Re: Fedora power management

2014-08-04 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:45 AM, CLOSE Dave wrote: > I have some laptops running F20/KDE which, among other purposes, are > acting as gateways to a private network. Most of the time these laptops > are unattended -- no one is logged into the console -- but the gateway > function must continue to r

Re: Fedora power management

2014-08-04 Thread CLOSE Dave
I asked: > Is there a way to keep the power management function active even > when no one is logged into the console? On 08/02/2014 08:19 AM, Tim wrote: > Perhaps you can configure power management options for the kdm user > (that which the KDM logon screen runs as)? Assuming that kdm works > i

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

2014-08-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/04/2014 02:08 PM, Tethys wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Since the primary use of this dongle will be on a F21 test system, compiling driver might be a all too often process. And it is for an armv7 box at that! The raspberry pi people have a precompiled

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

2014-08-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/04/2014 02:25 PM, Jens Neu wrote: On 08/04/2014 04:57 PM, Jens Neu wrote: On 08/04/2014 04:49 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am pretty sure this is one that I found in the returned bin and tested and it was not working. So it is possible I was doing something wrong or there is somethin

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

2014-08-04 Thread Jens Neu
On 08/04/2014 04:57 PM, Jens Neu wrote: On 08/04/2014 04:49 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am pretty sure this is one that I found in the returned bin and tested and it was not working. So it is possible I was doing something wrong or there is something needed to install? I have one in unope

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

2014-08-04 Thread Tethys
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Since the primary use of this dongle will be on a F21 test system, compiling > driver might be a all too often process. And it is for an armv7 box at > that! The raspberry pi people have a precompiled ARM driver for it, if that helps. T

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

2014-08-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/04/2014 01:25 PM, Tethys wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: So is there a USB 11n dongle that IS supported and can be had for < $20? I use a TP-Link TL-WN725N v2. It works, but not out of the box. The in-kernel driver didn't work for me, although that could

Re: Mesa-10.2.5 was released - while Fedora still ships 10.1 :/

2014-08-04 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 08/03/2014 09:37 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Especially with the accelerated release cycle of Mesa, it would be great if Fedora could keep up in the same manner as it does with the kernel. Mesa 10.1 is effectively dead with 10.2 beeing considered "old, stable and boring" now. So the descision

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

2014-08-04 Thread Tethys
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > So is there a USB 11n dongle that IS supported and can be had for < $20? I use a TP-Link TL-WN725N v2. It works, but not out of the box. The in-kernel driver didn't work for me, although that could have been a bad interaction with the (no

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

2014-08-04 Thread Tim
Tim: >> if USB dongles are anything like dial-up modems used to be (external >> or internal), the chipsets used in particular models were not >> consistent. e.g. Out of a specific model number modem, some of them >> could be Lucent chipsets, the rest something else. Robert Moskowitz: > D-link use

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

2014-08-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/04/2014 10:57 AM, Jens Neu wrote: On 08/04/2014 04:49 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am pretty sure this is one that I found in the returned bin and tested and it was not working. So it is possible I was doing something wrong or there is something needed to install? I have one in un

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

2014-08-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/04/2014 11:09 AM, Jens Neu wrote: On 08/04/2014 04:49 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am pretty sure this is one that I found in the returned bin and tested and it was not working. So it is possible I was doing something wrong or there is something needed to install? just a quick th

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

2014-08-04 Thread Jens Neu
On 08/04/2014 04:49 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am pretty sure this is one that I found in the returned bin and tested and it was not working. So it is possible I was doing something wrong or there is something needed to install? just a quick thinking, you do have linux-firmware-201406

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

2014-08-04 Thread Jens Neu
On 08/04/2014 04:49 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am pretty sure this is one that I found in the returned bin and tested and it was not working. So it is possible I was doing something wrong or there is something needed to install? I have one in unopened box "in stock" at home, will plug i

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

2014-08-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/04/2014 07:32 AM, Jens Neu wrote: On 08/04/2014 05:20 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I spent 30 min going through all the 'clearance' open boxes at MicroCenter today with my notebook, trying to see if any came up as supported. None did. I went to the section with the unopen items and fo

Re: Perhaps off-topic -- multiple buffers in the command line?

2014-08-04 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Sunday, August 03, 2014 10:25:16 PM T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: I apologize if this is not Fedora-specific, but I've got a desktop question. When I want to save some text, I'll highlight it and hit c

[Solved] Re: Perhaps off-topic -- multiple buffers in the command line?

2014-08-04 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Sunday, August 03, 2014 10:25:16 PM T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: I apologize if this is not Fedora-specific, but I've got a desktop question. When I want to save some text, I'll highlight it and hit c

Re: simple DVD read error - ALL DVD

2014-08-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/04/14 19:43, Balint Szigeti wrote: > well, I've tested the DVDs on a Windows 7 and in a Gentoo box. They work > fine. I've tested the > DVD drive with different DVD discs and it works, so I've opened a low > important bug ticket in > bugzilla. I don't think it will fix :( OK... But, did

Re: simple DVD read error - ALL DVD

2014-08-04 Thread Balint Szigeti
On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 02:19 +0930, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 28 July 2014, Balint Szigeti sent: > > I have two DVDs which contains AVI files. I can't read it in my fedora > > box but it works in gentoo and windows. > > > > I used the DVD drive and the DVDs before so I don't think it is

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

2014-08-04 Thread Jens Neu
On 08/04/2014 05:20 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I spent 30 min going through all the 'clearance' open boxes at MicroCenter today with my notebook, trying to see if any came up as supported. None did. I went to the section with the unopen items and found the Asus claiming Linux support. So m

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

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

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

2014-08-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/04/2014 04:43 AM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 23:59 -0400, bruce wrote: if i plug in a usb wifi.. and NM comes up, and I can access a network via the dongle.. then yeah, I'd argue that you can determine if the dongle is supported by linux fedora by plugging it in! Ordinarily, I'd ag

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

2014-08-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/03/2014 11:38 PM, JD wrote: On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I spent 30 min going through all the 'clearance' open boxes at MicroCenter today with my notebook, trying to see if any came up as supported. None did. I went to the section with the unopen items and fo

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

2014-08-04 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 23:59 -0400, bruce wrote: > if i plug in a usb wifi.. and NM comes up, and I can access a network > via the dongle.. then yeah, I'd argue that you can determine if the > dongle is supported by linux fedora by plugging it in! Ordinarily, I'd agree with that. However, if USB d