Re: Wireless firmware missing

I'm fairly certain that laptop does have a Broadcom 43xx wireless adapter, but you can check with ’lspci’. There are instructions for downloading and installing firmware for that adapter here: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Fedora > The Laptop wireless worked well in Ubuntu O

Re: Fedora 16 killed my eth0 ?

On 2012/04/03 23:19, stan wrote: On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 21:48:49 +0100 "'Chris Hall'" wrote: More important. Somebody has killed my eth0. It's gone. "Device eth0 does not seem to be present..." I cannot find it anywhere. This hasn't happened to me, my card is still named eth0 on F17 - beta. H

Re: Wireless firmware missing

On Apr 3, 2012 10:24 PM, "Roger" wrote: > > I have had problems where emails from my Fedora box go missing so am resending from Ubuntu box. > Please accept my apologies for double posting if this happens. > > I sent an email from the Fedora16 box earlier this afternoon about my daughter's Dell 154

Wireless firmware missing

I have had problems where emails from my Fedora box go missing so am resending from Ubuntu box. Please accept my apologies for double posting if this happens. I sent an email from the Fedora16 box earlier this afternoon about my daughter's Dell 1545 Laptop - Fedora 16 fresh installation. I ha

Re: netbook compatibility

On 4/3/2012 9:55 PM, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Chris Kottaridis wrote: I've never used a netbook before but am looking at the Eee PC 1215N-PU27 I want as much portability as possible, but I also want it to have full Linux capabilities, so tablets are out for now. S

Re: Mobile 'ish Desktop (Read GNOME 3) vs Traditional Desktop (Read KDE)

On 04/03/2012 11:47 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote: Well, Which one do you prefer? And Why? This "either/or" and this "one size fits all" notion behind it doesn't make actual sense. There are use cases where what you call "Mobilish Desktops" are better suitable and there are use-case wh

FreeDOS on fedora with kvm/qemu/virt-manager

Hi, I have a freedos virtual machine working under kvm, created with virt-manager. However, I can't get networking to work. The freedos instructions point to using virtualbox and using the amdpcnet network driver, but I'm just using libvirt/virt-manager. Is there a network driver in freedos that I

Re: netbook compatibility

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Chris Kottaridis wrote: > I've never used a netbook before but am looking at the > Eee PC 1215N-PU27 > > I want as much portability as possible, but I also want it to have full > Linux capabilities, so tablets are out for now. Specifcally, I want to run > Linux as t

Fedora 16 wireless connection

Have just installed Fedora 16 on Dell 1645 laptop, all went very well. I have a problem with the wireless connection to my Gateway TG792T wireless modem Network Connections shows "Wireless firmware missing" Can you please tell me what is missing and where to find it. There are many pages in Goo

netbook compatibility

I've never used a netbook before but am looking at the Eee PC 1215N-PU27 I want as much portability as possible, but I also want it to have full Linux capabilities, so tablets are out for now. Specifcally, I want to run Linux as the base OS and use vmware to run Windows as a virtual machine wh

Re: users, "private" groups, and The Unix Way (was, Re: Is it me or is it sudo?)

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/03/2012 04:56 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >> Good point. I don't visit those sites, and it's important for me >> to mention that. No p0rn, period, and many of the moral reasons are >> in > >

Re: Unable to keep HWCLOCK, localtime, UTC along several OSs and partitions.

On 04/03/2012 05:48 PM, luis redondo wrote: > > I have several operative systems on disk partitions. > > With the hour change to European Summertime days ago, > Fedora16 and OpenSUSE are 1 hour less than the right time, > the other OSs (Ubuntus,Debian,Solaris etc. are OK). > > On Fedora16 (and Ope

Re: Unable to keep HWCLOCK, localtime, UTC along several OSs and partitions.

On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 14:13 -0700, jdow wrote: > On 2012/04/03 10:48, luis redondo wrote: > > I have several operative systems on disk partitions.With the hour change to > > European Summertime days ago > > Fedora16 and OpenSUSE are 1 hour less than the right time,the other OSs > > (Ubuntus,Debian

Re: Fedora 16 killed my eth0 ?

