Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread keke
> However, this is a really valuable warning / denial. Many PHP > frameworks tend to write temporary files. It would be nice to have > the system deny those files if they're not in the expected places. You are developing a PHP application which will be deployed on a server. And you are using SELin

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread keke
> And if you have a machine actually plugged into the internet, > handling any untrusted content or with potentialy buggy apps (which > is just about anything that opens an image for example) then its > kind of useful. heh. I guess it's even more useful if I am using the adobe 64-bit flash plugin

Re: err:wineconsole:WINECON_Fatal Couldn't find a decent font, aborting

2010-08-30 Thread Joshua C.
2010/8/31 James McKenzie : > Joshua C. wrote: >> >> I found something very interesting. As I said eralier I tried the same >> packages some months ago and everything worked fine. So I just tested >> all the packgaes until i found the "working" one. To clarify before I >> start: wine works fine but

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Quan Qiu
Thanks for pointing me. I setup Putty to use UTF8, right now Chinese file names can be displayed :-) On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Ding Yi Chen wrote: > Perhaps you can set the putty to use Chinese font, > I used to use putty with Chinese BBS, should be all right. > > Or you may want to tr

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/31/2010 01:32 PM, Hiisi wrote: > Yes, I know. And enconv can be used exactly the same way that iconv > used in the proposed script. But you don't have to guess the encoding. Well, you may still have to guess if the sample size is small such that it can't accurately determine it. In looking

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Hiisi
2010/8/31 Ed Greshko : >>> >>> Sometimes the hardest thing is to determine what encoding the file names >>> are in to start. :-( >>> <--SNIP--> > > Well...the man page says "enca -- detect and convert encoding of text > files" and we are talking about file names not the contents of the > file. I

Re: Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread Marvin Kosmal
HI Yum update yum check-update seems to have solved the problem. Thanks everyone. Marvin On 8/30/10, Chris Smart wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Chris Smart > wrote: >> >> su - 'yum check-update' >> su - 'yum update' > > Gah. > > su -c 'yum update' > su -c 'yum check-update' > >

Re: Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread JD
On 08/30/2010 09:28 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: >> I am getting this error now. >> > You're missing the public key, which packagekit isn't happy about for > some reason. Add the rpmfusion repositories using the command line > above (or follow th

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Ding Yi Chen
Perhaps you can set the putty to use Chinese font, I used to use putty with Chinese BBS, should be all right. Or you may want to try pietty: http://ntu.csie.org/~piaip/pietty/ - "Quan Qiu" wrote: > Thanks a lot. You are very right about this problem! Now, Fedora can display > Chinese f

Re: Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > Given his opening line was "just installed Fedora 13" I'm guessing so ;-) ..and then I should read the next sentence which was "upgraded from 12" so you're right, it might not be that "new" ;-) -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

Re: Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:29 PM, JD wrote: > Is the installation that "new"? Given his opening line was "just installed Fedora 13" I'm guessing so ;-) -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/li

Re: Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > > su - 'yum check-update' > su - 'yum update' Gah. su -c 'yum update' su -c 'yum check-update' -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/lis

Re: Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread JD
On 08/30/2010 09:26 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:24 PM, JD wrote: >> For Fedora 12 and 13: >> Install them with the very long command: > But sudo is not configured out of the box, so better to use "su -" > > su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck > http://download1.rpmfusion.

Re: Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > > I am getting this error now. > You're missing the public key, which packagekit isn't happy about for some reason. Add the rpmfusion repositories using the command line above (or follow the website), then update yum which should prompt to i

Re: Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:24 PM, JD wrote: > For Fedora 12 and 13: > Install them with the very long command: But sudo is not configured out of the box, so better to use "su -" su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rp

Re: Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread Marvin Kosmal
On 8/30/10, Chris Smart wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: >> Hi >> >> This is something I have not done before.. >> >> It there a HOWTO or ?? > > There is, if you go to that website. The front page has a link which says: > "Enable RPM Fusion on your system" > I am ge

Re: Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread JD
On 08/30/2010 09:08 PM, Dmitrij S. Kryzhevich wrote: >> I googled and got a 1000 hits.. After checking I am not sure who/what >> to trust... >> >> Is there a trusted Fedora site where I can get this codec?? > You need to enable rpmfusion (rpmfusion.org) repo. You can install these rpmfusion repo

