Chicken and egg madwifi question
by Gordon Charrick
I'm running fc3 on my computer and almost ready to upgrade to fc4. I
have a wireless card using madwifi from atrpms.net. If I upgrade to fc4,
I'll be running 2.6.11-1.1369. Axel's web site only has a prebuilt
module for the latest 2.6.12 kernels and I haven't been able to find any
old modules on the net. Trying to build the module using the source rpm
gets me this:
$ rpmbuild -bb madwifi-0.9.4.12-16.rhfc4.at.spec
error: line 1: Unknown tag: %kmdl madwifi
So, my choices are the following:
1. Figure out how to build the module from the source rpm. Anyone know
what I'm missing to build it?
2. Do the upgrade and have the 2.6.12 kernel and madwifi module already
downloaded and hope I don't run into a dependency problem.
3. Find someplace on the net that archives old madwifi modules for the
original fc4 kernel version.
Obviously, number 3 is the best choice, if I can find such a site.
What's the best solution to the problem?
18 years, 7 months
Kaddressbook forgeting changes
by Dotan Cohen
In Kaddressbook 3.4.2 on FC4 I find that if I edit a contact (change
his name, add/remove categories) that when I open it up again, the
changes are lost.
I DO hit save in the contact when I update, and I DO hit File-> Save
before I exit the program. Why won't it save? I have saved in the past
(some months ago), using the same procedure that I use now.
I tried googling for "Kaddressbook save", "Kaddressbook lost
addresses", and "Kaddressbook forgetting" but found nothing relevant.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Dotan Cohen
http://technology-sleuth.com/communications_technology/cellphones.php
18 years, 7 months
Lost front speakers with 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 (SB Live 5.1 Gamer)
by spmirowski
Hello,
I installed 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 yesterday. Sound worked fine on the prior
3-4 or so kernel releases. The only sound option that remained on the
Playback
tab of Volume Control was a 3 bar EMU10K1 PCM controller, which I have never
seen before. I added Wave Surround in to get the rear speakers working.
There is no longer an option for Master and if I check on Wave, etc, it
wont add it
to the sound panel. Plain PCM option is also missing.
Thanks,
Stephen
18 years, 7 months
kernel-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4, problem noticed
by Kevin Verma
Hello,
I have noitced an issue with kernel-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4, where
/etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables will hang. As noticed hangs while unloading
the iptables modules. This also cases an hold to shutdown.
I will like to know if anyone else have noticed the same.
Thanks for reading,
18 years, 7 months
Installation problems with Fedora Core 4
by Anthony Tse
l have got the problems when l install the fedora core 4
when l press enter in the install main menu, it will then go to choose the
language and the keyboard type which is fine. After that, l will receive the
message asking me "what type of media contains the packages to be
installed?". There are 4 options to choose from:
Local CDROM
Hard Drive
NFS image
FTP
HTTP
However, my image is burn into DVD and the original image checksum is
correct. So l think all the packages is within the DVD and it should be
automatically detected. How to solve the problems as state in the warning
message?
18 years, 7 months
Re: Problems with Grub
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
jtollefson(a)tj3systems.com wrote:
>Good day all,
>I've been trying to load up a second HD with Windows XP on it this
>morning. I've been reading through the GRUB menu and alot of what I can
>find on Google but still to no avail. Any suggestions?
>My current grub.conf
>title Windows XP
> map (hd0) (hd1)
> map (hd1) (hd0)
> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> chainloader +1
> makeactive
>
>It looks like it starts to load the OS because the HD light comes on but
>it just hangs.
>
My laptop's (HP Pavilion zv6015) grub.conf:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,2)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda6
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda3
default=0
timeout=9
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.13-1.1526_FC4)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
no_timer_check=0
initrd /initrd-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1456_FC4)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
no_timer_check=0
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4.img
title Windoze XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
I keep Windoze on it since that seems the only way to get BIOS updates.
Cheers,
Dave
18 years, 7 months
More bugs in newest update of KDE in FC3/FC4
by Peter Magnusson
So, I got no reply on my other email. Nobody uses KDE? Nobody of the
developers give a shit? Here is it again, with some more bugs I have found.
Named 5 and forward..
Im sorry that I trused Fedora to update my computer but I really need to
get KDE working again. I promise to put *kde* under Hold in apt.conf
and NEVER EVER upgrade any kde packges again before I upgrade this FC3
box to a newer FC or something else. That will happend when FC3 isnt
updated with security updates anymore.
