Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 20:35 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: > Well, yes, it can be a hardware failure, but then it's a rather > strange coincidence that the crashes started happening immediately > after upgrading to F13 (from F10). Not really so strange. If you have dodgy hardware, something that stre

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 17:48 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > I love the whooshing sound deadlines make as they go past, don't you? ;-) There's that feeling of relief as you give in and acknowledge that you've missed it, and decide to work at your own pace, as it's already too late. Or give up, and ditch

RE: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 16:12 -0700, compdoc wrote: > There are no dangerous voltages inside the PSU as long as > the power cord is unplugged from the wall. Wrong! In a country with 240 volt mains, the big capacitor in a switchmode power supply may have around 400 volts across it. For 110 volt cou

Re: internet apps don't connect in FC14

2011-02-26 Thread bruce
but the OP had stated that NM wasn't active.. and i'm still not convinced that NM is "reporting" to Firefox. Which isn't to say that FF isn't accessing something to connect to the the port. On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:20 AM, bruce wrote: >> On Sa

RE: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Anne Wilson wrote: >On Saturday 26 February 2011 15:10:24 Suresh Govindachar wrote: >>Alan Cox replied as follows: >>>On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:27:44 -0800 >>>"Suresh Govindachar" wrote: >>> In my attempts at replacing Windows on my Dell M6400 laptop with [Fedora was missing

Re: internet apps don't connect in FC14

2011-02-26 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:20 AM, bruce wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: >> On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 20:29 -0500, Jim Philips wrote: >>> >>> I installed FC14 today on my laptop. I can connect to the Internet and >>> download software. I can also ping sites out on

RE: What do these rpms do?

2011-02-26 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:29:02 -0800 >> "Suresh Govindachar" wrote: >> >> Please explain the role played by the material in each >> of the following three rpms found on rpmfusion: I was able to look inside two of the three rpms -- although commands like rpm2cpi

Re: internet apps don't connect in FC14

2011-02-26 Thread bruce
are you sure about this??? where is the pointer to docs to state this? i seriously doubt that firefox has any way of knowing about NM specifically.. but it is curious that you can ping, but not access via FF.. what happens if you download/check with Opera.. On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Pa

Re: internet apps don't connect in FC14

2011-02-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/26/2011 08:43 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Which browser? Firefox and Evolution both use NetworkManager to > determine if the machine is connected. Even if the network is working, > if NM is not configured to manage the interface, these apps will think > there is no connection. That's in

Re: internet apps don't connect in FC14

2011-02-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 20:29 -0500, Jim Philips wrote: > I installed FC14 today on my laptop. I can connect to the Internet and > download software. I can also ping sites out on the Internet from the > command line. However, the browser refuses to load any pages and > Evolution won't connect to a ma

Re: F14 HDMI port delivers no output to SONY 40" LCD TV

2011-02-26 Thread Chris Smart
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:20 PM, barry yu wrote: > I have an HP Pavilion dv3 AMD Tution x2 dual core, pre loaded Vista H > Premium 64bit, the HDMI function works soon as the Vista starts booting > into desktop, both sound and video works fine with Sony 40" LCD 16x9 TV > through HDMI, I installed F

F14 HDMI port delivers no output to SONY 40" LCD TV

2011-02-26 Thread barry yu
I have an HP Pavilion dv3 AMD Tution x2 dual core, pre loaded Vista H Premium 64bit, the HDMI function works soon as the Vista starts booting into desktop, both sound and video works fine with Sony 40" LCD 16x9 TV through HDMI, I installed F14 to dual boot with Vista and Vista still still works fin

Re: internet apps don't connect in FC14

2011-02-26 Thread Jim Philips
I discovered that while I can ping to www.google.com, I can't do a traceroute to the same address. It won't resolve the name. On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Jim Philips wrote: > I installed FC14 today on my laptop. I can connect to the Internet and > download software. I can also ping sites out

