Re: telnet on local LAN question (progress?)

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 8/22/2011 9:51 PM, Tim wrote: > > Have a look at a virgin hosts file, and it'll be like this: > > cat /etc/hosts > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > ::1localhost6.loca

[Screencast] Fedora 16 Alpha KDE 4.7

2011-08-25 Thread Manuel Escudero
Just made a quick screencast of Fedora 16 "Verne" in it's alpha release with KDE as the desktop enviroment... If you want to know more about the new features and see the release itself without downloading the Live image, you can always rely on Youtube ;) http://youtu.be/lqV9F_D9Hm8 Hope you guys

configuring bridge with wlan0 on libvirt (KVM) (RHEL6)

2011-08-25 Thread Jatin K
Dear All, I want to bridge a wireless LAN-card to use with KVM on my machine (RHEL6) , luckily I'm able to use eth0 and it works fine , but I want to use my wireless network with kvm . I'm not clear about how to bridge with Wlan0 ( wireless network ) anybody can through light on this ? any h

Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-25 Thread Fernando Cassia
Surely I'm missing something, but shouldn't there be an uption on the right-click menu over a pen drive, to format the drive?. Can't find it. I go to Computer, select the KINGSTON device, right click, properties, and I see the following tabs: Basic, Emblems, Permissions, Open with, Notes Nowhere

file transfer in LAN

2011-08-25 Thread CA G Rajesh
Thank you, Mr Stevens. But, this trusting of port tcp/udp5004 also did not work out. :( Fedora developers may give an option in firewall to allow seamless communication within LAN. Of course, they may choose to warn the users of potential threat, if any, from such trusting. If fact, I tried giver

Re: telnet on local LAN question (progress?)

2011-08-25 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 14:31 +0930, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> No matter what anybody says, and despite the setup of Fedora doing > >> it, it's a bad bad BAD idea to bodge *anything* else into those two > >> local lines. Sure, you can get away with it under *some* > >> circumstances. But you can run i

Re: Google Music Manager - Solved

2011-08-25 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 11:30 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > On 08/24/2011 01:47 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Steven Stern > > wrote: > >> cd .config/google-music-manager > >> sqlite3 Peer.db > > > > Thanks for the tip! > > > > On my F14 box, it's .config/google-musicma

Re: high i/o dirs

2011-08-25 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 21Aug2011 20:38, Robert Arkiletian wrote: | Rebuilding an nfs fileserver. I want to put the high i/o directories | on a separate raid 1 array for performance. Currently everything is | under / in one raid 10 array. | How can I tell which directories, obviously other than /home, are | getting h

Re: More on needs-restarting

2011-08-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/25/2011 03:34 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Do open a bug and post it here, it seems that there is a number of people with > this problem. Done: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733537 Please add confirmation or I'll just get brushed off with "works for me." -- users mailing list

Re: More on needs-restarting

2011-08-25 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 25 August 2011 21:57:13 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/25/2011 01:45 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > I don't think so but when I get into a problem, I report the bug and > > provide as much as details as possible especially since it seems a > > couple more seem to have confirmed, it is not work

Re: OT: Improving laptop wifi reception

2011-08-25 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 25 August 2011 20:04:39 Robert Nichols wrote: > On 08/25/2011 12:20 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > I'm not complaining about formatting. What I don't understand is why is > > SNR equal to 46, and not to the ratio of signal to noise, ie. 42/88, > > which is not 46, but 0.47? Or take the

Re: ugliness fatal to yum

2011-08-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Michael Schwendt wrote: > How did you install the "rpmfusion-free" repository? I think I copied files to /etc/yum.repos.d from another installation of FC14. Apparently that is not good enough. > Did you install the rpmfusion-free-release package? No. > (try rpm -q rpmfusi

Re: ugliness fatal to yum

2011-08-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:36:58 -0500 (CDT), MH (Michael) wrote: > > In response to > yum 'gstreamer-plugins-ugly' > I get Subject line is poorly chosen. You face a problem with rpmfusion unless you can be certain it is a problem in Yum instead. But let's see: > GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 14

Re: OT: Improving laptop wifi reception

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Shiv Manas wrote: >>> Is there some device that can boost a laptop wifi reception? In the >>> library where I spend some time studying, I usually get a signal with >>> a quality of about 20%. >> >> Well, is that really a problem?  Some of the signal meters don't me

ugliness fatal to yum

2011-08-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
In response to yum 'gstreamer-plugins-ugly' I get ... Package Arch VersionRepository Size Insta

