New user.
Hi all, Just wanted to say G'day to fellow SL users. I installed SL6 last night for the first time ever and was quite impressed. I've been a long time CentOS / Fedora / Redhat user so I'm quite at home. Within 6 hours I had recompiled Xen for SL6, and checked out and built a new kernel to run as the Xen Dom0 and the first virtual machines back up and running on it. I'm that impressed that over time I'm going to start migrating all my CentOS / Fedora based virtual machines over to SL6. Thanks to all for their hard work, it really made my day :) -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299
new user
Greetings, I've just started out with Sceintific Linux 6.2 I have a question: how do I register for the scientificlinux.org website (a link, please)? I can see where to log in, but there's no link there for those (like me) who need an account. Another question: Is there a Scientific Linux wiki? I had no luck in my search for one. There's a broken link on the YUM FAQ page: https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/yum.apt.repo The link -- Yum Wiki (end of answer to the first question: http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/Yum is broken. Thanks, Carl Friedberg www.about.me/carl.friedberg friedb...@comets.com www.comets.com Problems Solved
Re: new user
Hi Carl, please go here: http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=scientific-linux-users&A=1 This is not a wiki but similarly in-line to your search: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/scientific-linux-repos.html a little deep into yum and rpm http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lpic1-v3-102-5/ I hope this helps. goodluck! -Tam On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Carl Friedberg wrote: > Greetings, > > I've just started out with Sceintific Linux 6.2 > > I have a question: how do I register for the scientificlinux.org website > (a link, please)? I can see where to log in, but there's no link there for > those (like me) who need an account. > > Another question: Is there a Scientific Linux wiki? I had no luck in my > search for one. > > There's a broken link on the YUM FAQ page: > > https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/yum.apt.repo > > The link -- Yum Wiki (end of answer to the first question: > > http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/Yum > > is broken. > > Thanks, > > Carl Friedberg > www.about.me/carl.friedberg > friedb...@comets.com > www.comets.com > Problems Solved >
Re: some naive question from new user
On Sun, 13 Dec 2015, Albert wrote: Dear: I am a new Scientific user and I've got some naive questions. I would be appreciated if somebody can give me some advice. (1) I found there are different iso file from: http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/x86_64/iso/ If I would like to install X64 plus 32 bit environment libraries, which one should I download? I am going to do some professional computational work under Scientific Linux, and many software may need various libraries such as: python, libsqt, libstdc, gcc, boost, perl and so on. Either of the DVD ones. Would the following iso be sufficient for my purpuse? SL-7-Everything-Dual-Layer-DVD-x86_64-2015-04-07-7.1.iso 06-Apr-2015 11:376.6G Yes but as the name suggests you need to burn to a dual layer DVD. (2) How can we install the 32bit library? I rember there is no any options of selecting 32bit library during the first refreshing installing Redhat. I don't know what's the situation of SL-7.. Same for SL 7. (3) If some library is missing from above DVD file, where can I can something additonal? How can we add local iso to software repository? How can we add a online address to software repository? You can use YUM to install packages after the initial install via online access as this is available by default. Adding ISO as a software repository would require that you make a "something.repo" file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ . Look at existing ones for a example of what to do. (4) Recently I bough a very new laptop HP pavilion SE 15 and the Wlan is intel dual band wireless ac 3165. I am just wondering, will SL-7 support WIFI in the laptop? I suspect so as Intel is fairly well supported. Thank you very much Albert -- -- Connie J. Sieh Computing Services Specialist III Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 630 840 8531 office http://www.fnal.gov cs...@fnal.gov
(New user) SL 5.4-Any rpms for madwifi-hal?
Hello all, I've recently started using SL 5.4 (installed from mini-livecd) on my Aspire One, with kernels 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 (original) and 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 (updated). Ath5k is functional on the live cd, halfway working on the old kernel, somewhat better on the updated kernel; but it comes nowhere near what the latest ath5k (2.6.31 & 32) can do or what madwifi-hal can do. I've tried installing madwifi, but it did not provide the interfaces (ifconfig did not recognize ath0 and eth1). After looking around, I've found that only madwifi-hal works with my chipset (AR5007), but I can't seem to find a recent (2.6.18-164.11.1) rpm. If I can install an rpm with dkms or kmod, that would be ideal; I'd prefer to avoid compiling it myself. I might have missed something; if so, please point it out. Ibidem
Re: (New user) SL 5.4-Any rpms for madwifi-hal?
Ibidem wrote: Hello all, I've recently started using SL 5.4 (installed from mini-livecd) on my Aspire One, with kernels 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 (original) and 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 (updated). Ath5k is functional on the live cd, halfway working on the old kernel, somewhat better on the updated kernel; but it comes nowhere near what the latest ath5k (2.6.31 & 32) can do or what madwifi-hal can do. I've tried installing madwifi, but it did not provide the interfaces (ifconfig did not recognize ath0 and eth1). After looking around, I've found that only madwifi-hal works with my chipset (AR5007), but I can't seem to find a recent (2.6.18-164.11.1) rpm. If I can install an rpm with dkms or kmod, that would be ideal; I'd prefer to avoid compiling it myself. I might have missed something; if so, please point it out. Ibidem We have not been providing madwifi for SL 5.4 because of the conflict it causes with the modules already in the kernel. But we are providing it for the older releases, so you can always find the kernel-module-madwifi and kernel-module-madwifi-hal rpm's in the older releases security updates area. http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/i386/updates/security/ If you have the regular 32 bit kernel installed the rpm's would be here. http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/i386/updates/security/kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/i386/updates/security/kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm Troy -- __ Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LSCS/CSI/USS Group __
Re: (New user) SL 5.4-Any rpms for madwifi-hal?
Well, Those modules didn't get wireless working...and when I tried blacklisting ath5k, the mouse stopped working (?). But I realized that the rpms are for standard madwifi. (I had been asking about a newer version with some different code that allows using AR5007 chipsets, madwifi-hal-10.5.6; it appears that the madwifi-hal rpm is for part of the standard madwifi). So the long and short is that I'll just have to be content or see if the newest RHEL kernel does anything. Thank you, Ibidem On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:47:56 -0600 Troy Dawson wrote: > We have not been providing madwifi for SL 5.4 because of the conflict > it causes with the modules already in the kernel. > But we are providing it for the older releases, so you can always > find the kernel-module-madwifi and kernel-module-madwifi-hal rpm's in > the older releases security updates area. > > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/i386/updates/security/ > If you have the regular 32 bit kernel installed the rpm's would be > here. > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/i386/updates/security/kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/i386/updates/security/kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm > > Troy
