Re: I upgraded to F12 and I can only run a console session. Help ! (wifii administration from a console ?)

2009-12-13 Thread linux guy
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 01:59 -0700, linux guy wrote: > > iwconfig lets me set the various parameters of an interface, but how > > do I start that interface such that the router assigns it an IP and > >

Re: I upgraded to F12 and I can only run a console session. Help ! (wifii administration from a console ?)

2009-12-13 Thread linux guy
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Julian Aloofi < julian.fedorali...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I think i could rectify the situation if I ran yum update but I don't > have a > > wifi connection from the console session. How does one administer a wifi > > connection from the command line in F12 ?

Re: I upgraded to F12 and I can only run a console session. Help ! (wifii administration from a console ?)

2009-12-13 Thread linux guy
iwconfig lets me set the various parameters of an interface, but how do I start that interface such that the router assigns it an IP and DNS works ? Thanks. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fe

I upgraded to F12 and I can only run a console session. Help ! (wifii administration from a console ?)

2009-12-13 Thread linux guy
I've been running F11 pretty much since it came out. It worked well. I upgraded to F12 earlier this evening. For whatever reason it will not start an X session. I think the problem is that I was using the nvidia driver and kmod can't get an internet connection due to wifi not finding a network

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > You don't want a live CD but to run the f11 DVD in rescue mode. Then you > can chroot to the F11 / directory and apply any fixes. That way the > programs you run will be F11 programs. > If you read the thread, I did chroot. Chroot runs w

Re: [fedora-list] How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
I downloaded the supergrub iso and installed it onto my usb drive. When I boot from it, it gives me the grub> command line. Is that a sign I don't have the USB installation right or is that the tool that I am supposed to use to fix my non booting drive ? Thanks On 7/16/09, linux gu

Re: [fedora-list] How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
Here is my grub file. The boot partition is /dev/sda1. That should be hd0,0, right ?The root partition is sda2. That should be hd0,1, right ? Does anyone see anything wrong with my grub setup ? I don't understand how installing an f12 kernel and then uninstalling it could still result in a

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
All traces of the f12 kernel have been removed without errors via rpm. My computer still won't boot. When I run fdisk on sda (the hard disk), partition 1 is still set to boot and the ID is still 83/Linux. Everything looks good. Why won't my computer boot ? On 7/16/09, linux guy wr

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
> To fix Grub fast and easy, after editing the kernel grouping, or > anything else out of /boot/grub/grub.conf, you can grab a livecd that > works good on fixing a broken grub boot, called super grub disk (I have > used it plenty of times when a borked boot of a fedora box happened to > me) and it

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
ou need to. The chroot sessions allow you to use all the tools (in the correct versions) that you have installed on the hard drive. The non chroot sessions allow you to access the hard drives from a more global view, ie via /media/-/, etc. Pretty neat. I am going to reboot now... On 7/16/09,

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
ay ? Thanks HOWEVER On 7/16/09, linux guy wrote: > I think I got it fixed. Here is what I did in case someone needs it someday > :) > > - booted F9 Live. Just because I had it around. > - opened Dolphin, because it displays the hard drives for the machine > - opened a te

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
a bit if it does. On 7/16/09, linux guy wrote: > Will chroot work when the target system has a broken kernel ? It > keeps running the old kernel ? > > I tried using rpm with --dbpath so that it used the F11 rpm data. It > wouldn't run because of incompatible rpm versions. &

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
Will chroot work when the target system has a broken kernel ? It keeps running the old kernel ? I tried using rpm with --dbpath so that it used the F11 rpm data. It wouldn't run because of incompatible rpm versions. On 7/16/09, davide wrote: > linux guy gmail.com> writes: >

Re: Status of a 2.6.30 kernel ? Other sources for a 2.6.30 kernel.

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
I'll give adjusting the timeout a try. Thanks On 7/16/09, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:30:59 -0400, > linux guy wrote: >> So... I found the koji site and I found a 2.6.31-rc3 kernel rpm for >> fc12. It installed on my machine just fine with rpm

How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
So... I found the koji site and I found a 2.6.31-rc3 kernel rpm for fc12. It installed on my machine just fine with rpm -i. However, when I rebooted my computer all I got was a flashing cursor. No grub kernel select screen, no nothing. I am now running from a Fedora 9 live CD I had laying ar

Re: Status of a 2.6.30 kernel ? Other sources for a 2.6.30 kernel.

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
So... I found the koji site and I found a 2.6.31-rc3 kernel rpm for fc12. It installed on my machine just fine with rpm -i. However, when I rebooted my computer all I got was a flashing cursor. No grub kernel select screen, no nothing. I am now running from a Fedora 9 live CD I had laying around

Re: All I want for Christmas is... F10 KDE4.2 Live... for testing...

2008-12-10 Thread linux guy
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Rex Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > linux guy wrote: > > > nice thought, but impossible to fit gdb + *-debuginfo on a cd. > What if you went to a DVD ? We are concerned about finding bugs, right ? We should give the users the tools to ca

Re: All I want for Christmas is... F10 KDE4.2 Live... for testing...

2008-12-10 Thread linux guy
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Armin Moradi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do I get some data persistence ? For example, I just installed > firefox > > and the flash player on this session. How could they be present in my > next > > session ? I can't use konqueror to check my gmail accou

Re: All I want for Christmas is... F10 KDE4.2 Live... for testing...

2008-12-10 Thread linux guy
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:41 PM, linux guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as issues with KDE 4.2, what if we created a thread here and posted > our "findings" and you monitor it and tell us if and when to report a bug > and where to report it to ? > > Noth

Re: All I want for Christmas is... F10 KDE4.2 Live... for testing...

