Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue (SUCCESS)

On 18/03/14 19:37, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/18/14 14:08, Rolf Turner wrote: Since I don't use the KDE desktop (I use Mate) I would presume that the forgoing is of no relevance to me. (Unless I were to switch over to KDE, which I am not inclined to do on the basis of "Better the devil you know

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

On 03/18/14 14:17, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 18.03.2014, CS_DBA wrote: > >> In the meantime, does Fedora play well with USB wireless >> cards/devices? > It does. I have similar problems as you describe in this thread (F19), > and using an external USB network adapter solved it. I don't have the > t

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue (SUCCESS)

On 03/18/14 14:08, Rolf Turner wrote: > Since I don't use the KDE desktop (I use Mate) I would presume that the > forgoing is of no relevance to me. (Unless I were to switch over to KDE, > which I am not inclined to do on the basis of "Better the devil you know ) > > This is an academic ques

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

On 18.03.2014, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 18.03.2014, CS_DBA wrote: > > > In the meantime, does Fedora play well with USB wireless > > cards/devices? > > It does. I have similar problems as you describe in this thread (F19), > and using an external USB network adapter solved it. I don't have the

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

On 18.03.2014, CS_DBA wrote: > In the meantime, does Fedora play well with USB wireless > cards/devices? It does. I have similar problems as you describe in this thread (F19), and using an external USB network adapter solved it. I don't have the time to debug the problem. -- users mailing

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue (SUCCESS)

On 18/03/14 15:34, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/18/14 10:14, CS_DBA wrote: On 03/17/2014 06:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/18/14 08:51, Rolf Turner wrote: I had (I think) a similar problem and was advised (by "poma") to use "blacklist": That will work. However, IMHO, using the GUI is far simple

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue (SUCCESS)

On 18/03/14 15:14, CS_DBA wrote: On 03/17/2014 06:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/18/14 08:51, Rolf Turner wrote: I had (I think) a similar problem and was advised (by "poma") to use "blacklist": That will work. However, IMHO, using the GUI is far simpler and easily reversible for testing pur

Re: can't boot F19 system

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2014, at 9:53 PM, "pgaltieri ." wrote: > > > modprobe vfat > > returns with no messages at all. The vfat module is not loaded. > > > Seems important to find out why the kernel isn't loading fat.ko+vfat.ko. > > Emergency shell yo

Re: can't boot F19 system

On Mar 17, 2014, at 9:53 PM, "pgaltieri ." wrote: > > modprobe vfat > > returns with no messages at all. The vfat module is not loaded. Seems important to find out why the kernel isn't loading fat.ko+vfat.ko. Emergency shell you can run: fsck.msdos -a /dev/sda1 See where that gets you, and

Re: can't boot F19 system

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2014, at 8:24 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > > On Mar 17, 2014, at 8:15 PM, Chris Murphy > wrote: > > > >> > >> On Mar 17, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Chris Murphy > wrote: > >>> But maybe once /boot/efi is mounted, it's worth doing dra

Re: fc20 wireless networking problem

On 03/18/14 11:13, Luke Nath wrote: > Upgraded from fc18 to fc20 using fedup. > > Most went well. I had to restart the process because of a transient > disk issue (Drive went to sleep). > After that all was done and I rebooted. It booted into the fedup kernel > to finish and complete the update. >

Cannot control Screen Brightness - Fedora 20

Hi All; I have Fedora 20 installed on a Lenovo W540. I cannot control the screen brightness via the Function F5/F6 keys, nor can I control it via the system settings (KDE) --> Power Management settings... Can anyone help me debug this? Thanks in advance... -- users mailing list users@list

fc20 wireless networking problem

Upgraded from fc18 to fc20 using fedup. Most went well. I had to restart the process because of a transient disk issue (Drive went to sleep). After that all was done and I rebooted. It booted into the fedup kernel to finish and complete the update. After that I rebooted into the fc20 kernel. Foun

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue (SUCCESS)

