Re: How to mount floppy?

2011-08-16 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 8/16/2011 7:52 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1440 /mnt/floppy >> >> See URL: >> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fedora-13-mounting-floppy-813466/ >> > Worked for me on F13. Cannot speak for later versions. I am off floppys at this point, but I'd be

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-16 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 8/16/2011 10:51 PM, Andre Speelmans wrote: I have been going through all the responses I got so far and am now in process of going through this. I can't test the 127.0.0.1 as I've got my systems somewhat horked trying to sort things out ... after this email I am backing everything up to "fac

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-16 Thread Andre Speelmans
Hi Tim, > That's a rather complex explanation, which sounds like you're giving > each machine a unique hosts file, where their own hostnames are written > differently than the other machines on the LAN.  I wouldn't do that. It sounds to me quite normal what he says. Every host has a hosts-file wh

Re: Dual monitors on Radeon 5770 with fc15

2011-08-16 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On 8/16/11, Alex wrote: > Hi, > >>> Is there another way, besides hacking the xorg.conf like it's 1998 >>> again, to configure resolution and dual monitors? >> >> Try the "Catalyst Control Center" that was installed along with the >> driver. FInd it in whatever GNOME 3 calls an application menu o

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-16 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 12/08/11 12:22, mike cloaked wrote: [...] >> However if the pdf is a scanned image then it would need ocr before >> the text could be extracted - As someone else noted, some recent scan-to-pdf tools try to pre-ocr the text. Sometimes it's s

Re: Dual monitors on Radeon 5770 with fc15

2011-08-16 Thread Alex
Hi, >> Is there another way, besides hacking the xorg.conf like it's 1998 >> again, to configure resolution and dual monitors? > > Try the "Catalyst Control Center" that was installed along with the > driver.  FInd it in whatever GNOME 3 calls an application menu or run > "amdccle" from a terminal

Re: fingerprint reader

2011-08-16 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 08:52 +0800, Zhangsan wrote: > I enabled fingerprint reader on F15 and it works correctly, > > but I an unable to login from local via password any more. > > If I login remotely via ssh and then run sudo, it will wait > > for me to go back to input finger. It's too funny. I

Re: How to mount floppy?

2011-08-16 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/16/2011 11:34 AM, Jon Ingason wrote: > 2011-08-16 19:57, Vinny Onelli skrev: >> Hello, >> I installed vmware and now I would like to install windows Me. The >> windows me CD it is not bootable it came with bootable diskette, vmware >> to install windows need the operating system which is on t

error software update on a new installation

2011-08-16 Thread Andre Robatino
Peter Klaassen gmail.com> writes: > 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-release-rawhide-15-3(noarch)updates: fedora-release-rawhide-15-3.noarchTo my knowledge I run Fedo

Re: Samba asking for authorization to browse suddenly

2011-08-16 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 11:50 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > > I'm still trying to figure this out, but, what puzzles me is what > caused things to change. It was working perfectly. It could easily be > some Windows update as well as some Samba update, I suppose. I've > tried to google this issue, but

Re: Dual monitors on Radeon 5770 with fc15

2011-08-16 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On 8/16/11, Alex wrote: > Hi, > >>> - Has AMD bought ATI? It seems there are several references to drivers >>> available for download from AMD. >> >> Forgot to mention that the driver from RPMFusion is exactly the same >> as the one available for download from AMD/ATI, just packaged such >> that i

Re: error software update on a new installation

2011-08-16 Thread Kam Leo
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Peter Klaassen wrote: > 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-release-rawhide-15-3(noarch)updates: > fedora-release-rawhide-15-3

Re: networking from the command line

2011-08-16 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 08/16/2011 05:59 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > How do I turn on networking from the command line? > When I do a minimal install, Fedora 14 won't turn on networking for me. > eth0 never gets an IP address. > Where is the on-switch? > Nothing I've tried gets the job done. > In particular, ifconfig

fingerprint reader

2011-08-16 Thread Zhangsan
I enabled fingerprint reader on F15 and it works correctly, but I an unable to login from local via password any more. If I login remotely via ssh and then run sudo, it will wait for me to go back to input finger. It's too funny. Is it possible to support both password login and fingerprint login

Re: Time sync is foobar

2011-08-16 Thread Todd Zullinger
Steven Stern wrote: > Last night, I noticed that the time on my computer was off by about 20 > minutes. > > So, > > service ntpd stop > ntpdate nist1-chi.ustiming.org > service ntpd start Totally tangential to the issue (which I see you've now solved), but you don't have to stop ntpd to use

