Something is Fishy About My Network
by Marc Ferguson
Hi,
I'm running Fedora 10 x86_64 and I really think something is odd about my
ability to network and I think it's all pointing to DNS. First, I've been
running Linux (full time) for almost a year, but I am still a newb. There
are still some Windows concepts that I haven't been able to shake yet, so
please be very simple yet thorough with your replies (I'd appreciate it).
So here's the meat of my cry-for-help caserole.
- I'm having a problem pinging my hostname. I'll ping it and 127.0.0.1
is the resulting IP.
- I see that my router has given my computer an IP address, but it
doesn't have the hostname in its table.
- I can't ping, by host name, my computer from any other computer on the
home network.
So because of those issues, I can't properly network my linux box with other
computers in my home network. I just found out (from a friend) that I had
an internal firewall turned on. I didn't even realize that Fedora shipped
with a firewall. From my Windows-days, I've learned that software firewall
causes too many headaches. So; I disabled the firewall I discovered in
Fedora. Thanks for any feedback.
*system-config-network 1.5.95*
I'm not all that handy with command-line network configuring yet so I'm
using the GUI program system-config-network. In my DNS tab here are my
settings:
- hostname: unicron.cybertron
- primary dns: 192.168.1.1 (router)
- secondary dns:
- tertiary dns:
- dns search path: unicron
--
Marc F.
www.fergytech.com
Registered Linux User: #410978
"When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide, hmm good stuff!"
15 years, 1 month
FC10: Gnome/X focus broken after last update
by Marco Guazzone
Hi Fedora users,
I run Fedora 10 x86_64 on my Dell Latitude D830.
After installing the following updates:
* Fedora 10 Update: gvfs-1.0.3-6.fc10, updates
* Fedora 10 Update: qgis-1.0.1-1.fc10, updates
* Fedora 10 Update: xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-12.6.3-3.fc10, updates
* Fedora 10 Update: libgxim-0.3.2-3.fc10, updates
* Fedora 10 Update: SDL-1.2.13-7.fc10, updates
* Fedora 10 Update: evolution-data-server-2.24.5-1.fc10, updates
* Fedora 10 Update: linuxwacom-0.8.0.3-8.fc10, updates
* Fedora 10 Update: cups-1.3.9-8.fc10, updates
* Fedora 10 Update: gtkhtml3-3.24.5-1.fc10, updates
* Fedora 10 Update: anthy-9100h-1.fc10, updates
* Fedora 10 Update: alsa-utils-1.0.19-2.fc10, updates
* Fedora 10 Update: kernel-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10, updates
* Fedora 10 Update: selinux-policy-3.5.13-46.fc10, updates
I have problems with my graphical desktop environment.
For instance, if I open an xterm I cannot digit anything inside it;
but if I open another one, I can digit in the first I opened but not
in the last one.
Also, the focus of the window manager sometimes freeze: for instance,
in FireFox clicking on a tab, to get the focus, does nothing and for
making it to return to function I have to switch in another virtual
desktop and then come back to the one when the FireFox is open.
I can go further with other examples related to this problem but maybe
someone is already able to help me.
Any help is very very very appreciated.
Thank you very much!
Cheers
-- Marco
15 years, 1 month
F9 x86_64 - Fritz! WLAN USB - ndiswrapper problem
by Robert Cates
Hi,
I cannot get my Fritz! WLAN USB adapter recognized/installed and therefore WLAN not working with my Fedora 9 x86_64 machine. Can somebody please tell me where/how I can get/install ndiswrapper? I suppose i need to add a repository resource to get 'yum install ndiswrapper' to work.? Or does anybody know of another, maybe better, solution?
thanks,
Robert
15 years, 1 month
Dual boot WinXP repair (maybe a little OT)
by Matthew Saltzman
So I installed WinXP on an old computer, then repartitioned with
qparted. I added a partition in front of the Windows one for /boot and
one after for a LVM volume. Then I installed F10. I loaded grub in the
boot record of the /boot partition and left the MBR alone. I
re-numbered the partitions so that /boot is sda1, Windows is sda2, and
the rest is sda3. There is no extended partition.
Now WinXP won't boot.
Is there a simple way to reconfigure the WinXP side so that its boot
loader works again (without re-installing)? I changed the boot.ini
partition number, but that didn't help.
TIA.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
15 years, 1 month
Perl modules <---> Fedora RPMs (Test::More)
by "Stanisław T. Findeisen"
How can I know which RPM in Fedora release contains which Perl modules?
In particular I want to install Test::More, but don't know where to look
for that. :-/
Thanks,
STF
=======================================================================
http://eisenbits.homelinux.net/~stf/ . My PGP key fingerprint is:
9D25 3D89 75F1 DF1D F434 25D7 E87F A1B9 B80F 8062
=======================================================================
15 years, 1 month
F10: system-config-services - hangs?
by Dan Thurman
For some reason or another, I cannot seem to get system-config-services
to work. It chugs along with the greyed-out (inaccessable) list and then
simply hangs. Killing this app leaves a process around unless killed.