On 03/18/14 10:14, CS_DBA wrote: > > On 03/17/2014 06:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 03/18/14 08:51, Rolf Turner wrote: >>> I had (I think) a similar problem and was advised (by "poma") to use >>> "blacklist": >> That will work. However, IMHO, using the GUI is far simpler and easily >> reversibl

Re: can't boot F19 system

On Mar 17, 2014, at 8:24 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2014, at 8:15 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> >> On Mar 17, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> But maybe once /boot/efi is mounted, it's worth doing dracut -f to rebuild >>> the initramfs, and then reboot. >> >> It's not

Re: can't boot F19 system

On Mar 17, 2014, at 8:15 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> But maybe once /boot/efi is mounted, it's worth doing dracut -f to rebuild >> the initramfs, and then reboot. > > It's not worth it. I just used lsinitrd on my working system and neither

Re: can't boot F19 system

On Mar 17, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > But maybe once /boot/efi is mounted, it's worth doing dracut -f to rebuild > the initramfs, and then reboot. It's not worth it. I just used lsinitrd on my working system and neither fat.ko or vfat.ko are in the initramfs. So somehow on your sy

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue (SUCCESS)

On 03/17/2014 06:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/18/14 08:51, Rolf Turner wrote: I had (I think) a similar problem and was advised (by "poma") to use "blacklist": That will work. However, IMHO, using the GUI is far simpler and easily reversible for testing purposes. Just my opinion.

Re: can't boot F19 system

On Mar 17, 2014, at 6:12 PM, "pgaltieri ." wrote: > > If I look at /usr/lib/modules on the non working system I get: > > 3.12.11-201.fc19.x86_64/ > 3.12.9-201.fc19.x86_64/ > 3.13.5-101.fc19.x86_64/ > 3.13.5-103.fc19.x86_64/ > > uname -a shows > > Linux peglaptopnew 3.13.5-103.fc19.x86_64 #1 S

Re: VLC Media Player for F20?

Hello, OK, I now have VLC. Although the instructions on the VLC website led to an error, they must have done something. Soon, some automatic software update regarding RPMFusion popped up, and after that, yum was able to see VLC and install it. Best, Oliver On Mon, Mar 17, 2014

Re: 640x480 only res available after f14 - f20 upgrade?

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 22:16:24 +, Morgan Read wrote: On 17/03/14 21:26, Bruno Wolff III wrote: ... That looks like it does do EDID? Yes, but the modelines were all pretty low resolution. It may be that the EDID information is incorrect or maybe you were previously running the monitor

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

On 03/18/14 08:51, Rolf Turner wrote: > I had (I think) a similar problem and was advised (by "poma") to use > "blacklist": That will work. However, IMHO, using the GUI is far simpler and easily reversible for testing purposes. Just my opinion. -- Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

On 18/03/14 12:49, CS_DBA wrote: On 03/17/2014 05:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/18/14 07:20, CS_DBA wrote: If I get a USB wifi dongle how do I go about telling my system to NOT use the built in 7260 and use the dongle instead? Usually you can disable the on-board wireless of a laptop in eith

Re: VLC Media Player for F20?

On 03/18/14 08:24, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > I want to install the VLC Media Player on my F20. The VLC website is very > outdated and only has instructions up to F14, and they don't work for me. VLC is available in the rpmfusion repos http://rpmfusion.org/ has the info for adding their

re: VLC Media Player for F20?

- Original Message - From: Oliver Ruebenacker To: Community support for Fedora users Date sent: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 20:24:08 -0400 Subject: VLC Media Player for F20? Hello, I want to install the VLC Media Player on my F20. The VLC website is very outdated and only has instruction

VLC Media Player for F20?

