Wireless
by Antonio Olivares
Dear folks,
I am having a difficult time connecting at decent speeds to a wireless network
setup by my nephew with Fedora 14. I installed Fedora 14 on a quad core machine
that had Fedora 12 happily running. IT has a built in wireless device
integrated in it. The installation worked beautifully and connected the first
time around. The driver rtl8187 loaded fine and I browsed the web and applied
all the updates and got new kernel too. I was very happy. I turned off the
machine and yesterday and today tried to connect to internet with it and it not
longer works the way it did the first time :(, I cannot connect to any page like
I did before and networkmanger in KDE tells me that I am connected but cannot
browse. In windows, I can browse the web without troubles, here is output from
ipconfig /all
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Antonio>ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Antonio-PC
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection 3:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8187 Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps U
SB 2.0 Network Adapter #2
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-15-AF-28-DC-7C
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::105a:7fb5:99a3:17fa%16(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.7(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, November 24, 2010 8:00:15 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, November 25, 2010 8:00:15 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 419435951
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-13-65-BA-DA-00-1D-60-33-D1-16
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ether
net Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1D-60-33-CA-B0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family PCI Gigabit E
thernet NIC (NDIS 6.20)
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1D-60-33-D1-16
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Tunnel adapter isatap.{360ECDCC-3E91-498C-BD12-65F1412852FA}:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:5ef5:79fd:3064:3f6:3f57:fef8(Prefe
rred)
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::3064:3f6:3f57:fef8%14(Preferred)
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : ::
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled
C:\Users\Antonio>
What can I do in Linux to make my connection work the same way that it did the
first time? I appreciate any advice given and hope all users around the world
have a nice Thanksgiving Holiday :)
Regards,
Antonio
13 years, 4 months
Wireless System Connection - How?
by agraham
Hi
I want my laptop to connect to my Wifi as a "System Connection" by
default (assuming now wired LAN is plugged in).
I'm using KDE (F14), in Edit Network Connections - KDE Control Module
there are two options:
1. Connect Automatically
2. System Connection
The second option is always greyed out - and I don't know why?
I would assume that if I login as root and setup this as a system
connection it should create the neccessary ifcfg-wlan0 file with boot=Yes.
Any suggestions or pointers to docs?
TIA.
Albert.
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Hi,
I noticed there's no SELinux Guide for Fedora 14. Is it that there's nothing
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Thanks!
Jorge
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by Patrick O'Callaghan
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$ sudo sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 6.0.0.1735..............................................................
./setup.sh: setup.data/bin/Linux/amd64/setup.gtk2: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory
I've seen this "bad Elf interpreter" message in other contexts, but can
simply never remember what it means (something about 32-bit binary on a
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poc
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Easily Dual Boot Windows 7 and F14?
by Jesse Palser
Easily Dual Boot Windows 7 and F14?
Hi,
Perhaps I am missing something.
Trying to easily dual boot a Windows 7 computer
with Fedora 14.
Seems the installer does not do this?
(Windows 7 installed, then install F14)
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Jesse
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usb auto mount when nobody is logged in?
by Alan Evans
Is it possible to get gnome-volume-manager style auto mount/umount of
USB drives in /media (or elsewhere) when nobody is logged into the
desktop? The behavior when I'm logged in (auto-mounting in a directory
named after the Volume Name, auto-unmounting, etc) is exactly what I
would like when I'm not logged in. It doesn't matter if the mount
point is owned by root, as I just want to back up some files in a cron
job but only if there's a drive plugged in.
I suppose I could script it all, except: 1. I'm not a very skilled
script writer, 2. I don't really know where to start to accomplish
this, and 3. It seems to me that there's already something on the
system that does perfectly what I want.
-Alan
13 years, 4 months
Can I double-replace a user??
by Beartooth
My Number One PC, currently running F14, has a weird trouble,
which I haven't yet managed to describe very well.
It boots, showing what my workspace switcher calls #1, with my
gnome terminal and its usual tabs (which work). But the switcher fails to
change to any other workspace, and if you click the window selector, it
seems to think no windows are open. (The window list remains all but
invisible, also as if there were none.) None of the methods listed in the
Workspace Switcher help gets me to any other workspace. (I have 18 of
them, btw; I know that may be marginal -- but the preferences dialog no
longer lets me change the number. No way to do so even appears.)
I can add more windows on top of the terminal, but if I minimize
one, it disappears; and I have found no way to get back to it. (All I've
tried do work when open.)
I had supposed this to be a trouble of the machine, which
normally only I ever use. The other day, I added my wife to the Users
list, just in case, and yesterday I logged her in for the first time.
Beginning, in a very sleepy condition, to configure her desktop, I
discovered the Workspace Switcher worked fine there.
So I added a third userid, btth2 (my normal being btth -- who
want to keep typing out "Beartooth"?). The switcher works there, too.
This would appear to tell me the trouble is in how btth is
configured, somehow -- I can't imagine how.
I'd like to add all my data, and all I can of my tweaks and
configurations (*except*, I hope, the source of the trouble!), to btth2;
delete btth; and rename btth2 -- in effect, moving btth to the new name
and back. That might save me finding the weirdness, reporting it, and
getting my swiftly senescing skull around the directions for coping with
it.
Can I do all that? How?
Or is there something better to do instead? (The trouble is on my
main PC, which is of course the newest, biggest, fastest I have; and I
miss it. <snimper, whiff>)
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
13 years, 4 months