need help B43 in Fedora 8
by potat0
I am using an Acer Ferrari 3400 with a broadcom 4306 wireless chipset. I used fwcutter and it connects ok but it doesnt always stay connected it just keeps resetting the wireless connection. I have NetworkManager on and running I aliased the named in /etc/modprobe.conf. Have checked dmesg no errors, not sure what is going on and why it keeps resetting. Is anyone else having this problem? :-o
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16 years, 3 months
Windows XP Sucks!
by Karl Larsen
I got the file holding the Manual for my BIOS on this computer from
BioStar web page and after clicking on the manual thing I d/l a file. It
is CRUS5-M9_0829C_B.exe and I have d/l it several times because of Windows.
The .exe makes it a windows file for sure. I tried using the Linux
unzip on it and it failed. So fired up my Work laptop which has winXP on
it that is seldom used. I have it on a memory stick and when I put it on
Windows nothing much happened. But I recalled to bring up "My Computer".
And sure enough there was a Kenstin stick as e: and I clicked on it and
there was my file.
I put mouse over file and moved it over to the main window. It
didn't work and put up a long winded tail why I can't do that. It
appears I on the keyboard do not have permission to do that.
I have a kernel package for F7 on the stick that went to my F7 on
the laptop. I tried to slide that off and it went without a problem. In
fact only the above file can't be moved.
Next I right clicked the file on the stick and selected to Run it.
The error panel came up and told me the file is a Trogan type of thing
and will not open it.
At a coffee get together all the other guys run Windows and the said
there is a way to turn off the thing that calls EVERYTHING a problem.
But it is well hidden. I had to listen to all the register problems and
how you need to defrag windows every month or so.
Boy! Sure glad I changed to Linux.
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Linux User
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16 years, 3 months
RocketRAID 1740 driver for Fedora 7
by Ranbir
Hello Everyone,
I have a rocketraid 1740 controller that I want to use in a soon to be
installed Fedora 7 system. Highpoint's website doesn't have any Fedora
7 drivers, but they do provide a package that will let end users build
the rr1740x module for any 2.4 or 2.6 series kernel.
How would one build the rr1740x module for Fedora 7 if one doesn't have
a Fedora 7 system to build the driver on? Can I install the
kernel-devel package from Fedora 7 on a Fedora 6 host, and build the
module that way? Should I use a Fedora 7 virtual machine (e.g. vmware,
xen, etc.)?
Regards,
Ranbir
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Linux 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux
14:15:59 up 4 days, 2:59, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.07, 0.16
16 years, 3 months
small machine needs a small linux.
by Ric Moore
Anyone know offhand if there is a "small linux" distro that also uses
rpms? I've got some PII's and PIII's to install to, and then give them
away to our charity. So, I'd like something that can make use of these
old machines and include a CD with each of them. Thanks in advance, Ric
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16 years, 3 months
yum updates corrupting rpmdb
by Joe Smith
This is the second update in as many days that has resulted in a
corrupted rpm database for me. I was able to fix yesterday's with a
--rebuilddb and 'yum clean all' but before I go through that little
exercise again, is anyone else seeing problems? Any suggestions how to
debug this?
# yum update
( lists a dozen or so packages to update, including firefox...
...I say 'y'...
...10 minutes later the terminal history is filled with:
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
and yum won't die except by 'kill -9'
# rpm -qa
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30977)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
Not out of space...
# df /var/lib/rpm
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb7 497829 205804 266323 44% /var
and there are no kernel disk error messages.
Is there some "run recovery" that's different than --rebuilddb?
<Joe
16 years, 3 months
lite-scribe question.
by Gene Heskett
My LITE-ON drive does both sides of the disk.
Which brings up the question: Is there a URL where the disk label, modified
to indicate the respin date, can be obtained?
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
You're never too old to become younger.
-- Mae West
16 years, 3 months
Java problem
by eng.waleed
Hi
I installed the jre from the file jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin and it give me done with no prob , but there is no java file in /usr/bin/ , can any one suggest some thing about that ?
Br
16 years, 3 months
Cannot Change essid using iwconfig
by Rick Bilonick
I know the bcm4318 mini pci wifi card works in my Dell Inspiron 2200
laptop - I had installed a hard drive with Fedora 8 (installed on a
different laptop) and I had no trouble using ndiswrapper and getting the
wireless nic to work perfectly. Now I've put the original hard drive
(that had Fedora 6 working with the same wireless nic) back in,
installed Fedora 8 (destroying all of the original data on the disk).
