Re: Affordable 802.11n USB dongle that IS supported in Fedora

2014-08-04 Thread Patrick Oltmann
On Sunday 03 August 2014 23:20:26 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I spent 30 min going through all the 'clearance' open boxes at > MicroCenter today with my notebook, trying to see if any came up as > supported. None did. I went to the section with the unopen items and > found the Asus claiming Linux s

efibootmgr triggers UEFI firmware problem

2012-08-22 Thread Patrick Oltmann
Dear all I recently used efibootmgr (0.5.4-12.fc17.x86_64) to inactivate a couple of UEFI boot menu entries and change the default boot order on my Thinkpad X220 (UEFI version 1.33). When I re-booted the machine afterwards, the UEFI menu showed up with the desired entries and order, however sele

Re: rEFIt and fedora 16 install

2012-01-02 Thread Patrick Oltmann
Hy Matt I'm not sure about F16 since it use grub2, but for the previous releases including F15 gptsync was necessary to produce a MBR that (somehow) resembled the content of the GPT (F<=15 use grub legacy, which cannot handle GPT partition tables but only the traditional MBR). You can start gpt

KVM/qemu USB pass-through not working for Win7 guest

2011-06-05 Thread Patrick Oltmann
Hy there I'm running a KVM/qemu virtual machine with Win7 as a guest and need a USB device (Smartcard reader w/ PIN pad) to be passed through into that virtual machine. Therefore I use the "-device usb-host, hostbus=X, hostaddr=Y, id=hostdev0" command line parameter. However, the device does no

Re: Can't dual-boot Fedora 14 on new MacBook Pro?

2011-04-25 Thread Patrick Oltmann
Hy there Maybe it's a little too late for this but anyhow: I encountered the same problem on a MacPro workstation using rEFIt and a triple-OS setup (OSX 10.6, Win 7 Enterprise, Fedora 14). Syncing the GPT data onto the MBR was necessary for both Fedora 14 and Win 7 to work, but it was obviousl