Re: network profiles - do they work for you? they are broken for me!
by Valent Turkovic
On 5/25/07, John DeDourek <dedourek(a)unb.ca> wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > Can you please look at my youtube video and then respond if I use
> > system-config-network how it is not supposed to be used or if
> > system-config-network is broken?
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoy9k5euZRQ
> >
> > On 5/17/07, John DeDourek <dedourek(a)unb.ca> wrote:
> >> Valent Turkovic wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> > I tried using network profiles on my Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7
> >> > systems and they don't work for me.
> >> >
> >> > Can you tell me if you use network profiles build into
> >> > system-config-network and system-control-network tools?
> >> >
> >> > When I use gui system-config-network to setup network profiles no
> >> > matter which one I choose and edit I end up with all the profiles with
> >> > the same settings!
> >> >
> >> > I can't setup two different profiles!
> >> >
> >> > Can you please explain how do you use network profiles via
> >> > system-config-network ?
> >> >
> >> > Thank you.
> >> >
> >> First, I am doing this from home, from memory, so I can't
> >> give you exact wordings of menu items, nor exact location
> >> of menus. But this general procedure works for FC5. I can't
> >> at the moment verify it for FC6 or FC7.
> >>
> >> I use the following procedure.
> >> --I leave the configuration of all the interfaces as installed
> >> --I leave the contents of the default profile as installed
> >>
> >> When I want a new profile, say for my home lan, using the
> >> GUI:
> >> -- Make a "copy" of the appropriate lan interface
> >> -- Edit the copy of the lan interface (leaving the original
> >> alone); I usually change the name of the interface from
> >> the "Copy of eth0" to something like "HomeLan"; I also edit
> >> whatever other features I want to select for the home LAN,
> >> e.g. static or dynamic IP, etc.
> >> -- Create a new profile, say HomeLan; it doesn't bother me
> >> to have a profile and interface named the same; however
> >> if you find that confusing, name the interface "HomeLanIface"
> >> and name the profile "HomeLanProfile"
> >> -- Make sure only the appropriate interface (e.g. HomeLan" is
> >> now checked from the profile (HomeLan)
> >> -- Save it; (I think File->Save
> >> You're done
> >>
> >> What is hapening behind the scenes:
> >>
> >> Each of those interfaces is a script file containing bash
> >> variable assignments. You need a separate file for the LAN
> >> interface for each profile, because they need to have different
> >> values assigned to the variables. When you say that all the
> >> profiles are the same, I am presuming that you are not making
> >> a separate copy of the interface for each profile. So of course,
> >> you are always essentially constantly changing the values in
> >> the one and only interface file. These files are kept somewhere
> >> like /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/
> >>
> >> Each of the profiles is a directory, I think under
> >> /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/ In that directory is
> >> a symbolic link to each of the "device" files that is
> >> configured for that interface.
> >>
> >> When you switch profiles, the "device" files (which are
> >> named something like "ifcfg-HomeLanIface") for the old
> >> profile are deleted from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and
> >> the "device" files for the new profile are copied in.
> >> Actually, I think that's wrong; the scripts are probably not
> >> copied, but links are created. I seem to recall that they
> >> are hard links rather than symbolic links.
> >>
> >> BTW, if you use the commands /sbin/ifup and /sbin/ifdown rather
> >> than the GUI to bring the interfaces up and down, use the
> >> device name (interface name) that you created in the GUI,
> >> not the Linux interface name as you would use it in
> >> /sbin/ifconfig. That is, use
> >> /sbin/ifup HomeLanIface
> >> /sbin/ifdown HomeLanIface
> >>
> >> Hope this is useful to you.
> >>
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> >>
> >
> >
> An important point: I am describing the situation for FC5; hopefully it has
> not changed in your fedora.
>
> You omitted the first step in what I described. You need to
> have two separate copies of the DEVICE. I see only one device,
> called eth0. Make a copy of the DEVICE. You click on it and click
> the "Copy" button. The second device will be by default called
> "Copy of eth0".
What you do works, but that is a workaround. It is definitely not
supposed to work this way!
Please look also at this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd0HaQE1YcQ
and this video also:
On this last video you can see clearly how profiles are suposed to
work on fedora 7 (and also 6) but they don't work! When you change one
profile all profiles change!
This is definitely a bug for me.
I just found out that it is already on bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136846
16 years, 11 months
rawhide report: 20070527 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
gnome-pilot-2.0.15-5.fc7
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* Wed Apr 18 2007 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.15-5.fc7
- Add patch for RH bug #198211 (unresolved symbols in libraries).
- Add autoconf and automake as build requirements, since we now have to
run autoreconf before configure.
* Wed Feb 07 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.15-4
- Use desktop-file-install
- Remove invalid category Application, add HardwareSettings
- Other small spec cleanups
16 years, 11 months
New package on the wishlist
by Gianluca Sforna
I just added Tribler to the wishlist at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList.
