Control of USB modem
by William Murray
Hello all,
I have a USB modem (running eciadsl) for my home connection, with
some scripts I hacked to switch it on at power up and monitor that it is
still working. If it does down (happens every few days) it is restarted
automatically
However, sometimes it hangs, power on, and does not respond stop
commands. I am trying to work out how to detect failure, and if possible
reset the device. I think a reboot of the whole machine will do the
trick, but is there a less-destructive way?
Thank you,
Bill Murray
18 years
List Configured Printers
by Tony Crouch
Hi All,
I am always forgetting the names of configured printers on my FC5
system.
Is there a command I can run via terminal to output the names of
configured printers?
Cheers,
Tony Crouch
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18 years
FC5 - Can't start X with vanilla kernel
by Paul Rolland
Hello,
I've installed FC5, and I'm running X (KDE) without any problem.
Yesterday, I decided to migrate up to 2.6.16.11, and also tried 2.6.17-rc3.
So, I downloaded kernel from kernel.org, built it, applied the 'udev
migration'
procedure (as I'm not using initrd with vanilla kernels), and restarted the
machine.
Good news, it is running fine, except that X doesn't work anymore... It does
start, I can 'hear' it changing the resolution (I have a CRT not an LCD
screen),
but the screen stays black, no cursor, and X goes eating 100% of the CPU,
being unkillable (though the machine can still be used, I can network-connect
without problem except latencies...).
Checking /var/log/messages, I can find :
May 1 19:09:38 riri kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at
0000:00:00.0.
May 1 19:09:38 riri kernel: agpgart: Badness. Don't know which AGP mode to
set. [bridge_agpstat:1f000a0a vga_agpstat:ff00021b fell back to:-
bridge_agpstat:1f000208 vga_agpstat:ff00021b]
May 1 19:09:38 riri kernel: agpgart: Bridge couldn't do AGP x4.
May 1 19:09:38 riri kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0
into 0x mode
May 1 19:09:38 riri kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0
into 0x mode
May 1 19:09:38 riri kernel: [drm] Setting GART location based on old memory
map
May 1 19:09:38 riri kernel: [drm] Loading R300 Microcode
May 1 19:09:38 riri kernel: [drm] writeback test failed
which is very likely the reasons for my problems, but I can't find why...
Before running FC5, I was an FC4 user, and I was also running a vanilla kernel
with X without such a problem...
Who should I blame for X not working ? Kernel, as it is the one part I
changed,
or X, as this was running fine before with the X from FC4 ?
lspci says :
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890
South]
00:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller
(rev 80)
00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak
378/SATA 378) (rev 02)
00:09.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k HSFi Modem (rev 01)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
00:0c.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11G Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev
01)
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID
Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge
[KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237
AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem
Controller (rev 80)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM
Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 ?? [Radeon 9550]
(Secondary)
Please help,
Thanks a lot,
Paul
18 years
Re:Wired Ethernet Connection at Hotel
by Rick Bilonick
Sorry but I have to use pine via telnet to respond to the replies.
I expected to be re-directed to a startup web page when I tried to use the
browser but that did not happen - nothing happened the first time. I
couldn't get to any web pages or use telnet or ssh. Yet route -r showed
there was some sort of connection and the indicator for the ethernet
connection showed there was some sort of connection (it was flashing and
packets were being sent and received). I guessed at the gateway and dns
and was able to ping them but that was as far as I could go until I used a
route command to specify a default route to the gateway. I can tell from
resolv.conf that dhcp is specifying the dns (yet I wasn't originally able
to surf web pages unles I specified the ip address).
An IT came up last night with his laptop (running Windows of course) and
was immediately able to connect. It stays connected but for some reason
the DNS gets lost and I have to repeatedly re-activate through the gui
network interface.
How can I look at dhcp? When I used to type in all the commands manually
to connect (either wired or wirelessly using ifconfig, iwconfig, dhclient)
dhclient would give me info on the leases. But for some time it doesn't
give me any indication of what is going on.
I'm going to try the service and dig example (but I wanted to send this
first in case it causes any problems with connecting).
Thanks.
Rick B.
