From marcio at marciomoreira.net Sun Jun 3 22:00:19 2007 From: marcio at marciomoreira.net (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1rcio_Moreira?=) Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 19:00:19 -0300 Subject: Energy monitor Message-ID: Hi! I have fc7 installed in the "Dell Latitude c640 - p4", what package is used for read energy status??? Thanks! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- M?rcio Moreira Programador Web marcio at marciomoreira.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From julianokyap at gmail.com Sun Jun 3 22:29:13 2007 From: julianokyap at gmail.com (Julian Yap) Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 12:29:13 -1000 Subject: Energy monitor In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Try the command: Yum search battery Usually gnome-battery off the top of my head. On 6/3/07, M?rcio Moreira wrote: > Hi! > > I have fc7 installed in the "Dell Latitude c640 - p4", what package is used > for read energy status??? > > Thanks! > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > M?rcio Moreira > Programador Web > marcio at marciomoreira.net > From patric at parmenberg.se Mon Jun 4 13:39:41 2007 From: patric at parmenberg.se (patric at parmenberg.se) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:39:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Dell latitude D820 will not boot after installation of Fedora 7 Message-ID: <20070604133941.39F829EC18@atmail.b-one.net> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu Mon Jun 4 13:57:16 2007 From: fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu (shmuel siegel) Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:57:16 +0300 Subject: Dell latitude D820 will not boot after installation of Fedora 7 In-Reply-To: <20070604133941.39F829EC18@atmail.b-one.net> References: <20070604133941.39F829EC18@atmail.b-one.net> Message-ID: <46641A3C.1050902@shmuelhome.mine.nu> This was a known problem before the release. I don't know why it isn't published more widely. Basically, you should read https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241249 There seems to be three options. 1) Add maxcpus=1 to the kernel boot line of grub. This will let you boot with only one cpu; 2) Add clocksource=acpi_pm to the kernel boot line of grub. This seems to work for everybody 3) After booting by some method (possibly an older kernel), update to the kernel found at http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/fc7/ I am currently using method 2 for my D620. patric at parmenberg.se wrote: > Hi ! > > After standard installation of Fedora 7, my laptop will not boot > > all I get is > > Booting 'Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)' > > root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.21-3194.fc7 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/logVol00 rhgb > quiet > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size0x1c9dd4] > initrd /initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img > [linux-initrd @0x37c8a000, 0x3653e0 bytes] > > Uncomressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel > > then nothing > > tried to reinstall and wipe the hd tree times now but same error. > > Please respond by e-mail. > > Regards > Patric > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-laptop-list mailing list > Fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list > From joe at galway.net Wed Jun 6 01:56:16 2007 From: joe at galway.net (Joe Desbonnet) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 02:56:16 +0100 Subject: Thinkpad T41p success story Message-ID: <1cef3e950706051856ue32fd73h7c9b41128892d6f1@mail.gmail.com> I just installed Fedora 7 on my Thinkpad T41p. I think this is the first time in years that the install worked flawlessly first time and that all the important hardware is functional "out of the box".. I have hibernate, suspend, sound, bluetooth, WiFi (via the madwifi drivers on livna), video (courtesy mplayer). I suspect the TV out won't work without the proprietary video drivers, but that is not essential for me right now. The last time something like that happened was back in the previous century with something like Redhat 5 on a Gateway Solo laptop. UI looks nice and better organised than before. I'm also impressed by the hardware profile request at install time -- I think that will be a useful resource. A big step forward. Congrats to the Fedora team on what looks like an excellent product. Joe. From vitorpq at yahoo.com.br Thu Jun 7 00:14:43 2007 From: vitorpq at yahoo.com.br (vitor andrade) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:14:43 -0300 (ART) Subject: FC 6 on Toshiba A45-S250 Message-ID: <158756.13100.qm@web60219.mail.yahoo.com> The only problem is the touchpad that I don't know how to turn off when using mouse. Vitor. --------------------------------- Novo Yahoo! Cad?? - Experimente uma nova busca. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jason.dickerson at gmail.com Thu Jun 7 16:12:22 2007 From: jason.dickerson at gmail.com (Jason Dickerson) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:12:22 -0500 Subject: Thinkpad X30 with Fedora 7 Message-ID: <906820b60706070912r6474160as803cf81067cc9e82@mail.gmail.com> If I hot dock or undock with my port replicator, my Linksys WPC54G Cardbus Card in my laptop and my CDRW in the port replicator quit working. It is like the module is removed, but not started back. They work if I shutdown, dock or undock, and then start up. On a side note, I am using the bcm43xx_mac80211 module for the Linksys WPC54G. I realize this may be module related. Also, I am getting messages about disabling irq 11 and no one caring, try the irqpoll option. Well I tried the irqpoll option, and have lost system stability. The laptop will just lock up when starting x windows or later at random. It seems that it is ok without the irqpoll option, and no one caring if it is disabled. 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I realize this may be module related. > > Also, I am getting messages about disabling irq 11 and no one caring, try > the irqpoll option. Well I tried the irqpoll option, and have lost system > stability. The laptop will just lock up when starting x windows or later > at random. It seems that it is ok without the irqpoll option, and no one > caring if it is disabled. > > Jason Dickerson Hi Jason! I'm sorry I can't give you a solution, but I have a question: Does the suspend mode work for you? When my notebook goes to suspend mode and I wake it up, my screen doesn't come back. Have you a solution for that? -- Gru? Frank Rosendahl Fingerprint: 7506 6D0F 2C79 09A6 A8CF E51D BEF0 0279 A989 8450 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Enable NetworkManager? I notice that NetworkManager is disabled by default -- is there a reason for this? I would have thought that should be enabled by default on laptops? Also I notice that with my Thinkpad T41p now running Fedora 7 if NetworkManager is enabled, then Suspend To RAM does not work: the system wakes up immediately and becomes unstable (stuff starts to hang - eg system shutdown will not complete and a hard reset is needed). On the other hand Suspend To Disk (hibernate) works with NetworkManager, but on wakeup the wireless device needs to be explicitly brought back (/sbin/ifconfig wifi0 up) -- is this a bug? Joe. From frank at rosendahl.dyndns.org Fri Jun 8 09:21:10 2007 From: frank at rosendahl.dyndns.org (Frank Rosendahl) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:21:10 +0200 Subject: Network problems with kernel 2.6.21 Message-ID: <200706081121.13869.frank@rosendahl.dyndns.org> Hi! I think I missed some informations, because I have a problem with kernel 2.6.21 an the network. I use a IBM X30 Notebook with eth0 = e100 and wlan = airo. I have a fedora 6 installation updated to version 7 When I start my notebook with the fc6 kernel 2.6.20 (doesn't matter which subrelease) I have no problems to connect with the ethernet card or the wlan card to my network with dhcp. So... I reboot my machine with the fc7 kernel 2.6.21. It seems to work, but neither my ethernet card nor my wlan card gets a connection! The wlan card gets configured with iwconfig and the right parameters. But on both interfaces ethernet and wlan I get no network connection. No firewall and no selinux is activated! Now the very interesting thing: When I only reboot the machine an start it with the old fc6 kernel the network still not work! It seems like "frozen". I have to poweroff the notebook and start it again! I know there is a new wireless-stack in kernel 2.6.21, but I don't understand, why also my ethernet doesn't work! What could it be? Thank's! -- Gru? 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Might be "alsaunmute" does not work on your laptop and you have to go into "alsamixer" to unmute it there first. regards, Florian La Roche From sundaram at fedoraproject.org Fri Jun 8 18:28:52 2007 From: sundaram at fedoraproject.org (Rahul Sundaram) Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:58:52 +0530 Subject: Best way to configure Fedora 7 for WiFi access? In-Reply-To: <1cef3e950706071832p62ebfed8i97ff0fa6b8f1ef08@mail.gmail.com> References: <1cef3e950706071832p62ebfed8i97ff0fa6b8f1ef08@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <46699FE4.5010900@fedoraproject.org> Joe Desbonnet wrote: > If one has to connect to many different wireless networks throughout > the week, what is the recommended way Fedora should be configured? > Enable NetworkManager? Yes > > I notice that NetworkManager