PPPoE over WLAN
by Andreas Waldenburger
Hi there,
the network at my university requires me to first connect to the WLAN
and then use PPPoE to actually use the intertubes. Connecting to the
WLAN itself works flawlessly (*hem*), the PPPoE though is a bit
troublesome.
I first tried setting this up via the DSL tab in Gnome's NetworkManager,
but that didn't work. The connection is listed (not very surprisingly)
under the wired networks, not under the wireless ones. I tried to be
sneaky and entered my wlan-adapter's MAC address in the "wired" tab,
but that only made the entry disappear from the network listing
entirely (in the menu that you see when you left-click the
notification icon).
I did manage to set up the connection by running pppoe-setup as root.
And although I did configure it to start at system boot, this doesn't
happen. So now I have to run ifup as root every time I want to connect
to the internet. To make things more annoying the WLAN connection
disconnects somewhat frequently (lousy administration), prompting me do
do ifdown and ifup each time that happens.
Any way to have this PPPoE connection up automatically, preferably via
NetworkManager? Any help is much appreciated.
/W
14 years, 3 months
Perl TK
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
Before, this application was working fine ! I am in Fedora 10 last
update (before means ~ 2 weeks !!)
Now, the file name is not anymore transfered and it never live the
widget !
I am also experiencing problem with JFileDialog
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Tk ;
use strict ;
my $types = [
['Text Files', ['.txt', '.text']],
['TCL Scripts', '.tcl' ],
['C Source Files', '.c', 'TEXT'],
['GIF Files', '.gif', ],
['GIF Files', '', 'GIFF'],
['All Files', '*', ],
];
my $main = MainWindow -> new () ;
my $filename = $main -> getOpenFile (-filetypes => $types) ;
if ($filename ne "") {
# Open the file ...
print $filename ;
}
--
---
==========================================================================
Patrick DUPRÉ | |
Department of Chemistry | | Phone: (44)-(0)-1904-434384
The University of York | | Fax: (44)-(0)-1904-432516
Heslington | |
York YO10 5DD United Kingdom | | email: pd520(a)york.ac.uk
==========================================================================
14 years, 3 months
Webstart
by Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello,
This one opens fine under any Windows or Mac computer I can get hold
of, but not on my F11:
$javaws http://vcell.org/webstart/Rel/vcell.jnlp
netx: Unexpected net.sourceforge.jnlp.ParseException: Invalid XML
document syntax. at
net.sourceforge.jnlp.Parser.getRootNode(Parser.java:1200)
I'm not sure when was the last time this worked under F11. Any hope
this will work in the near future?
Take care
Oliver
--
Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist
Systems Biology Linker at Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org/sybil)
Turning Knowledge Data into Models
Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org
14 years, 3 months
two major failures after yesterday updates - anyone else
by mike cloaked
I have had an unprecented pair of events last night and this morning - two
machines (both Dell Inspiron 530s desktops) have died completely (
unbootable) - having been running on f11 very successfully for some time. I
had no reason to suspect the hardware at all and both were running fine from
new a couple of years ago - but I am now wondering if this has anything to
do with updates that came in on 28th October. The new kernel and a number of
other updates were installed yesterday morning on both machines. Both were
also using ext4 files systems.
I would like to know if this is a chance event or related to kernel changes,
particularly related to ext4?
If nobody else has anything remotely similar happen then I will conclude
that I am just very very unlucky - but I would like to know if anybody
else has had a mysterious total failure of their system in the past 24
hours.
--
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14 years, 3 months
Tomcat6 docs
by Boggiano
Hi all,
I'm a newbie tomcat user, so please forgive me if this is a stupid
question! ;)
I've installed the package tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.18-9.2.fc11.noarch,
but it contains all zero size html files.
Of course, I can't see anything, as well, if I use the URL:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/docs/
Any advice,please ?
Thanks
Alessandro
14 years, 3 months
XBMC for Fedora
by Rolf Fokkens
Hi!
Several people have contributed to this subject in the past: XBMC for
fedora. So far however XBMC isn't available in rpmfusion or fedora
repositories. Is there a specific reason (like licensing) for this?
Anyhow, given the fact that there isn't an XBMC RPM in one of the
mentioned repositories, I built it myself based on an RPM by Scott
Harvanek. It's here: http://rolffokkens.dyndns.org/
It's running very stable on mij x86_64 Fedora 11 system, both music and
video's run smoothly. Somehow however I can't play physical media like
DVD's and CD's, as XBMC doesn't seem te be aware of them. Could be a
libcdio-0.18 related problem.
Cheers!
Rolf
P.S. I'm using Thunderbird, and don't know how to suppress the HTML
formatting. I appologize.
14 years, 3 months
Disable "Personal File Sharing" prompt in Download folder
by Michael Cronenworth
Starting with F12/Gnome 2.28 I have a light red box in nautilus only
with the Download folder. It informs you that you can use Personal File
Sharing with this folder.
How do you remove this prompt?
I do not have it on one system, but I do on another. Both systems were
upgraded from F11 to F12. Grepping in gconf for blue, sharing, or
download doesn't give any clues. Gnome's release notes are useless.
Google is useless.
Thanks,
Michael
14 years, 4 months
F12 NFS Failures
by Dr J Austin
Hi
I have just completed a clean install of F12 and
subsequent yum update on a client machine.
NFS was used for the install - no problems !!
I am using a fully updated Centos 5.4 nfs server
When copying a large file (2.7GB) from the server to the
F12 m/c a complete freeze of the F12 machine occurs.
No mouse, keyboard, ssh login.
Only hitting the Reset button gets it back.
F12 is installed on the only disk on the machine which has several ext3
partitions. A fully updated F11 is on one of the partitions
I have tried
1. Changing from NFS4 to NFS3 - Still locks up
2. scp the same file from the server to F12 no problem
3. md5sum on the file across the nfs mount - a read only? - F12 freezes
4. Booting the F11 partition and copying the same file - no problems
5. Tried playing with Defaultvers=4 in /etc/nfsmount.conf - still locks
I have "googled" but not found anything useful so far
My understanding is that NFS code is in the kernel - is that correct?
Has anyone seen this or has any ideas about the next move
Regards
John
14 years, 4 months
fedora 12 tethering
by Michael Cronenworth
How does one tether with a mobile phone with the new F12 features?
It's mentioned in interviews with Mr. Frields that tethering is now
"foolproof" except that I cannot find any mention of it in the F12
release notes nor in any NetworkManager or gnome-bluetooth applet menus.
Mike
14 years, 4 months
Creating a local RPM repository
by Mike Smith
I am currently reviewing the possibility of allowing some of our employees
to use Fedora on their machines instead of Windows. On of my concerns is
the bandwidth tied up by multiple machines downloading the same RPMs through
our Internet gateway. Is there a way to set up a local RPM repository on
our internal networks so that the RPMs only have to be downloaded from the
main repositories once. All of our user machines would be configured to
look at the local repository instead of the main one.
As an example, I set up two test system yesterday with FC11. After the
initial install, each machine needed to download significant amounts of
updates. I would have much preferred that they got those updates from a
local source. This would have reduced the bandwidth clog on our gateway
(3MB bandwidth) and reduced the install time due to the updates coming from
a local source (1GB bandwidth).
Any suggestions or instruction would be greatly appreciated.
Mike
14 years, 4 months