Hello, I want to install the VLC Media Player on my F20. The VLC website is very outdated and only has instructions up to F14, and they don't work for me. Any advice? Thanks! Best, Oliver -- Oliver Ruebenacker Founder at Relomics Consulting Be alway

Re: can't boot F19 system

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > Chris, > > here is the output for journal -b > > > > https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share?s=yuVEpW13SV0n_TIJKaokLs > > Mar 17 14:14:57 peglaptopnew systemd[1]: Mounting /boot/efi... > Mar 17 14:14:57 peglaptopnew mount[460]: mount:

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

On 03/18/14 07:49, CS_DBA wrote: > I found a dongle on the list at a local microcenter... cannot find any info > on how to turn the built in wifi off, nothing obvious in the bios, no HW > switch other than the Fn-F8 which does not work... > > Any ideas on how I could disable it via Fedora? With

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

On 03/17/2014 05:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/18/14 07:20, CS_DBA wrote: If I get a USB wifi dongle how do I go about telling my system to NOT use the built in 7260 and use the dongle instead? Usually you can disable the on-board wireless of a laptop in either the BIOS or a physical switch

Re: can't boot F19 system

> > Chris, > here is the output for journal -b > > https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share?s=yuVEpW13SV0n_TIJKaokLs Mar 17 14:14:57 peglaptopnew systemd[1]: Mounting /boot/efi... Mar 17 14:14:57 peglaptopnew mount[460]: mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat' Mar 17 14:14:57 peglaptopnew systemd

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

On 03/18/14 07:20, CS_DBA wrote: > If I get a USB wifi dongle how do I go about telling my system to NOT use the > built in 7260 and use the dongle instead? Usually you can disable the on-board wireless of a laptop in either the BIOS or a physical switch on the laptop. > > Also any advice per u

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

On 03/17/2014 05:10 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/18/14 06:25, CS_DBA wrote: 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 83) Is what you have If you do an lsmod you should see iwlwifi as loaded. A quick google about this seems to indicate that others, even on Ubuntu, h

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

On 03/18/14 06:25, CS_DBA wrote: > 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 83) Is what you have If you do an lsmod you should see iwlwifi as loaded. A quick google about this seems to indicate that others, even on Ubuntu, hare having similar issuesat least in t

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

On 03/17/2014 04:19 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/18/14 05:37, CS_DBA wrote: Hi all; I'm getting wildly inconsistent results... when I first connected to the wireless at a client site today I got speeds up to 25Mbps! Later the wireless disconnected and then cycled through asking me for the pa

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

On 03/18/14 05:37, CS_DBA wrote: > Hi all; > > I'm getting wildly inconsistent results... when I first connected to the > wireless at a client site today I got speeds up to 25Mbps! > > Later the wireless disconnected and then cycled through asking me for the > password over and over and never con

Re: 640x480 only res available after f14 - f20 upgrade?

On 17/03/14 21:26, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 21:21:57 +, > Morgan Read wrote: >> >> I'd really appreciate anybody pointing me in the right direction(s) - I >> suspect I've just not done something really straight forward as it seems >> very strange that this old HP ProL

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

On 03/17/2014 03:37 PM, CS_DBA wrote: On 03/17/2014 07:58 AM, CS_DBA wrote: On 03/17/2014 07:57 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/17/14 21:35, CS_DBA wrote: [root@localhost data]# iwconfig wlp3s0IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"Omega250" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.427 GHz Access Point: F8:

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

On 03/17/2014 07:58 AM, CS_DBA wrote: On 03/17/2014 07:57 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/17/14 21:35, CS_DBA wrote: [root@localhost data]# iwconfig wlp3s0IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"Omega250" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.427 GHz Access Point: F8:D1:11:BF:90:67 Bit Rate=121.

640x480 only res available after f14 - f20 upgrade?

Hello Folks I've upgraded a server to f20 that was running f14. There was no issue with screen geometry/ resolution in f14, but now the only resolution available via gnome is 640x480. That makes the machine virtually impossible to use in a graphic environment. I've followed these links here: *

Re: can't boot F19 system

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:17 PM, pgaltieri . wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> >> On Mar 17, 2014, at 2:13 PM, pgaltieri . wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Chris Murphy >> wrote: >> > >> > On Mar 17, 2014, at 1:37 PM, "pgaltieri ." wrote: >> >

Re: 640x480 only res available after f14 - f20 upgrade?