On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 21:48 +0100, 'Chris Hall' wrote: > Once upon a time I was happy with Fedora 14. > > Then my hard disc crashed, and I thought that was an opportune moment to move > up to Fedora 16. > > Big mistake. Huge. > > Cannot stand the new Gnome. So I'm trying KDE. > > More import

Re: 17 will not update: NetworkManager-1:0.9.4.0-1.git20120328.fc17.x86_64

On 03/04/12 22:42, SES wrote: See below- Fedora 17 keeps crashing on update attempts as follows: Thx! You may have better luck on the test list, as chances more testers\qa people will browse it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/ It's the ideal list for all non-GA releases. -- R

Google Summer of Code - Fedora Audio Spin - Student Deadline 2012-04-06

Hello, This year Fedora has submitted the Fedora Audio spin as a project idea for the Google Summer of Code. This is a great opportunity for those students interested in audio to work within an open source project. The Student Applications deadline is fast approaching! Applications close on the

17 will not update: NetworkManager-1:0.9.4.0-1.git20120328.fc17.x86_64

See below- Fedora 17 keeps crashing on update attempts as follows: Thx! SES -- Test Transaction Errors: file /usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/nm-applet.mo conflicts between attempted installs of nm-connection-editor-0.9.4.1-1.fc17.x86_64 and NetworkManager-1:0.9.4.0-1.git20120328.fc17.x86_64 f

[389-users] Fwd: Fwd: Repair replication

-- Forwarded message -- From: Rich Megginson Date: Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:37 PM Subject: Re: [389-users] Fwd: Repair replication To: "General discussion list for the 389 Directory server project." < 389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org> Cc: Herb Burnswell On 04/02/2012 05:48 PM, He

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

On 03/30/2012 06:13 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: I think Fedora 18 should take a radical approach to code names, one that no one would ever expect Bog of eternal stench :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TY8T9iTUxc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change s

Re: Fedora 16 killed my eth0 ?

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Chris Hall wrote: > Once upon a time I was happy with Fedora 14. > > Then my hard disc crashed, and I thought that was an opportune moment to move > up to Fedora 16. > > Big mistake.  Huge. > > Cannot stand the new Gnome.  So I'm trying KDE. > > More important.  So

Re: Fedora 16 killed my eth0 ?

On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 21:48:49 +0100 'Chris Hall' wrote: > More important. Somebody has killed my eth0. It's gone. "Device eth0 does > not seem to be present..." I cannot find it anywhere. It has just been renamed to something more "convenient" like p6p1 or em0. Try ifconfig -a and see what is

Re: Unable to keep HWCLOCK, localtime, UTC along several OSs and partitions.

On 2012/04/03 10:48, luis redondo wrote: I have several operative systems on disk partitions.With the hour change to European Summertime days ago Fedora16 and OpenSUSE are 1 hour less than the right time,the other OSs (Ubuntus,Debian,Solaris etc. are OK). On Fedora16(and OpenSUSE) when I do in T

Re: Fedora 16 killed my eth0 ?

On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 21:48:49 +0100 "'Chris Hall'" wrote: > Once upon a time I was happy with Fedora 14. Last Gnome 2 Fedora release, and Gnome 2 is no longer receiving any love from developers. > Cannot stand the new Gnome. So I'm trying KDE. While KDE is fine, there are several other window m

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

On 2012/04/03 13:55, stan wrote: On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:07:28 -0400 nu...@gmx.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:13:33PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: I think Fedora 18 should take a radical approach to code names, one that no one would ever expect. How about: Fedora 18 Fedora 17++ Fedo

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:07:28 -0400 nu...@gmx.com wrote: > > >On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:13:33PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > >> I think Fedora 18 should take a radical approach to code > >> names, one that no one would ever expect. How about: > >> > >> Fedora 18 > > >Fedora 17++ > > Fedora 19 B

Fedora 16 killed my eth0 ?

Once upon a time I was happy with Fedora 14. Then my hard disc crashed, and I thought that was an opportune moment to move up to Fedora 16. Big mistake. Huge. Cannot stand the new Gnome. So I'm trying KDE. More important. Somebody has killed my eth0. It's gone. "Device eth0 does not seem

Re: console transparency 'not supported'

On 04/03/2012 11:30 AM, Mark Haney wrote: A reboot is kinda necessary when I just upgraded kde-libs. :) Are you sure? I'd think that logging out and back in would be sufficient, both for the desktop effects and the upgraded kde-libs. HTH, HAND. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: console transparency 'not supported'

On 04/03/2012 11:05 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Mark Haney wrote: On 04/03/2012 09:21 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: No need to reboot, just press ALT+SHIFT+F12 to enable desktop effects immediately. (It used to just enable it automatically when you checked

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 02:07:28PM -0400, nu...@gmx.com wrote: > > >On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:13:33PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > >> I think Fedora 18 should take a radical approach to code > >> names, one that no one would ever expect. How about: > >> > >> Fedora 18 > > >Fedora 17++ > > Fedor

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

On 03/04/12 19:07, nu...@gmx.com wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:13:33PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: >>> I think Fedora 18 should take a radical approach to code >>> names, one that no one would ever expect. How about: >>> >>> Fedora 18 > >> Fedora 17++ > > Fedora 19 Beta?? Fedora coming o

Re: [OT] Fedora 18 code name

>On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:13:33PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: >> I think Fedora 18 should take a radical approach to code >> names, one that no one would ever expect. How about: >> >> Fedora 18 >Fedora 17++ Fedora 19 Beta?? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Unable to keep HWCLOCK,localtime,UTC along several OSs and partitions.