Rick Bilonick
mailto:rab@nauticom.net
http://www.nauticom.net/users/rab
18 years
php4 on fc5 ppc ?
by chuck clark
Hello,
I need php 4 on fedora core 5 ppc (well fc5 is not required but wanted :)
) anyway i followed
this site to compile the php4 rpm and it fails. php 5 was removed, all
dependencys were installed
php4 begins to compile and then fails. I am not at home so can't be more
specific
but fails on this
rpmbuild --rebuild php-4.3.11-2.8.1.mjm.src.rpm
all the examples are for i386, so my question is whether i should do
something
differently or in addition to this guide to get it to compile for ppc ?
thanks,
chuck
18 years
Flash player installation support?
by Mike Chalmers
When trying to install Flash Player following instuctions at
http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html, I
run into a problem:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[root@dhcppc0 ~]# yum -y install flash-plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
dries [1/5]
dries 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
core [2/5]
http://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Fedora/core/5/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates [3/5]
updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
freshrpms [4/5]
freshrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras [5/5]
http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/r...:
[Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 608 kB 00:10
dries : ################################################## 2584/2584
Added 2584 new packages, deleted 0 old in 9.98 seconds
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 249 kB 00:04
updates : ################################################## 805/805
Added 413 new packages, deleted 0 old in 3.47 seconds
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 55 kB 00:03
freshrpms : ################################################## 171/171
Added 171 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.98 seconds
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: flash-plugin
Nothing to do
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Any suggestions?
18 years
Dell Inspiron 8300 and FC5 1280x800 resolution
by jery_wang
Hello,
I installed FC5 on my laptop which is a Dell Inspiron 8300. (Almost) everything worked perfectly, only one small important thing is not working and I dont know how to solve this problem. While the system permits to change the resolution to 1280x800, when I try to do that, the scren like devides in two and basically we can't read anything.
I never had this problem with FC4,
Please, any help would be apreciated.
Congratulations on FC5, I noticed that the menu options are MUCH faster to access. When I have my screen problem resolved, I will notice another diferences.
Cheers
Martinho
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18 years
Postfix 'localhost' in originating email address
by Stuart Murray-Smith
Greetings list
Platform: FC4
Package(s): Postfix 2.2.2, Dovecot 0.99.14
I've iterated... I've Googled... and now posting ;-)
When emailing from the above stand-alone internet email server, the
originating email addy renders as:
user(a)localhost.d0main.tld
Where does the 'localhost' in localhost.d0main.tld come from?
I've also hashed out the $myorigin reference to localhost in:
/etc/postfix/main.cf.default,
// which I know shouldn't be done but needed to prove that Postfix
wasn't loading this var from main.cf.default as the preferred default
And even after restarting Postfix,
~ /usr/sbin/postconf -d | grep -i 'localhost'
still reports:
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
Also:
-----8<----------8<----------8<-----
~ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.10 h0st.d0main.tld h0st
-----8<----------8<----------8<-----
~ cat /etc/postfix/main.cf
myhostname = h0st.d0main.tld
mydomain = d0main.tld
myorigin = $mydomain
inet_interfaces = all
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain
mynetworks_style = host
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
-----8<----------8<----------8<-----
I'd appreciate any insight into this.
TiA
Blessings,
Stuart
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18 years
Re:Wired Ethernet Connection at Hotel
by ed
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 17:10 -0400, fedora-list-request(a)redhat.com wrote:
> Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 16:10:48 -0400 (EDT)
> From: RICHARD <rab(a)nauticom.net>
> Subject: Re:Wired Ethernet Connection at Hotel
> To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
> Cc: Joel Jaeggli <joelja(a)darkwing.uoregon.edu>
> Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.55.0605011556050.16725(a)www.nauticom.net>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
> Sorry but I have to use pine via telnet to respond to the replies.
>
> I expected to be re-directed to a startup web page when I tried to use the
> browser but that did not happen - nothing happened the first time. I
> couldn't get to any web pages or use telnet or ssh. Yet route -r showed
> there was some sort of connection and the indicator for the ethernet
> connection showed there was some sort of connection (it was flashing and
> packets were being sent and received). I guessed at the gateway and dns
> and was able to ping them but that was as far as I could go until I used a
> route command to specify a default route to the gateway. I can tell from
> resolv.conf that dhcp is specifying the dns (yet I wasn't originally able
> to surf web pages unles I specified the ip address).
>
> An IT came up last night with his laptop (running Windows of course) and
> was immediately able to connect. It stays connected but for some reason
> the DNS gets lost and I have to repeatedly re-activate through the gui
> network interface.
>
> How can I look at dhcp? When I used to type in all the commands manually
> to connect (either wired or wirelessly using ifconfig, iwconfig, dhclient)
> dhclient would give me info on the leases. But for some time it doesn't
> give me any indication of what is going on.
>
> I'm going to try the service and dig example (but I wanted to send this
> first in case it causes any problems with connecting).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Rick B.
>
> Rick Bilonick
> mailto:rab@nauticom.net
> http://www.nauticom.net/users/rab
Rick:
This may not be worth much but I had a similar problem with a Dell
laptop when I was in SF. Apparently, there is a driver fix from Dell for
some of their laptops. Since I no longer have this Laptop, I can't
remember the fix, but it is available on the Dell web site...
It has to deal with the DSL Modem that is being used...
Ed Gurski
18 years