Linux software for Motorola Razor phone?
by William W. Austin
This may have been answered before, but scanning the archives, I
haven't found it (sorry...).
My wife recently surprised me with a new gsm phone, a Motorola Razor.
I already had the USB cable which works with it (use it with my
camcorder), but a web search for Linux software to use the phone with
one of my Linux boxen didn't turn up anything. Basically I want to
synchronize the calendar and phonebooks, and be able to back up files
from the phone to the computer (and restore). I'm running both FC4 and
FC5 here so anything which would work with either of those would be
great - and much apprecited.
Thanks in advance,
--
william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
14 years, 5 months
Network problems on new FC4 box - please help.
by William W. Austin
I had to replace a disk (the one with all of the home directories on
it) on an FC3 box, and so I bought a new drive (particulars
unimportant).
To make a long story short, I decided to put FC4 on this box, and so I
installed the new drive and put the root filesystem on it. I still
have the old FC3 root drive and can boot to either for comparison...
Under FC3, I have no network problems that I can detect; however, under
FC4 there are two distinct (related? no idea) problems which have
eluded me. I have tried looking up both of these in the archives, but
have had no luck (some similar issues, but nothing exactly like either
of these unless I missed them).
Problem 1: network card goes to sleep.
This machine has 2 network cards, both on-board. The 1GB card L(Intel
82540EM) goes to the smartswitch to tolk to the local network, and does
not show any problems.
The other card (nVidia nForce2) is a 100MB card and talks to the DSL
modem. Periodically I cannot connect to the internet at all - or even
ping the DSL modem. This happens irregularly but about 5-10 times/day.
If I reboot back to FC3, the problem does not occur. Network
configurations between the two (FC3/FC4) are as identical as I can make
them. The first few times the problem occurs, sometimes retarting
networking works, but eventually a full sys reboot is the only thing
which works.
Problem 2: slow local network.
Under FC3 throughput on the LOCAL network (1GB lan) is very fast.
Under FC4, the best I have seen is ONE transfer of about 1.2 MB/s - and
throughput drops to as low as 50-75KB/s at times. Again, this does not
occur under FC3 but does under FC4. Again the same setup as nearly as
I can make it. No workaround found so far.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
14 years, 5 months
latest selinux policy update errors
by Mark Haney
Is anyone else seeing these types of failures with the latest selinux
updates?
libsemanage.semanage_direct_remove: Module dpkg was not found.
semodule: Failed on dpkg!
error: %trigger(selinux-policy-strict-2.6.4-21.fc7.noarch) scriptlet
failed, exit status 1
libsemanage.semanage_direct_remove: Module dpkg was not found.
semodule: Failed on dpkg!
error: %trigger(selinux-policy-strict-2.6.4-23.fc7.noarch) scriptlet
failed, exit status 1
Should I file a bug report?
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14 years, 8 months
pf packet filter on F9
by Dave Feustel
Can pf be used on F9?
Would there be any advantage or disadvantage in doing so?
Thanks.
15 years, 2 months
Fedora 10 and UK keyboard layout
by Marcelo Garcia
Hi
During the installation of Fedora 10 I choose UK for the keyboard
layout, but I when I log in gnome is using American layout.
If I add the UK in System->Preferences->Hardware->Keyboard it seems to
not make difference. I make it the default, but again, the layout is
american.
Thanks
Marcelo
15 years, 3 months
Dell OptiPlex 745 reboot problem
by Tony Molloy
Hi,
I've just installed Fedora-9 on a lab of Dell OptiPlex 745 (SFF) machines. (
only in 1 lab TG )
After running firstboot when I went to reboot the machines they just hang and
I had to do a hard reboot. I thought this was a minor glitch and ignored it.
Now however when the machines boot into Fedora-9 the "reboot" and "suspend"
buttons do not work. The windowing system just shuts down and I get a text
prompt and the machines just hang there.
As thes are dual boot machines this will cause a lot of problems starting
monday when the students return ;-(
Is ther some magic incantation to grub to sort this problem or any body got
any ideas.
Thank's
Tony
15 years, 4 months
Gnome apps font size on KDE Live CD
by Andrew Parker
I installed from the KDE Live CD, so I don't have the gnome desktop
installed, but all the fonts on gnome apps are way too big. How do I
configure the default font size for gnome apps?
15 years, 4 months
npviewer.bin segfaulting
by Patrick O'Callaghan
I'm getting frequent segfaults which crash Firefox:
Oct 12 11:04:23 bree kernel: npviewer.bin[31287]: segfault at f7042ac4 ip 6a4640 sp f4bb5dfc error 4 in libpthread-2.8.so[69d000+15000]
Oct 12 11:04:23 bree kernel: npviewer.bin[31288]: segfault at f71cf984 ip 10d42eb sp f3ec2f60 error 4 in libflashplayer.so[ddb000+778000]
Oct 12 17:45:04 bree kernel: npviewer.bin[2720]: segfault at f6f64030 ip 6a4640 sp ff88909c error 4 in libpthread-2.8.so[69d000+15000]
Oct 13 09:32:28 bree kernel: npviewer.bin[26918]: segfault at f6efb030 ip 6a4640 sp ffa21eac error 4 in libpthread-2.8.so[69d000+15000]
Oct 13 09:32:48 bree kernel: npviewer.bin[26946]: segfault at f6fb0030 ip 6a4640 sp ff9d6e6c error 4 in libpthread-2.8.so[69d000+15000]
Oct 13 10:33:25 bree kernel: npviewer.bin[27857]: segfault at f6fac030 ip 6a4640 sp ffdd126c error 4 in libpthread-2.8.so[69d000+15000]
Oct 14 08:50:10 bree kernel: npviewer.bin[4545]: segfault at f6f74030 ip 6a4640 sp ffd9b22c error 4 in libpthread-2.8.so[69d000+15000]
etc. etc. etc.
They start on Oct 12, which coincides with the last update I did (a
groupupdate of KDE from updates-testing-newkey). This is F9 on a x86_64.
I can't do far pin the segfault down to a specific page or media type. I
did a "mozilla-plugin-config -i" a couple of hours back and it hasn't
happened since, but I thought I'd mention it in case anyone else had
seen this.
I'll post a followup if it happens again.
poc
15 years, 4 months