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argh -- can't get wireless in someone else's house
by Robert P. J. Day 28 Dec '25

28 Dec '25

i'm embarrassed to admit that i can't, for the life of me, get a wireless connection at a friend's house at the moment. updated fedora 8, and a stock linksys WRT54GL. i have the SSID, i have the WEP key, i even have the router password, so i've logged in and checked everything -- no MAC filtering, no DHCP client limit, etc. but when i try to bring up wireless, /var/log/messages shows me: Feb 8 08:37:59 localhost dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 Feb 8 08:37:59 localhost dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 Feb 8 08:37:59 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 Feb 8 08:38:07 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 ... Feb 8 08:39:00 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. i can certainly see the WAP: # iwlist wlan0 scan ... Cell 02 - Address: 00:18:39:6A:01:EF ESSID:"XXXXXXXX" Mode:Master Channel:6 Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6) Quality=83/100 Signal level=-46 dBm Noise level=-67 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s ... i'm pretty much out of ideas here -- any thoughts? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================

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Re: TV over the internet
by R. G. Newbury 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

On 01/11/2010 06:08 PM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: William Case wrote: >>> > > Hi Tim; >>>> > >> >>> > > I have a TV tuner card with my computer connected to my cable. It's >>> > > great. I prefer it to having my computer connected to my TV. >>> > > >> > What application do you use for watching? I've been looking for something user >> > friendly to give some people still on FC4 because they can understand xawtv and >> > all the easy to use applications stopped working. They rejected MythTV at the >> > point where it said "have your DBA set up a database..." and I have not found >> > anything which can handle clear-QAM, over the air digital, and NTSC without >> > asking for user entered channel frequencies in MHz or other things these people >> > aren't about to do. >> > >> > Note: even if I was willing to set it up for them for free, they would expect >> > support at the same price, advice I give them, time consuming work not so much. >> > > I use TVTime. It does one thing only, but it does it well. It gives me > my cable TV. > > It is easy to install and configure and just keeps on ticking. > > (Actually it does more than one thing, but there is no doubt that it's > main purpose is to run a TV tuner card for TV viewing.) Still on FC4???? On a Pentium 3 too I presume? Clear-QAM and OTA require an ATSC tuner, while an NTSC tuner is needed for analog cable. There are tuner units which will do both, although not all will do so simultaneously. Mythdora is a Fedora based, all in one install of mythtv. It will set up everything you need from one iso image. And Mythtv has definitely NOT required 'your DBA to set up a database' since well before Fedora 4. If your hardware is known to Fedora, then mythtv will not require any 'channel entered frequencies'. You merely select the proper tuning basis, such as US-Broadcast or US-cable when setting up the tuner(s). At the moment, the problematic area is setting up QAM on cable channels due to the cablecos using their own variable channel numbers for the channels (and generally, not including proper PSIP infor in the stream). That is, of course, where the cableco actually provides some clear QAM...which Rogers Cable in Canada, for example, has not done since June 2007. Geoff -- Please let me know if anything I say offends you. I may wish to offend you again in the future. Tux says: "Be regular. Eat cron flakes."

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KGpg "An error occurred while scanning your keyring"
by Jonathan Ryshpan 12 Oct '25

12 Oct '25

This error pops up whenever my system boots up. Clicking on [Details <<] produces a message box with the single entry "Details" in it. What's happening? Thanks - jon

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ESC/P thermal receipt printers and Linux...
by Fernando Cassia 19 Aug '25

19 Aug '25

Running dmesg after plugging my POS-5890K labelled usb thermal receipt printer, it identifies itself as full-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci idVendor=0416, idProduct=5011 Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Product: POS58 USB Printer Manufacturer: GD32 Microelectronics SerialNumber: Printer I found the hard way that these printers are not supported by CUPS by default ... one has to go the extra length to either send esc/p codes manually via your own app http://kg4zqz.blogspot.com/2016/08/escposf-thermal-printer-filter-and.html ...or compile a driver from source, just like 20 years ago for some printers... maybe 2018 will be the year of desktop linux *sarcasm* I've tried this driver and it didn't work... http://scruss.com/blog/2015/07/12/thermal-printer-driver-for-cups-linux-and… (the driver source was fetched by git from its current github repo, so it's not out of date, it's in fact newer than the above blog post) What gives more clues is the small piece of thermal paper that came with the printer with a printout of its self-test (surely from Windows). It reads: 58-IV-U Thermal Printer Version: 58.E-Z04-AA Revised date: 06-Jan-2017 Command Standard: EPSON (ESC/POS) Print mode: Normal mode & Hex Mode Print method: Line Thermal Print width: 384 dots/line Print speed: 90 mm/s Chinese Mode: NO Print density: Level3 Current Codepage:0 Interface Type: USB Current Character: Chinese (GB18030) Alphanumeric Code Page: 0: OEM437 (Std.Europe) 1: Katakana 2:OEM850 (Multilingual) (…) 96:(Thai2) I wonder why the CUPS folks have not released a generic “EPSON ESC/POS” printer driver where the above parameters can be tweaked and entered manually. The driver mentioned above was compiled, and installed but didn’t work. A sample print gave gibberish. A second text-only printing (by clicking the CUPS “print self-test page” read “IF YOU CAN READ THIS YOU’RE USING THE WRONG DRIVER FOR YOUR PRINTER”. A crude bug-finding code it seems… Any ideas before I head over to the CUPS maling list and pull my hair? For instance, this blog post https://mike42.me/blog/2015-03-getting-a-usb-receipt-printer-working-on-lin… talks about using "usblp" but commenters say "usblp" was deprecated (already in 2015) So what does replace usblp? And look, here someone else also pulling his hair. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45926734/raw-cups-printer-how-to-avoid-… FFS, a line printer was the first type of printer, back in the days of RS232 ports. If we can't get a USB line printer detected and configured and send ASCII to it, we're doomed. All because there's a dozen poorly documented layers of software crap obscuring it... FC