Works fine with F9, but avoiding certain services that causes hangs
but I am not sure what services on F10 would hang this app.
Has this worked for anyone else or is there some services I need to
be aware of that are known to cause hangs of the system-config-services?
Thanks!
Dan
15 years, 1 month
shrinking reiserfs partitions, filesystems
by Jackson Byers
I am more than a little confused about the need to resize (shrink) a
filesystem
in addition to shrinking the partition
---from man resize_reiserfs
SYNOPSIS
resize_reiserfs [ -s [+|-]size[K|M|G] ] [ -j dev ] [ -fqv ] device
DESCRIPTION
The resize_reiserfs tool resizes an unmounted reiserfs file system.
It
enlarges or shrinks an reiserfs file system located on a device....
If the -s option is not specified, the filesystem will
be resized to fill the given device.
If you wish to shrink a reiserfs partition, first use resize_reiserfs
to shrink the file system. You may then use cfdisk(8) to shrink
the
device. When shrinking the size of the device, make sure you do
not
make it smaller than the reduced size of the reiserfs filesystem.
--- end man page---
I had thought that the size of a filesystem was just the amount
of stuff in there as given by df in the Used column
eg on my external usb /dev/sdc1 which is one large reiserfs partition
[root@bootp ~]# df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
...
/dev/sdc1 233G 16G 218G 7% /media/disk-1
so, to me that meant the "size of the filesystem" was given in Used = 16G
but it now seems that is wrong? ie
"size of the filesystem" is actually the entire diskpartition =233G ?
so if I want to shrink dev/sdc1 partition down to 50G
I must
1) shrink the filesystem first using resize_reiserfs also to 50G ?
2) then use cfdisk to shrink the partition to 50G ?
If that is correct, will I retain or lose my current data in that 16G Used?
Is it easier/better to use parted,gparted... for shrinking reiserfs
partitions?
there was one recent msg on this list from Mikkel I think
saying parted can handle resizing both partitions and filesystems?
If that is right, it seems less chance for error compared to using two
separate tools.
One thing i found on google a 2007 gparted manual
says libreiserfs is needed
Is there any way to get libreiserfs on my fc5 system?
There are apparently live cds,knoppix, gparted,...
will these have everything needed including libreiserfs?
thanks for any help, pointers,....
Jack
15 years, 1 month
Automounting Windows Partitions
by Craig Preston
On my F10 box, it automatically mounts my Windows partitions as well. I
would like to change it, so that one of the partitions isn't mounted at all,
and the other is only in read only. I thought this was set in the fstab
file, but I can't see it. Where can I change the automount settings.
Cheers
15 years, 1 month
suddenly a wifi problem stops F10 to complete startup
by 于根
Hi,
everything was runnning fine - until yesterday night when I got this
error message, once the white progress bar of F10 has finished and
the screen usually goes black again
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
iwlagn 0000:06:00.0 PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
firmware : requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
Registered led device : iwl-phy0:radio
Registered led device : iwl-phy0:assoc
Registered led device : iwl-phy0:RX
Registered led device : iwl-phy0:TX
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan: link becomes ready
and there it sits...
I believe I have seen the first 3 lines flashing very shortly usually
during startup. I do not how to fix this. I also don't get it why the
OS should stop booting there.
Jurgen
15 years, 1 month
Re:rythmbox not seeing cdrom
by DB
fedora-list-request(a)redhat.com wrote:
> 3. Re: rythmbox not seeing cdrom (Kevin Kofler)
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:55:25 +0100
> From: Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at>
> Subject: Re:rythmbox not seeing cdrom
> To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
> Message-ID: <gokjht$m8g$1(a)ger.gmane.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> DB wrote:
>
>> Yup, I have the same problem with Amarok - it did play one CD for me
>> last week when I first installed it, but now all it finds is a couple of
>> clips (that I didn't know I'd made) which it calls my local collection.
>> (and identifies them as something totally unrelated to the actual music.)
>>
>
> What version of Amarok? Amarok 2 does not support CDs at this time.
>
>
Yes, Amarok 2 - which doesn't appear to want to make any noise from
Streaming broadcasts, but that is another problem for another day!
> Kevin Kofler
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:56:22 +0100
> From: Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at>
> Subject: Re: rythmbox not seeing cdrom
> To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
> Message-ID: <gokjjm$m8g$2(a)ger.gmane.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> DB wrote:
>
>> Curiouser & curiouser... Kaffeine sees & plays CDs in the master drive,
>> but not in the slave.......
>>
>
> If you use a CD drive other than the default, you have to give Kaffeine its
> device name in the advanced xine parameters.
>
I've looked in there, but all that is listed is /dev/cdrom. If I look in
/dev, there is a cdrom1 device, but putting /dev/cdrom1 into the audio
cd box doesn't appear to change anything.
> Kevin Kofler
>
>
>
Thanks, Kevin
Dave
15 years, 1 month