Fedora 7, PXE and e1000
by Peter Bosgraaf
Hi,
I'm running into some trouble installing Fedora 7 using pxeboot.
I've searched the forum/mailinglist but did not find a complete answer,
that's why i'm posting my question.
My server has two e1000 compatible NICs.
I've found some forum posts that explain e1000 issues with Fedora 7 but
i could not verify that i'm having the same problem.
I'm seeing the following:
After anaconda starts it will request a IP using dhcp.
On the dhcp-server i see incoming requests and outgoing acks.
For some reason anaconda can't access the network after the dhcp request.
This will result in anaconda giving me an error saying that it can't
access the installation tree.
It looks like anaconda/dhclient doesn't pick up the ACK, or something's
preventing network access.
Unfortunately it's too early in the bootstage for me to check. (ALT-F2
doesn't have a shell yet)
A ping from the dhcp-server to the acked IP address results in 100%
packetloss.
When i use the same parameters in FC6 everything works smoothly.
Has anyone had a similar experience?
Best regards,
Peter
16 years, 8 months
Fc7: kernel-2.6.22-x86-64 + nvidia-any + quake4 = reboot
by Jorge Boscan Etura
Hi
I own a presario v6000 (dv6139eu exactly) with many issues that i been
solving since fc6
but with this one, I`m clueless.
I installed and played quake4 (it is a great game!!), but when I
updated the kernel to 2.6.22
to fix some issues like random crashes, freeze, the graphics turned
ugly so I went back to 96xx legacy nvidia driver version and continued
playing till I finished the hole game (several sessions) but today
with the same driver, the same kernel, the same game, it just reboots,
with googleearth does the same and with mplayer did the same once, I'm
not using beryl or compiz, xorg.conf is well configured
btw: dont buy compaq-hp laptops to run linux
--
[Jorge J. Boscán Etura]
quando omni flunkus moritatus
16 years, 8 months
Cups problem with root access
by david walcroft
I cannot get cups to accept a root login on the web page,it keeps
resurfacing
for a login after entering the root password.Where does cups store its
passwords
so I can delete the password and enter a new one.
Is there another way around this problem.
Thanks david
16 years, 8 months
Cisco VPN Client and 2.6.22 Kernels
by Marc Schwartz
For anyone having issues with the Cisco VPN client under the latest Fedora
2.6.22 kernels, there is a patch and instructions available here:
http://tuxx-home.at/archives/2007/05/29/T16_34_26/
I have tried it on my F7 system and it does work. Be sure that you have
the vpnclient-linux-4.8.00.0490-k9.tar.gz version of the client Linux source
tarball. Either 'unpatch' your existing code tree, if you used the 2.6.19
patch, or better, just remove the source code and untar the tarball to start
with a clean code tree.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
16 years, 8 months
Network manager - does no one care?
by William Murray
Hi all,
I was surprised to see the lack of reaction to NetworkManager's
death in F7 2.6.22.1-33
This affects my desktop and my laptop, both with wired dhcp
connections. I see the following error:
Jul 31 20:24:09 BillMurray NetworkManager: <info> Error getting
killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported -
Access type not supported
Moving to 2.6.22.1-27 fixes it. So does using a fixed IP and neat, no
networkmanager. So why is no one else screaming?
Bill
16 years, 8 months
TV on F7 with Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 250
by Matthew Saltzman
What's the simplest way to start using the above TV tuner card to watch
TV on Fedora 7? TVtime apparently does not support decoding MPEG-2,
so I guess it is not a candidate.
Thanks.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
16 years, 8 months
Mythtv Backend Init Script?
by John Pierce
Ok, I have googled around for the last 4 hours or so looking for the
way to modify the mythbackend init script to work on fedora7.
I have found numerous posts indicating that the stock script does not
work on redhat/fedora, but I have not been able to find any indication
of what I need to do to change it so that it will work.
Can somebody point me to a place to fix this, or if someone has one
that works please email it to me. Off list will be fine.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
--
John
Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at
http://counter.li.org
16 years, 8 months
Gnome keyboard shortcuts in FC7
by Tim
Hi,
I've just tried to set up some keyboard shortcuts, using Gnome, and
found that some will not do anything, just like when I tried to do the
same back on FC4, and I'm darned if I can find anything helpful about
this.
Some of the functions available in the editor do nothing, yet the keys
assigned do work, e.g. The lock screen function doesn't work, no matter
what keys I use as the shortcut. Yet other functions do work, e.g. the
"Run a terminal" will open a terminal, even if I assign it a key without
a proper name, e.g. 0x7a showing in the configuration window.
Desktop
Launch help browser - does nothing
Log out - haven't tested
Sleep - haven't tested
Lock screen - does nothing
Home folder - does nothing
Search - does nothing
Email - does nothing
Launch web browser - does nothing
Show the panel run application dialog - works
Show the panel menu - works, but not always
Take a screenshot - works
Take a screenshot of a window - works
Run a terminal - works
Sound
Volume mute - does nothing
Volume down - does nothing
Volume up - does nothing
Play (or play/pause) does nothing
Pause - does nothing
Stop playback key - does nothing
Skip to previous track - does nothing
Skip to next track - does nothing
Eject - does nothing
I didn't bother going through all the rest. I'm mostly interested in
getting the volume, play, track skipping ones to work, and the screen
locking one would be handy. But how do you go about this?
In the past I have got XMMS to work with the audio buttons on an FC4
box, but I don't recall having to do anything more than see that keys
had certain X names applied (such as, out of the various play/pause
names that could be picked from, only specific ones worked).
--
[tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.1-33.fc7 i686 i386
Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7.
Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
I read messages from the public lists.
16 years, 8 months
ntfs-3g
by Karl Larsen
Someone said to get this software package so I tried yum and it
doesn't work. I wonder is there another way required?
Karl
16 years, 8 months