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Problems with 3COM 3C900Combo
by Christian Moller 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Hi all Fedora users, I have just joined this list. I am running the latest Fedora but I can't get my 3C900Combo networking card to work. I can see that the card is installed but no IP-address is asigned to it and I can't set it. So I think that there is a bug in that driver. Any other user out there who have a solution for this? Best regards and thanks, Christian

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RAGE XL Framebuffer
by Yanick Quirion 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Hi all I know that is not a specific question about Fedora, but I can't find answer on the kernel mailing list. Is somebody having server with integrated ATI RAGE XL video card? Is it possible to patch the kernel to support this video card? If I add VGA=791 in my grub.conf, I will have a resolution of 1024x768 which is good, but the display is very slow (especially when the screen is scrolling). If I use I this: "video=aty128fb:1024x768@70" it will not work. I'm using kernel 2.4.22 but I will try 2.6.0-test11 today. If somebody has a patch, a link or anything else that can help me, it will be appreciated. Thanks for your help. Regards, ----------- Yanick Quirion Administrateur Réseau/Network Manager NEOKIMIA INC. Institut de Pharmacologie de Sherbrooke 3e étage (Édifice Z5) 3001 12e avenue Nord Sherbrooke, Québec CANADA J1H 5N4 Tél.: +1 819 820-6040 Direct: +1 819 820-6855 Fax.: +1 819 820-6841 email: Yanick.Quirion(a)neokimia.com

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Soundblaster
by Antonio Montagnani 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

I have two similar PC (old Pentium but workin fine) In Pc no.1 I upgraded from RH8 to Fedora and it went fine: Soundblaster is working fine In Pc no.2 I made a fresh installation but in redhat-sound-config Fedora doesn't see any card, that was working on Redhat 9 after soundconfig... Where is the trick?? I assume that my Sounblaster is an old 16...but fine on a router/firewall. Tnx Antonio

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What happened to floppy drive support?
by n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I create an emergency media that is flexible enough to be updated as required? JB

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Question on shredding a terebyte drive
by Dean S. Messing 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean. It originally had 2 partitions. I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted, and then as root ran shred -vz /dev/sdd The drive is capable of about 60MB/sec, but shred is only "shredding" about 25MB every 5 seconds according to its output. Since the default number of passes is 25, this works out to about 5 days. The `shred' process is running at 100% CPU, presumably computing the special random patterns for erasure. Since I have 4 CPUs would creating 4 unformatted partions on the drive and then running something like: shred -vz /dev/sdd1 shred -vz /dev/sdd2 shred -vz /dev/sdd3 shred -vz /dev/sdd4 in parallel cut my time? Would be just as secure? Thanks Dean

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Alpine will not show attachments
by Tom Diehl 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Hi, I am running alpine-2.00-1.fc10.x86_64 on an F10 box. If I get a message with an html or file attachment and I try to open it, I get an error that "Firefox can't find the file at /tmp/img--46112.htm" The correct program opens up but I always get the can't find file errors. If the message contains a URL then it comes up and displays properly. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this problem? Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdiehl(a)rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123(a)rogueind.com

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dell e6500 lost fn-f8 key with 2.6.32 kernels
by Brian Millett 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

In the 2.6.32 kernels, I've seemed to have lost the ability to use the fn-f8 key to togle external displays. Using xev I see that KeyPress event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x5800001, root 0x15a, subw 0x5800002, time 869383, (55,45), root:(93,132), state 0x50, keycode 33 (keysym 0x70, p), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (70) "p" XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (70) "p" XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x5800001, root 0x15a, subw 0x5800002, time 869531, (55,45), root:(93,132), state 0x50, keycode 33 (keysym 0x70, p), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (70) "p" XFilterEvent returns: False This works just fine with the 2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64, but not with any of the 2.6.32 kernels. Any hints? Thanks. -- Brian Millett - [ Delenn (re: Japanese stone garden), "The Gathering"] "On my world, there are books, thousands of pages, about the power of one mind to change the Universe. But none say it as clearly as this."

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Extremely slow web page loading to only 1 site ?
by linux guy 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

This has me scratching my head. My access to www.rv.net is extremely slow. With both Konqueror and Firefox. And yet others say they have good access times. I'm running a fully up to date F12 installation. $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon Jan 18 20:06:44 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux ping www.rv.net PING www.rv.net (12.17.249.39) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C --- www.rv.net ping statistics --- 31 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 30371ms Pinging Google gives me: $ ping www.google.com PING www.l.google.com (74.125.127.99) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=35.5 ms 64 bytes from pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=94.5 ms 64 bytes from pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=117 ms 64 bytes from pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=53.3 ms 64 bytes from pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=5 ttl=53 time=35.2 ms 64 bytes from pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=6 ttl=53 time=43.1 ms ^C --- www.l.google.com ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5608ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 35.266/63.190/117.264/31.485 ms What gives ? Post where others on the site say they have good access: http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/23650556.cfm Thanks

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Upgrading : give me strength ...
by Beartooth 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

I've tried all the tricks on this list a/o the troubleshooting site, over and over. I finally gave up : downloaded and burned a DVD -- and *still* hit the catch-22 error, with too little space in mnt/sysimage/ boot. Now what? Can I simply delete all of /boot, or everything in it? All of grub.conf? Or what? It's going to be a royal pain if I have to burn all my data to media, and then sneakermail that back onto each machine, instead of just upgrading f11 .... -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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gpk-update-viewer vs. yum
by Beartooth 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Is it just me?? I've noticed, on several machines (PC, laptop, netbook) that if the machine has no connection, or thinks it has none, the gpk function claims there are no updates; but if I doubt that and run yum update, it may immediately get over a hundred -- or at least report a failure to connect. Couldn't gpk do the same?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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