Re: networking from the command line

2011-08-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.08.2011 23:59, schrieb Michael Hennebry: > How do I turn on networking from the command line? first configure it > When I do a minimal install, Fedora 14 won't turn on networking for me. > eth0 never gets an IP address. > Where is the on-switch? service network start but without configu

Re: networking vs. VirtualBox

2011-08-16 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Michael Hennebry >> wrote: >>> >>> What is the magic formula for doing networking >>> from a VirtualBox guest? >>> So far, the only way I've been able to make it work a

Re: networking vs. VirtualBox

2011-08-16 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday 16 August 2011 22:24:56 Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Tom H wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Michael Hennebry > > > > wrote: > >> What is the magic formula for doing networking > >> from a VirtualBox guest? > >> So far, the only way I've been able to make it

Re: Time sync is foobar [Solved]

2011-08-16 Thread Steven Stern
On 08/15/2011 11:05 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/15/2011 08:52 AM, Steven Stern wrote: >> This morning, the time is once again off. It appears that ntp is not >> synching time. I see nothing unusual in /var/log/messages. > > Is it running fast or slow? If it's slow, it could simply be that your

networking from the command line

2011-08-16 Thread Michael Hennebry
How do I turn on networking from the command line? When I do a minimal install, Fedora 14 won't turn on networking for me. eth0 never gets an IP address. Where is the on-switch? Nothing I've tried gets the job done. In particular, ifconfig eth0 up does not produce an IP address. In this case, Fedo

Re: [389-users] Announcing 389 Directory Server version 1.2.9.6 Testing

2011-08-16 Thread Rich Megginson
On 08/16/2011 03:33 PM, Anthony Messina wrote: > On 08/16/2011 03:25 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: >>> I havent filed a bug yet as I am working on a virtual environment to >>> test, which I'm sure you'll want me to, in order to be able to replicate >>> the issue ;) >> Indeed, yes, please let us know as

Re: [389-users] Announcing 389 Directory Server version 1.2.9.6 Testing

2011-08-16 Thread Anthony Messina
On 08/16/2011 03:25 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: >> I havent filed a bug yet as I am working on a virtual environment to >> test, which I'm sure you'll want me to, in order to be able to replicate >> the issue ;) > Indeed, yes, please let us know asap. Sure. If you know the settings I need to enable

Re: Fprint service?

2011-08-16 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 18:39 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: >> I see a lot of stuff like this in /var/log/messages: >> >> Aug 15 18:35:15 sds-desk dbus-daemon: [system] Activating service >> name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper) >> Aug 15 18:35:15 sds-desk dbus-daemo

Re: networking vs. VirtualBox

2011-08-16 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Michael Hennebry > wrote: >> >> What is the magic formula for doing networking >> from a VirtualBox guest? >> So far, the only way I've been able to make it work at all is >> to install a graphical version and click on the netwo

Re: Dual monitors on Radeon 5770 with fc15

2011-08-16 Thread Alex
Hi, >> - Has AMD bought ATI? It seems there are several references to drivers >> available for download from AMD. > > Forgot to mention that the driver from RPMFusion is exactly the same > as the one available for download from AMD/ATI, just packaged such > that installation on Fedora is painless.

Re: How to mount floppy?

2011-08-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:29:44 -0700 Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 8/16/2011 10:57 AM, Vinny Onelli wrote: > > Is the floppy > > supported in Fc14? > > > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567533 (amongst other > bugs). My floppy drive has been dead for a couple releases ... I figur

Re: How to mount floppy?

2011-08-16 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 8/16/2011 10:57 AM, Vinny Onelli wrote: > Is the floppy > supported in Fc14? > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567533 (amongst other bugs). My floppy drive has been dead for a couple releases ... I figure that media has gone the way of the 8-track tape Paul -- users mailin

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-16 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Thanks to everyone for replies ... lot of information that I need to learn about before I can test. I wanted to make sure I got this "thanks" out now rather than waiting for me to sort through it all. Paul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: How to mount floppy?

2011-08-16 Thread Jon Ingason
2011-08-16 19:57, Vinny Onelli skrev: > Hello, > I installed vmware and now I would like to install windows Me. The > windows me CD it is not bootable it came with bootable diskette, vmware > to install windows need the operating system which is on the floppy. The > problem is that I could not moun

Re: [389-users] Is 1.2.9.5 stable?