Or is it some other FC3 Repository that I have in my sources.list.d
that is responsible for this mess? Right now I have
dag.list dries.list freshrpms.list mirror-select.list newrpms.list
os.list in sources.list.d. These are my kde versions right now:
kdelibs-3.4.2-0.fc3.2
kdeartwork-3.4.2-0.fc3.1
kdevelop-3.2.2-0.fc3.1
kdemultimedia-3.4.2-0.fc3.1
kdegraphics-3.4.2-0.fc3.1
kdebase-3.4.2-0.fc3.3
kdesdk-devel-3.3.1-1
openoffice.org-kde-1.1.3-11.5.0.fc3
kdeaddons-3.4.2-0.fc3.1
kdebase-devel-3.4.2-0.fc3.3
kdegraphics-devel-3.4.2-0.fc3.1
kdeutils-devel-3.4.2-0.fc3.1
kdesdk-3.3.1-1
kdepim-3.4.2-0.fc3.1
kdegames-3.4.2-0.fc3.1
kdenetwork-3.4.2-0.fc3.1
kdepim-devel-3.4.2-0.fc3.1
kdenetwork-devel-3.4.2-0.fc3.1
kdelibs-devel-3.4.2-0.fc3.2
kdeadmin-3.4.2-0.fc3.1
kdeutils-3.4.2-0.fc3.1
It isnt named with some extension so I assume its from the offical Fedora
team?
So if this isnt gonna be fixed, is it just to remove these rpms and install
the older again? Is it something that I need to think about? However, this
doesnt fix exactly the same problem on my laptop that uses FC4.
## orginal text ##
I discovered it on my FC3 workstation. But my FC4 laptop got the same problem.
KDE in FC3 was updated from 3.2.2 (something, not sure) to 3.4.2 recently.
4 bugs in that KDE version:
1:
When I iconify emacs (and this problem only applys to emacs) so I just see the
menubar... Then emacs and the X server will use 100% cpu until I kill it. This
is CLEARLY a bug. And its very annoying. It worked before the update. If I
iconify emacs so the window is completely removed from the desktop this problem
doesnt happend.
2:
Klipper sometimes gets in a loop and popups an action window for URLs, new
window within some seconds all the time. Very annoying. You have to clear the
history to get rid of the problem. It wasnt like this in the previous version
of KDE.
3:
It amazes me that KDE STILL has problems with fonts that are changing between
the KDE sessions. It has been like this for like... 4 years.
Why is it so hard to solve? Now I use quite high and non-standard resolution
(1792x1344) but a year ago I used only 1600x1200 and had the same problem then.
Especially the font named "General font" are changing. If I set it to 10
it will be 10... When I logout and login again it might be the same or it will
get so small all of a sudden and I have to change it to 11... And when I logout
and login again... Then its too big. So I have to change back to 10. Why is
this never fixed?
But it can happend with other fonts also, but its more seldom. The taskbar
crasched today, it was automaticlly restarted. But guess what? It was restarted
with a much smaller fontsize. If I change it now it probably will be wrong when
I logout and in again.
4:
Delete is gone, I have to press shift to see it when deleting something from
konq. I dont use the trash basket in KDE. Best would be if it was possible if
KDE could ask me to delete files when I select some and press the delete key
and not ask me if I want to put it in trash. Is that possible?
## even more bugs ##
5:
kedit cant open files thats begins with "[", it says "You have specified a
folder".
6:
Konq cant open dirs that begins with "[".
7:
Turning off Enable actions in Klipper crashes in taskbar most of the times.
See bug 3.
18 years, 7 months
Hardware Benchmark tools
by Albert A. Modderkolk
I have changed my vintage 850Mhz AMD for an AMD 3000+ on an ASUS E8N,
double mem banks and a SATA disk which should go at 400 Mhz.
Performance is certainly better but not dramatically so. Is there some
tool that can show me the performance and possibly bottle necks?
Tia, Albert
18 years, 7 months
samba
by Kevin Passey
Hi I have samba set up on an RHEL2 box and have set it up the same on a fc4 box.
My problem is that I cannot connect using XP to the fc4 box.
It sort of works as I can connect to a share in tmp.
However whenever I try and connect to my home share it continues to ask for a password.
I'm sure I have access to samba as the tmp share works.
Can anybody point me to some good HowTO's
Thanks
Kevin
18 years, 7 months