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 21:21:57 +, Morgan Read wrote: I'd really appreciate anybody pointing me in the right direction(s) - I suspect I've just not done something really straight forward as it seems very strange that this old HP ProLiant ML 150 and equally old Dell 1703FP monitor combo w

Re: can't boot F19 system

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2014, at 2:13 PM, pgaltieri . wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Chris Murphy > wrote: > > > > On Mar 17, 2014, at 1:37 PM, "pgaltieri ." wrote: > > > > > Here's the output > > > > > > BootCurrent: 0015 > > > Timeou

Re: Can I scale ONLY my primary monitor?

On 03/18/14 04:01, CS_DBA wrote: > I have a shiny new 1920x1080 screen on a laptop running Fedora 20. > > I've gone into system settings (KDE) "system settings --> application > appearance --> Fonts" and set the "Force fonts DPI to 115 which I sortof like > on my laptop display but not so thrille

Re: can't boot F19 system

On Mar 17, 2014, at 2:13 PM, pgaltieri . wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Chris Murphy > wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2014, at 1:37 PM, "pgaltieri ." wrote: > > > Here's the output > > > > BootCurrent: 0015 > > Timeout: 0 seconds > > BootOrder: > > ,0001,0016,0013,0014,0015,0012,001

Re: can't boot F19 system

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2014, at 1:37 PM, "pgaltieri ." wrote: > > > Here's the output > > > > BootCurrent: 0015 > > Timeout: 0 seconds > > BootOrder: > ,0001,0016,0013,0014,0015,0012,0010,0011,0019,001A,001B,0017,0018 > > Boot* fedora > > HD

Can I scale ONLY my primary monitor?

Hi All; I have a shiny new 1920x1080 screen on a laptop running Fedora 20. I've gone into system settings (KDE) "system settings --> application appearance --> Fonts" and set the "Force fonts DPI to 115 which I sortof like on my laptop display but not so thrilled with it on the external displ

Re: can't boot F19 system

On Mar 17, 2014, at 1:37 PM, "pgaltieri ." wrote: > Here's the output > > BootCurrent: 0015 > Timeout: 0 seconds > BootOrder: > ,0001,0016,0013,0014,0015,0012,0010,0011,0019,001A,001B,0017,0018 > Boot* fedora > HD(1,800,fa000,a37591b8-de99-44c3-9eb8-e7de6f28d62d)File(\EFI\fedora\gr

Re: F20 KDE Synaptics tapping not working - SOLVED

> In that tab, make sure the checkbox 'Enable tapping' is checked (and > mine was, fwiw). At the bottom of that tab there's a section labeled > 'Buttons'. You have to assign the buttons to particular taps. In F20 > KDE, the taps are all assigned NONE. Once I went in and set 'One > Finger' means

Re: can't boot F19 system

Here's the output BootCurrent: 0015 Timeout: 0 seconds BootOrder: ,0001,0016,0013,0014,0015,0012,0010,0011,0019,001A,001B,0017,0018 Boot* fedora HD(1,800,fa000,a37591b8-de99-44c3-9eb8-e7de6f28d62d)File(\EFI\fedora\grubx64.efi) Boot0001* Windows Boot Manager HD(1,800,fa000,a37591b8-de99-44c

Re: dnf-0.4.18

On 2014/03/17 02:47, Ales Kozumplik wrote: Also note that the name disputes have been settled: http://dnf.baseurl.org/2014/03/12/on-the-name/ Cheers, Ales Not Radar or Klinger? {o.o} -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://a

Re: can't boot F19 system

On Mar 17, 2014, at 10:47 AM, pgaltieri . wrote: > This didn't work. I still get the access denied error. The > /boot/efi/EFI/fedora directory contains a file > > gcdx64.efi > > and > > grubx64.efi > > They are both the same size. The first is dated July 2 2013 the other is > dated toda

Re: poor font rendering in ffox on f18

03/17/2014 07:49 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 16 March 2014, Mike Wright sent: On Chrome it displays perfectly (or falls back to sans-serif???) but on firefox it is extremely difficult to read. Using firebug I can force it to use sans-serif, which does display nicely. Here's the link

Re: F20 KDE Synaptics tapping not working - SOLVED

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/14 12:38, Mark Haney wrote: > I just rebuilt my Samsung netbook with upped RAM and a new HDD. > Finally restored Win7 on it and did a clean install of F20. For > some reason now, my Synaptics touchpad doesn't let me tap to select > items.