Fedora does not see hard drives

2011-02-26 Thread Alexander Wimbush
Hello, I'm trying to use Fedora to view two 500GB hard drives I have in my computer after windows stopped booting. I will admit that I did something stupid, I used the Marvell RAID utility on my windows 7 system to create a new adapter and added both drives to it in RAID 0. The system stopped respo

Re: internet apps don't connect in FC14

2011-02-26 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 02/26/11 18:29, Jim Philips wrote: > I installed FC14 today on my laptop. I can connect to the Internet and > download software. I can also ping sites out on the Internet from the > command line. However, the browser refuses to load any pages and > Evolution won't connect to a mail server. I tri

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/26/2011 05:29 PM, Andras Simon wrote: > No, I thought it always waited for the most inopportune moment. An > important deadline, to mention just one possibility... :-) I love the whooshing sound deadlines make as they go past, don't you? Seriously, though, there's one even more awkward mo

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/27/11, Tom Horsley wrote: >> Well, yes, it can be a hardware failure, but then it's a >>rather strange coincidence that the crashes started >>happening immediately > > Don't you know that hardware always waits till new software > is installed before it breaks? :-). No, I thought it always wa

internet apps don't connect in FC14

2011-02-26 Thread Jim Philips
I installed FC14 today on my laptop. I can connect to the Internet and download software. I can also ping sites out on the Internet from the command line. However, the browser refuses to load any pages and Evolution won't connect to a mail server. I tried turning off the firewall altogether and thi

Re: cdparanoia for DVDs?

2011-02-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 19:34 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > JB wrote: > > Patrick O'Callaghan gmail.com> writes: > > > >> ... > > > > You may try (I have not tried it myself ...): > > 1. readcd > > read and write again > > 2. dvdisaster > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdisaster/ > >

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup? ***AIX 6.11 is no better ***

2011-02-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/27/2011 08:30 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > These people not only don't pay for good advice, they won't even take it for > free in many cases. > Good luck to you. No matter what direction you take, the chances are sometime in the future the situation will become totally untenable. I've seen t

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread David
On 27 February 2011 06:02, Andras Simon wrote: > > I'd love to capture the whole message, but by this time > the machine is unresponsive, and 30 seconds is way too short for me to > copy it all. Its would be useful to know what the _exact_ error message is, especially if it is consistent every ti

Re: cdparanoia for DVDs?

2011-02-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
JB wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan gmail.com> writes: > >> ... > > You may try (I have not tried it myself ...): > 1. readcd > read and write again > 2. dvdisaster > http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdisaster/ > > http://riplinton.blogspot.com/2008/04/using-gnulinux-tools-to-recover-dvd

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup? ***AIX 6.11 is no better ***

2011-02-26 Thread Larry Vaden
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Larry Vaden wrote: >> >> I'm wondering how long it would take to write nslookup in perl. No, I'm not >> joking. > > It was in > > BSD/OS home.texoma.net 4.0.1 BSDI BSD/OS 4.0.1 Kernel #5: Thu Dec 30 > 20:38:22 CST 1999     r...@mail.texoma.net:/usr/src/sys/compile

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup? ***AIX 6.11 is no better ***

2011-02-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/27/2011 07:31 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> After some checking, it appears that AIX has dropped support for nslookup >> between AIX 5 and 6, the management solution was to "look harder" for the >> fully >> functional source. :-( > > You're management *still* has it wrong.

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup? ***AIX 6.11 is no better ***

2011-02-26 Thread Larry Vaden
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> I may be able to get the AIX source, possibilities abound. >>> >> >> Have I got *NEWS* for you >> >> I have a friend up in Korea with access to AIX machines.  Their AIX >> server is running 6.11 >> >> It has exact

xterm font issue

2011-02-26 Thread Mark LaPierre
Hey Y'all, When I start an xterm I get: [mlapier@mushroom ATC]$ xterm Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct xterm: cannot load font -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 [mlapier@mushroom ATC]$ xterm -version X.Org 6.8.99.903(261) [mlapier@mushroom

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup? ***AIX 6.11 is no better ***

