Re: Progress and advice so far

2011-08-19 Thread Larry Brower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/20/2011 12:23 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/19/2011 09:56 PM, Lars Eighner wrote: >> Evidently linux does >> not have which and apropos is not extremely helpful. > > Yes it does. Well, *my* computer has it and I don't remember doing > anything

Re: Bllinking window -

2011-08-19 Thread g
On 08/19/2011 09:29 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > It' works as it is but it bothers me. Does anyone know where to > go to stop the flashing? easy way just may be to have download window close when finished. about:config filter= closewhendone set to true. filter= flashcount set to 0 o

Re: Progress and advice so far

2011-08-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/19/2011 09:56 PM, Lars Eighner wrote: > Evidently linux does > not have which and apropos is not extremely helpful. Yes it does. Well, *my* computer has it and I don't remember doing anything special to get it. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change s

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-19 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 8/18/2011 9:49 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > > Your earlier email indicates that to solve the mail/mailx between > machines, I need comment out that line in sendmail.mc and I will get > the results you indicated. Sure worth a try, let me give it a go. > Craig: I comment out the 127.0.0.1 l

Progress and advice so far

2011-08-19 Thread Lars Eighner
Only making slight progress so far, but here are some hints for others who may come my way: 1) As soon as you get to a command prompt run updatedb. Evidently linux does not have which and apropos is not extremely helpful. An example of why you need locate: apparently the console fonts are in a (

Re: Hardware modem

2011-08-19 Thread Antonio Olivares
- Original Message - From: Lars Eighner To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 5:37 PM Subject: Hardware modem My question is about getting Fedora 15 to recognize a hardware modem and then setting up ppp "on demand" to use it. I made the mistake of install

Re: How to get VGA font in virtual consoles

2011-08-19 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Lars Eighner wrote: > How do I get virtual consoles to use (always) a plain old VGA text mode > font in 80x25 (charactersXlines) resolution? There may be a better way but reboot and add "vga=ask" to the end of your kernel line. This sets the resolution not the co

How to get VGA font in virtual consoles

2011-08-19 Thread Lars Eighner
How do I get virtual consoles to use (always) a plain old VGA text mode font in 80x25 (charactersXlines) resolution? I've got my nose against a really big ass high res screen and it is like the default font is some kind of weird graphics mode thing. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/in

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-19 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 8/19/2011 12:15 AM, Tim wrote: Tim: Multiple replies received and I am going through them Thanks, Paul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.or

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-19 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 8/19/2011 1:28 AM, Rick Sewill wrote: > >> In all three cases, the return was: >> +++ >> telnet: connect to address 192.168.2.0: Connection refused > Is this a typo? Did it say > telnet: connect to address 192.168.2.10: Connection refused > Rick: Typo ... the keyboard "1" sometimes fails to co

F15 system doesn't boot with new 3.0 based kernels

2011-08-19 Thread Shiv Manas
Hi all, My F15 system fails to boot with any of the 3.0 based kernels, including the official F15 2.6.40.x kernel updates. They all get stuck after the "Started /home" message. Booting in runlevels 3 and 1 don't help either (gets stuck at the same place). I'm using a Dell M102z netbook (AMD Fusion

Hardware modem

2011-08-19 Thread Andre Robatino
T.C. Hollingsworth gmail.com> writes: > Personally, I find wvdial to be the easiest way to configure and dial > modems from the command line in Linux. It's usually installed in > default Fedora configurations (but possibly not the minimal one). If > it's not installed you may run "yum instal

Re: Hardware modem

2011-08-19 Thread Alan Cox
> > If you are used to a more old fashioned X environmen you may find that > > adding the XFCE or LXDE group to your mininal install gives you a desktop > > environment which is rather more friendly to the 'I'll just start a > > shell' universe. > > I'm aiming for fvwm2, which is the most GUI I ca

Re: Hardware modem

2011-08-19 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:37:02 -0500 (CDT) > Lars Eighner wrote: > >> My question is about getting Fedora 15 to recognize a hardware modem and >> then setting up ppp "on demand" to use it. > > I'm pretty sure you can do it with NetworkManager if you are in gra

Re: Hardware modem

2011-08-19 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
Lars Eighner wrote: > My question is about getting Fedora 15 to recognize a hardware modem and > then setting up ppp "on demand" to use it. > > I made the mistake of installing Fedora 15 with the GUI. This only told me > that my modem was "unplugged." And I could not figure out how to drop out >