Re: More on needs-restarting

2011-08-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/25/2011 01:45 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > I don't think so but when I get into a problem, I report the bug and > provide as much as details as possible especially since it seems a > couple more seem to have confirmed, it is not working correctly for them > but do it the way that makes sense

Re: More on needs-restarting

2011-08-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/26/2011 02:11 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/25/2011 01:35 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> Have you filed a bug report? > No, because there have been reports of it working for people. Unless I > have some idea of what's different about my two boxes there's no point > because there's a good chanc

Re: More on needs-restarting

2011-08-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/25/2011 01:35 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Have you filed a bug report? No, because there have been reports of it working for people. Unless I have some idea of what's different about my two boxes there's no point because there's a good chance that whoever tries to reproduce it will say,

Re: More on needs-restarting

2011-08-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/26/2011 02:03 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > I'm posting this from my laptop (I'll be house sitting until Monday) and > don't have access to the previous thread. However, I've also started a > thread for this issue at fedoraforum.org, at > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=268833 so t

More on needs-restarting

2011-08-25 Thread Joe Zeff
I'm posting this from my laptop (I'll be house sitting until Monday) and don't have access to the previous thread. However, I've also started a thread for this issue at fedoraforum.org, at http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=268833 so that I can gain access to as many people as poss

Re: F14 locks up during graphical login into KDE

2011-08-25 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 10:47 -0600, linux guy wrote: > Sounds very similar Mark. > > Any other info you can share ? Video card ? Acceleration settings ? Nothing very much I can share at this time. I have a Dell Dimension E520 which had factory fitted Nvidia GeForce 7300. Other than install the p

Re: Install Fedora 15 on DELL Precision M6600 Laptop

2011-08-25 Thread Robert McCullough
On 8/25/2011 10:02 AM, Robert McCullough wrote: Here is the screen shot. Rob -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://

Re: OT: Improving laptop wifi reception

2011-08-25 Thread Markku Kolkka
25.8.2011 20:20, Marko Vojinovic kirjoitti: > I'm not complaining about formatting. What I don't understand is why is SNR > equal to 46, and not to the ratio of signal to noise, ie. 42/88, which is not > 46, but 0.47? That's how logarithms work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm#Product.2C_

Re: OT: Improving laptop wifi reception

2011-08-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/25/2011 12:20 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > I'm not complaining about formatting. What I don't understand is why is SNR > equal to 46, and not to the ratio of signal to noise, ie. 42/88, which is not > 46, but 0.47? Or take the next row in your table: signal: -52, noise: -88, > SNR: 36, qual

Re: F14 locks up during graphical login into KDE

2011-08-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/25/2011 10:38 AM, linux guy wrote: > No joy on this. From the CLI I uninstalled kmod-nvidia and installed > akmod-nvidia and also kernel-devel. > > It still locks during graphical login. I presume that you rebooted before trying again. Take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if there a

F15: Where is the Rescue-Mode

2011-08-25 Thread Andre Robatino
Reindl Harald thelounge.net> writes: > Jesus where is the rescue mode gone in F15 > booting from full x86_64-DVD offerns only install/update Install a new system or upgrade an existing system Install system with basic video driver Rescue installed system<-- Boot from local dr

F15: Where is the Rescue-Mode

2011-08-25 Thread Reindl Harald
Jesus where is the rescue mode gone in F15 booting from full x86_64-DVD offerns only install/update i have a RAID1 als 500 MB /boot and did grub-install /dev/sda grub-install /dev/sdb grub-install /dev/sdc grub-install /dev/sdd intention was to make sure all 4 drives are really bootable on failur

Re: OT: Improving laptop wifi reception

2011-08-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 25/08/11 13:20, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Thursday 25 August 2011 16:06:28 Bob Goodwin wrote: >> On 25/08/11 10:43, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >>> On Thursday 25 August 2011 13:24:00 Bob Goodwin wrote: > Clients > MAC Address Interface Uptime TX Rate

Re: selinux + mailman +postfix security problem (F14)

2011-08-25 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/25/2011 11:52 AM, Fulko Hew wrote: > On Fedora 14, I am setting up postfix and mailman. > > I had this working once, but I decided to yum erase postfix and > mailman and redo the configuration to prove I knew how to recreate > it. > > Turns out

Re: Latest update boots to blank screen (nvidia)

2011-08-25 Thread CS DBA
On 08/25/2011 11:18 AM, linux guy wrote: > How did you roll back the update ? > > Thanks ! I have a couple of rsync scripts. I run the rsync_backup.sh before I apply ANY updates no matter how trivial. Then I can always run rsync_restore.sh to roll back. The only downside is that I have to have

