this sound like a kernel driver bug or something stupid I did? Would it make sense to file a bugzilla against the kernel? Any chance this would work if I installed F14 instead of F15? Obviously, without wireless, the laptop is a $600 paperweight. --Greg

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Pavilion dv6-3225dx under F14 -- mouse problems
by Paul Allen Newell 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

Hello to all: I have a HP Pavilion dv6-3225dx that was installed with Win7 and I am trying to dual-boot with F14. I've managed to do that, but I am seeing totally wacko action out of the mouse (which is a touchpad with a movement area and two "buttons" below"). The long and short of it is two-fold 1) the right mouse button seems to be non-existent and, if there is a left-mouse action to be had, it mirrors that. But for things that have a distinct right-mouse action (setting the number of workspaces or pinning the terminal to the upper toolbar), it doesn't see them 2) even though I have disabled scrolling on the touchpad, if I put two fingers on the touchpad, it goes shooting all over the place (detailed exam indicates it is getting a continuous y change and I can't figure out what the x is doing) I googled the machines and didn't see anything above and beyond hp not having any drivers other than Win7. I looked into firmware under fedora and didn't see anything for touchpads. When I did the initial install, F14 barked about needing a firmware update, but that vanished once I did a yum update. I am not seeing any other problems with the install, but can't test too far with a mouse that seems to like "pick-drug-of-your-choice-so-long-as-it-is-an-upper" Suggestions? ... I would hate to have to give up on a Fedora capability for this machine as I want to do a dual-boot so I can eventually move to "dumping" Windows. Thanks in advance, Paul

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