Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 23/08/11 21:07, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/23/2011 12:43 PM, John Pilkington wrote: >> [John@localhost ~]$ su >> Password: >> >> [root@localhost John]# needs-restarting >> >> 3433 : /usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.1/thunderbird-bin >> 5567 : /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/firefox-UILocaleen-GB >> >> Thunderbird a

Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/24/2011 04:36 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > i did not know "needs-restarting" before some posts on this mailing-list > but for me on F15 it DOES NOT work too, it gave nothing out after a lot > of updates including running services like httpd and php itself Have you filed a bug report? Rahul --

Re: telnet on local LAN question (progress?)

2011-08-23 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 8/22/2011 9:51 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: Thanks for your two emails. I am stepping back, going through all the email again, and rethinking what I am trying to do and the best way to do it. This "little exercise" was much bigger than I thought and I need to do alot of learning before I come up wit

Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.08.2011 00:59, schrieb John Pilkington: > On 23/08/11 22:34, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 08/23/2011 12:43 PM, John Pilkington wrote: >>> Haven't seen any problems yet... >> >> I just fired up my laptop, also running F 14. After making sure firefox >> and the GIMP were running, I used yumex to up

Re: Personal VPN on Fedora

2011-08-23 Thread Manuel Escudero
2011/8/23 Manuel Escudero > > > 2011/8/22 admin lewis > >> 2011/8/20 Manuel Escudero : >> > Hi there: >> > >> > I was wondering if is there something like Hotspot Shield or TunnelBear >> for >> > Linux >> > or if not, How can I easily mount a VPN connection in Fedora? >> > Have been reading a lo

Re: Non-native RPM or compile?

2011-08-23 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/23/2011 07:11 PM, Lars Eighner wrote: >> I want lifeline (genealogy program). I don't find it packaged for Fedora 15. >> I do find an OpenSuSE rpm, apparently appropriate for my

Re: Non-native RPM or compile?

2011-08-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/23/2011 07:11 PM, Lars Eighner wrote: > I want lifeline (genealogy program). I don't find it packaged for Fedora 15. > I do find an OpenSuSE rpm, apparently appropriate for my architecture. > > In general, would I be better off using a non-nati

Re: Non-native RPM or compile?

2011-08-23 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 23/08/11 20:11, Lars Eighner wrote: > I want lifeline (genealogy program). I don't find it packaged for Fedora 15. > I do find an OpenSuSE rpm, apparently appropriate for my architecture. > > In general, would I be better off using a non-native RPM or compiling it > myself? > You may no

Non-native RPM or compile?

2011-08-23 Thread Lars Eighner
I want lifeline (genealogy program). I don't find it packaged for Fedora 15. I do find an OpenSuSE rpm, apparently appropriate for my architecture. In general, would I be better off using a non-native RPM or compiling it myself? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35

Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread John Pilkington
On 23/08/11 22:34, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/23/2011 12:43 PM, John Pilkington wrote: >> Haven't seen any problems yet... > > I just fired up my laptop, also running F 14. After making sure firefox > and the GIMP were running, I used yumex to update my system. Both were > updated, but running needs

Re: Installing driver for WiFi adapter

2011-08-23 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Paul Smith wrote: >>> >> TP-LINK TL-WN821N >>> > >>> > >>> > Can you post output of lsmod and lsusb. Have you installed the firmware >>> > for the device into /lib/firmware?  If the device is supported by the >>> > kernel you won't be able to load the module withou

Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/23/2011 12:43 PM, John Pilkington wrote: > Haven't seen any problems yet... I just fired up my laptop, also running F 14. After making sure firefox and the GIMP were running, I used yumex to update my system. Both were updated, but running needs-restarting, either as root or as myself r

Re: Kernel upgrades?

2011-08-23 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
On 08/23/2011 03:11 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 08/23/2011 09:05 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > >> In addition to the 3.x parsing problem, it was my impression that >> kernel upgrades turned out more problematic than usual since the moment >> graphic stuff was moved into the kernel. This has creat

Re: Fedora-15-x86_64-netinst on Dell XPS-15z

2011-08-23 Thread Michael Dinon
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Paulo wrote: > Hi Fellas. > > The installer (anaconda) of "Fedora-15-x86_64-netinst" don't work on Dell > XPS-15z. > (with install option default and basic video too). > When booting it stop at point: "Waiting for hardware to initialize" then > halts. > There is

Re: gnome-shell + nfsv4 = problems?!

