Fedora 17 and laptop IBM T42
by Rafnews
Hi,
i discovered that i can use fedora 17 on my old laptop IBM T42.
i works great but my wireless adapter doesn't work.
i found several websites (e.g.:
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml) where some steps are
written how to make it works...however in my case, i have some errors
with make ieee80211-1.2.18.
here is the error:
/root/ieee80211-1.2.18/ieee80211_module.c:148.5: error: 'struct
net_device" has no member named 'hard_start_xmit'
is there someone who already had such issue or did this step ?
thx.
A.
8 years, 5 months
Loving Fedora 17 so far!
by Richard Shaw
Not a lot of visual differences although I like the new wallpaper, but
I liked the 16 wallpaper too.
One BIG nit for me was with CD/DVD burning. It would calculate the
checksum, burn, check the disc, but then it would give an error saying
it couldn't eject the disc, but the button worked and good 'ole eject
/dev/sr0 worked as well. This has been a problem since F15 but it
seems to have finally been fixed.
Thanks for a great release!
Richard
8 years, 5 months
Newbie setup issues - Hylafax 6.0.6.tar.gz on Fedora 17
by Gary Stainburn
This is my first attempt at installing Hylafax. I have managed to install
6.0.6 from the tarball onto a brand new F17 system.
I am wanting to use this as an automated fax receive and forward system so I
haven't looked at the sending side of the system yet.
I'm also new to systemd having being used to old init based systems. So far I
have two problems.
1) Through googling I have managed to get faxgetty running and can receive
faxes if I first start the system by issuing the command
systemctl start faxgetty-ttyS0.service
However, if I reboot the services doesn't start automatically. The systemd
config file I've copied from the net and changed appropriately is:
[root@stan2 ~]# cat /etc/systemd/system/faxgetty-ttyS0.service
Unit]
Description=FaxGetty Start Modem ttyS0
[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
Group=root
Restart=always
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/ttyS0
RestartSec=30
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
[root@stan2 ~]# ll /etc/systemd/system/default.target
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 37 Oct 29
16:07 /etc/systemd/system/default.target -> /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target
[root@stan2 ~]#
Can anyone suggest what I need to do to get it to run on startup please.
2) received TIF image is squashed vertically
The resulting TIF file looks correct except that it is squashed vertically, to
about half the height it should be. I have googled this and have found a
number of results where it says the problem is down to flow control and give
the resulting log entries. However I do not have any errors in the log file.
Oct 30 09:54:05 stan2 FaxGetty[1108]: ANSWER: FAX CONNECTION
DEVICE '/dev/ttyS0'
Oct 30 09:54:47 stan2 FaxGetty[1108]: RECV FAX (000000004): from 01132792564,
page 1 in 0:00:37, INF, 3.85 line/mm, 1-D MH, 14400 bit/s
Oct 30 09:54:47 stan2 FaxGetty[1108]: RECV FAX (000000004):
recvq/fax000000004.tif from 01132792564, route to <unspecified>, 1 pages in
0:00:42
Oct 30 09:54:47 stan2 FaxGetty[1108]: RECV FAX:
bin/faxrcvd "recvq/fax000000004.tif" "ttyS0" "000000004" ""
Oct 30 09:55:00 stan2 FaxGetty[1108]: MODEM USR U.S. Robotics 56K FAX EXT Rev.
11.16.63/Configuration Profile...
Any suggestions on how to fix this?
Cheers
Gary
8 years, 5 months
Any Perl Soap::lite users in the crowd?
by Jack Craig
Hi Folks,
IN an effort to get some soap experience, i pulled Soap::lite and have been
playing around with it
calling into NOAA.
Sadly, its not working well and I dont see updates since 2001.
Not working is defined as variable loading errors.
I set $product, but the outbound request isnt including it! :(
This appears to be an abandoned project.
Any of you using this perl/soap code?
Code listing below for the curious, tia, ...