Re: Nvidia driver update problem

2011-08-25 Thread linux guy
I don't have any desktop effects enabled that I know of. It might not be so easy for KDE users to solve this problem. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedor

Re: Nvidia driver update problem

2011-08-25 Thread linux guy
How did you arrive at this kill list ? killall -9 compiz;killall -9 gtk-window-decorator;metacity --replace& -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.o

Re: F14 locks up during graphical login into KDE

2011-08-25 Thread linux guy
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:18 AM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 < n2xssvv.g02gfr12...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > I had this problem, and it turned out to be the nvidia libraries being > updated but not the driver itself. The fix involved changing to the vesa > video driver and installing the akmod nvidia dr

Re: OT: Improving laptop wifi reception

2011-08-25 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 25 August 2011 16:06:28 Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 25/08/11 10:43, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Thursday 25 August 2011 13:24:00 Bob Goodwin wrote: > >>> Clients > >>> MAC Address Interface Uptime TX Rate RX Rate > >>> Signal > >>> N

Re: F14 locks up during graphical login into KDE

2011-08-25 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 25/08/11 17:16, Linux guy wrote: > Hi people. > > My F14 system is hanging during graphical login/boot into KDE. The > mouse becomes intermittent and then it freezes. > > However, if I start a CLI session before it hangs, the CLI session runs > fine. > > The machine will NOT shut down pro

Re: Latest update boots to blank screen (nvidia)

2011-08-25 Thread linux guy
How did you roll back the update ? Thanks ! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Latest update boots to blank screen (nvidia)

2011-08-25 Thread linux guy
I've got boot issues in F14 and F15 preupgrade. I haven't had a boot issue in Linux for years ! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Maili

Re: F14 locks up during graphical login into KDE

2011-08-25 Thread linux guy
Just ran yum update on it. It runs KDE too. However, I haven't been able to get into the CLI on it. Here is what the messages on the screen say. Starting /boot... Started /boot. systemd[1]: Job devmapper-vg_duo\xdlv_home.device/start timed out. systemd[1]: Job Fedora-autorelabel-mark.service/st

Re: F14 locks up during graphical login into KDE

2011-08-25 Thread linux guy
F15 on my Dell Duo (Intel Atom, i915) just stopped booting. Looks like something similar. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_lis

Re: Fedora 15: a NFSv4 to glusterfs migration HOW-TO

2011-08-25 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
On 08/25/2011 08:59 AM, Marcos Luis Ortiz Valmaseda wrote: > Excellent how to Dr. > Can you add this to the Fedora wiki? If someone wants to stick it in an appropriate place on a Fedora wiki, please go ahead. I'll help maintain and edit it. - Mike -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: Latest update boots to blank screen (nvidia)

2011-08-25 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 08:48 -0600, CS DBA wrote: > On 08/24/2011 02:10 PM, CS DBA wrote: > > Hi All; > > > > I have an IBM Thinkpad with an Nvidia card ( nVidia Corporation > > GT218 [NVS 3100M] (rev a2) ) > > > > I currently have the nouveau driver black listed in my grub.conf > > setup:rhg

Re: F14 locks up during graphical login into KDE

2011-08-25 Thread linux guy
Sounds very similar Mark. Any other info you can share ? Video card ? Acceleration settings ? Is it possible to roll back the nvidia update via yum ? (Please save the sermon on proprietary drivers for later...) My system is fine during login. It too starts to lock during the later stages of

Re: F14 locks up during graphical login into KDE

2011-08-25 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 10:16 -0600, linux guy wrote: > Hi people. > > My F14 system is hanging during graphical login/boot into KDE. The > mouse becomes intermittent and then it freezes. > > However, if I start a CLI session before it hangs, the CLI session > runs fine. > > The machine will

Re: F14 locks up during graphical login into KDE

2011-08-25 Thread linux guy
The latest version of KDE, as available from KDE-updates repo. It looks like 4.6.5 judged by the yum list. I have 5 or so kernels installed and I don't think any of them will run. There is nothing of significance running in "top", from the CLI session anyway. I can't run it from a graphical ses

Re: F14 locks up during graphical login into KDE

2011-08-25 Thread linux guy
/var/log/message is FILLED with NVRM os_pci_init_handle$: invalid context messages. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guide

