Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-15 Thread Axel Thimm
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:09:32PM +0100, Simon Schneebeli wrote: > > On 12/14/2009 08:52 PM, Craig White wrote: > >On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 20:40 +0100, Simon Schneebeli wrote: > >>On 12/14/2009 05:58 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote: > >>As for wicd: I used that when working with Ubuntu and was always quite

Re: mediawiki rpm for fedora 11 broken?

2009-08-26 Thread Axel Thimm
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 01:47:38PM -0700, Eli Morris wrote: > With Fedora 11, I tried installing mediawiki through the normal 'yum > install mediawiki'. The only files that appear to be in the rpm are: > > /usr/share/doc/mediawiki-1.14.0 This can't be the result of yum install unless you use a b

Re: nvidia vs suspend to disk

2009-08-19 Thread Axel Thimm
Hi, On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 09:50:03AM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 03:27:13PM +0200, Chris Rouch wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Michael > > Hennebry wrote: > > > Does anyone currently have suspend to > > > disk working with nvidia's drivers? > > > If so, ho

Re: One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release

2009-05-29 Thread Axel Thimm
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:16:39AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > Axel Thimm wrote: > > > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:36:18AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > >> A late discovered and just potentially fixed anaconda storage bug[1] has > >> necessitated another week slip o

Re: One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release

2009-05-29 Thread Axel Thimm
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:36:18AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > A late discovered and just potentially fixed anaconda storage bug[1] has > necessitated another week slip of our schedule. The change is important > but invasive enough to require re-validating our storage tests. We were > already l

Re: Broken video DVDs (no executable bits on *_TS folders)

2009-05-24 Thread Axel Thimm
Hi, On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 08:45:36PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Axel Thimm wrote: >> some home made DVDs by some software is creating *_TS folders with >> 0400 permissions. This means that only root can really change into >> these folders. >> >> Is there a w

Broken video DVDs (no executable bits on *_TS folders)

2009-05-23 Thread Axel Thimm
Hi, some home made DVDs by some software is creating *_TS folders with 0400 permissions. This means that only root can really change into these folders. Is there a way to tell Fedora to always paste executional bits onto video DVDs? I'm trying to convert some people to use Fedora for their home

Re: FC10 and NDISwrapper

2009-04-27 Thread Axel Thimm
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 03:18:31PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: > I'm trying to get WIFI working on my new DELL and I've been told to try > ndiswrappers. What does lspci say? Maybe you don't need ndiswrappers. > I tried > > yum search ndiswrapper > > and varients, but nothing was found. I the

Re: What are these yum plugins for ? (kmod-nvidia related)

2009-03-04 Thread Axel Thimm
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:02:00PM -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 10:36 -0800, suvayu ali wrote: > > 2009/3/4 Axel Thimm : > > > Neither should the other plugins do, but at the very end you will only > > > know for sure if you start disa

Re: What are these yum plugins for ? (kmod-nvidia related)

2009-03-04 Thread Axel Thimm
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:47:54AM -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > What are the following yum plugins for ? > > downloadonly, kmdl, priorities, refresh-packagekit > > Could any of them interfere with my ability to "see" (ie yum list) the > most recent kmod-nvidia package ? kmdl is the plugin to make

Re: A reminder of EOL for F8

2009-02-18 Thread Axel Thimm
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:27:00AM -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote: > Bill Crawford writes: > > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 15:43:28 Marc Schwartz wrote: > >> If there is a bug preventing you from installing, get it filed. > >> Otherwise, you have a decision to make here. Stay with F8 at your own > >>

Re: A reminder of EOL for F8

2009-01-05 Thread Axel Thimm
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 03:30:32PM -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Chris Snook wrote: >> Do the F8 repos disappear on Jan 7th as well? I'd hate to be the admin >> who doesn't notice until Jan. 8th, Starting Jan. 8th there are no security updates anymore, so if the system is exposed in any way

Installing Fedora on a Strato root server

2008-12-29 Thread Axel Thimm
Hi, there is no Fedora image yet at Strato for having a Fedora server. What do you do in order to install Fedora on a Strato server? I thought of copying over the pxe images and booting into a kickstart controlled install from my personal servers, or maybe even using koan/cobbler? What's the most

Re: F10 -- How do I start AR5413 interface?

2008-12-06 Thread Axel Thimm
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 01:47:57PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> If neither of the above work, file a bug (my guess would be against >> HAL or udev) and use the madwifi packages from rpmfusion or atrpms >> until the bug is fixed. > > Challenge with atrpms is kernel patching. I got to like the d

Re: ATrpms for Fedora 10; upcoming EOL for Fedora 8

2008-11-29 Thread Axel Thimm
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:38:02PM +1030, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 21:21 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > > F10 support will be EOL'd once the Fedora Project drops support for it > > (e.g. in about a month's time). > > Oh ye of little faith... ;-)

Re: CentOS 3rd party repositories?

2008-10-03 Thread Axel Thimm
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 08:07:04PM +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Thursday 02 October 2008 13:24, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > > > > ATrpms has way too obsolete installation instructions (some others too > > > --- Dries comes to mind) to be seriously considered as a

Re: CentOS 3rd party repositories?

2008-10-02 Thread Axel Thimm
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:54:27AM +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Forgive me for querrying the Fedora list for this, but I really don't want to > subscribe to a Yet Another Mailing List just to have this one single basic > question answered. It is quite unlikely that I will be having any more

Re: how-to create rpm from rpms (atrpms)

2008-09-26 Thread Axel Thimm
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 07:09:27PM +0200, David Hláčik wrote: > Hello guys, > > i am trying to create alsa-driver and alsa-kmod-`uname -r` driver for > my Fedora 9 computer, as kernel i am using does not have pre-builded > kmdl binaries What kernel is that? Do you have a matching kernel-devel ins

Re: Anyone using stateless linux?

2008-08-10 Thread Axel Thimm
Hi, On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 12:50:20PM +0100, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: > I was reading about "stateless linux" and seems a great idea. I would > like to know if it's being used, the overall experience, in other words, > if it is ready for to be used in a production environment. stateless linu

Re: howto: write a init script

2008-07-31 Thread Axel Thimm
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:05:39PM +0200, Christoph Höger wrote: > is there some documentation out there about how to write a init script > for fedora9 for a given binary? > Maybe even a "insert your binary here"-tempate? Indeed there is with even LSB support and lots of docs: http://fedoraprojec

Re: Any LiveCD/USB experts in the house?

2008-07-31 Thread Axel Thimm
Not really a direct answer (I'd wish I were a LiveCD/USB expert to help out), but maybe these questions are better targeted at the real experts gathered at fedora-livecd-list? See http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list Some are certainly on this list, but your questions may get

Re: updating my "getting started with QEMU under fedora" howto

2008-07-29 Thread Axel Thimm
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:11:42AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Axel Thimm wrote: > p.s. refresh my memory, axel, if you would -- are your AT packages > compatible with livna packages? It often depends on the livna packager. Suffice it to say that I've bee

Re: updating my "getting started with QEMU under fedora" howto

2008-07-28 Thread Axel Thimm
Hi, On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:06:24PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i was going to take what i thought was a couple minutes and update > my writeup on QEMU under fedora: > > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/QEMU > > for fedora 9 but, apparently, it's not going to be a simple s/8/

Re: Online resizing NTFS & ext3

2008-06-30 Thread Axel Thimm
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 07:48:35PM +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Axel Thimm wrote: >> I have a running F9 installation where I want to move some free space >> from the NTFS partition to Fedora's. > > It is important to understand how your disk is configured. (LVM?) >

Online resizing NTFS & ext3

2008-06-29 Thread Axel Thimm
Hi, I have a running F9 installation where I want to move some free space from the NTFS partition to Fedora's. Usually I don't even have an NTFS partition to get into this problem, and if so I wipe the Linux partitions away, resize the NTFS partition and reinstall Fedora/RHEL. Now with F9 doing a

Re: smartrpm

2008-06-13 Thread Axel Thimm
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 03:43:01PM -0700, Kam Leo wrote: > 2008/6/12 Todd Zullinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Kam Leo wrote: > >> Don't bother. Multiple bug reports have already been filed. I'm > >> surprised that this problem keeps re-occurring. Same thing happened > >> for the Fedora 8 release. Ax