Re: Hardware modem

2011-08-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:37:02 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner wrote: > My question is about getting Fedora 15 to recognize a hardware modem and > then setting up ppp "on demand" to use it. I'm pretty sure you can do it with NetworkManager if you are in graphica mode - by adding a connection and so on bu

Hardware modem

2011-08-19 Thread Lars Eighner
My question is about getting Fedora 15 to recognize a hardware modem and then setting up ppp "on demand" to use it. I made the mistake of installing Fedora 15 with the GUI. This only told me that my modem was "unplugged." And I could not figure out how to drop out of the GUI to a command line te

Video DVD is not playing

2011-08-19 Thread antonio montagnani
Made a fresh installation on an HP notebook. Everything is o.k. but Video DVD don't work (Data DVD and CD are recognized) when I insert a Video DVD (UDF format I suppose) nothing happens. Libdvdcss package has been installed from Remi Collet package on this computer, on the other one it was insta

Bllinking window -

2011-08-19 Thread Bob Goodwin
I don't know if this is a Fedora-15 thing, XFCE, or Firefox, but when I download something such as a crossword puzzle with Firefox it displays a box at the top of the screen along with others indicating open firefox windows. The download box flashes in rever

Re: confusion with gparted

2011-08-19 Thread charles zeitler
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:31 AM, François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bonjour, > > I have an external usb HD (500Go) which I partionned (with fdisk) like this: > > /dev/sdx1 ~20Go: ntfs > /dev/sdx2 rest of

Re: Lost Firefox Menu Bar -

2011-08-19 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 19/08/11 16:21, David S. Wiener wrote: > Type ALT+V to invoke the view menu. > > David Wiener > Senior Analyst > Duke School of Medicine > 919-684-6395 > > > From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org > [users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] on behalf

RE: Lost Firefox Menu Bar -

2011-08-19 Thread David S. Wiener
Type ALT+V to invoke the view menu. David Wiener Senior Analyst Duke School of Medicine 919-684-6395 From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] on behalf of Bob Goodwin [bobgood...@wildblue.net] Sent: Friday, Augu

Lost Firefox Menu Bar -

2011-08-19 Thread Bob Goodwin
I've managed to screw up Firefox! I disabled the "Menu Bar". I believe that's what it's called. I can no longer see File, Edit, View, etc. And of course View is where I need to be to turn the Menu Bar back on. I looked in about:config, couldn't find it th

Re: Network won't start.

2011-08-19 Thread Jim
On 08/19/2011 01:44 PM, Jatin K wrote: > On Friday 19 August 2011 10:10 PM, Jim wrote: >> Trying to setup a static ip on a F15 box. NetworkManager has been stop >> and disable >> >> I have setup the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and try to >> >> systemctl enable network.service >> syste

error software update on a new installation

2011-08-19 Thread Andre Robatino
Aaron Konstam sbcglobal.net> writes: > You should not be adding rawhide updates to your installed software. Go > to the rawhide repos in /etc/yum.repos.d and disable them [enable=0] > rawhide provides software which is potentially unstable. The original version of fedora-release for F15 (fedora-

Re: Network won't start.

2011-08-19 Thread Jim
On 08/19/2011 01:44 PM, Jatin K wrote: > On Friday 19 August 2011 10:10 PM, Jim wrote: >> Trying to setup a static ip on a F15 box. NetworkManager has been stop >> and disable >> >> I have setup the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and try to >> >> systemctl enable network.service >> syste

Re: So how is F15 (KDE) ?

2011-08-19 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 01:48:49PM +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Friday 19 August 2011 09:11:00 Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > On 08/18/2011 10:41 PM, Terry Polzin wrote: > > >> The F15 is better in the air by far: less complexity and weight with > > >> the fixed wings means that it can carry more

Re: Network won't start.

