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Aaron Konstam | 1 Feb 2007 01:21
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Re: Smolt: Fedora Hardware Profiler

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 10:08 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> Smolt is a hardware profiler for Fedora so we can get a better idea of
> what type of hardware is out there in the Fedora universe.  It's still
> in beta but those of you running FC6 or newer (rawhide) can
> participate.
> 
> Just type "yum install smolt"  followed by "smoltSendProfile".  All
> sends are anonymous and the only tie to hardware is via a UUID that
> gets sent.  We can't trace the UUID back to you without you giving us
> the UUID, which may be helpful for those experiencing hardware or
> driver issues.
> 
> Check out the stats at http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/stats
> 
> For more information on smolt look at:

> https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt/wiki
> and
> https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt/wiki/Scope
> 
>                 -Mike
> 
If it is of interest your SendProfile script did not dedect my sound
card which is a Crystal Semiconductor CS4236 sound card. That was not
surprising since lspci  does not detect it either. 
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Rick Stevens | 1 Feb 2007 01:02

Re: FC6 not connecting -- amplification

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 18:50 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Beartooth wrote:
> >su -
> 
> > NOW lspci and lsmod work strait from the prompt, sure enough -- and lspci
> > | grep -i net gives me (retyping) "00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel
> > Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 10)" -- and no mention of
> > any other ethernet anything, 3c501 or otherwise.
> > 
> > 
> The 3c501 could be removed. You might want to investigate whether the 
> Intel 82557/8/9 is supported and by what driver.

Should be the "e100" driver.  According to the source code:

 *      I.   General
 *
 *      The driver supports Intel(R) 10/100 Mbps PCI Fast Ethernet
 *      controller family, which includes the 82557, 82558, 82559,
 *      82550, 82551, and 82562 devices.  82558 and greater controllers
 *      integrate the Intel 82555 PHY.  The controllers are used in
 *      server and client network interface cards, as well as in
 *      LAN-On-Motherboard (LOM), CardBus, MiniPCI, and ICHx
 *      configurations.  8255x supports a 32-bit linear addressing
 *      mode and operates at 33Mhz PCI clock rate.

So verify that the "e100" driver is loaded via "/sbin/lsmod".

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John Wendel | 1 Feb 2007 01:04
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Re: Smolt: Fedora Hardware Profiler

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 10:08 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
>> Smolt is a hardware profiler for Fedora so we can get a better idea of
>> what type of hardware is out there in the Fedora universe.  It's still
>> in beta but those of you running FC6 or newer (rawhide) can
>> participate.
>>
>> Just type "yum install smolt"  followed by "smoltSendProfile".  All
>> sends are anonymous and the only tie to hardware is via a UUID that
>> gets sent.  We can't trace the UUID back to you without you giving us
>> the UUID, which may be helpful for those experiencing hardware or
>> driver issues.
>>
>> Check out the stats at http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/stats
>>

I installed/ran smolt but I don't run HAL. It almost sorta kinda worked :(

Regards,

John Wendel

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David L | 1 Feb 2007 01:23
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Re: webcam support/hardware compatibility list

>On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 12:35 -0800, David L wrote:
> > I'd like to buy a webcam that has good support in fedora,
> > preferably without any kernel patches/proprietary drivers.
> > Any suggestions?
> >
[snip]

>I had the experience of buying a webcam, a Logitech QuickCam Express,
>from Walmart, that I thought was supported, only to learn Logitech had
>changed the chip set, but kept the name QuickCam Express.
>
>I learned, it was important to find out the VendorID/ProductID.
>
>Unfortunately, the VendorID/ProductID is not listed on the package.
>
[snip]
>I realize my comment does not help answer the original question.
>I relate this experience as a cautionary note of what might happen.
>
Yea, I had a similar experience with a webcam that I bought several
years ago, so I just used it on a Windows box.  But I'm trying to never
boot to the dark side of my hard drive anymore.  I can't seem to find
that old webcam, so I'd like to buy a new one.  I was hoping it was a
little easier to buy one in 2007 with a little bit of confidence that it 
would
actually work under Linux.  But the responses so far seem to
indicate that the webcam development is still mostly done outside of
what's shipped with most Linux distributions.?  I guess I'll just by one
that has the same name as one that was listed in one of the
responses and return it if it doesn't work.
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Martin Marques | 1 Feb 2007 02:04
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Re: problems recording DVD

alan escribió:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, John Wendel wrote:
> 
> Here is the problem.
> 
> According the media guide on digitalfaq.com, OPTODISC is "4th class 
> media".  They describe 4th class as "Pathetic garbage media, landfill 
> material, about 0-50% success rate".
> 
> you need to find a better supply of DVD media.