is disabled by default -- is there a > reason for this? I would have thought that should be enabled by > default on laptops? Yes but there are some missing features that needs to be fixed before it gets activated by default which is the plan for the next release. Note that it is enabled by default in the live images in this release already. > Also I notice that with my Thinkpad T41p now running Fedora 7 if > NetworkManager is enabled, then Suspend To RAM does not work: the > system wakes up immediately and becomes unstable (stuff starts to hang > - eg system shutdown will not complete and a hard reset is needed). > > On the other hand Suspend To Disk (hibernate) works with > NetworkManager, but on wakeup the wireless device needs to be > explicitly brought back (/sbin/ifconfig wifi0 up) -- is this a bug? Yes. See also http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora7/FAQ Rahul From jason.dickerson at gmail.com Fri Jun 8 18:38:59 2007 From: jason.dickerson at gmail.com (Jason Dickerson) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 13:38:59 -0500 Subject: Thinkpad X30 with Fedora 7 Message-ID: <906820b60706081138k6cd137b5nb49d043d1d7dfaee@mail.gmail.com> Sorry Frank, I have not tried suspending yet. I'll give that a try and get back with you. Jason Dickerson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From leon.soroko at wmx.sk Sun Jun 10 18:55:44 2007 From: leon.soroko at wmx.sk (Leon) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:55:44 +0200 Subject: No sound after installing Fedora 7 References: <1181241976.4106.3.camel@desktop.thuis> <20070608103248.GB7060@dudweiler.stuttgart.redhat.com> Message-ID: <012201c7ab90$f377e630$c401a8c0@thuis> Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it does not work. The Alsaunmute works fine and everything is unmuted. I downloaded the latest ALSA drivers and now do have some system sound when starting up. The soundcard Detection shows my card, but when testing does not give any sound........... Also some programs to play DVD's are working, but only the video output and not sound output. any other suggestions?? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Florian La Roche" To: "leon" Cc: Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 12:32 PM Subject: Re: No sound after installing Fedora 7 > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:46:16PM +0200, leon wrote: >> Yesterday I installed a fresh installation on a Toshiba laptop >> (A200) and to my surprise it was not possible to get any sound output. >> The sound card (intel HDA card) is recognised, but fails to respond. >> >> The old installation was Fedora Core 6 and was functioning properly. >> >> Any ideas? > > Might be "alsaunmute" does not work on your laptop and you have to > go into "alsamixer" to unmute it there first. > > regards, > > Florian La Roche > > From lists at dresco.co.uk Sun Jun 10 19:54:36 2007 From: lists at dresco.co.uk (Jon Escombe) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:54:36 +0100 Subject: No sound after installing Fedora 7 In-Reply-To: <012201c7ab90$f377e630$c401a8c0@thuis> References: <1181241976.4106.3.camel@desktop.thuis> <20070608103248.GB7060@dudweiler.stuttgart.redhat.com> <012201c7ab90$f377e630$c401a8c0@thuis> Message-ID: <466C56FC.2040200@dresco.co.uk> Leon wrote: > Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it does not work. The Alsaunmute > works fine and everything is unmuted. > > I downloaded the latest ALSA drivers and now do have some system sound > when starting up. The soundcard Detection shows my card, but when > testing does not give any sound........... > > Also some programs to play DVD's are working, but only the video > output and not sound output. > > any other suggestions?? > Don't know if yours is the same, but on my T60 the Intel HDA audio is presented as two devices in soundcard detection - 'AD 198x Digtial' and 'AD 198x Analog'. Only the analog choice produces any sound.. Regards, Jon. From joe at galway.net Mon Jun 11 00:55:26 2007 From: joe at galway.net (Joe Desbonnet) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:55:26 +0100 Subject: Comments on power history application Message-ID: <1cef3e950706101755u443d9d92yb448ecb2276a6fcc@mail.gmail.com> Some random notes on this tool. 1. It no longer seems to be possible to reset the time axis 2. There should be an option to switch between time-since-reboot (what we have now) and absolute time 3. The time tic/grid algorithm is poor. The tics and grid lines on the time axis should be nice multiples. I'm looking at a graph right now and the time axis reads: 67h21 67h45 68h09 68h33 68h57 : ie 24 minutes between each grid line -- very hard to read. 67h30 68h00 68h30 69h00 would have been a much better choice in this case. 4. The event markers are nice... the obvious next step would be to add a tool-tip style explanation when the mouse is hovered over it. 5. There is no event log (I think there was with FC6?) 