Re: can't boot F19 system

This didn't work. I still get the access denied error. The /boot/efi/EFI/fedora directory contains a file gcdx64.efi and grubx64.efi They are both the same size. The first is dated July 2 2013 the other is dated today. I tried renaming grubx64.efi to gcdx64.efi but it also failed. Paolo

F20 KDE Synaptics tapping not working

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just rebuilt my Samsung netbook with upped RAM and a new HDD. Finally restored Win7 on it and did a clean install of F20. For some reason now, my Synaptics touchpad doesn't let me tap to select items. It's enabled in the settings, it just doesn't s

Re: need root permission to poweroff

On 03/17/14 01:29, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/16/2014 11:34 AM, g wrote: which is 14 total terminals what might be causing the difference? You're also logged in at the GUI. i thought that was covered by the tty1 - Xorg. I understand that the number of users has nothing to do with the authenticati

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

On 03/17/2014 10:02 AM, Tim wrote: Tim: Sodding printers, designed by bastards incorporated. g: i was told many years ago that short stack was because of problems of feeding sheets from a large stack. Wasn't a problem for our high speed photostat machine (back when they were called that, rat

Re: poor font rendering in ffox on f18

Allegedly, on or about 16 March 2014, Mike Wright sent: > On Chrome it displays perfectly (or falls back to sans-serif???) but > on firefox it is extremely difficult to read. Using firebug I can > force it to use sans-serif, which does display nicely. > > Here's the link to a screen capture: > >

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

On 03/17/2014 07:57 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/17/14 21:35, CS_DBA wrote: [root@localhost data]# iwconfig wlp3s0IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"Omega250" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.427 GHz Access Point: F8:D1:11:BF:90:67 Bit Rate=121.5 Mb/s Tx-Power=16 dBm Retry

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

Tim: >> Sodding printers, designed by bastards incorporated. g: > i was told many years ago that short stack was because of problems > of feeding sheets from a large stack. Wasn't a problem for our high speed photostat machine (back when they were called that, rather than photocopier). Trying to

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

On 03/17/14 21:35, CS_DBA wrote: > [root@localhost data]# iwconfig > wlp3s0IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"Omega250" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.427 GHz Access Point: F8:D1:11:BF:90:67 > Bit Rate=121.5 Mb/s Tx-Power=16 dBm > Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

On 03/16/2014 11:03 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/17/14 12:52, CS_DBA wrote: On 03/16/2014 10:20 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/17/14 12:02, CS DBA wrote: On 3/16/14, 7:50 PM, CS DBA wrote: On 3/16/14, 4:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/16/2014 03:41 PM, CS DBA wrote: However, the Fedora laptop con

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On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 15:04 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > A clever intruder is just going to wait until a batch of changes goe > out and then add their trojan. Of course you check the hash signatures on those downloads, right? poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Restoring from Duplicity -- frustration.

On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 17:56 -0400, Bill Case wrote: > I want to restore them to 1 of 2 files, it doesn't matter which : > > 1) /home/bill/.local/share/gnoteor > 2) /run/media/wcase/LinuxBUb/bill-20Restored > > For duplicity --restore -> "Command line error: Expected 2 args, got 1" > I don't

dnf-0.4.18

Hello, we are proudly releasing 0.4.18 today: http://dnf.baseurl.org/2014/03/17/dnf-0-4-18-released/ http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/release_notes.html#id29 F20 build: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dnf-0.4.18-1.fc20 Also note that the name disputes have been settled: http://dnf.baseur