2011-02-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/27/2011 07:31 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > After some checking, it appears that AIX has dropped support for nslookup > between AIX 5 and 6, the management solution was to "look harder" for the > fully > functional source. :-( You're management *still* has it wrong. AIX and every Linux dist

Re: FC15 and GNOME3

2011-02-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> >> I read in a non-Fedora list that GNOME3 has dropped the ability to do power >> management, and that all laptops will suspend when the cover is closed, like >> it >> or not. Hopefully that's just a users who doesn't know h

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup? ***AIX 6.11 is no better ***

2011-02-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ed Greshko wrote: > >> I may be able to get the AIX source, possibilities abound. >> > > Have I got *NEWS* for you > > I have a friend up in Korea with access to AIX machines. Their AIX > server is running 6.11 > > It has exactly the same nslookup as provided on the various Linux > vendors I m

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Tom Horsley
> Well, yes, it can be a hardware failure, but then it's a >rather strange coincidence that the crashes started >happening immediately Don't you know that hardware always waits till new software is installed before it breaks? :-). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

RE: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread compdoc
> Well, yes, it can be a hardware failure, but then it's a >rather strange coincidence that the crashes started >happening immediately I do IT for small businesses, and I fix just these sorts of problems. And I can tell you from experience - these kinds of coincidences happen fairly often. In any

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, JB wrote: > JB gmail.com> writes: > >> ... > > # yum install mcelog > > # cat /etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron > so, of interest is /var/log/mcelog . > > # cat /usr/share/doc/mcelog-.../README > so, make sure /dev/mcelog is created . > > # man mcelog > DESCRIPTION > > > NOTE: > ... >

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, Gabriel Ramirez wrote: > On 02/26/2011 01:35 PM, Andras Simon wrote: >> Well, yes, it can be a hardware failure, but then it's a rather >> strange coincidence that the crashes started happening immediately >> after upgrading to F13 (from F10). Besides, even if it's a hardware >> failu

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, Joe Zeff wrote: > If the OP has an nVidia card and is using their drivers (either directly > or through kmod-nvidia) and has the screensaver set to random, it's a I'm using the nouveau driver and no screensaver. > possibility. Several years ago I had the same issue and found, by >

Re: cdparanoia for DVDs?

2011-02-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 08:55 +, JB wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan gmail.com> writes: > > > ... > > You may try (I have not tried it myself ...): > 1. readcd >read and write again > 2. dvdisaster >http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdisaster/ > > http://riplinton.blogspot.com/2008/04/u

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/26/2011 12:01 PM, Andras Simon wrote: > On 2/26/11, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a similar problem and a FC13 and on a FC14 machines. >> It seems to be due to the screensaver. > > I see nothing here that would point in that direction. > Of course, you never know... > If the O

Re: kernel man page

2011-02-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 26Feb2011 17:49, Mark Ryden wrote: | Well, thanks! | It sure helped. I installed kernel-doc rpm. Now I have | "man request_threaded_irq" ( but not "request_irq", which was | substituted by request_threaded_irq) You may find "apropos irq" will help find changes like that. -- Cameron Simpson D

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Gabriel Ramirez
On 02/26/2011 01:35 PM, Andras Simon wrote: > On 2/26/11, Heinz Diehl wrote: > >> Most likely, this is some kind of hardware failure. I have fixed many >> machines which passed memtest over a period of more than 3 days by >> changing the memory modules. A BIOS bug, an overheated chipset and/or >>

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread JB
JB gmail.com> writes: > ... # yum install mcelog # cat /etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron so, of interest is /var/log/mcelog . # cat /usr/share/doc/mcelog-.../README so, make sure /dev/mcelog is created . # man mcelog DESCRIPTION NOTE: ... On newer kernels it can also be triggered directly us

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, JB wrote: > Get familiar with this: > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-server-predicting-hardware-failure.html Thanks, but as I said earlier, mcelog reported nothing. Andras -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I have a similar problem and a FC13 and on a FC14 machines. > It seems to be due to the screensaver. I see nothing here that would point in that direction. Of course, you never know... Andras -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 20:02:26 +0100, > Andras Simon wrote: >> >> The crashes seem to happen more frequently when I'm doing something >> interactively (even if it's just browsing, running yum). This morning >> it was running for hours under heavy load with

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Alan Cox
> Found info on fwcutter at http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 Its also in the Fedora repository > I think fwcutter is, essentially, a linux tool that extracts > firmware from Windows driver. Basically yes > But why such an indirect approach when Broadcom supports Linux

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Alan Cox
> I think the reason why Broadcom's firmware is not in Fedora is > because Broadcom does not provide (VHDL, Verilog or whatever) > source code for the firmware, and Fedora.org wants source code > for everything in it distributes. You think wrongly. There is lots of firmware included in Fedora

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I have a similar problem and a FC13 and on a FC14 machines. It seems to be due to the screensaver. I reported the bugs, one today. For the other one, I never got any feedback ! Regards. -- --- == Patrick DUPRÉ

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, Heinz Diehl wrote: > Most likely, this is some kind of hardware failure. I have fixed many > machines which passed memtest over a period of more than 3 days by > changing the memory modules. A BIOS bug, an overheated chipset and/or > CPU, faulty memory or simply a chip on your mainboa

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread JB
Andras Simon gmail.com> writes: > ... > If X runs, then it dies and only a blank console with a cursor at the > upper left corner can be seen for half a minute; then reboot starts. > Otherwise, there's a longish message on the console about a machine > check exception, saying a lot of things, su

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 20:02:26 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: > > The crashes seem to happen more frequently when I'm doing something > interactively (even if it's just browsing, running yum). This morning > it was running for hours under heavy load with no problems, but > crashed a few minutes a

Re: Fedora Weekly News?

2011-02-26 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Sat, 2/26/11, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > From: Jorge Fábregas > Subject: Re: Fedora Weekly News? > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Saturday, February 26, 2011, 7:53 AM > On 02/26/2011 11:34 AM, Timothy > Murphy wrote: > > Does this still exist? > > Yes; the messages are sent to

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:53:23 -0800, Suresh Govindachar wrote: > > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > > That's not what I said. That page is Broadcom distributing > > the firmware. They don't let other people do it (at least > > not without signing a contract). > > Not so; I have rea

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, agraham wrote: > On 02/26/2011 05:33 PM, Chris Tyler wrote: >> On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 18:21 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: >>> My desktop machine started having random crashes last summer when >>> I installed Fedora 13 (x86_64) on it. >> (snip) >> >> A bit more information would help us mak

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, Chris Tyler wrote: > On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 18:21 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: >> My desktop machine started having random crashes last summer when >> I installed Fedora 13 (x86_64) on it. > (snip) > > A bit more information would help us make some useful suggestions -- Sure! > What kin

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.02.2011, Andras Simon wrote: > My desktop machine started having random crashes last summer when > I installed Fedora 13 (x86_64) on it. Now I upgraded to Fedora > 14, and this has only got worse: before, uptimes could be > anything between 3 minutes and a month, now it's a few hours > at m

Re: Wayland and F15 ?

2011-02-26 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:43:02 +1100 Philip Rhoades wrote: > People, > > Is Wayland going to be available in Fedora 15 ? Yep. Not that it really does much of anything currently. The demos are not currently able to be built (needs an experimental feature in cairo thats not stable enough to enabl

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:53:23 -0800, Suresh Govindachar wrote: > > Not so; I have read their licence.txt -- have you? The > licence.txt is in simple English (not leaglease) -- it allows > distribution of the firmware. I hadn't read one since they started providing an open source drive

Re: What do these rpms do?

2011-02-26 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:29:02 -0800 "Suresh Govindachar" wrote: > > Hello, > > Please explain the role played by the material in each of > the following three rpms found on rpmfusion: You describe the role under each one? How can we expand on it? :) The common subpackage has the docs a

Re: Wayland and F15 ?

2011-02-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 01:43 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote: > People, > > Is Wayland going to be available in Fedora 15 ? You'd be better asking this on the Fedora Test list, which is where F15 matters will be discussed until it's released. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread agraham
On 02/26/2011 05:33 PM, Chris Tyler wrote: > On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 18:21 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: >> My desktop machine started having random crashes last summer when >> I installed Fedora 13 (x86_64) on it. > (snip) > > A bit more information would help us make some useful suggestions -- > > Wha

RE: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Bruno Wolff III wrote: >On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:06:25 -0800, > Suresh Govindachar wrote: >>Bruno Wolff III wrote: >>>On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 15:10:24 +, >>> Suresh Govindachar wrote: But why such an indirect approach when Broadcom supports Linux on: htt

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 18:21 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: > My desktop machine started having random crashes last summer when > I installed Fedora 13 (x86_64) on it. (snip) A bit more information would help us make some useful suggestions -- What kind of hardware? (lshw can be useful here) What kin

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 18:21:05 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: > > I never found anything interesting in the logs. Did you notice any other patterns? I have seen hard to track down bugs that were correlated with system activity. For example I am pretty sure there is a bug with resyncing software

random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
My desktop machine started having random crashes last summer when I installed Fedora 13 (x86_64) on it. Now I upgraded to Fedora 14, and this has only got worse: before, uptimes could be anything between 3 minutes and a month, now it's a few hours at most. I never found anything interesting in the

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:06:25 -0800, Suresh Govindachar wrote: > > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 15:10:24 +, > > Suresh Govindachar wrote: > >> > >> But why such an indirect approach when Broadcom supports Linux > >> on: http://www.broadcom.com/suppor

RE: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Bruno Wolff III wrote: >On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 15:10:24 +, > Suresh Govindachar wrote: >> >> But why such an indirect approach when Broadcom supports Linux >> on: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php (such >> support has existed since October 2008.) > >B

Re: FC15 and GNOME3

2011-02-26 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > I read in a non-Fedora list that GNOME3 has dropped the ability to do power > management, and that all laptops will suspend when the cover is closed, like > it > or not. Hopefully that's just a users who doesn't know how to do config, but

FC15 and GNOME3

2011-02-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
I read in a non-Fedora list that GNOME3 has dropped the ability to do power management, and that all laptops will suspend when the cover is closed, like it or not. Hopefully that's just a users who doesn't know how to do config, but some feedback would be helpful, that behavior would be a total

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 15:10:24 +, Suresh Govindachar wrote: > > But why such an indirect approach when Broadcom supports Linux > on: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php (such > support has existed since October 2008.) Because they don't let people redistribute thei

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 February 2011 15:10:24 Suresh Govindachar wrote: > Alan Cox replied as follows: > >On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:27:44 -0800 > > > >"Suresh Govindachar" wrote: > >> In my attempts at replacing Windows on my Dell M6400 laptop > >> with [Fedora was missing in OP]-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso, >

Re: fc8 upgrade

2011-02-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jorgen Lundman wrote: > > Hello list, > > Senior unix admin, but relatively fresh Linux admin. I run a fc8 box only for > cross-compiling, as so many toolchains come pre-compiled for it. > > However, today I found the need to finally upgrade. This is an account of > what I > went through, and not

Re: Shared encrypted filesystem

2011-02-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mike Wohlgemuth wrote: > On 02/23/2011 05:04 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> You have the right idea, I want to decrypt on the client, rather than mount >> on >> the server, thus the data on the server is just a file full of encrypted >> data, >> and not available as clear text there. I was thinking

Re: Yum's database and configure, ..., make install

2011-02-26 Thread Larry Vaden
Suresh et al, Please find below John Stanley's additional response (apparently, John isn't on the list). -- Forwarded message -- From: John Stanley Date: Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:37 AM Subject: Re: Yum's database and configure, ..., make install To: Larry Vaden > >  2) Similar qu

Re: Fedora Weekly News?

2011-02-26 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 02/26/2011 11:34 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Does this still exist? Yes; the messages are sent to annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org ...so make sure you're subscribed there. -- Jorge -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin

Re: kernel man page

2011-02-26 Thread Mark Ryden
Well, thanks! It sure helped. I installed kernel-doc rpm. Now I have "man request_threaded_irq" ( but not "request_irq", which was substituted by request_threaded_irq) rgs, mark On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:31 PM, David wrote: > On 26 February 2011 21:53, Mark Ryden wrote: >> Hello, >> Is there so

Wayland and F15 ?

2011-02-26 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, Is Wayland going to be available in Fedora 15 ? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

Fedora Weekly News?

2011-02-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
Does this still exist? I was looking through some old email (2008/2009), and I see it was still appearing then, although it seemed to be getting more and more bureacratic, with reports from committees whose pontifications were generally unintelligible to me. Earlier on, IIRC, this newsletter used

What do these rpms do?

2011-02-26 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Hello, Please explain the role played by the material in each of the following three rpms found on rpmfusion: 1) broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-1.fc13.noarch.rpm Common files for Broadcom 802.11 STA driver This package contains the license, readme and configuration files for the

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Alan Cox replied as follows: >On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:27:44 -0800 >"Suresh Govindachar" wrote: >> >> In my attempts at replacing Windows on my Dell M6400 laptop >> with [Fedora was missing in OP]-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso, >> I have gotten as far as being able to create a live usb >> stick. My n

Re: cdparanoia for DVDs?

2011-02-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 08:55 +, JB wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan gmail.com> writes: > > > ... > > You may try (I have not tried it myself ...): > 1. readcd >read and write again > 2. dvdisaster >http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdisaster/ > > http://riplinton.blogspot.com/2008/04/u

Re: kernel man page

2011-02-26 Thread JB
Mark Ryden gmail.com> writes: > > Hello, > Is there some rpm for kernel man pages ? > For example, I see that there is man page in section 9 for request_irq() > http://www.fiveanddime.net/man-pages/request_irq.9.html > but on my system : > man request_irq > No manual entry for request_irq > rgs,

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 February 2011 11:55:34 Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:27:44 -0800 > > "Suresh Govindachar" wrote: > > Hello, > > > > In my attempts at replacing Windows on my Dell M6400 laptop > > with -14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso, I have gotten as far as > > being able to create a

Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

2011-02-26 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:27:44 -0800 "Suresh Govindachar" wrote: > > Hello, > > In my attempts at replacing Windows on my Dell M6400 laptop > with -14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso, I have gotten as far as > being able to create a live usb stick. My next step is to get > on the internet via th

Re: kernel man page

2011-02-26 Thread David
On 26 February 2011 21:53, Mark Ryden wrote: > Hello, > Is there some rpm for kernel man pages ? > For example, I see that there is man page in section 9 for request_irq() > http://www.fiveanddime.net/man-pages/request_irq.9.html > but on my system : > man request_irq > No manual entry for request

kernel man page

2011-02-26 Thread Mark Ryden
Hello, Is there some rpm for kernel man pages ? For example, I see that there is man page in section 9 for request_irq() http://www.fiveanddime.net/man-pages/request_irq.9.html but on my system : man request_irq No manual entry for request_irq rgs, Mark -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

Re: cdparanoia for DVDs?

2011-02-26 Thread JB
Patrick O'Callaghan gmail.com> writes: > ... You may try (I have not tried it myself ...): 1. readcd read and write again 2. dvdisaster http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdisaster/ http://riplinton.blogspot.com/2008/04/using-gnulinux-tools-to-recover-dvd.html JB -- users mailing lis

Extending snmp

2011-02-26 Thread Donald Russell
I'm thinking of adding some function to snmp and it seems I can call custom scripts based on specific OIDs... My question is, how do I know which OID number hierarchy I can use so I don't conflict with other MIBs? And where can I find information on coding my own MIB so my snmp reads/writes can us