Re: Google Music Manager - Solved

2011-08-25 Thread Steven Stern
On 08/24/2011 01:47 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Steven Stern > wrote: >> cd .config/google-music-manager >> sqlite3 Peer.db > > Thanks for the tip! > > On my F14 box, it's .config/google-musicmanager/ for the folder name. > Just one hyphen. > You are correct. Thank

Re: F14 locks up during graphical login into KDE

2011-08-25 Thread Marcos Luis Ortiz Valmaseda
Can you provides the /var/log/messages, top, free -m and iostat of your system? Which kernel version are you using? Which KDE version? regards 2011/8/25 linux guy > Hi people. > > My F14 system is hanging during graphical login/boot into KDE. The mouse > becomes intermittent and then it freeze

Re: selinux + mailman +postfix security problem (F14)

2011-08-25 Thread Marcos Luis Ortiz Valmaseda
Well, test it and say the response to us. 2011/8/25 Fulko Hew > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Marcos Luis Ortiz Valmaseda < > marcosluis2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Can you provide the ls -Z of your content in /etc/mailman/aliases >> > > [root@netwatch log]# ls -Z /etc/mailman/alia

F15 Upgrade kernel won't run.

2011-08-25 Thread linux guy
My computer will not boot the F15 kernel after doing a preupgrade. Nothing happens when the boot process usually starts running. Not a single line of startup is displayed on the screen. This happens both if I run preupgrade or preupgrade-cli. Everything seems to go fine during the preupgrade p

Re: file transfer in LAN

2011-08-25 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/25/2011 08:20 AM, CA G Rajesh wrote: > Hello, > I am running a SHO, with 3 systems. I have fedora-15 installed in all > the systems. IP addresses are automatically assigned through dhcp. > On configuring empathy to view nearby systems (telepathy-salut), I have > marked mdns as trusted service

F14 locks up during graphical login into KDE

2011-08-25 Thread linux guy
Hi people. My F14 system is hanging during graphical login/boot into KDE. The mouse becomes intermittent and then it freezes. However, if I start a CLI session before it hangs, the CLI session runs fine. The machine will NOT shut down properly. It hangs during shutdown. It looks like one or m

Re: selinux + mailman +postfix security problem (F14)

2011-08-25 Thread Fulko Hew
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Marcos Luis Ortiz Valmaseda < marcosluis2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Can you provide the ls -Z of your content in /etc/mailman/aliases > [root@netwatch log]# ls -Z /etc/mailman/aliases -rw-rw. root mailman unconfined_u:object_r:mailman_data_t:s0 /etc/mailma

Re: selinux + mailman +postfix security problem (F14)

2011-08-25 Thread Marcos Luis Ortiz Valmaseda
Can you provide the ls -Z of your content in /etc/mailman/aliases A advice:, use sealert to see a more human-readable approach to analyze the SELinux logs. 2011/8/25 Fulko Hew > On Fedora 14, I am setting up postfix and mailman. > > I had this working once, but I decided to yum erase postfix an

Re: Nvidia driver update problem

2011-08-25 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 07:53 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Arthur Dent > wrote: > > First, it would be more appropriate to send this to the RPM Fusion > mailing list[1] since it appears to be a problem with a package that > comes from there. OK Thanks - I'll try th

selinux + mailman +postfix security problem (F14)

2011-08-25 Thread Fulko Hew
On Fedora 14, I am setting up postfix and mailman. I had this working once, but I decided to yum erase postfix and mailman and redo the configuration to prove I knew how to recreate it. Turns out I don't know how to recreate a working combination because when creating a new list I now have mailma

file transfer in LAN

2011-08-25 Thread CA G Rajesh
Hello, I am running a SHO, with 3 systems. I have fedora-15 installed in all the systems. IP addresses are automatically assigned through dhcp. On configuring empathy to view nearby systems (telepathy-salut), I have marked mdns as trusted services in system-config-firewall and add tcp5222 and tcp52

Re: OT: Improving laptop wifi reception

2011-08-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 25/08/11 10:43, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Thursday 25 August 2011 13:24:00 Bob Goodwin wrote: >> I suspect that receiver quality is a bigger factor that transmitter >> power output. I am presently using a Linksys E3000 running DD-WRT which >> displays some receiving data [SNR, signal to noise

Re: Latest update boots to blank screen (nvidia)

2011-08-25 Thread CS DBA
On 08/24/2011 02:10 PM, CS DBA wrote: Hi All; I have an IBM Thinkpad with an Nvidia card ( nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M] (rev a2) ) I currently have the nouveau driver black listed in my grub.conf setup: /rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau/ I did the update which insta