# Set up the input required by the NDFD web service
#
$latitude = 36.981;
$longitude = -121.874;
*$product = "time-series";*
$startTime = "";
$endTime = "";
$Unit = "e";
#
# Use SOAP::Lite to retrieve the NDFD XML data
# We use the web service's WSDL as input into creating the SOAP message
# We call the exposed function NDFDgen using SOAP::Data to ensure
SOAP::Lite
# gets the types correct
# The XML returned by the web service is saved as a string in $NDFD_XML
for later
# parsing
#
$NDFD_XML = SOAP::Lite
->service('
http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/DWMLgen/wsdl/ndfdXML.wsdl')
->NDFDgen(SOAP::Data->name("latitude" => $latitude),
SOAP::Data->name("longitude" => $longitude),
* SOAP::Data->name("product" => $product),*
SOAP::Data->name("startTime" => $startTime),
SOAP::Data->name("endTime" => $endTime),
SOAP::Data->name("Unit" => $Unit),
SOAP::Data->name("weatherParameters" =>
\SOAP::Data->value(SOAP::Data->type('boolean')->name("maxt" => 1),
SOAP::Data->type('boolean')->name("mint" => 0),
SOAP::Data->type('boolean')->name("temp" => 0),
SOAP::Data->type('boolean')->name("dew" => 0),
SOAP::Data->type('boolean')->name("pop12" => 0),
SOAP::Data->type('boolean')->name("qpf" => 0),
SOAP::Data->type('boolean')->name("sky" => 0),
SOAP::Data->type('boolean')->name("snow" => 0),
SOAP::Data->type('boolean')->name("wspd" => 0),
SOAP::Data->type('boolean')->name("wdir" => 0),
SOAP::Data->type('boolean')->name("ws" => 0),
SOAP::Data->type('boolean')->name("waveh" => 0),
SOAP::Data->type('boolean')->name("icons" => 0),
SOAP::Data->type('boolean')->name("rh" => 0),
SOAP::Data->type('boolean')->name("appt" => 0),
SOAP::Data->type('boolean')->name("incw34" => 0),
SOAP::Data->type('boolean')->name("incw50" => 0),
8 years, 5 months
wireshark under KDE?
by Timothy Murphy
I'm running Fedora-17/KDE on my laptop,
and am trying to run wireshark.
I've yum-installed wireshark, wireshark-gnome and wireshark-devel.
When I run wireshark (as root) it gets as far as
"Registering Python dissectors"
and then crashes:
------------------------
[root@rose tim]# wireshark
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
------------------------
Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
8 years, 5 months
Fixing a crashed disk
by SternData
I quite stupidly unplugged my computer today when my foot got tangled in
the power strip. On reboot, I was notified
Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 8 Offline uncorrectable sectors
Smartctl tells me the problem is at LBA 2014551336 (this is a 2TB disk).
Following the info here
http://kaivanov.blogspot.com/2010/09/fixing-disk-problems-under-linux-wit...
I'm not able to determine what file might be sitting on this block.
tune2fs -l /dev/sda5 |grep Block
Block count: 472552448
Block size: 4096
Blocks per group: 32768
[root@sds-desk-2 ~]# debugfs
debugfs 1.42.3 (14-May-2012)
debugfs: open /dev/sda5
debugfs: icheck 235992741
Block Inode number
235992741 8
debugfs: ncheck 8
Inode Pathname
This suggests that the problem is not in a currently extant file.
I'm now trying the suggestion of writing from /dev/zero to a file in
/home while in single users mode. Given that I have 1.5TB to fill,
this could take a while.
Here's the question: If I just reformat and restore /home from a
recent backup, will the disk automatically deal with the sectors
pending reallocation?
8 years, 5 months
bc and built-in funcs
by JD
Hi all
I have:
$ rpm -q bc
bc-1.06.95-3.fc15.i686
I was searching the web for bc funs to calculate cube roots
and other arbitrary roots. Almost all of the func I found
assume that bc has the built-in funcs l and e which take
a numeric arg.
Yet my bc has no such funcs.
Is the version above broken?
8 years, 5 months
No Music or Movies Play in F17 - Missing Gstreamer?....
by EGO-II.1
I have a Gateway T-6321 that I recently had to re-install Fedora Linux
v17 on. I've put just about everything that was on there from before
(Totem, Clementine...Thunderbird etc.) but when I try to play movies in
Totem or music in Clementine I get errors such as:
Clementine: - "Your GStreamer installation is missing a plugin."
Totem: - "A program requires additional plugins to decode this file:
The following plugins are required:
H.264 decoder
MPEG-4 AAC decoder
Do you want to search for these now?
My problem is when it searches for these it tells me they're already
installed? What is the solution for this kind of error? is there a file
I need? or a missing piece of this puzzle?
Thanx!
EGO II
8 years, 5 months
ABRT didn't detect segfaults of usb_modeswitch
by Clemens Eisserer
Hi,
Running updates-testing I noticed once my usb modem didn't work -
caused by usb_mdoeswitch segfaulting 3 times in a row:
Oct 29 18:37:27 localhost kernel: [ 23.740625]
usb_modeswitch_[1374]: segfault at 7fff0251aff8 ip 000000300087f434 sp
00007fff0251b000 error 6 in libc-2.15.so[3000800000+1ac000]
Oct 29 18:38:07 localhost kernel: [ 64.128201]
usb_modeswitch_[1515]: segfault at 7fffd8b8ae74 ip 0000003000874b06 sp
00007fffd8b8ae60 error 6 in libc-2.15.so[3000800000+1ac000]
Oct 29 18:38:29 localhost kernel: [ 86.373114]
usb_modeswitch_[1685]: segfault at 7fff7eb4eff8 ip 00000030008ed629 sp
00007fff7eb4f000 error 6 in libc-2.15.so[3000800000+1ac000]
ABRT didn't detect those crashes. Is this due to a technical issue?
Is there any way to get the name of the function where usb_modeswitch
crashed in the above cases, so I can at least file a bug-report?
Thanks, Clemens
8 years, 5 months