6. The Voltage axis in the Voltage history starts at 0V. As battery voltage varies by only a few volts and never goes near 0V the interesting information is hard to see in this graph ... ie it's almost a straight line. 7: (I'm probably asking too much here): It would be very nice to get more "instrumentation" data on the same graph. Eg: Time vs CPU load, disk activity, battery charge %, battery voltage, current draw (if available), CPU/main board/battery temperatures if available etc... A laptop dash-board. From mehmetozkanyavuz at gmail.com Tue Jun 12 08:15:37 2007 From: mehmetozkanyavuz at gmail.com (TheSphinX) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:15:37 +0300 Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: hi i've a via chrome 9 hc igp graphics card. i want to use linux (Fedora 7, Centos 5, OpenSuse 10.2, Ubuntu ) on my laptop. but when i was installed these operating systems i got problem about graphics on my laptop. ? tried something but i couldnt find a solution. Please help me about this problem. Thanks for all, at the Above my problems with os. Fedora 7 and Centos 5 : Computer is started, but, at the end of starting, i have black Screen. OpenSuse 10.2: Driver is known as VESA but didnt work well. screen is cutting and starting ubuntu so like this. 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I installed FC on my desktop, and it doesn't see my PCMCIA socket. This used an intel driver in older OS releases. It's and Action tec, ISA card, that is configured with Plug-N-Play. This is from my old isapnp.conf file: # Card 1: (serial identifier 77 01 23 45 67 18 02 a9 04) # Vendor Id AEI0218, Serial Number 19088743, checksum 0x77. # Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.0 # ANSI string -->ACTIONTEC PNP PCMCIA ADAPTER <-- # # Logical device id AEI0218 # # Edit the entries below to uncomment out the configuration required. # Note that only the first value of any range is given, this may be changed if required # Don't forget to uncomment the activate (ACT Y) when happy (CONFIGURE AEI0218/19088743 (LD 0 # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines # Minimum IO base address 0x03e0 # Maximum IO base address 0x03fe # IO base alignment 2 bytes # Number of IO addresses required: 2 # 0x03e0..0x03e1 # 0x03e2..0x03e3 # 0x03e4..0x03e5 # 0x03e6..0x03e7 # 0x03e8..0x03e9 # 0x03ea..0x03eb # 0x03ec..0x03ed # 0x03ee..0x03ef # 0x03f0..0x03f1 # 0x03f2..0x03f3 # 0x03f4..0x03f5 # 0x03f6..0x03f7 # 0x03f8..0x03f9 # 0x03fa..0x03fb # 0x03fc..0x03fd # 0x03fe..0x03ff (IO 0 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x03e0)) (NAME "AEI0218/19088743[0]{ACTIONTEC PNP PCMCIA ADAPTER }") (ACT Y) I've tried building a different kernel on that machine, turning on the other PCMCIA drives, but that kernel won't boot correctly. Any one know where I can: 1) get the missing modules or a whole kerenl built with the correct support? 2) how to get it to work on the laptop which seams to need a different driver too. -Thomas From jdub2005 at gmail.com Thu Jun 14 04:58:19 2007 From: jdub2005 at gmail.com (Kamisamanou Burgess) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:58:19 -0500 Subject: Status of wireless Message-ID: <382cb7fb0706132158g3cf7b1f9o223df000bd323972@mail.gmail.com> I was wondering what was being done about wireless support in the Fedora distribution. We seem to have plenty of trouble their and I particularly haven't been able to get my computer's Broadcom 4318 Air... card working. -- Sayonara, Kamisamanou Burgess Kamisamanou.net - http://www.kamisamanou.net ClubFBC - http://www.clubfbc.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Searching the ubuntu forums I was able to track down the keycodes to turn off the kill-switch. However, it would be nice if I could just get the switch on the front llip of the case to work. Also the wifi light is not lit when it is on. FC7 seems like a step backward in terms of support for a Thinkpad t60. Anyone else been dealing with the kill switch issue and their thinkpad t60? Sean From amitakhya at gmail.com Mon Jun 18 11:49:12 2007 From: amitakhya at gmail.com (Amitakhya Phukan) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:19:12 +0530 Subject: Acer laptop problem Message-ID: <46767138.9070500@gmail.com> Hi all ! I don't know if this problem is specific to my laptop only or not. Its an Acer Aspire 3003 laptop. I installed F7 from the Live CD. After two sessions of logging in to the system (two sessions means using the system two times, by a proper shutdown procedure), I get error messages about bcm43xx_mac... module not found or loaded. I can understand that it is because