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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 13 Oct '25

13 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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Managing dual boot
by Patrick Dupre 26 Apr '25

26 Apr '25

Hello, I have a machine with a dual fedora boot on 2 drives (with grub2) I daily maintain one (say A on /dev/sda4), and occasionally the other one (say B on /dev/sdc5). The problem is when I update B, grub is not update properly, i.e., I cannot boot on B with the new kernel. Hence, I run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg on both machines But it is not enough I tried grub2-install /dev/sda But I get Installing for x86_64-efi platform. grub2-install: error: This utility should not be used for EFI platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot. If you really wish to proceed, invoke the --force option. Make sure Secure Boot is disabled before proceeding. What is the correct procedure? dnf reinstall shim-* grub2-* Thank =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com ===========================================================================

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rdp server with 2FA?
by ToddAndMargo 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

Hi All, Is there an RDP server that runs on Fedora and that has multi-factor authentication? And that runs well. Many thanks, -T

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firefox after update
by Roger Wells 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

Hi, Updated F41 via "software" icon on desktop today, 28Mar2025, which I do each week at this time Now firefox doesn't launch. Running from command line: firefox env: ‘firefox-wayland’: No such file or directory Run from desktop icon: icon swirls for about 15 seconds then disappears. what happened?

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WinFsp in Windows server 2025 STD
by ToddAndMargo 06 Apr '25

06 Apr '25

Hi All, Anyone know how to get WinFsp to work in Widows Server 2025 STD? https://github.com/winfsp/winfsp/releases/download/v2.1B2/winfsp-2.1.24255.… does not install VirtioFsSvc Many thanks, -T

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I need help with xRDP
by ToddAndMargo 04 Apr '25

04 Apr '25

Hi All, Fedora 41 Xfce 4.12 I am trying to set up xRDP with Xfce. When I log into xRDP from mstsc.exe (Windows 10), I am prompted (session = Xorg) from my user name and password. After entering it, I get a blue screen that eventually times out with Can't create session for user todd -X server could not be started. What am I doing wrong? -T This is the instructors I am following: Install Xrdp Server to connect to Fedora Desktop Xfce from the Windows Remote Desktop feature. References: https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Fedora_41&p=desktop&f=6 https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1hzuvww/how_to_switch_from_gnome_t… https://idroot.us/install-xrdp-centos-8/ [1] Install and Start Xrdp Server. # dnf -y install xrdp # systemctl enable --now xrdp # systemctl start xrdp [2] vi /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini Replace the port with a masked port For example: port=Not_3389 comment out all of [Xvnc] and [X11rdp] uncomment all of [Xorg] [Xorg] name=Xorg lib=libxup.so username=ask password=ask ip=127.0.0.1 port=-1 code=20 ; Frame capture interval (milliseconds) h264_frame_interval=16 rfx_frame_interval=32 normal_frame_interval=40 # systemctl restart xrdp [3] If Firewalld is running, allow RDP port. # firewall-cmd --add-port=[port_you_chose]/tcp # firewall-cmd --runtime-to-permanent # firewall-cmd --reload [4] vi /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh # test -x /etc/X11/Xsession && exec /etc/X11/Xsession # exec /bin/sh /etc/X11/Xsession exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session chmod 755 /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh # systemctl restart xrdp [5] Connect from Windows clients. <Win><R> mstsc.exe An example on Windows 11. --> Open Start Menu --> [Windows Tool] --> [Remote Desktop Connection]

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follow-up: searching a directory sub-tree.
by home user 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

Good evening, Well, I though it was solved. But something is still awry.... ----- bash.3[ShiPin]: time grope -ob9LHPEaKY Western/.Organ/organ_dir.txt real 0m0.043s user 0m0.010s sys 0m0.016s bash.4[ShiPin]: time Grope -ob9LHPEaKY Western/.Organ/organ_dir.txt real 7m15.297s user 1m49.880s sys 0m46.325s bash.5[ShiPin]: alias | grep rope alias Grope='~/myroot/testprogs/Grope' alias grope='~/myroot/testprogs/grope' bash.6[ShiPin]: cat ~/myroot/testprogs/Grope grep -rile $1 bash.7[ShiPin]: cat ~/myroot/testprogs/grope grep -rilIe $1 bash.8[ShiPin]: ----- The results are correct. But notice that the case sensitive search took over 7 1/4 MINUTES; the case INsensitive search took less than 1/20 second. That's a nearly 4 orders of magnitude difference! I would think that the case INsensitive search would involve more processing, and so should take longer. What's going on?

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