2011-08-23 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
> I've been testing F15/gnome-shell on my desktop, and it works great... > except when I install it on a second user's desktop, everything slows to > a crawl, sometimes freezing the shells altogether. I can tell when > another gnome-shell system is in use, because mine freezes! > > All users have n

Re: Installing driver for WiFi adapter

2011-08-23 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> >> TP-LINK TL-WN821N >> > >> > >> > Can you post output of lsmod and lsusb. Have you installed the firmware >> > for the device into /lib/firmware?  If the device is supported by the >> > kernel you won't be able to load the module without

Re: Installing driver for WiFi adapter

2011-08-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Paul Smith writes: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Terry Polzin wrote: >> TP-LINK TL-WN821N > > > Can you post output of lsmod and lsusb. Have you installed the firmware > for the device into /lib/firmware?  If the device is supported by the > kernel you won't be able to load the module withou

Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/23/2011 12:43 PM, John Pilkington wrote: > [John@localhost ~]$ su > Password: > > [root@localhost John]# needs-restarting > > 3433 : /usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.1/thunderbird-bin > 5567 : /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/firefox-UILocaleen-GB > > Thunderbird and Firefox restarted here Interesting. I tri

Re: Installing driver for WiFi adapter

2011-08-23 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Terry Polzin wrote: >> TP-LINK TL-WN821N > > > Can you post output of lsmod and lsusb. Have you installed the firmware > for the device into /lib/firmware?  If the device is supported by the > kernel you won't be able to load the module without the firmware > insta

Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread John Pilkington
On 23/08/11 20:29, Joe Zeff wrote: > I've tried using needs-restarting after updates, but never had it report > that anything was needed, either running it as myself or as root. > Today's update included Firefox, Thunderbird (both running at the time) > and a new kernel. > >> [joe@khorlia Desktop]$

Re: Installing driver for WiFi adapter

2011-08-23 Thread Terry Polzin
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 20:15 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > TP-LINK TL-WN821N Can you post output of lsmod and lsusb. Have you installed the firmware for the device into /lib/firmware? If the device is supported by the kernel you won't be able to load the module without the firmware installed. Googl

Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread Joe Zeff
I've tried using needs-restarting after updates, but never had it report that anything was needed, either running it as myself or as root. Today's update included Firefox, Thunderbird (both running at the time) and a new kernel. > [joe@khorlia Desktop]$ su -c needs-restarting > Password: > [joe

Installing driver for WiFi adapter

2011-08-23 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I am trying to use the following WiFi USB adapter on F15: TP-LINK TL-WN821N. How can I install the respective driver? Thanks in advance, Paul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/li

Re: Kernel upgrades?

2011-08-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.08.2011, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > Just to provide a more complete answer: the issue with trying to use a > 3.x kernel on Fedora 14 (or Fedora 15) is that a large number of > applications and kernel models are designed to expect the 2.x version > number. They fail to parse the 3.x version

Fedora-15-x86_64-netinst on Dell XPS-15z

2011-08-23 Thread Paulo
Hi Fellas. The installer (anaconda) of "Fedora-15-x86_64-netinst" don't work on Dell XPS-15z. (with install option default and basic video too). When booting it stop at point: "Waiting for hardware to initialize" then halts. There is the same problem in Fedora-15-x86_64-install-DVD. I think the i

Ibus always activated in text windows

2011-08-23 Thread Stuart McGraw
More Ibus problems in Fedora 15. I use Ibus with Anthy for entering Japanese text. A few days ago I updated Ibus to -1.3.99.20110419-14. Sometime shortly after that, I noticed that whenever I move my mouse to a text input window (gedit, Firefox address bar, new email composition window, etc) Ib

Re: howto lock DNS number in /etc/resolv.conf

2011-08-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.08.2011 17:44, schrieb james tate: > I have been through that damn router two times and I can not find out > why or how it comes up with; > > domain= 2wire.net > search = 2wire.net > nameserver 172.16.0.1 (which is the gateway of the router) > > 2wire.net is the website of modem manufa

Re: Kernel upgrades?

2011-08-23 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/23/2011 09:05 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > In addition to the 3.x parsing problem, it was my impression that > kernel upgrades turned out more problematic than usual since the moment > graphic stuff was moved into the kernel. This has created more > dependency between the kernel and some X

Re: gnome-shell + nfsv4 = problems?!

2011-08-23 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
> I've been testing F15/gnome-shell on my desktop, and it works great... > except when I install it on a second user's desktop, everything slows to > a crawl, sometimes freezing the shells altogether. I can tell when > another gnome-shell system is in use, because mine freezes! > > All users have n

Re: Kernel upgrades?

2011-08-23 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/23/2011 08:15 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 08:22 +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > > Just to provide a more complete answer: the issue with trying to use a > 3.x kernel on Fedora 14 (or Fedora 15) is that a large number of > applications and kernel models are des

Re: Kernel upgrades?

2011-08-23 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 08/23/2011 02:15 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > Just to provide a more complete answer: the issue with trying to use a > 3.x kernel on Fedora 14 (or Fedora 15) is that a large number of > applications and kernel models are designed to expect the 2.x version > number. They fail to parse the 3.x

Re: Kernel upgrades?

2011-08-23 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 08:22 +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > On 08/23/2011 12:42 AM, suvayu ali wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Christopher Svanefalk > > wrote: > >> For > >> example, would it be possible to use a pre-compiled kernel from Rawhide > >> and integrate it into my cur

Re: Personal VPN on Fedora

2011-08-23 Thread Manuel Escudero
2011/8/22 admin lewis > 2011/8/20 Manuel Escudero : > > Hi there: > > > > I was wondering if is there something like Hotspot Shield or TunnelBear > for > > Linux > > or if not, How can I easily mount a VPN connection in Fedora? > > Have been reading a lot, but it's quite difficult :S > > OpenVPN