Re: err:wineconsole:WINECON_Fatal Couldn't find a decent font, aborting

2010-08-30 Thread James McKenzie
Joshua C. wrote: > I found something very interesting. As I said eralier I tried the same > packages some months ago and everything worked fine. So I just tested > all the packgaes until i found the "working" one. To clarify before I > start: wine works fine but the "wineconsole cmd" throws the err

Re: Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > Hi > > This is something I have not done before.. > > It there a HOWTO or ?? There is, if you go to that website. The front page has a link which says: "Enable RPM Fusion on your system" -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread Marvin Kosmal
Hi This is something I have not done before.. It there a HOWTO or ?? Thanks Marvin On 8/30/10, Dmitrij S. Kryzhevich wrote: >> I googled and got a 1000 hits.. After checking I am not sure who/what >> to trust... >> >> Is there a trusted Fedora site where I can get this codec?? > > You need

Re: Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread Dmitrij S. Kryzhevich
> I googled and got a 1000 hits.. After checking I am not sure who/what > to trust... > > Is there a trusted Fedora site where I can get this codec?? You need to enable rpmfusion (rpmfusion.org) repo. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- users mailing list us

Re: Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread Mika Kuusela
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:31:42 -0700 Marvin Kosmal wrote: > Hi > > Just installed Fedora 13. Upgraded from 12.. > > My movie player will not work. > > Error message below.. > > The playback of this movie requires a Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) > demuxer plugin which is not installed. > >

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Quan Qiu
Thanks for pointing. I will look at the convmv tool On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Jens Petersen wrote: > > ls | while read filename > > do > > mv -i "$filename" "`echo \"$filename\" | iconv -f GB2312 -t UTF8`" > > done > > Or you can use the convmv tool (in fedora) to do that too. > -- > u

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/31/2010 11:54 AM, Hiisi wrote: > 2010/8/31 Ed Greshko : > <--SNIP--> >> Hadn't known about that command. Thanks >> >> Sometimes the hardest thing is to determine what encoding the file names >> are in to start. :-( >> >> -- >> A tall, dark stranger will have more fun than you. 葛斯克 愛德華

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Quan Qiu
Thanks a lot. You are very right about this problem! Now, Fedora can display Chinese file names properly although the font doesn't look pretty. :-D One more question, when I used Putty to SSH the server, all files named in Chinese couldn't display properly. Is that because of the Putty doesn't sup

Re: SELINUX

2010-08-30 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday, August 31, 2010 01:15:15 JB wrote: > Well, if selinux is the best that happened to security since sliced bread, > then why people make these comments ? Umm, let me see... :-) (a) because SELinux has a learning curve; (b) because SELinux uncovers bad admin practices by breaking lousy c

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Hiisi
2010/8/31 Ed Greshko : <--SNIP--> > > Hadn't known about that command. Thanks > > Sometimes the hardest thing is to determine what encoding the file names > are in to start. :-( > > -- > A tall, dark stranger will have more fun than you. 葛斯克 愛德華 / 台北 > 市八德路四段 > > For that purpose there's a p

Re: Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread JD
On 08/30/2010 08:31 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > Hi > > Just installed Fedora 13. Upgraded from 12.. > > My movie player will not work. > > Error message below.. > > The playback of this movie requires a Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) > demuxer plugin which is not installed. > > > Neither yum or

Re: Problem with hibernation

2010-08-30 Thread Hiisi
2010/8/31 Timothy Murphy : <--SNIP--> > > I solved my problem by adding RAM - > there was 512MB, and I added 1GB. > After this, to my surprise, hibernation worked again. > So it seems the cause was a shortage of memory. > I'm rather surprised, as I have (and had) 2GB swap space. > > > -- > Timothy

Missing Codec in Fedora 13

2010-08-30 Thread Marvin Kosmal
Hi Just installed Fedora 13. Upgraded from 12.. My movie player will not work. Error message below.. The playback of this movie requires a Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) demuxer plugin which is not installed. Neither yum or the package manager could find it. I googled and got a 1000 hits.

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/31/2010 11:18 AM, Jens Petersen wrote: >> ls | while read filename >> do >> mv -i "$filename" "`echo \"$filename\" | iconv -f GB2312 -t UTF8`" >> done > Or you can use the convmv tool (in fedora) to do that too. Hadn't known about that command. Thanks Sometimes the hardest thing is to

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Jens Petersen
> ls | while read filename > do > mv -i "$filename" "`echo \"$filename\" | iconv -f GB2312 -t UTF8`" > done Or you can use the convmv tool (in fedora) to do that too. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread L
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Quan Qiu writes: > >> « HTML content follows » >> Thanks for reply. >> >> 1.  Where did the imported files come from? >> >> Those files were copied from Windows XP through ssh. >> >> 2.  Are you certain that the file names are in UTF8 and

grub-install question

2010-08-30 Thread JD
A friend has a PC with windows only on the main boot disk, and another windows + F13 on the second disk. Because he did not install grub on sda, he can only boot windows on sda. Bios boot menu does not allow him to select the second disk for booting. Only way he can boot second disk is by disabl

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Quan Qiu writes: « HTML content follows » Thanks for reply. 1.  Where did the imported files come from? Those files were copied from Windows XP through ssh. 2.  Are you certain that the file names are in UTF8 and not, for example, GB2312? Most of files are .doc or .xls. Do you know how to co

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Quan Qiu
Thanks for reply. 1. Where did the imported files come from? Those files were copied from Windows XP through ssh. 2. Are you certain that the file names are in UTF8 and not, for example, GB2312? Most of files are .doc or .xls. Do you know how to convert them to GB2312 ? On Tue, Aug 31, 201

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Quan Qiu
Thanks for reply. I tried *yum groupinstall "Chinese Support"*, then restart the server, but didn't get any luck. On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Quan Qiu wrote: > > Could anyone help me with this? I appreciate any response. > > Does this

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Quan Qiu wrote: > Could anyone help me with this? I appreciate any response. Does this help? yum groupinstall "Chinese Support" -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/31/2010 08:57 AM, Quan Qiu wrote: > I installed fedora 12 (English version) on a Dell R300 server, as well > as SVN and Trac, after I imported files into Linux, all files named in > Chinese became black squares or question marks when listing them, and > there were additional strings "invalid

Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Quan Qiu
I installed fedora 12 (English version) on a Dell R300 server, as well as SVN and Trac, after I imported files into Linux, all files named in Chinese became black squares or question marks when listing them, and there were additional strings "invalid encoding" attached after each filename. In addit

Re: SELINUX

2010-08-30 Thread JB
Alan Cox lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes: > > > http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/selinux.html > > > > No doubt there are those who disagree though . > > Indeed - I think I'd consider a consultant who did that on my systems as > setting themselves up for a negligence lawsuit if

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread JD
On 08/30/2010 03:31 PM, Darr wrote: > On Monday, 30 August, 2010 @21:33 zulu, JD scribed: > >> On 08/30/2010 02:22 PM, JB wrote: >>> iwconfig eth0 txpower auto >> Even after setting it to auto, it still remains at 8dBm: > > http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2008-March/017521.html > sugges

Re: 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.PAE sleeps NOT

2010-08-30 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 08/30/2010 01:14:42 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 08/26/2010 01:28 PM, JD wrote: > > On 08/26/2010 09:29 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > > >> On 08/26/2010 09:06:33 AM, James Mckenzie wrote: > >> > >>> Geoffrey Leach wrote > >>> > Sent: Aug 26, 2010 8:37 AM > To: Fedora

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread JD
On 08/30/2010 03:31 PM, Darr wrote: > On Monday, 30 August, 2010 @21:33 zulu, JD scribed: > >> On 08/30/2010 02:22 PM, JB wrote: >>> iwconfig eth0 txpower auto >> Even after setting it to auto, it still remains at 8dBm: > > http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2008-March/017521.html > sugges

Re: err:wineconsole:WINECON_Fatal Couldn't find a decent font, aborting

2010-08-30 Thread Joshua C.
2010/8/30 James Mckenzie : > "Joshua C." wrote: >> >>Actually I need to run a simple batch file. That's why I used a >>kde-livecd-f14-x86_64 and installed wine-core.i686 wine-wow.i686, >>wine-common and wine-fonts. All dpendencies were pull automatically. >>Wine works fine but when trying to start

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread Darr
On Monday, 30 August, 2010 @21:33 zulu, JD scribed: > On 08/30/2010 02:22 PM, JB wrote: >> iwconfig eth0 txpower auto > Even after setting it to auto, it still remains at 8dBm: http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2008-March/017521.html suggests the RAW_TXPOWER_SETTING parameter needs to be

Re: Unable to disable wireless with latest NetworkManager-gnome

2010-08-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/30/2010 03:37 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: > I have a somewhat similar "problem" with a wired ADSL connection. I > used to disable the connection by right clicking the icon and > unclicking "Enable connection". Now "Enable connection" is checked and > grayed out. It's impossible to disable the con

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card - SOLVED

2010-08-30 Thread JD
A patch was submitted on Aug 25th, 2010 and integrated in 2.6.36. Google the exact phrase "rt2x00: Fix max TX power settings" so, it will be quiet a while before a fedora kernel package sees it. On 08/30/2010 02:22 PM, JB wrote: > JD gmail.com> writes: > >>F13, latest updates. >> wifi c

Re: Problem with hibernation

2010-08-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: > My laptop has ceased hibernating. > When I click on f=>Leave=>Hibernate > the sleep-moon starts flashing > and the small hyphen-like symbol on the top left comes on as usual, > but as far as I can see nothing is written to disk. I solved my problem by adding RAM - there w

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread JD
On 08/30/2010 02:22 PM, JB wrote: > iwconfig eth0 txpower auto Even after setting it to auto, it still remains at 8dBm: $ iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"deleted" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Pow

Re: Java/Firefox craziness

2010-08-30 Thread suvayu ali
On 30 August 2010 14:10, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > Just some clarification and double checking. > > I want to use a Canadian government site with Firefox on Fedora 13.  I > get the warning message that I need Sun JVM 1.6.0_3 or greater.  There > is nothing in the repositories that I can see re

Re: Unable to disable wireless with latest NetworkManager-gnome

2010-08-30 Thread Marcel Rieux
I have a somewhat similar "problem" with a wired ADSL connection. I used to disable the connection by right clicking the icon and unclicking "Enable connection". Now "Enable connection" is checked and grayed out. It's impossible to disable the connection by unchecking. BUT, it you left click and ch

Re: General desktop questions

2010-08-30 Thread Ted Roche
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Alex wrote: > Thanks for your input. I'm very surprised my questions were such that > you believed pointing me to the CATB doc was necessary; I'm not new at > this. I'm a greybeard, too, but it doesn't hurt to consider many tactics to get the answers you want. An

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread JB
JD gmail.com> writes: > > F13, latest updates. > wifi card: Sparklan wmir-200N > http://www.sparklan.com/product.php?func=view&prod_id=43 > Chipset: RT2860/RT2850 > > The Datasheet says: > > Output Power > 802.11a: 12.5dBm ± 1.5dBm > 802.11b: 17dBm ± 1.5dBm > 802.11g: 14dBm ± 1.5dBm > 802.11

Java/Firefox craziness

2010-08-30 Thread William Case
Hi; Just some clarification and double checking. I want to use a Canadian government site with Firefox on Fedora 13. I get the warning message that I need Sun JVM 1.6.0_3 or greater. There is nothing in the repositories that I can see resembling Sun JVM. Apparently I can download and install fr

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2010 01:48 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > modinfo mwl8k $ modinfo mwl8k filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32.19-163.fc12.i686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.ko license:GPL author: Lennert Buytenhek version:0.10 description:Marvell TOPDOG(R) 802.11 Wireless Net

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2010 01:46 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:35:31PM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> On 08/30/2010 12:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote: >> >>> lspci -n >>> >> # lspci -n >> 00:00.0 0600: 8086:2770 (rev 02) >> 00:02.0 0300: 8086:2772 (rev 02) >> 00:1b

Re: General desktop questions

2010-08-30 Thread Ted Roche
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > Regarding attaching files in Thunderbird... > > This worked, but creating a bookmark didn't, unless I'm doing it wrong. > > The bookmarks to two network shares appear when in Nautilus, but not > in Thunderbird. > No, that's consistent with wh

Re: SELINUX

2010-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/selinux.html > > No doubt there are those who disagree though :-). Indeed - I think I'd consider a consultant who did that on my systems as setting themselves up for a negligence lawsuit if the box got hacked. Alan -- users mailing list us

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
> |hand-crafted security policy, caused me to swear off of it. For > |me, given my threat model and how much my time is worth, life is > |too short for SELinux. > > And JWZ: > > http://jwz.livejournal.com/719608.html And if you have a machine actually plugged into the internet,

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:38:02PM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 08/30/2010 12:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > > What kernel are you using? > # uname -r > 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.i686 mwl8k is enabled on that kernel. You can verify that it is present by running 'modinfo mwl8k'. -- John W. Li

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:35:31PM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 08/30/2010 12:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > > lspci -n > # lspci -n > 00:00.0 0600: 8086:2770 (rev 02) > 00:02.0 0300: 8086:2772 (rev 02) > 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 01) > 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 01) > 00:1c.1 0604:

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2010 12:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > What kernel are you using? # uname -r 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.i686 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraprojec

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2010 12:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > lspci -n # lspci -n 00:00.0 0600: 8086:2770 (rev 02) 00:02.0 0300: 8086:2772 (rev 02) 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 01) 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 01) 00:1c.1 0604: 8086:27d2 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 01

Re: Better Firefox fonts?

2010-08-30 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 08/30/2010 09:12 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > Quite often the fonts in a web page, or printing something from within > Firefox looks blurred. Here is a sample screenshot: > > http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/7923/loc.png > > It's a random page I chose to exhibit the problem. Printing web pages >

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > >   Dan - thank you. selinux is outstanding - and through your efforts > (and others) especially on the fedora policy files, grown over the last > several years into something really useful. > >   Anti-selinux folk. It takes work to  depl

Re: General desktop questions

2010-08-30 Thread suvayu ali
On 30 August 2010 13:01, Alex wrote: > Hi Ted, > >> I don't have the answers to your questions, but a couple suggestions >> on how you might increase your chances of getting the right answers: >> >> 1. Post a new message to the list with a subject that relates to the >> question you're asking. "Ge

Re: 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.PAE sleeps NOT

2010-08-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 08/26/2010 01:28 PM, JD wrote: > On 08/26/2010 09:29 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > >> On 08/26/2010 09:06:33 AM, James Mckenzie wrote: >> >>> Geoffrey Leach wrote >>> Sent: Aug 26, 2010 8:37 AM To: Fedora List Subject: 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.PAE sleeps NOT >>>

Better Firefox fonts?

2010-08-30 Thread Alex
Hi, Quite often the fonts in a web page, or printing something from within Firefox looks blurred. Here is a sample screenshot: http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/7923/loc.png It's a random page I chose to exhibit the problem. Printing web pages also looks like crap, but perhaps that's something

Re: General desktop questions

2010-08-30 Thread Alex
Hi Ted, > I don't have the answers to your questions, but a couple suggestions > on how you might increase your chances of getting the right answers: Thanks for your input. I'm very surprised my questions were such that you believed pointing me to the CATB doc was necessary; I'm not new at this.

Re: General desktop questions

2010-08-30 Thread Alex
Hi, Regarding attaching files in Thunderbird... > You can find the files through the Thunderbird Attach menu option by > browsing to your home folder (/home/alex, for example) and searching > for the .gvfs directory. You may need to hit Ctrl-H to show hidden > files in the dialog or Ctrl-L to edi

Re: err:wineconsole:WINECON_Fatal Couldn't find a decent font, aborting

2010-08-30 Thread James Mckenzie
"Joshua C." wrote: > >Actually I need to run a simple batch file. That's why I used a >kde-livecd-f14-x86_64 and installed wine-core.i686 wine-wow.i686, >wine-common and wine-fonts. All dpendencies were pull automatically. >Wine works fine but when trying to start "wineconsole cmd" I got the >erro

