pings with noise

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 21:04 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
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> On 05/10/2011 10:58 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > According to the man page whenever you use the -a option on the ping
> > command as in:
> > ping -a ip-address
> > each ping return should cause a noise to be generated.
> > 
> > I can't seem to get that too happen. What could be wrong?
> 
> As root, "modprobe pcspkr"
> 
> Then it works as expected.
Not on my machine it doesn't. That I would guess is because the kernel I
am running 2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.PAE
does not have a pcspkr module associated with it. What kernel are
you'all running?

The reason there is such  module is because for some reason:
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.35.12-91.fc14.i686
is not available in the repos. A bug do you think?

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