2011-08-19 Thread Jatin K
On Friday 19 August 2011 10:10 PM, Jim wrote: > Trying to setup a static ip on a F15 box. NetworkManager has been stop > and disable > > I have setup the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and try to > > systemctl enable network.service > systemctl start network.service > > but it won't star

Fedora15 with kvm and spice

2011-08-19 Thread Alex
Hi, I have a win7 x86_64 kvm image I created on a fc14 machine that I've now transferred to a new fc15 machine. I'd like to use the new spice system to improve video performance. I've searched quite a bit, but most references seem to be very dated or incomplete. Is there any documentation on how t

Re: Rpmfusion problems

2011-08-19 Thread Jim
On 08/15/2011 01:36 AM, Oluwagbenga Shobowale wrote: > Which means your dns is looking the wrong way. Nslook domain.com or dig > domain.com is the command to use. > You would need to check name server that you are using it might be using > cached info. > Oluwagbenga Shobowale Yeah that was the pr

Network won't start.

2011-08-19 Thread Jim
Trying to setup a static ip on a F15 box. NetworkManager has been stop and disable I have setup the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and try to systemctl enable network.service systemctl start network.service but it won't start, below is /var/log/messages ifcfg-eth0 # tail -f /var/l

confusion with gparted

2011-08-19 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I have an external usb HD (500Go) which I partionned (with fdisk) like this: /dev/sdx1 ~20Go: ntfs /dev/sdx2 rest of disk: ext3 If I use df -h, I get: /dev/sdb2 439G 44G 374G 11% /media/linux /dev/sdb1 21G 66

Re: So how is F15 (KDE) ?

2011-08-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:59:25 +0300 Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 18:23, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > How is F15-KDE, overall ? > > > > I'm still running F14, due to problems rebooting during the pre-upgrade > > process.  Is it worth my time to troubleshoot and fix this issue or > > shou

Re: error software update on a new installation

2011-08-19 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 16:58 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 16.08.2011 16:51, schrieb Peter Klaassen: > > I am an Ubuntu user and now testing Fedora. > > I have 360+ updates of software after installation. > > But I get the following error. > > > > could not add package update for > > fedora-

Re: So how is F15 (KDE) ?

2011-08-19 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Friday 19 August 2011 09:11:00 Roberto Ragusa wrote: > On 08/18/2011 10:41 PM, Terry Polzin wrote: > >> The F15 is better in the air by far: less complexity and weight with > >> the fixed wings means that it can carry more payload faster and more > >> maneuverable, all that with better range as

Re: Routing problems

2011-08-19 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 19/08/2011 10:34, Mike Dwiggins a écrit : > I am trying to set up a Fedora 14 as a router between two different net > works. look there: http://www.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial/iptables-tutorial.html you have example of what you want to do at

Routing problems

2011-08-19 Thread Mike Dwiggins
I am trying to set up a Fedora 14 as a router between two different net works. I have the following iptables set up: [root@faker ~]# iptables -A INPUT --source 10.21.144.0/24 --destination 10.16.2.1 [root@faker ~]# iptables -A INPUT --source 10.16.2.0/24 --destination 10.21.144.1 [root@fa

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-19 Thread Rick Sewill
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 11:31:18 PM Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 8/17/2011 10:33 PM, Andre Speelmans wrote: > > Two things: > > First, try without any firewall (service iptables stop), or enter a > > first line like: iptables -I INPUT -j ACCEPT, just so we can isolate > > the problem. > > >

Re: So how is F15 (KDE) ?

2011-08-19 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 08/18/2011 10:41 PM, Terry Polzin wrote: > >> >> The F15 is better in the air by far: less complexity and weight with >> the fixed wings means that it can carry more payload faster and more >> maneuverable, all that with better range as well. Maintenance and fuel >> costs go down as well. Howev

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-19 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 21:05 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Part of trying to get mail / mailx running on my Linux boxes to send > mail to pnew...@cs.cmu.edu involved using telnet as a test. They > wanted me to use port 587 per their online docs. To get mail to work, > I had to edit sendmail.mc

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-19 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Do you really have: >>> NTPSERVERARGS=iburst >> In the /etc/sysconfig/network file? Paul Allen Newell: > Yes, that seems to be part of the factory install or it is something > that I have no idea how I added it when I installed the machines ... as > you can well imagine I have no idea wh

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-19 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 21:49 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > I am not longer certain whether the telnet testing failure is a > blocker to getting mail between machines. But it still remains a > mystery to me why I can't tell iptables "you like telnet / port 23 > inside your LAN". Your firewall ru

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-19 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 07:33 +0200, Andre Speelmans wrote: > only listening on 127.0.0.1. This is only a local interface. You > will find it on every machine (not just Linux, also Windows). It is an > IP that allows the machine to talk to itself and can not be reached by > any other machine. (For so