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color profiles for screens/monitors
by lejeczek 17 Nov '24

17 Nov '24

Hi guys How do we load & tweak color profiles in Fedora (without using external sensor-devices) ? My Lenovo Thinkbook built-in screen has different (and not adjustable in BIOS) color temperature what my external DELL shows - they are quite different thus annoying. many thanks, L.

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Lost my Gimp Arrows
by ToddAndMargo 16 Nov '24

16 Nov '24

Hi All, I somehow got updated to gimp 2.99.19 (3.0 on the splash screen). I lost my arrows. Any idea how to get the back? Everything I have found it for gimp 2.0. -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Is the dnf tracer plugin working?
by Patrick O'Callaghan 15 Nov '24

15 Nov '24

I upgraded to F41 yesterday, and everything seemed to go smoothly. However a subsequent run of "dnf upgrade" updated firefox, but didn't tell me to restart it. Since I didn't notice this I kept using the (now outdated) Firefox that was already running, until FF suddenly told me it wanted to restart. This has never happened before. AFAIK the tracer plugin is installed: python3-dnf-plugin-tracer-4.1.2-3.fc41.noarch Could this be a problem with dnf5? poc

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clean-up of old kernel fragments.
by home user 14 Nov '24

14 Nov '24

(f-40; gnome; stand-alone dual-boot workstation; kernel 6.11.3) Selected command output... -bash.2[~]: rpm -qa kernel kernel-6.10.12-200.fc40.x86_64 kernel-6.11.3-200.fc40.x86_64 -bash.3[~]: -bash.3[~]: rpm -qa kernel-core kernel-core-6.10.12-200.fc40.x86_64 kernel-core-6.11.3-200.fc40.x86_64 -bash.4[~]: -bash.4[~]: ls -l /boot total 297300 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 275360 Sep 29 18:00 config-6.10.12-100.fc39.x86_64 -rw-------. 1 root root 77162500 Oct 10 10:12 initramfs-6.10.12-100.fc39.x86_64.img -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 165784 Oct 10 10:12 symvers-6.10.12-100.fc39.x86_64.xz -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 9116365 Sep 29 18:00 System.map-6.10.12-100.fc39.x86_64 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 15903080 Sep 29 18:00 vmlinuz-6.10.12-100.fc39.x86_64 -bash.5[~]: -bash.11[~]: ls -l /boot/loader/entries total 8 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 540 Oct 10 10:11 70857e3fb05849139515e66a3fdc6b38-6.10.12-100.fc39.x86_64.conf -bash.12[~]: My grub menu has 3 Fedora entries (two f-40, one f-39). There should only be 2: the f-40 entries. What I listed above from the "ls" commands are what appear to be the extra files. I've deleted from the output entries for the f-40 kernels and the memtest entries. The "rpm" output is for your information. The questions: 1. Am I correct in assuming that I get rid of the extra files listed above? 2. If yes, should I do that by using the "rm" command, or would it be better to do it another way? If another way, how? (Would using the "rm" command mess up a database?) 3. What else (if anything) should I do to complete this clean-up properly?

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HDR Support in KDE
by Stephen Morris 13 Nov '24

13 Nov '24

HI, With the last system update I put on (yesterday) I have been upgraded to Plasma 6.2. One of the enhancements in this version was more support for HDR, but even though my monitor is HDR there are no HDR settings in KDE System Settings. Under Gnome with Wayland there are HDR settings. Is anyone else seeing the same issue? regards, Steve

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dnf-system-upgrade to Fedora 41 is Ok
by Jeffrey Walton 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

Hi Everyone, I just upgraded three machines to Fedora 41 using <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/>. The machines were two desktops and one server. All the machines use the default Fedora repos; and they do not use third party repos. The process went as expected. There were no problems. `rpmconf -a` replaced more conf files than usual. For my configurations, it looks like older Java versions present in my environment were the reason for the extra replacements. It looks like `clean-rpm-gpg-pubkey` is a new program added to optional post-upgrade steps. RPMFusion users may want to wait for the third party repository to rebuild its packages for F41. Jeff

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