I have several operative systems on disk partitions.With the hour change to European Summertime days agoFedora16 and OpenSUSE are 1 hour less than the right time,the other OSs (Ubuntus,Debian,Solaris etc. are OK). On Fedora16(and OpenSUSE) when I do in Terminal: hwclock ; date ; date --utc I

Re: soft link vs. direct efficiency

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/03/2012 11:19 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > I've added a second disk to my system (/dev/sdb1) and moved a directory > from my home folder there. I then created a soft link to the new directory: > > ln -s /mnt/sdb1/mystuff/folderA folderA > > When I'

Re: Mobile 'ish Desktop (Read GNOME 3) vs Traditional Desktop (Read KDE)

On 04/03/2012 10:28 PM, chritallic wrote: For me, I seem to prefer KDE more :-) … and your reason is? ;-) The integration and sticking to the traditional Desktop as we know it. Also, some sympathy for KDE I guess :-) -- Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor Core Developer Intern, Diaspora

Re: Mobile 'ish Desktop (Read GNOME 3) vs Traditional, Desktop, (Read KDE

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > On 04/03/2012 08:03 PM, Joe Feely wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 03/04/12 13:00, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: >>> Mobile 'ish Desktop (Read GNOME 3) vs Traditional Desktop >>> (Read KDE >> I have

Re: Mobile 'ish Desktop (Read GNOME 3) vs Traditional Desktop (Read KDE)

Which one do you prefer? And Why? GNOME 3 for sure! I am always very open to new concepts and GNOME 3's fits my requirements better then every other Desktop did before. Some reasons are: • Quick and easy to use with both mouse/touchpad and keyboard • Looks awesome (this is personal taste of c

soft link vs. direct efficiency

I've added a second disk to my system (/dev/sdb1) and moved a directory from my home folder there. I then created a soft link to the new directory: ln -s /mnt/sdb1/mystuff/folderA folderA When I'm copying files to it, is there any loss of efficiency (in a measurable sense) between rsync

Re: [389-users] Questions on RedHat DS9.0 Deployment Guide (schema replication)

Rich Megginson > > I'll file bugs on trac, right? > https://fedorahosted.org/389 Filed https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/334 Let me know if something is unclear. > > * did you experience any issue using schema replication in "primary" > > master mode (eg. decreased manageability, lack of track

Re: console transparency 'not supported'

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Mark Haney wrote: > On 04/03/2012 09:21 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > >> >> I assume you're still using KDE?  In that case, you probably have to >> enable Desktop Effects in System Settings for transparency to be >> functional.  It's disabled by default on Fedora,

Re: users, "private" groups, and The Unix Way (was, Re: Is it me or is it sudo?)

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 16:10 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> Well, there is a reason some people don't want universal ID, for example. >> It's a lot broader topic than you may want to believe. It's similar to the >> reason your httpd and ftpd (ntpd, nfs daemo

Re: console transparency 'not supported'

On 04/03/2012 09:21 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: I assume you're still using KDE? In that case, you probably have to enable Desktop Effects in System Settings for transparency to be functional. It's disabled by default on Fedora, while Kubuntu enables it IIRC. -T.C. I've enabled it and wi

Re: [389-users] Questions on RedHat DS9.0 Deployment Guide (schema replication)

On 04/03/2012 08:22 AM, Roberto Polli wrote: Hi Rich, firstly, thanks again for your time and for your support! I'll file bugs on trac, right? right https://fedorahosted.org/389 Rich Megginson Right, although note that schema replication is single master. You should choose a master to make

Re: [389-users] Password Sync - Extended Characters nothing happnes?