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread JD
On 08/30/2010 12:28 PM, Terry Polzin wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 11:45 -0700, JD wrote: >> On 08/30/2010 11:32 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> On 08/30/2010 10:41 AM, JD wrote: F13, latest updates. wifi card: Sparklan wmir-200N http://www.sparklan.com/product.php?func=view&prod

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread Terry Polzin
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 11:45 -0700, JD wrote: > On 08/30/2010 11:32 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On 08/30/2010 10:41 AM, JD wrote: > >> F13, latest updates. > >> wifi card: Sparklan wmir-200N > >> http://www.sparklan.com/product.php?func=view&prod_id=43 > >> Chipset: RT2860/RT2850 > >> > >> The D

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:04:20PM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 08/30/2010 11:31 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:37:14AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > > >> On 08/30/2010 07:49 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:55:43AM

Re: General desktop questions

2010-08-30 Thread Ted Roche
Alex: I don't have the answers to your questions, but a couple suggestions on how you might increase your chances of getting the right answers: 1. Post a new message to the list with a subject that relates to the question you're asking. "General Desktop Questions" is an un-informative subject lin

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread JD
On 08/30/2010 11:32 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 08/30/2010 10:41 AM, JD wrote: >> F13, latest updates. >> wifi card: Sparklan wmir-200N >> http://www.sparklan.com/product.php?func=view&prod_id=43 >> Chipset: RT2860/RT2850 >> >> The Datasheet says: >> >> Output Power >> 802.11a: 12.5dBm ± 1.5

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2010 11:31 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:37:14AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> On 08/30/2010 07:49 AM, John W. Linville wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:55:43AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >>> >>> I have a gateway M-6750

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/30/2010 10:41 AM, JD wrote: >F13, latest updates. > wifi card: Sparklan wmir-200N > http://www.sparklan.com/product.php?func=view&prod_id=43 > Chipset: RT2860/RT2850 > > The Datasheet says: > > Output Power > 802.11a: 12.5dBm ± 1.5dBm > 802.11b: 17dBm ± 1.5dBm > 802.11g: 14dBm ± 1.5dBm >

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:37:14AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 08/30/2010 07:49 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:55:43AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > > >> I have a gateway M-6750 laptop which sports a > >> Marvell TopDog wifi chip. I have obtained the >

Re: Unable to disable wireless with latest NetworkManager-gnome

2010-08-30 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/30/2010 10:39 AM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 08:20 +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: >> I wanted to make a screenshot but if I right click and then press >> the stamp button I do not have the "save screenshot" pop-up... any way >> to do it (without a digicamera.. ;-) > > Find a program th

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread JD
On 08/30/2010 11:00 AM, Terry Polzin wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 10:41 -0700, JD wrote: >> F13, latest updates. >> wifi card: Sparklan wmir-200N >> http://www.sparklan.com/product.php?func=view&prod_id=43 >> Chipset: RT2860/RT2850 >> >> The Datasheet says: >> >> Output Power >> 802.11a: 12.5dB

Re: Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread Terry Polzin
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 10:41 -0700, JD wrote: > F13, latest updates. > wifi card: Sparklan wmir-200N > http://www.sparklan.com/product.php?func=view&prod_id=43 > Chipset: RT2860/RT2850 > > The Datasheet says: > > Output Power > 802.11a: 12.5dBm ± 1.5dBm > 802.11b: 17dBm ± 1.5dBm > 802.11g: 14dBm ±

Unable to set txpower on wifi card

2010-08-30 Thread JD
F13, latest updates. wifi card: Sparklan wmir-200N http://www.sparklan.com/product.php?func=view&prod_id=43 Chipset: RT2860/RT2850 The Datasheet says: Output Power 802.11a: 12.5dBm ± 1.5dBm 802.11b: 17dBm ± 1.5dBm 802.11g: 14dBm ± 1.5dBm 802.11an: 14dBm ± 1.5dBm 802.11gn: 14dBm ± 1.5dBm I am r

Re: Unable to disable wireless with latest NetworkManager-gnome

2010-08-30 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 08:20 +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > I wanted to make a screenshot but if I right click and then press > the stamp button I do not have the "save screenshot" pop-up... any way > to do it (without a digicamera.. ;-) Find a program that lets you taked a timed screenshot. You

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday, August 30, 2010 14:27:28 Genes MailLists wrote: >Dan - thank you. selinux is outstanding - and through your efforts > (and others) especially on the fedora policy files, grown over the last > several years into something really useful. [snip] > To Dan, Stephen (and the NSA) and all

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Mark Eggers
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:10:12 +0900, Takehiko Abe wrote: >> I've had exactly the opposite experience running SELinux, even with >> hand- compiled applications from a variety of sources - including my >> own. > > You say "the opposite" but you seem to have a lot of problems and spent > fair amount

Re: SELINUX

2010-08-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:43:39 +, JB wrote: > > So, permissive mode is only useful for policy development. > If you do not, you may as well disable selinux. > JB Permissive mode keeps files properly labelled. If you ever use disabled mode, you need to do a relabel if you go back to permi

Download confirmation now not prompts me!

2010-08-30 Thread Parshwa Murdia
hi, In a sudden changing manner, now if I try to update the system, using the command, [fedo...@localhost ~]$ su - Password: [r...@localhost ~]# yum update It doesn't prompt me to type in 'y' or 'n' if some downloadable update is there unlike earlier when I used to type in 'yes' to download a par

Re: network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless

2010-08-30 Thread g
On 08/30/2010 02:30 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > Hi, I posted same problem a few hours ago: > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-August/381764.html > > let's keep only one thread on this open, for simpler following so close your post and follow 'genes maillist' thread, being th

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2010 07:49 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:55:43AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> I have a gateway M-6750 laptop which sports a >> Marvell TopDog wifi chip. I have obtained the >> latest drivers for this chip, and used ndiswrapper >> to hook itself to the

Re: Advanced Format drives + RAID5 + LVM + EXT4 = migraine

2010-08-30 Thread Jake Peavy
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Jake Peavy wrote: > ... > > > > > > I have a feeling my array should perform much better than this and it's > > probably because I haven't taken the 4k sector size into account and I'm > > bleeding perf

Re: SELinux

2010-08-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/30/2010 10:25 PM, Takehiko Abe wrote: > heh. To me it looks like many fedora users are so much traumatized by > Windows insecurity that they brought the same habits into computing on > Linux which are not necessary -- like fearing HTML mail or feeling > vulnerable without firewall or other s

Re: network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless

2010-08-30 Thread Genes MailLists
Followup - after switching to wired being on wired for a while - the radio buttons are no longer grayed out ... it now seems normal. This may be useful for the bug. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/

Re: network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless

2010-08-30 Thread Steven Stern
On 08/30/2010 07:01 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > >Often when I do backups on laptop, I'll plug in wired ethernet - NM > happily switches the connection from wireless to wired - > > however it always leaves the wireless on as well > + correct if its a different subnet than wired > +

Re: network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless

2010-08-30 Thread Terry Polzin
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 07:54 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Genes MailLists writes: > >Often when I do backups on laptop, I'll plug in wired ethernet - NM > > happily switches the connection from wireless to wired - > > > > however it always leaves the wireless on as well > > + cor

Re: SELINUX

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/30/2010 08:12 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > Trying to install the intel compiler, I get: > Your system is protected with Security-enhanced Linux (SELinux). > We currently support only "Permissive" mode, which is > not found on the system

Re: network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless

2010-08-30 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Genes MailLists writes: >Often when I do backups on laptop, I'll plug in wired ethernet - NM > happily switches the connection from wireless to wired - > > however it always leaves the wireless on as well > + correct if its a different subnet than wired > + arguably wrong if its th

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread John W. Linville
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:55:43AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > I have a gateway M-6750 laptop which sports a > Marvell TopDog wifi chip. I have obtained the > latest drivers for this chip, and used ndiswrapper > to hook itself to the XP/Vista topdog driver, and > it at first appears to be

re: network mgr applet - cannot disable wireless

2010-08-30 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Mon Aug 30 12:01:10 UTC 2010 Genes MailLists wrote: > Today - that option along with the disable netowrking option are > grayed out and I can not uncheck the 'emable wireless/networking radio > buttons. Hi, I posted same problem a few hours ago: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/

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