2008-12-10 Thread linux guy
As far as issues with KDE 4.2, what if we created a thread here and posted our "findings" and you monitor it and tell us if and when to report a bug and where to report it to ? Nothing worse that writing up a bug report and then having the devs tell you its not their domain... LG -- fedora-list

Re: All I want for Christmas is... F10 KDE4.2 Live... for testing...

2008-12-10 Thread linux guy
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Rex Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linuxguy123 wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 13:04 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > >> Linuxguy123 wrote: > >> > >> > Just a reminder to the powers that be that it would be great to have a > >> > F10 KDE4.2 Live iso so that we ge

OT ? Computing nirvana... new HP hdx laptop, F8 and dolphin. :)

2008-09-30 Thread linux guy
Sorry if this is off topic, but I thought that I would share my recent computing happiness with the Linux community. I suspect that some people might find it inspiring and/or informative. My laptop died a while back so I bought a new HP hdx9494 on the weekend. For those not familiar with the HP

Re: audio not as loud

2008-09-30 Thread linux guy
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:03 PM, William Biggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dose any one know why my sound is not as loud it is in windows that it > is in linux my speakers are all the way up also the volume is all the > way up to ? > I don't know if it is a coincidence or not, but the volume on

Re: External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?

2008-09-29 Thread linux guy
Interesting tidbit... the external drive has 2 interfaces. USB and eSATA. I just mounted the drive and formatted it via USB without any problems. Now hwbrowser doesn't crash when the drive is connected via eSATA. But the drive doesn't appear in eSATA either. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-l

Re: External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?

2008-09-29 Thread linux guy
My laptop has the Intel 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller. (hwbrowser) According to http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html, Linux supports full hotplug for this chipset. = AHCI (newer Intel ICH, ULi, others) Driver name: ahci Summary

Re: External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?

2008-09-29 Thread linux guy
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > >I've got a new laptop with an eSATA port and a new (unformatted) eSATA > external hard drive. > > > >Is eSATA hot plug compatible with a stock F8 kernel ? > > Good question, and I don't know but I wonder if helping it

Re: Reverting from KDE4 to KDE3 (was Switching to KDE)

2008-09-29 Thread linux guy
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > linux guy wrote: > >> >> > >> FWIW, I miss Dolphin in F8. I did a "yum install dolphin" but no luck. >> > > # yum install d3lphin > Thanks -- fedora-list

Re: Reverting from KDE4 to KDE3 (was Switching to KDE)

2008-09-29 Thread linux guy
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > So it must be my imagination that I'm using it every day and have done > for a couple of months. > People used to use CP/M, MSDOS and Windows 2.0 too. It doesn't mean it was a great experience. I used F9 since ear

External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?

2008-09-29 Thread linux guy
I've got a new laptop with an eSATA port and a new (unformatted) eSATA external hard drive. Is eSATA hot plug compatible with a stock F8 kernel ? $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.26.3-14.fc8 #1 SMP Wed Sep 3 03:40:05 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux $ /sbin/lsmod | grep sat sata_sil24

Re: Reverting from KDE4 to KDE3 (was Switching to KDE)

2008-09-29 Thread linux guy
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Arthur Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 05:30 PM 9/29/2008, Craig White wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> In short, it was understood that KDE-4 was less than finished and even > >> with the

Re: LVMs really frustrating me... lv "Not available"

2008-09-29 Thread linux guy
Solved. Did a # /usr/sbin/vgchange -a y VolGroup00 File descriptor 5 left open File descriptor 7 left open 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active Then: # mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 /temp Thanks -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscrib

Re: LVMs really frustrating me... lv "Not available"

2008-09-29 Thread linux guy
Sorry if this is a new thread with the same title. I'm sending from a different mail client because my regular mail client is down and I can't do a reply to the existing thread. Anyhow... I'm trying to mount a logical volume to transfer data to my new laptop. I used to have a problem with dupli

LVMs really frustrating me...

2008-09-29 Thread linux guy
I'm trying to copy data from an old laptop drive to a new one. I spent a lot of time trying to mount /dev/sdb3, which I thought was the data part of the old hard drive. After a period of time, I found it to be a logical partition, not an ext3 partition. /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdb Command (m for hel

Re: USB keyboard and mouse stopped working in X ?

2008-09-17 Thread linux guy
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > You may be seeing this: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462606 which seems to be > caused by upgrading to Xorg 1.5. Note that one contributor suggests > trying a minimal xorg.conf. I haven't tried this b

USB keyboard and mouse stopped working in X ?

2008-09-17 Thread linux guy
I installed the latest F9 updates this morning via yum update. I'm running a Dell desktop. I'm using a Logitech USB keyboard and mouse. They worked fine for the last several years.I rebooted this afternoon because my computer seemed to be running really slow. When I got to the graphical lo

How do I start a new X session in KDE4 ?

2008-07-25 Thread linux guy
How do I start a new session in KDE4 ? I've tried starting from "Switch User", but that doesn't seem to work. Do I have to edit an X file first to allow more sessions to be made ? Thanks. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

I've corrupted my KDE session ! How do I fix it ?

2008-07-25 Thread linux guy
I accidentally ran my computer out of hard drive room. I'm running F9/ KDE4. Everything froze. I couldn't do anything with that session, so I started a new console session (ctrl-alt-F6) and did a "shutdown -r now". The computer rebooted. I logged into a console. I deleted the offending file,