NetworkManager
by jarmo
What's wrong with networkmanager? From fedora 15 it has not managed
make automatic connection with mobile broadband. Using nokia c-17
dongle and everything worked ok with f14. But not after. I've seen loud
a much bugreportas about it, but no correction. Is anyone from list
noticed same. Mostly in ubuntu list this is reported, but seems, that
correction is somewhere hiding. Anyone know solution?
Jarmo
11 years, 11 months
Using f17 beta and status
by Alex
Hi,
If I were to install an F17 beta at this point, instead of waiting for
the release next week, would it be possible to upgrade that beta to
the production version once it is actually released?
Thanks,
Alex
11 years, 11 months
how to type special characters?
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
There was a thread not too far back that explained how to type
characters not on a keyboard by using the <alt> key but for the life of
me I can not find it.
e.g. to type a Spanish i with an accent mark it would be <alt> apostrophe i.
I made pretty heavy use of it for a while but it ceased working. I
can't remember if there was something I had to do before it would
function. It would work in vi, xterm, email, basically everywhere and
now it doesn't work anywhere.
Anybody remember the thread?
TIA,
Mike Wright
11 years, 11 months
HP Laserjet P1006 - no errors, no output
by Sam Varshavchik
Somebody didn't need this printer, I grabbed it, and plugged it in.
Fedora recognized it, and installed a Foomatic driver for it.
When I attempt to print a test page, everything "seems" to work on the
software side. A job shows up in a print queue, for a few seconds, then
Fedora tells me that the job printed succesfully, and the job disappears off
the queue.
But the printer stays absolutely silent.
I see absolutely nothing useful in /var/log/cups. access_log claims success:
localhost - root [25/May/2012:22:45:11 -0400] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200
24757 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer successful-ok
localhost - - [25/May/2012:22:45:16 -0400] "POST /printers/HP-LaserJet-P1006
HTTP/1.1" 200 458 Print-Job successful-ok
Despite what anything says here, the printer just sleeps, doing nothing. It
never shows any indication that it's getting a print job.
So, where do I go from here? Hate to throw this printer away, but
Fedora/CUPS is refusing to cooperate.
11 years, 11 months
Cannot create MP3 with UTF-16LE tags
by Ian Pilcher
My script for creating MP3 files from FLAC files has broken in Fedora
17. Specifically, tags with accented characters are getting truncated
when I try to write them as UTF-16LE (which seems to be what most
players expect). The script, which I am attaching, worked fine when I
last used it in January back in January (presumably on Fedora 16).
Here is an example of what I'm seeing:
[pilcher@ian music]$ metaflac --show-tag=title track05.flac
title=Lento, rápido
[pilcher@ian music]$ flac2mp3 track05.{flac,mp3}
flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Josh
Coalson
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `flac' for
details.
track05.flac: done
LAME 3.99.5 64bits (http://lame.sf.net)
polyphase lowpass filter disabled
Encoding <stdin> to track05.mp3
Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III VBR(q=0)
[pilcher@ian music]$ id3v2 -l track05.mp3
id3v2 tag info for track05.mp3:
TSSE (Software/Hardware and settings used for encoding): LAME 64bits
version 3.99.5 (http://lame.sf.net)
TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): Lento, r
TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Unknown
TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Spanish Schoolhouse
TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 5
TCON (Content type): Children's (255)
TLEN (Length): 118013
track05.mp3: No ID3v1 tag
You can see that the TIT2 tag has been truncated at the accented
character.
I am seeing exactly the same thing when I try to add the tag with id3v2.
I found a report of similar behavior in Debian here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=655738
but my LANG is definitely set to en_US.UTF-8. (I verified that this is
true during script execution by adding an echo statement.)
Any ideas? (My wife is from Peru, so being unable to add songs with
accented characters in the title to her Squeezebox is really, really
important.)
Thanks!
--
========================================================================
Ian Pilcher arequipeno(a)gmail.com
"If you're going to shift my paradigm ... at least buy me dinner first."
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11 years, 11 months
Problem with Emacs
by Steven P. Ulrick
Hello, Everyone
For quite a while now, Emacs has ceased being useable on our system.
For example, if I run "emacs .bashrc" in a terminal, Emacs starts up as
expected, but the file cannot be edited. I can use the mouse to select
text in the portion of the file that is actually displayed in the
terminal, but I cannot move the cursor(?) or delete/add/change any text.