I have not installed the bcm43xx_fwcutter rpm for my Broadcom wireless card... but why does it start after two sessions, why not in the first time itself ? Secondly, from this third session onwards, I have all kinds of I/O errors...sometimes, GRUB doesn't appear, sometimes a "ls" command gives an I/O error...sometimes the name of the hard drive is followed by a series of ! signs .. upto around 15 of them !!. .. Well, I am actually a bit surprised at this... never happened in any previous Fedora versions I have used... and because of the GRUB problem, I had to install F7 three times till now. I am afraid this version of Fedora seems to be somewhat unstable to me as far as its working with my laptop goes. I can provide you with any details you would like to know... But I need a solution desperately..In fact, FC6 never gave me any problems but F7 seems to be behaving like Windows on my laptop !!! ... crashes without any reason. Yesterday, the same problem happened.. in desperation I tried installing FC6...the partition screen showed the hard drive name followed by lots of ! marks... the whole of 60 GB was under F7, but still it showed an extra 60GB of hard disk !!!!....then i rebooted instead of proceeding with the install and to my surprise, F7 now booted properly... Can anyone please give me some idea where the problem lies ?? Thanks and regards, Amitakhya Phukan. From jwise at arrow.com Mon Jun 18 12:02:17 2007 From: jwise at arrow.com (Wise, Jeremey) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:02:17 -0400 Subject: Acer laptop problem In-Reply-To: <46767138.9070500@gmail.com> Message-ID: <202F319BCE0FC04AB9C8A26952A3A793A78C03@dcex1> First break things down a bit more: ".....I have all kinds of I/O errors............" This (unfortunately) sounds like a hardware issue. Kind of like your drive is going bad. Download the manufacture's disk diagnostic utility and run it on the hard drive. Do a full scan. If you have issues getting grub to initiate and you are getting kernel messages about IO, it has always proven to be the drive going bad. You may not have 'seen this under previous versions" because you simply were not using that section of the hard drive. IF you pass on the drive test then RSVP with some details on your partition layout. Issues related to modules missing etc, could be from file level corruption due to bad drive... though the usual response is core dump of the kernel. If the system is "shutting off" this again could be from the drive being 'flaky'. Jeremey Wise Senior Consultant Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions RHCE,MCSE,CNE,PSE,TSM -----Original Message----- From: fedora-laptop-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-laptop-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Amitakhya Phukan Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 7:49 AM To: fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com Subject: Acer laptop problem Hi all ! I don't know if this problem is specific to my laptop only or not. Its an Acer Aspire 3003 laptop. I installed F7 from the Live CD. After two sessions of logging in to the system (two sessions means using the system two times, by a proper shutdown procedure), I get error messages about bcm43xx_mac... module not found or loaded. I can understand that it is because I have not installed the bcm43xx_fwcutter rpm for my Broadcom wireless card... but why does it start after two sessions, why not in the first time itself ? Secondly, from this third session onwards, I have all kinds of I/O errors...sometimes, GRUB doesn't appear, sometimes a "ls" command gives an I/O error...sometimes the name of the hard drive is followed by a series of ! signs .. upto around 15 of them !!. .. Well, I am actually a bit surprised at this... never happened in any previous Fedora versions I have used... and because of the GRUB problem, I had to install F7 three times till now. I am afraid this version of Fedora seems to be somewhat unstable to me as far as its working with my laptop goes. I can provide you with any details you would like to know... But I need a solution desperately..In fact, FC6 never gave me any problems but F7 seems to be behaving like Windows on my laptop !!! ... crashes without any reason. Yesterday, the same problem happened.. in desperation I tried installing FC6...the partition screen showed the hard drive name followed by lots of ! marks... the whole of 60 GB was under F7, but still it showed an extra 60GB of hard disk !!!!....then i rebooted instead of proceeding with the install and to my surprise, F7 now booted properly... Can anyone please give me some idea where the problem lies ?? Thanks and regards, Amitakhya Phukan. _______________________________________________ Fedora-laptop-list mailing list Fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ From jwise at arrow.com Mon Jun 18 14:57:43 2007 From: jwise at arrow.com (Wise, Jeremey) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:57:43 -0400 Subject: Status of wireless In-Reply-To: <382cb7fb0706132158g3cf7b1f9o223df000bd323972@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <202F319BCE0FC04AB9C8A26952A3A793A78C3B@dcex1> From the perspective or wireless, Linux has come a long way IMAO. The issues you are having with broadcom wireless NIC drivers does not seem to be isolated. I have just in the last few days started hearing more and more complaining about this chipset. Seems many have gotten it to work: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ Once you get the base hardware / drivers functioning though, the new wireless managers (I use kde so "knetworkmanager" works great) are very nice. They have a few quirks, but overall is on par with most expectations if you come from a Windows environment. PS: In the future. Please post some details about your specific hardware, kernel, and chipset ('lspci -v' is your friend) Jeremey Wise Senior Consultant Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions RHCE,MCSE,CNE,PSE,TSM ________________________________ From: fedora-laptop-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-laptop-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Kamisamanou Burgess Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 12:58 AM To: fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com Subject: Status of wireless I was wondering what was being done about wireless support in the Fedora distribution. We seem to have plenty of trouble their and I particularly haven't been able to get my computer's Broadcom 4318 Air... card working. -- Sayonara, Kamisamanou Burgess Kamisamanou.net - http://www.kamisamanou.net ClubFBC - http://www.clubfbc.com ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jwise at arrow.com Mon Jun 18 15:04:43 2007 From: jwise at arrow.com (Wise, Jeremey) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:04:43 -0400 Subject: (no subject) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <202F319BCE0FC04AB9C8A26952A3A793A78C3E@dcex1> "Fedora 7 and Centos 5 : Computer is started, but, at the end of starting, i have black Screen" Seeing as your using laptop I would immediately look to this not as a driver issue but as a "screen selection" issue Typically there is a "Fn" key which switches your display output . Check this to ensure it is not changing to 'external only' As for VESA not working right, that is odd. Can you supply a bit more details on your hardware? Hardware X version Distribution / version /etc/X11/xorg.conf I had a issue once on an old IBM T41 where the screen would "split" and repeat the last few inches at the bottom. It was a graphics driver bug and it was fixed in a patch for that crappy chipset from ATI. Jeremey Wise Senior Consultant Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions RHCE,MCSE,CNE,PSE,TSM JWise at Arrow.com ________________________________ From: fedora-laptop-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-laptop-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of TheSphinX Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:16 AM To: fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com Subject: (no subject) hi i've a via chrome 9 hc igp graphics card. i want to use linux (Fedora 7, Centos 5, OpenSuse 10.2, Ubuntu ) on my laptop. but when i was installed these operating systems i got problem about graphics on my laptop. ? tried something but i couldnt find a solution. Please help me about this problem. Thanks for all, at the Above my problems with os. Fedora 7 and Centos 5 : Computer is started, but, at the end of starting, i have black Screen. OpenSuse 10.2: Driver is known as VESA but didnt work well. screen is cutting and starting ubuntu so like this. Thanks again Mehmet ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amitakhya at gmail.com Mon Jun 18 16:40:48 2007 From: amitakhya at gmail.com (Amitakhya Phukan) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:10:48 +0530 Subject: Acer laptop problem In-Reply-To: <202F319BCE0FC04AB9C8A26952A3A793A78C03@dcex1> References: <202F319BCE0FC04AB9C8A26952A3A793A78C03@dcex1> Message-ID: <4676B590.1050005@gmail.com> Wise, Jeremey wrote: > First break things down a bit more: > > ".....I have all kinds of I/O errors............" > > This (unfortunately) sounds like a hardware issue. Kind of like your > drive is going bad. Download the manufacture's disk diagnostic utility > and run it on the hard drive. Do a full scan. If you have issues getting > grub to initiate and you are getting kernel messages about IO, it has > always proven to be the drive going bad. You may not have 'seen