These are $2 Imation DVD, which get recorded ok on windows!

Give me a better media and I'll try to get it.

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Kurt Wall | 1 Feb 2007 02:10

Re: problems recording DVD

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:27:47PM -0800, alan wrote:

[what's wrong with my DVD media?]

> According the media guide on digitalfaq.com, OPTODISC is "4th class 
> media".  They describe 4th class as "Pathetic garbage media, landfill 
> material, about 0-50% success rate".

digitalfaq.com is handy site! Thanks for the link.

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Michael A. Peters | 1 Feb 2007 02:13
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Re: Difference between the desktop and the server installation

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 14:47 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:

> 
> 	id:3:initdefault:
> 
> then the system will boot up to command line mode (NOT GUI mode) and
> it'll behave like 90% of the servers out there, but you have the ability
> to go to full GUI mode when you want by doing:
> 
> 	telinit 5
> 
> as the root user.

Or as a normal user -

startx

Then you don't have to switch run levels - which you probably don't want
to do on a server (except to switch to run level 1 for maintenance, but
that usually done rarely and only in emergency - and often done by
rebooting the machine into run level 1)

When you use startx - logging out of your desktop/window manager returns
you to the cli.

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Jeff G | 1 Feb 2007 02:14
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Re: FC6 X.11 New Install Failure

On 1/31/07, Rick Stevens <rstevens <at> vitalstream.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 18:15 -0500, Jeff G wrote:
> > no, it fails on disk 2
>
> It's best if you don't top post.
>
> In your previous message (see below), you got an SHA1SUM off disk 2, so
> I don't see how it could have failed.

[oops, sorry.  I always like reading the answers on top, but if that's
not normal, I'll do it this way]

The only thing I thought of is some problem with my CD reader/burner.
I did the SHA1 computation on the FILE that I used to burn the CD, not
the CD itself.  I guess I'll try the CD itself, if that's possible.
Otherwise, I'll take and ISO image of the CD and compare the resulting
file to the original.

>
> >
> > On 1/31/07, Rick Stevens <rstevens <at> vitalstream.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 17:59 -0500, Jeff G wrote:
> > > > I did check that and got it right:
> > > >
> > > > Here's what "accuhash" calculated, which is the same as the SHA1 file
> > > > values (and yours)
> > > >
> > > > Disk 1:  CC503D99C9D736AF9052904A6AB14931B0850078
> > > > Disk 2: 3051710E6B2F1D17A14EDE0EBB74761C29CDA954
> > > >
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Tim | 1 Feb 2007 02:52
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Re: National-character conversion

Albert A. Modderkolk:
>>> Is there a tool that converts, for example, the u-umlaut into the ü
>>> symbol?

Tim:
>> If you mean within HTML files, you can use HTML tidy and specify options
>> about input and output encoding.  Though, in this day and age, we've
>> probably got to the stage where you're better off using UTF-8, rather
>> than entities.

Dotan Cohen:
> I second that. Set your locale to utf-8 and enjoy all it's benefits.

Yes, definitely.  The HTML &entity; scheme is only usable in HTML, and
HTML-like formats.  UTF-8 can be used in many more formats.

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Tim | 1 Feb 2007 02:57
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Re: Problem accessing some https sites

Craig White:
>> try adding this to /etc/sysctl.conf
>>
>> # hack to fix problems with internet routers
>> net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0

Jacques B.:
> That did it!!  Thanks to all for your input.  Special thanks to Craig
> and Robert for the solution!

If that hadn't been it, the other thing I would have suggested, and is
probably worth remembering for the future, is whether your browsers are
set up to verify revocation of SSL certificates.  That often fails, and
without giving you any clues as to what's going wrong.

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