I have the following alias in ~/.bashrc that has worked perfectly for me
for quite a while:
alias emacs="unset DISPLAY && emacs"
If I just run "/usr/bin/emacs" from a terminal the graphical version of
Emacs opens the file file, and I can edit it as I wish. I do NOT have
xemacs installed on this system.
So, the way this is working for me now, if I want to use Emacs in a
non-graphical console session, I am out of luck. It does not make any
difference what user I am logged in as, the problem is the same. Also,
here is the permissions on the file that I used earlier as my example:
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 6.9K May 23 04:50 .bashrc
So, permissions do not seem to be an issue.
I am running Fedora 16, fully updated. "yum list | grep -i emacs" shows
the following RPM's as being installed:
emacs.x86_64 1:23.3-9.fc16 @updates
emacs-common.x86_64 1:23.3-9.fc16 @updates
emacs-filesystem.x86_64 1:23.3-9.fc16 @updates
emacs-git.noarch 1.7.7.6-1.fc16 @updates
emacs-nox.x86_64 1:23.3-9.fc16 @updates
xemacs-filesystem.noarch 21.5.31-2.fc16 @fedora
Also, I have not been able to find this issue on Google or at
bugzilla.redhat.com.
Thank you,
Steven P. Ulrick
11 years, 11 months
Request for Sprint HTC phone suggestions
by Max Pyziur
Greetings,
It's time to upgrade my phone.
For the last three years, I've had a Palm Centro; syncing of contacts,
calender, and notes has been done via jpilot.
I would appreciate suggestions as to which of the Sprint HTC EVO phones
works with Fedora and which PIM to use to sync.
Much thanks.
Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com
11 years, 11 months
wifi bit rate
by JD
Any wifi protocol savvy people who can explain this:
iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"Private"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point:
00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE
Bit Rate=18 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2346 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-36 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:25 Missed beacon:0
The access point is a 54G wifi gateway and router.
My wifi card is the Atheros AR5008 which is an 802.11n card.
How could the bit rate be restricted to 18Mb/s??
Is this a problem with the ath9k driver or the wext driver?
PS: I did not have the issue until installing FC16. This
problem was absent in FC14.
11 years, 11 months
Can't compile kernel modules for VMware Player on F16
by Jon Ingason
Hi,
I am trying to compile new kernel modules for VMware Player version
4.0.3.703057 on F16 with new kernel. I succeded to compile kernel
modules on some previous kernels, 3.1.x or 3.2.x, but fail to compile
them for kernel 3.3.x.
I have google for this but have not found a solution and are wandering
if someone on this list has had any luck compiling kernel modules for
VMware Player 4.0.3.x for kernel 3.3.x?
--
Regards
Jon Ingason
11 years, 11 months
gnome terminal
by Patrick Dupre
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: gnome terminal
Date: 23.05.2012 17:23
From: Patrick Dupre <pdupre(a)kegtux.org>
To: fedora <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Hello,
This what I have in my .bash_profile file:
USRLOCAL=/usr/local
USRLOCALINTEL=$USRLOCAL/intel/composer_xe_2011_sp1.9.293
ROOTSYS=$USRLOCAL/root_v528
MN2SYS=$USRLOCAL/Minuit2.5.28
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$USRLOCAL/lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ROOTSYS/lib/root
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/mylib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$MN2SYS/lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$USRLOCALINTEL/lib/intel64
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export ROOTSYS
export MN2SYS
After I run gnome-terminal without "run command as a login shell", I
get:
echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
:/usr/local/lib:/home/pdupre/mylib:/usr/local/intel/composer_xe_2011_sp1.9.293/lib/intel64:/usr/local/root_v528/lib/root
(so /usr/local/Minuit2.5.28 is missing).
If I run gnome-terminal with "run command as a login shell", I get:
echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
:/usr/local/lib:/home/pdupre/mylib:/usr/local/intel/composer_xe_2011_sp1.9.293/lib/intel64:/usr/local/root_v528/lib/root:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/root_v528/lib/root:/home/pdupre/mylib:/usr/local/Minuit2.5.28/lib:/usr/local/intel/composer_xe_2011_sp1.9.293/lib/intel64
Now /usr/local/Minuit2.5.28 is set in the variable, but the variable
keeps a record of the previous value every
time that I run gnome-terminal!
It this normal?
Thank.
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)kegtux.org
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11 years, 11 months