Re: OT: Improving laptop wifi reception

2011-08-25 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 25 August 2011 13:24:00 Bob Goodwin wrote: > I suspect that receiver quality is a bigger factor that transmitter > power output. I am presently using a Linksys E3000 running DD-WRT which > displays some receiving data [SNR, signal to noise ratio]. I have no way > of verifying these numb

Re: Install Fedora 15 on DELL Precision M6600 Laptop

2011-08-25 Thread Robert McCullough
Michael Dinon gmail.com> writes: > > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Robert McCullough promessinc.com> wrote: > Hi, > When I try to install Fedora 15 on my new DELL M6600 the install > locks-up / freezes. > Any Ideas? > Is this new hardware supported? > Thanks, > Rob-- > users mailing list

Continued kernel updates for F14?

2011-08-25 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
Hey all, for those of us who are a little reluctant about moving to Gnome3 just yet, does anyone know if there are plans to release rpms of kernel versions later than 2.6.35 for F14? Best, Chris -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: h

A working Fedora 14 Container.tgz I can download?

2011-08-25 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, I tried: http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/lxc-configure-fedora-containers/ a couple of times but even after fixing the typos and bugs I still get errors that I don't know how to fix - is there a working F14 container.tgz somewhere I could download? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades

Re: OT: Improving laptop wifi reception

2011-08-25 Thread Alan Cox
> I don't place a lot of faith in the signal metering. Power has little to do with signal quality. It might make it go a bit further, it might win one or two more 'shouting louder than the others' contests but chances are it won't make any big difference. Ten times the power might get you a bit fu

Re: Fedora 15: a NFSv4 to glusterfs migration HOW-TO

2011-08-25 Thread Marcos Luis Ortiz Valmaseda
Excellent how to Dr. Can you add this to the Fedora wiki? 2011/8/25 Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak > As detailed in another thread, we upgraded a few test machines on our > LAN to Fedora 15 (with gnome-shell and firefox), with user folders > served from a NFSv4 server (F14 originally, then F15). > > I

Re: Nvidia driver update problem

2011-08-25 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Arthur Dent wrote: First, it would be more appropriate to send this to the RPM Fusion mailing list[1] since it appears to be a problem with a package that comes from there. > The only difference between my account and the other user's account is > that I have des

Fedora 15: a NFSv4 to glusterfs migration HOW-TO

2011-08-25 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
As detailed in another thread, we upgraded a few test machines on our LAN to Fedora 15 (with gnome-shell and firefox), with user folders served from a NFSv4 server (F14 originally, then F15). It just didn't work. The F15 desktops would freeze frequently. And worse, this would freeze ALL desktop

Re: OT: Improving laptop wifi reception

2011-08-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 25/08/11 07:28, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 18:04 +1200, Shiv Manas wrote: >> I can happily recommend any Alfa brand USB WiFi adapters - they have a >> long range, are compatible with most distros, and are very affordable. >> Personally I use the AWUS036NH which has a massive 2W output. >

kwriteconfig kwinrulesrc how to apply the change

2011-08-25 Thread Zhangsan
I change the ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrulesrc with kwriteconfig, but the change is not applied. When I restart KDE, the file is restored. When I make the same change via System settings that's work. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: telnet on local LAN question (progress?)

2011-08-25 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 21:52 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > I am trying to do my homework but more importantly trying to > understand just what I need so I don't solve a problem that doesn't > need to be solved. I suppose it all depends on what you're trying to achieve. Do you need a mail serve

Re: OT: Improving laptop wifi reception

2011-08-25 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 18:04 +1200, Shiv Manas wrote: > I can happily recommend any Alfa brand USB WiFi adapters - they have a > long range, are compatible with most distros, and are very affordable. > Personally I use the AWUS036NH which has a massive 2W output. Two whole watts?! Seems a bit extr

Re: OT: Improving laptop wifi reception

2011-08-25 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 08:12 +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > Arent the drivers for external adapters rather tricky to install > though? Last time I tried I had to port Windows binaries into the > kernel, which requires the use of external repositories. Probably no worse than trying to get so

Nvidia driver update problem

2011-08-25 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, On Tuesday night I allowed yum to update (amongst other things) the kernel and the nvidia driver on my Fedora14 desktop. Aug 23 20:02:14 Updated: nvidia-xconfig-1.0-9.fc14.i686 Aug 23 20:02:26 Updated: nvidia-settings-1.0-11.fc14.i686 Aug 23 20:02:34 Updated: 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs