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Barcode reader Android
by Ger van Dijck 18 May '26

18 May '26

Hi All, A question witch has nothing to do with Fedora : Does excist a barcode reader without advertising links for Android ? Ger van Dijck.

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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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SELinux: or how I learned to start worrying and hate the bomb
by Sam Varshavchik 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

According to Google Skynet, Fedora Core 3 was the first release that had SELinux enabled by default. That was more than 20 years ago. I think that 20 years is more than long enough for this kind of technology to mature, and work the kinks out, and then it's smooth sailing from that point on. Yet, for the umpteenth time I have to create yet another bug for an AVC failure, and watch it being dupe-hammered, and everyone else's reports also having the same fate, for the next year or so. Why? I have to conclude that there's something fundamentally broken with SELinux. SELinux AVC denials should be rare. Like once in a blue moon. The fact that they still come out of the firehose, non-stop, and some poor soul has to chase down as many as possible, letting all others expire and autoclose – that is not right. This shouldn't happen. The current state of affairs would not be unreasonable say, within the first five years of SELinux's existence. But not 20 years later. Come on. Either fix the fscking thing, or get rid of it. When I have to install a cron job to run restorecon every five minutes, while the corresponding bug ages, that's a big honking clue that something is wrong in the state of Denmark. I might be wrong, but AFAIK Fedora/RHEL is the only Linux distribution that still screws around with SELinux. Google Skynet also mentioned that something called "Amazon Linux" also has SELinux enabled. Who? That doesn't count. So, resuming: if anyone ever wonders why only Fedora/RHEL bothers with SELinux, hopefully this clears it up. I believe that SELinux is fundamentally broken, and I don't think it's fixable in its current state. Fortunately, it is easy to turn it off. But is that what SELinux's advocates will say is the solution? Really? And if not, what /is/ the solution? Can someone come up with the answer to the following answer: what can, and should be done, to fix the constant pain point of AVC denials, permanently?

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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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How to get to a kernel selection screen at boot
by Terry Hurlbut 09 Dec '25

09 Dec '25

Everyone: I've mentioned this before, but still don't have an answer that gives a consistent result. Since I installed F43 on my system - and I mean a fresh, clean install, overriding old swap and home partitions (I had my data saved on another drive, so that's unaffected) - booting up goes to a message that reads: "GRUB boot loader: Welcome to GRUB." Five seconds later, it goes through its startup routines. (I removed "rhgb quiet" from the list of boot-up command-level switches). Someone suggested I was getting that five-second Welcome screen because I had only one kernel installed at the time. Well, that was two weeks ago, and the system has had several updates. And rarely I /do/ get to a screen listing three kernels to choose from - so I already have more than one. So: where do I find the file that governs whether to just "go with the latest kernel," and what command do I change, remove, or add? FYI, I installed the new KDE Plasma Desktop Edition. Several updates later, it's been running better than ever - all except for that one thing. -- Temlakos <temlakos(a)gmail.com>

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OT: rpmbuild SPEC error
by Ranjan Maitra 03 Dec '25

03 Dec '25

Hi, I posted this twice earlier, but it did not show up because the error message it moving it a tad more than 60KB which makes it require moderator approval (which may well be delayed because of the holiday weekend in the US). So, here is a repost. Hopefully, someone can get to it before the 24-hour clock on the fpaste runs out (I do not see how to increase that time.) I am the package maintainer of SLiM, the Simple Login Manager. While trying to take care of an automated BZ request, I decided to look into also updating the package. Because upstream is not very responsive, as the author is sadly indisposed for the long-term, I moved the code to github at https://github.com/maitra/slim-fork after having made some of the corrections (suggested earlier here) which make the package compile without error. And also bumped up the cmakeminimum which is what triggered the BZ request. However, when I go to build the RPM with the spec file, I get an error. THe spec file is here: https://paste.centos.org/view/96e6b7db However, I get an error which does not show up when I do the compilation outside the spec file, which is really perplexing to me so my guess is that the problem is with the spec file, and I wonder if anyone more knowledgable on SPEC files can give me some suggestions. Here are the errors I get when I run rpmbuild -bb slim.spec. https://paste.centos.org/view/8f71e2c5 I do not understand why these errors do not show up when I compile the package (outside of the SPEC file). Many thanks again for any help, and best wishes, Ranjan

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List Mails not Being Echoed Back to me
by Stephen Morris 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

Hi, Could someone give me the mail name and address of the list moderator please. Since upgrading my hardware and doing a fresh install of F43, along with a fresh install of the upstream Thunderbird Daily, any mails I send to the list or any replies I send to the list are not being echoed back to me unless I put my email address as a CC. I had the same issue under F42 but the issue of replies not being echoed back to me was rectified by the moderator (I hadn't raised the issue of new mails not being echoed back), so I need to contact that person again. -- regards,

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Network USB Dongle Connection Issue
by Stephen Morris 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

Hi, I've just purchased a Netgear Nighthawk Wifi 7 Tri-band router (RS300) along with a Netgear Nighthawk Tri-band USB 3.0 dongle (A9000). The issue I have is the A9000 won't stay connected to F42 and keeps disappearing from the Networks list in Network Manager. Lsusb sees the dongle without any issues but I can't identify what chipset the dongle is using. Under windows it has a driver that is supplied with the dongle. From what I can see from net searches Linux Kernels 5.18 and above have an A9000 driver built in to the kernel. It seems from the network definition in Network Manager that Linux has selected WPA3-SAE for the wifi security, but changing the security to WPA/WPA2 doesn't change the dongles usability. Netgear is saying that the A9000 is usable under Windows10, Windows 11, Linux and Mac, but it does say to search netgear.com for the latest info on Linux and Mac support, but I can't find anything. Can someone suggest what I can look at to determine why F42 isn't retaining the device and why when it auto-connects it keeps deactivating it? I've had a look at dmesg and I can see lots of messages for the device around authentication time out, plus this message " [ 2573.919926] iwlwifi 0000:05:00.0: Unhandled alg: 0x707" regards,

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RPM's Fail to Install in F43
by Stephen Morris 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Hi, I have tried to use dnf and rpm to install rpm's for 3 packages, being WPS Office, Softmaker Office and Onlyoffice in F43 and all of them fail with the message "package <rpm package name> does not verify: no digest". What does this message mean and what am I missing in the fresh install of F43 when before I upgraded my machine components I had WPS Office successfully installed in F42? With Softmaker Office I was installing it from their repository, the other two were being installed from a downloaded rpm. -- regards,

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cron problem after F41-> F42 upgrade
by Frank Elsner 30 Nov '25

30 Nov '25

Hello , since the upgrade of my Fedora 41 system to Fedora 42 the cron doesnt't work as before. None of the entries in /etc/crontab is executed. A similiar problem with logwatch that doesn't happen. Known Problem(s)? That can I do to find the reason for this? Best wishes, FRank

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