I've installed the same kernel, ndiswrapper, kernel modules, etc. that
is on the other hard drive with Fedora 8, went through the same process
but cannot get the wireless nic with the new Fedora 8 to work. Surely,
it can't be the hard drive (the laptop connects to the wired eth0
connection). If I put the other hard drive in with Fedora 8, the bcm4318
connects to the wireless network.
I've blacklisted bcm43xx, b43, and ssb (not sure ssb needs to be
blacklisted or even can be blacklisted).
I can get the nic to scan:
[root@localhost ~]# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:18:E7:0B:50:B0
ESSID:"default"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality:50/100 Signal level:-64 dBm Noise
level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
[root@localhost ~]#
ndiswrapper reports:
[root@localhost ~]# ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4318) present (alternate driver: ssb)
I'm not sure what ssb is but when the other drive was it, I received the
same message and the nic connected to the wireless network.
dmesg reports:
ndiswrapper version 1.48 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,12/22/2004, 3.100.46.0) loaded
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 1
(see below)
wlan0: ethernet device 00:14:a5:09:f5:28 using NDIS driver: bcmwl5,
version: 0x3642e00, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter',
14E4:4318.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK;
AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
modprobe reports:
[root@localhost ~]# modprobe -l | grep ndiswrapper
/lib/modules/2.6.23.9-85.fc8/extra/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko
lspci reports:
[root@localhost ~]# lspci | grep BCM
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
If I try to manually configure the nic using iwconfig, I can set the key
but I CANNOT get it to set the essid:
[root@localhost ~]# iwconfig wlan0 essid default
[root@localhost ~]# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point:
Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
(iwconfig will set the key, but I'm not showing the key info.)
When I use dhclient to obtain a lease, it tells me no leases were
offered (even though the other laptop is connected to the wireless
network and I've had them both wirelessly connected at the same time
when using Fedora 6 on the Dell).
I cannot figure out why iwconfig cannot set the essid.
What else can I check? Any ideas on what is wrong or how to fix this?
(I've tried the "native" driver for the bcm4318 but it just will not
work.)
Rick B.
P.S. I do get this message from dmesg but I don't think it has anything
to do with ndiswrapper:
irq 5: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
[<c045b16a>] __report_bad_irq+0x36/0x75
[<c045b380>] note_interrupt+0x1d7/0x213
[<c057ae99>] usb_hcd_irq+0x21/0x4e
[<c045a807>] handle_IRQ_event+0x23/0x51
[<c045bcaf>] handle_level_irq+0x88/0xb9
[<c045bc27>] handle_level_irq+0x0/0xb9
[<c04074c3>] do_IRQ+0x8c/0xb9
[<c0405b6f>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x28
[<c0431dec>] __do_softirq+0x50/0xd3
[<c04073d5>] do_softirq+0x6c/0xce
[<c0444685>] tick_do_update_jiffies64+0x15/0xa8
[<c04401a1>] ktime_get+0xf/0x2b
[<c045bc27>] handle_level_irq+0x0/0xb9
[<c0431cc5>] irq_exit+0x38/0x6b
[<c04074d6>] do_IRQ+0x9f/0xb9
[<c043ff74>] hrtimer_start+0xfe/0x10a
[<c0403ddf>] default_idle+0x0/0x55
[<c0405b6f>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x28
[<c0403ddf>] default_idle+0x0/0x55
[<c042007b>] save_v86_state+0x19/0x12b
[<c0421f78>] native_safe_halt+0x2/0x3
[<c0403e18>] default_idle+0x39/0x55
[<c040340b>] cpu_idle+0xab/0xcc
[<c073fa6c>] start_kernel+0x32c/0x334
[<c073f177>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x195
=======================
handlers:
[<c057ae78>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x4e)
Disabling IRQ #5
16 years, 3 months
The mystery of WiFi
by Timothy Murphy
IIRC, Fedora - and other distributions -
tried to bring up the interface <xyz>
if there was a file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<xyz>.
But this no longer seems to be the case -
I have an ifcfg-eth0 which is completely ignored
by "service network restart" and even "ifup eth0".
How does Fedora now decide what interfaces to try to bring up?
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16 years, 3 months