changing home network
by Howard Howell
Hi, everyone,
I currently have four systems on my home network. I have them all
configured as standalone systems, but the burden of backing them up etc.
etc. is becoming too much. I want to set up a full network with server
and common user directories. Currently I have 2 Linux only systems, one
windows only system, and one dual boot.
I have been monitoring (and sometimes helping, occasionally kibbutzing)
the mailing list, so I believe I can figure out most of it by now.
However, here is my question.
I have one older low-end system, and one dual cpu system that is on all
the time, either of which could be the server. However, the dual cpu
system is where I do most of my work, including dual boot to windows.
This makes it a bad prospect for a network server. I could configure
and run XP pro in a virtual setup, but I am leery of making the full
change to network server, with a virtual windows client and doing work
on the server (compiling and running programs with occasional resets to
clean up my big goofs).
I am leery of using the older system simply because I suspect it is
approaching mechanical, support, and electrical end of life (over 6
years old). Buying a new system is possible, but adding yet another
300watts to my system load would be tough.
I think I would need to add wiring to the house. So, the question
becomes do I trust the older system, make my system the server, adopt
the remaining system (currently running f8) as a server, or should I
just throw down the cash and get yet one more system for a server. Also
I am thinking that having a common server would make backuppc simpler
and support, backup issues and so forth would be much simpler. Could I
continue to have the mail setup as it is with each system downloading
email from my ISP? Setting up a mail server is not something I want to
do for our home stuff.
` I suspect that on this mailing list there is someone who has been
faced with a similar situation, so please if that person reads this,
give me your experienced opinion.
Regards,
Les H
16 years, 3 months
yum update error
by Osama Mahdi
Hi guys,
I got the bellow error when I issued the "yum update" command:
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
Package glibc-devel needs glibc = 2.7-2, this is not available.
Package glibc-devel needs glibc-headers = 2.7-2, this is not available.
Package glibc-devel needs glibc-headers = 2.7-2, this is not available.
Package glibc-devel needs glibc = 2.7-2, this is not available.
Complete!
How can solve this problem please? and by the way now I am getting the
same error for any package that I tried to install.
Thanks
OS
16 years, 3 months
RE: atheros AR5006EG wireless network card
by Peter Lesterhuis
>
> I purchased a Compaq Pressario A900ED notebook and installed fedora 8.
> Internet connection with the network cable plugged in works fine. There
> is however no chance to make the wireless network card work (Atheros
> Communications Inc. AR5006EG). This card isn't supported by Madwifi
> driver ath5k. A patch should make this driver work, but when I install
> this patch, packeged by T. Chung
> (http://tchung.fedorapeople.org/madwifi/ar2425/) I can't boot anymore:
> it keeps hanging during the boot.
> Does someone have a better experience with this wireless card? Anyone
> got this card going with ndiswrapper?
> Peter
>
> regarding your pain with atheros internal chipset/wifi...
>
> i feel your pain, and after serious hours, gave up.. i was looking to simply
> install using madwifi, and never got it to work.
>
> i had a toshiba satellite, with 4G mem, and tried to get x86_64 installed,
> with madwifi to support an internal atheros chipset..
>
> i finally decided to punt, and got a linksys usb wifi device.. actually, i
> got a handful of different wifi usb dongles and tried different ones until i
> got one that worked.
>
> the good news... the usb/linksys dongle that i found does indeed work with
> fc8, running 2.6.24.3!
>
> in fact, it works quite nicely, out of the box. once you have the device
> plugged in, hit lsusb: and you should see the device.
>
> go into the system->network dialog. select new, wireless, and you should see
> the information for the linksys device.
>
> good luck!
Hi Bruce,
I am not yet at the point of giving up, but not far away from it. Thanks
for your suggestion. I am certainly going to try that when no
work-arounds show up.
Peter
16 years, 3 months
RE: Xvnc - Keymapping problems?
by Dan Thurman
Cameron Simpson wrote:
|On 19Mar2008 11:13, Daniel B. Thurman <dant(a)cdkkt.com> wrote:
|| Daniel B. Thurman Wrote:
|| > Uh, I started up Xvnc many times before, but I noticed
|| > something very wierd. It seems that I may have a keymapping
|| > problem somewhere.
|| >
|| > I am able to type in uppercased A-Z, but I am unable to type
|| > in letters such as bcdipvxz
|| >
|| > letter c and p invoked exalle music player.
|| >
|| > Is there something I can check to see what is going on?
|
|Start an "xev" and type in it - it should report key information.
|
|Have you tried bouncing on the modifier keys. I have had vncviewers not
|send the "up" key transition of a modifier if it happens outside the
|viewer focus (eg, hold down Alt, move out of viewer, release - the Xvnc
|behind still believes Alt is held down). Xev will show this, and
|bouncing on the modifier keys (Alt, Shift, Ctrl, etc) in the viewer can
|reset the state.
>From what I can tell, F1-F12 works. Alt, Shift, Ctrl works. Alt works over
an application such that the menu pop-down. When pressing Caps-Lock,
all the uppercased characters works. It is only the lowercased letters
of 'bcdipvxz' that does not work. Weird.
|
|It should like the server thinks you're typing Alt-C, etc or something
|of that flavour.
|
|Cheers,
|--
|Cameron Simpson <cs(a)zip.com.au> DoD#743
|http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/
It was not easy to try and figure out how to type in
'xev' where x and v keys are blocked so I had to try
cut/paste of existing characters via the GUI interface ;)
Any, I managed to get the xev events as follows, a key 'a'
followed by 'x' where 'a' is accepted and 'x' is not:
Pressing: a
===========================================================
KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
root 0x3b, subw 0x4400002, time 3617255895, (50,45), root:(53,91),
state 0x0, keycode 38 (keysym 0x61, a), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (61) "a"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (61) "a"
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
root 0x3b, subw 0x4400002, time 3617255935, (50,45), root:(53,91),
state 0x0, keycode 38 (keysym 0x61, a), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (61) "a"
XFilterEvent returns: False
Pressing: x
===========================================================
FocusOut event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor
FocusIn event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor
KeymapNotify event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
keys: 59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
===========================================================
So pressing key x is not recognized as a KeyPress/KeyRelease
event but instead as a FocusOut/FocusIn event?
Please keep in mind that this problem only happens in Xvnc and
running Gnome. I was not having any problems under any other
session window managers - KDE, windowmaker, twm, and so on.
Thanks for responding,
Dan
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16 years, 3 months
Migrating from Zaurus 5500
by Max Pyziur
Greetings,
I have a Zaurus 5500, an antiquated frontline PDA.
Any suggestions to which contact manager/calendar program to migrate the
data?
Any suggestions on useful tools to do this?
Thanks.
Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com
16 years, 3 months
OT: web page design tools
by max
I have the opportunity to dive into web page design. I know the basics,
which is to say not much. Just looking for opinions on what software to
use. I would prefer an open source program but i am flexible. It doesn't
have to be fancy, just intuitive(subjective i know). All opinions, decrees
and etc welcome!
Thanks,
Max
16 years, 3 months
config audacity
by François Patte
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Bonjour,
I try to use audacity to record from lin or CD without any success.
I can see 6 entries: Front Micboost:0, Mic:0, Capture:0, Capture:1
Capture:2, Digital:0
None of them works.... (only Mic with a microphone) what are these entries?
Thanks for helping
- --
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 44 55 35 61
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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16 years, 3 months