2011-08-16 Thread Rich Megginson
On 08/16/2011 12:17 PM, Diego Woitasen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: >> On 08/16/2011 12:04 PM, Diego Woitasen wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I saw that there is a 1.2.9.5 version in the source repository. Is >>> this version stable? Because it hasn't been announced. >> No.

Re: [389-users] Is 1.2.9.5 stable?

2011-08-16 Thread Diego Woitasen
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: > On 08/16/2011 12:04 PM, Diego Woitasen wrote: >> >> Hi, >>  I saw that there is a 1.2.9.5 version in the source repository. Is >> this version stable? Because it hasn't been announced. > > No.  There is a new version 1.2.9.6 that is more sta

Re: [389-users] Is 1.2.9.5 stable?

2011-08-16 Thread Rich Megginson
On 08/16/2011 12:04 PM, Diego Woitasen wrote: > Hi, > I saw that there is a 1.2.9.5 version in the source repository. Is > this version stable? Because it hasn't been announced. No. There is a new version 1.2.9.6 that is more stable, but we're still testing it. If you can, please test it and g

[389-users] Is 1.2.9.5 stable?

2011-08-16 Thread Diego Woitasen
Hi, I saw that there is a 1.2.9.5 version in the source repository. Is this version stable? Because it hasn't been announced. Regards, Diego -- Diego Woitasen -- 389 users mailing list 389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users

How to mount floppy?

2011-08-16 Thread Vinny Onelli
Hello, I installed vmware and now I would like to install windows Me. The windows me CD it is not bootable it came with bootable diskette, vmware to install windows need the operating system which is on the floppy. The problem is that I could not mount the floppy, (I am using Fedora 14) I try few s

Re: networking vs. VirtualBox

2011-08-16 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > What is the magic formula for doing networking > from a VirtualBox guest? > So far, the only way I've been able to make it work at all is > to install a graphical version and click on the networking icon. > That doesn't work if I do a mi

Re: Enable coredump for daemon (oidentd)

2011-08-16 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 08/16/2011 11:58 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > oidentd is crashing on me intermittently. I have done the folowing to > try to get a core dump when this happens: > > * Add "DAEMON_COREFILE_LIMIT=unlimited" to /etc/sysconfig/oidentd > * Add "kernel.core_pattern = /tmp/core" to /etc/sysctl.conf >

Enable coredump for daemon (oidentd)

2011-08-16 Thread Ian Pilcher
oidentd is crashing on me intermittently. I have done the folowing to try to get a core dump when this happens: * Add "DAEMON_COREFILE_LIMIT=unlimited" to /etc/sysconfig/oidentd * Add "kernel.core_pattern = /tmp/core" to /etc/sysctl.conf ("kernel.core_uses_pid = 1" was already set.) Despite

Re: networking vs. VirtualBox

2011-08-16 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Michael Hennebry wrote: > >> What is the magic formula for doing networking >> from a VirtualBox guest? >> So far, the only way I've been able to make it work at all is >> to install a graphical version and click on the networking

Re: Samba asking for authorization to browse suddenly

2011-08-16 Thread Claude Jones
On Tuesday, August 16, 2011, Craig White wrote: > I think you need to set 'guest account' > > see the man page for smb.conf and locate the > > NOTE ABOUT USERNAME/PASSWORD VALIDATION > > SECURITY = SHARE > > sections > > also - fwiw, 'testparm -sv' will give you all the settings, > including

Re: Dual monitors on Radeon 5770 with fc15

2011-08-16 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Alex wrote: > - Has AMD bought ATI? It seems there are several references to drivers > available for download from AMD. Forgot to mention that the driver from RPMFusion is exactly the same as the one available for download from AMD/ATI, just packaged such that ins

Re: networking vs. VirtualBox

2011-08-16 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Michael Hennebry wrote: > What is the magic formula for doing networking > from a VirtualBox guest? > So far, the only way I've been able to make it work at all is > to install a graphical version and click on the networking icon. > That doesn't work if I do a minimal install.

Re: Dual monitors on Radeon 5770 with fc15

2011-08-16 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > >> Try this: >> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=263632 >> or this >> http://www.multimediaboom.com/install-ati-video-drivers-in-fedora-15/ > > Yes, it does look like the default xorg ati drivers don't support this > card, so I'

Re: Fprint service?