>From the "what is Tribler page":
Tribler is a social community that facilitates filesharing through a
so called peer-to-peer (p2p) network. A p2p network is structural
different to a server-computer structure, where every user downloads
its files from one central server. Within p2p the user/downloader
becomes also an uploader to the next user. In this way there is no
central computer that provides every file to all users.
If you think that sounds like the Democracy player description, you
are probably right...
16 years, 11 months
CPU overheating
by Ahmed Kamal
Hi,
On my toshiba satellite A105, hibernating (suspend to disk) works very well.
Suspending to RAM, also works beautifuly, it suspends, flashes the orange
power button, and resumes perfectly.
Only problem is (yes there has to be one), waking up from suspend to ram, it
seems the CPU fan does not run (or runs at minimal speed). Which is why, the
temperature overheats (100C or so) then I could smell my CPU burning (you
can imagine how angry/scared that made me) and a few minutes later, the
hardware protection circuits would poweroff the laptop (thank God).
I have a bugzie opened (233246) over two months ago, and havent heard from
anyone. Since this bug can destroy hardware, and since my satellite laptop
is hardly rare hardware, my preception is that this bug should get some
attention. I'm open for any testing for quircks that might solve this. Let
me know of any tricks/quirks I can test, so we can add this to quirks mode.
PS: I'm still on FC6 though (latest update), not sure if I need to be on F7
16 years, 11 months
What's with Nautilus?
by J French
Under Nautilus, if you try to remove items (move them to the trash or
hit Delete with them selected) that are on an NFS drive, you get an
error "Not on the same filesystem". Now let me ask you, in a corporate
environment, how many people's home directories are actually on the
"same" filesystem? And the same as what? The only recourse here is to
turn on the "Include a Delete command that bypasses trash" and use that
instead, which completely negates the whole point of the trash bin -
meaning if I accidentally delete something that I need, I have to go
through an hour long process of attempting to recover it by rebuilding
the inodes (someone know an easy way to do this?). While this is just
one example, this issue actually affects me by quite a bit as my own
workstation is mapped via NFS to a dozen or so other machines (data
servers, web servers, storage servers, etc) and I've worked this way for
years - as have quite a few other people, I'm sure.
Next up - Nautilus again: I do A LOT of development in quite a few
different languages. If I try to just double click, for instance, an sql
dump, I get errors like "this is a VHDL document and requires that
extension". Or, if I open a php script that happens to contain only
HTML, I get "this looks like HTML rather than PHP". Why does Nautilus
care? These are raw text files, which gedit is perfectly capable of
handling. In fact, should you attempt to open a binary file through
gedit (the only time this should matter), gedit will kindly tell you as
much. Am I really expected to go through everyone's files and assign the
extensions Nautilus expects just to get around having to go Open With
and, sometimes even have to choose Text Editor from "Other
Applications"? I can understand this behavior for binary files, but
that's not what I'm talking about here.
These two issues, while they may seem small at first, actually impact
productivity by quite a bit. I don't rant much, but this is starting to
get ridiculous. I didn't have these issues under FC5 or 6 and have been
seriously considering downgrading my workstation back to 6 and leaving
it there (which I still might do).
OK, I'm done now.
16 years, 11 months
IBM ThinkPad R52 Quirk submission
by Valent Turkovic
I have tested Fedora 7 Live CD and make IBM R52 work with a quirk and
I would like submit my findings so that IBM R52 JustWorks for other
people in Fedora 7.
I managed to suspend and resume 5 times from X and 2 times from
console1 (ctrl-alt-f1) with this quirk:
pm-suspend --quirk-s3-bios
the info I collected from lshal is:
system.hardware.vendor = 'IBM'
system.hardware.version = 'ThinkPad R52'
please include this laptop as soon as possible so that Fedora 7
JustWorks with it when it ships.
Thank you.
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16 years, 11 months
rawhide report: 20070526 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
anaconda-11.2.0.66-1
--------------------
* Fri May 25 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 11.2.0.66-1
- fix dhcp netconfig in DVD-based rescue mode or repo adding (dcantrell)
gnome-pilot-2.0.15-3.fc7
------------------------
* Fri Dec 01 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.15-3.fc7
- Remove patch for GNOME bug #362565 (fixed upstream).
* Mon Nov 27 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.15-2.fc7
- Rebuild against pilot-link-0.12.
* Fri Nov 24 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.15-1.fc7
- Update to 2.0.15
smolt-0.9.8.1-1.fc7
-------------------
* Thu May 24 2007 Mike McGrath <mmcgrath(a)redhat.com> - 0.9.8.1
- Upstream released new version
* Sun Apr 22 2007 Mike McGrath <mmcgrath(a)redhat.com> - 0.9.7.1-3
- Added smolt icons
* Tue Apr 17 2007 Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff(a)ocjtech.us> - 0.9.6-4
- Add standard scriptlets in pre & post to handle init script - fixes #236776
- Use the find_lang macro to find/mark translations.
16 years, 11 months