On 04/03/2012 08:09 AM, MATON Brett wrote: Hi, The password sync service between AD and Directory server appears to “can” passwords with extended characters. I’m working for a client in Belgium at the moment and they’re quite accent happy with passwords. Now, Active Directory happil

Re: evolution + spamassassin

On 04/03/2012 11:21 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 17:33 -0300, "Germán A. Racca" wrote: On 04/02/2012 05:19 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 12:54 -0300, "Germán A. Racca" wrote: Hi folks: I always utilized Spamassassin for filtering spam messages in Evolution,

Re: evolution + spamassassin

On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 17:33 -0300, "Germán A. Racca" wrote: > On 04/02/2012 05:19 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 12:54 -0300, "Germán A. Racca" wrote: > >> Hi folks: > >> > >> I always utilized Spamassassin for filtering spam messages in Evolution, > >> but lately it is not wor

Re: Mobile 'ish Desktop (Read GNOME 3) vs Traditional Desktop, (Read KDE

On 04/03/2012 08:03 PM, Joe Feely wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/04/12 13:00, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: > Mobile 'ish Desktop (Read GNOME 3) vs Traditional Desktop > (Read KDE I have gone the XFCE route, but failing that I would have picked the K

Re: [389-users] Password Sync - Extended Characters nothing happnes?

Hi, The password sync service between AD and Directory server appears to “can” passwords with extended characters. I’m working for a client in Belgium at the moment and they’re quite accent happy with passwords. Now, Active Directory happily accepts these passwords but I don’t even

Re: Createrepo with local repo (fix-typo)

On 03/04/12 13:56, Frank Murphy wrote: Can I specicify a wildcard for old pks dirs? cat /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/local.conf repodir = /nfs/yum/16/i386/_local/packages oldpackagedirs = /nfs/yum/16/x86_64/* (This is where all the 64bit F16 boxes have their yum cache.) The local repo by itself only

Re: Mobile 'ish Desktop (Read GNOME 3) vs Traditional Desktop, (Read KDE

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/04/12 13:00, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: > Mobile 'ish Desktop (Read GNOME 3) vs Traditional Desktop > (Read KDE I have gone the XFCE route, but failing that I would have picked the KDE route. Joe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: console transparency 'not supported'

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Mark Haney wrote: > I just finished getting Fedora configured on my netbook and wanted to setup > my consoles with a slightly transparent background.  But when I go to do so, > I get a message that my desktop appears not to support transparency.  Has > anyone seen t

Createrepo with local repo

Can I specicify a wildcard for old pks dirs? cat /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/local.conf repodir = /nfs/yum/16/i386/_local/packages oldpackagedirs = /nfs/yum/16/i386/* (This is where all the 32bit F16 boxes have their yum cache.) The local repo by itself only has non-feora rpms. -- Regards, Frank "Jac

console transparency 'not supported'

I just finished getting Fedora configured on my netbook and wanted to setup my consoles with a slightly transparent background. But when I go to do so, I get a message that my desktop appears not to support transparency. Has anyone seen this before? I know transparency works on this hardware

Re: users, "private" groups, and The Unix Way (was, Re: Is it me or is it sudo?)

On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 16:10 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > Well, there is a reason some people don't want universal ID, for example. > It's a lot broader topic than you may want to believe. It's similar to the > reason your httpd and ftpd (ntpd, nfs daemon, database daemons, etc.) > are operating as sep

Re: users, "private" groups, and The Unix Way (was, Re: Is it me or is it sudo?)

(woops, missed the user list) On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/03/2012 08:10 AM, Joel Rees wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Tim >> wrote: s/some/a lot of/ >> >> if you set it up right. > > It can still do a

Mobile 'ish Desktop (Read GNOME 3) vs Traditional Desktop (Read KDE)

Well, Which one do you prefer? And Why? For me, I seem to prefer KDE more :-) -- Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor Core Developer Intern, Diaspora Twitter - @Nirjhor -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscrip

Re: users, "private" groups, and The Unix Way (was, Re: Is it me or is it sudo?)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/03/2012 08:10 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Tim > wrote: s/some/a lot of/ > > if you set it up right. It can still do a fair amount of nasty stuff. > "xhost local:; sudo -u " does pretty well > with current applicatio

Re: kernel 3.3.0.8 problem fixed

On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 07:29 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 11:24:42 +0100, >Andrew Gray wrote: > >Hi > > > >The kernel 3.3.0.-8 x86_64 is falling to ask me for the system > >encryption password, just says it can't fine root_fs !! > > > >Having to use the previous 3.3.

Re: users, "private" groups, and The Unix Way (was, Re: Is it me or is it sudo?)

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> It always struck me that personal files ought to have no group or >>> world permissions set by default.  If you wanted your files to have >>> those extra permission set, then it ought to be done as a deliberate >>> choice. >> > Joel Rees: >> Ma