2011-08-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 18:39 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > I see a lot of stuff like this in /var/log/messages: > > Aug 15 18:35:15 sds-desk dbus-daemon: [system] Activating service > name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper) > Aug 15 18:35:15 sds-desk dbus-daemon: [system] Successfully ac

error software update on a new installation

2011-08-16 Thread 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-release-rawhide-15-3(noarch)updates: fedora-release-rawhide-15-3.noarch To my knowledge I run Fedora 15 Lovelock What is going wr

Re: Dual monitors on Radeon 5770 with fc15

2011-08-16 Thread Alex
Hi, > Try this: > http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=263632 > or this > http://www.multimediaboom.com/install-ati-video-drivers-in-fedora-15/ Yes, it does look like the default xorg ati drivers don't support this card, so I'm investigating the third-party drivers. A few more questi

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-16 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 22:04 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Each machine has a /etc/hosts looking like (where is the machine > name and is any other machine: > +++ > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomainlocalhost .localdomain > localhost4 > ::1 localhost6.localdomain6localhost6 .

Re: Time sync is foobar

2011-08-16 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 04:51 +1000, Roger wrote: > UTC is off in both systems. Unless you're triple booting with some other system that requires a local time hardware clock, I'd try setting them both to use UTC, and see if things change (such as one of the OSs not obeying your current settings). I

Re: Time sync is foobar

2011-08-16 Thread John Pilkington
On 16/08/11 12:21, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 04:51 +1000, Roger wrote: >>> sounds like one of them is set to use UTC and the other is not. >>> >>> on Fedora, run the command (as root) >>> >>> system-config-date >>> >>> check the tab 'Date and Time', verify the time server, under 'A

Re: Qemu and Fedora text install

2011-08-16 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Lars Bjørndal wrote: > Actually, my system does not support KVM, so I left out that option. virt-tools will fall back on QEMU when KVM is unavailable, so all that will still work. -T.C. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Time sync is foobar

2011-08-16 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 04:51 +1000, Roger wrote: > > sounds like one of them is set to use UTC and the other is not. > > > > on Fedora, run the command (as root) > > > > system-config-date > > > > check the tab 'Date and Time', verify the time server, under 'Advanced > > Options', you may want to

Re: networking vs. VirtualBox

2011-08-16 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > What is the magic formula for doing networking > from a VirtualBox guest? > So far, the only way I've been able to make it work at all is > to install a graphical version and click on the networking icon. > That doesn't work if I do a min

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-16 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 06:11 -0500, Rick Sewill wrote: > On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 12:04:57 AM Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > Greetings > > > > I am trying to figure out how to get communication between my F14 boxes > > on a local wired LAN. The best test case I can come up with to prove > > that I

Re: networking vs. VirtualBox

2011-08-16 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 00:11 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > What is the magic formula for doing networking > from a VirtualBox guest? > So far, the only way I've been able to make it work at all is > to install a graphical version and click on the networking icon. > That doesn't work if I do a min

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-16 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 22:04 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Greetings > > I am trying to figure out how to get communication between my F14 boxes > on a local wired LAN. The best test case I can come up with to prove > that I don't know what I am doing wrong is telnet. > > Each machine has a

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-16 Thread Rick Sewill
On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 12:04:57 AM Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Greetings > > I am trying to figure out how to get communication between my F14 boxes > on a local wired LAN. The best test case I can come up with to prove > that I don't know what I am doing wrong is telnet. > <...snip...> > Pin

Re: telnet on local LAN question

2011-08-16 Thread Andre Speelmans
You say you tried telnet to port 25 at , have you tried it to the IP-address as well? It seems unlikely this will work, as ping to resolves fine, but just to be sure. On other, is there actually a mailserver listening on port 25? Is there a firewall on or on ? If needed you can always use tcpdum

Re: Qemu and Fedora text install

2011-08-16 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Lars, On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Lars Bjørndal wrote: > > The text install of Fedora is really poor. You cannot choose packages, > nor manipulate partitions. I wonder, is there any plans for extending > the text install? This is really important, at least to blind people > like me, who

Re: Qemu and Fedora text install

2011-08-16 Thread Lars Bjørndal
Hi, panicloop! Thank you very much for useful information! You writes: > If you have installed virtualization package group in the Fedora 14, > you can use virsh, virt-install, etc commands and > it's easy to use them than qemu command. > > You can start installation of fedora 15 guest with text