Hardware issue makes Fedora not useful

2009-03-22 Thread gab_v
Hello everybody! I've got a question about a pestering hardware issue. My PC has a Axion Sapphire A3-M275 motherboard (chipset Ati3 + Ali 1535D). I added a 1GB DDR1 Ram slot (by Kingston) to the native 256 MB DDR1 Ram. The new slot is not recognize at the boot phase. The real strange point is

Re: can't use yum

2008-12-11 Thread gab_v
Hi people! I solved the problem. The message lighted me was no network connection. device is unmanaged. I did the following: -) right-click on the network icon on your top-right bar. -) ensure to have marked enable network manager -) edit a new connection, putting your MAC address in.

Re: can't use yum

2008-12-10 Thread gab_v
I added the line about proxy in my /etc/yum.conf but with no result. I also want to say that I inserted the info about the proxy in my .bash_profile as, #yum export http_proxy=http://:; [1] I also inform you that if I run: nm-tool I got as reply : ... NetworkManager Tool State: disconnected

can't use yum

2008-12-09 Thread gab_v
Hi people! I have a problem with yum on my Fedora 9. If I launch commands with yum I got (problem connecting to a software source) cannot retrieve repository metadata(repomd.xml) for repository fedora. please verify its path and try again. I had a look a bit on the net -even if I am new with

How to get rid of selinux

2008-12-08 Thread gab_v
Dear all, I have a Fedora 9 distr. I've lot of problem with SELinux, so I want to know how to get rid of it. In particular I am interested NOT in make SELinux status Disabled but to uninstall it. I am not sure how to do it, also because I just started working with Linux OS. How can I do? I