this > under previous versions" because you simply were not using that section > of the hard drive. > > > IF you pass on the drive test then RSVP with some details on your > partition layout. Issues related to modules missing etc, could be from > file level corruption due to bad drive... though the usual response is > core dump of the kernel. If the system is "shutting off" this again > could be from the drive being 'flaky'. > > > Jeremey Wise > Senior Consultant > Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions > RHCE,MCSE,CNE,PSE,TSM > > hi there ! i think so that it is a hard drive problem... but strangely, now i am not getting any problems.. another thing... what should i use for my broadcom wireless card ? ndiswrapper or the bcm43xx_fwcutter rpm ? ndiswrapper worked fine for me during FC5 days...after that for FC6 and F7, ndiswrapper says a better driver is bcm43xx... but bcm43xx gives lots of error messages... also, after installing bcm43xx_fwcutter, it is really a pain to view any of the available networks... my dell laptop (its got an IPW2200) gives a listing of around 5-6 wireless networks in NetworkManager, but my acer laptop with broadcom gives me "no wireless networks found" thing.. any workaround for this ?? regards, amit. From jwise at arrow.com Mon Jun 18 18:16:51 2007 From: jwise at arrow.com (Wise, Jeremey) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:16:51 -0400 Subject: Acer laptop problem In-Reply-To: <4676B590.1050005@gmail.com> Message-ID: <202F319BCE0FC04AB9C8A26952A3A793A78C69@dcex1> -----Original Message----- From: Amitakhya Phukan [mailto:amitakhya at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 12:41 PM To: Wise, Jeremey Cc: fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com Subject: Re: Acer laptop problem Wise, Jeremey wrote: > First break things down a bit more: > > ".....I have all kinds of I/O errors............" > > This (unfortunately) sounds like a hardware issue. Kind of like your > drive is going bad. Download the manufacture's disk diagnostic utility > and run it on the hard drive. Do a full scan. If you have issues getting > grub to initiate and you are getting kernel messages about IO, it has > always proven to be the drive going bad. You may not have 'seen this > under previous versions" because you simply were not using that section > of the hard drive. > > > IF you pass on the drive test then RSVP with some details on your > partition layout. Issues related to modules missing etc, could be from > file level corruption due to bad drive... though the usual response is > core dump of the kernel. If the system is "shutting off" this again > could be from the drive being 'flaky'. > > > > hi there ! i think so that it is a hard drive problem... but strangely, now i am not getting any problems.. --> likely your drive did a block redirect of bad clusters. BUT WARNING!!!! This is typically conducive of an impending failure of the drive. Run the disk check utility. If the drive is failing check for warranty. If it is out of warranty, well.... at least you know your risk. another thing... what should i use for my broadcom wireless card ? ndiswrapper or the bcm43xx_fwcutter rpm ? ndiswrapper worked fine for me during FC5 days...after that for FC6 and F7, ndiswrapper says a better driver is bcm43xx... but bcm43xx gives lots of error messages... ---> I, likely your Dell, use Intel wireless and it works great. I do not have a broadcom chipset to play with and I have tossed what feelers I can out to a few guys in office who run Linux and have that same chipset. But to be honest.. they just stuck in another NIC adapter to get wireless up and working vs debug it. That website is the only bone I can toss your way. also, after installing bcm43xx_fwcutter, it is really a pain to view any of the available networks... my dell laptop (its got an IPW2200) gives a listing of around 5-6 wireless networks in NetworkManager, but my acer laptop with broadcom gives me "no wireless networks found" thing.. ---> This is a bit confusing. Does it EVER see networks? IF it does and is a "distance from hub" issue, that is totally different then "never sees networks" in the list. (Please clarify after testing) any workaround for this ?? ---> Yes keep working at fixing your broadcom chipset (what I would do) but in the interim, go get a $10 NIC off ebay or from a buddy, to hold you over till you get broadcom to work. regards, amit. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ From ben.bergen at gmail.com Mon Jun 18 19:54:21 2007 From: ben.bergen at gmail.com (Ben Bergen) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:54:21 -0600 Subject: ipw2200 problem... Message-ID: Hi, I just installed Fedora 7 and I can't get my ipw2200 wireless nic card to work. It looks like the firmware, module, etc... is getting loaded. One thing that is troubling is that the little wlan light does not come on when I add the ipw2200 module. The laptop is an IBM Thinkpad x40. I don't think that there is anything wrong with the hardware because this laptop was working fine with Ubuntu Feisty. Firmware is ipw2200-firmware-3.0-9. Here is output from dmesg, and iwconfig: dmesg: ==== ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0kmprq ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels) iwconfig: ===== lo no wireless extensions. irda0 no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 unassociated ESSID:"berrynet" Nickname:"bbk.lanl.gov" Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0 Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 sit0 no wireless extensions. -- Dr.-Ing. Benjamin Karl Bergen, M.Sc. CCS-2 Computational Physics and Methods Los Alamos National Laboratory (505) 606-1886 (o) (505) 412-9718 (c) From francesco.piras at epfl.ch Tue Jun 19 06:11:54 2007 From: francesco.piras at epfl.ch (Francesco PIRAS) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:11:54 +0200 Subject: out of fedora list Message-ID: <467773AA.5040903@epfl.ch> I don't want to be part of this mailing list anymore... what can I do to delete my contact? Thanks From adalbert.prokop at gmx.de Tue Jun 19 08:47:15 2007 From: adalbert.prokop at gmx.de (Adalbert Prokop) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:47:15 +0200 Subject: out of fedora list In-Reply-To: <467773AA.5040903@epfl.ch> References: <467773AA.5040903@epfl.ch> Message-ID: <200706191047.16024.adalbert.prokop@gmx.de> Francesco PIRAS wrote on Tuesday 19 June 2007 > I don't want to be part of this mailing list anymore... what can I do > to delete my contact? Follow the white rabbit... eeehm... I mean the link at the very bottom of every mail sent over this list. Search for unsubscribe, type in your e-mail address - that's it. -- Bye, Adalbert The three best things about going to school are June, July, and August. From jwise at arrow.com Wed Jun 27 16:59:22 2007 From: jwise at arrow.com (Wise, Jeremey) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:59:22 -0400 Subject: ipw2200 problem... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <202F319BCE0FC04AB9C8A26952A3A793B014FA@dcex1> I have been out for a bit on vacation.... so this may be a bit old. Your issue is likely that you have the wrong Firmware driver for the specific chipset you have. http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php Try using a different version.... that was my issue. Jeremey Wise -----Original Message----- From: fedora-laptop-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-laptop-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ben Bergen Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 3:54 PM To: fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com Subject: ipw2200 problem... Hi, I just installed Fedora 7 and I can't get my ipw2200 wireless nic card to work. It looks like the firmware, module, etc... is getting loaded. One thing that is troubling is that the little wlan light does not come on when I add the ipw2200 module. The laptop is an IBM Thinkpad x40. I don't think that there is anything wrong with the hardware because this laptop was working fine with Ubuntu Feisty. Firmware is ipw2200-firmware-3.0-9. Here is output from dmesg, and iwconfig: dmesg: ==== ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0kmprq ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels) iwconfig: ===== lo no wireless extensions. irda0 no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 unassociated ESSID:"berrynet" Nickname:"bbk.lanl.gov" Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0 Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 sit0 no wireless extensions. -- Dr.-Ing. Benjamin Karl Bergen, M.Sc. CCS-2 Computational Physics and Methods Los Alamos National Laboratory (505) 606-1886 (o) (505) 412-9718 (c) _______________________________________________ Fedora-laptop-list mailing list Fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ From jwise at arrow.com Wed Jun 27 17:03:40 2007 From: jwise at arrow.com (Wise, Jeremey) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:03:40 -0400 Subject: out of fedora list In-Reply-To: <467773AA.5040903@epfl.ch> Message-ID: <202F319BCE0FC04AB9C8A26952A3A793B014FC@dcex1> Follow the link so nicly provided below http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list and if you see on that page a nice box called "To unsubscribe from Fedora-laptop-list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options enter your subscription email address:" ....type in your email address and follow the prompts> Jeremey Wise Senior Consultant -----Original Message----- From: fedora-laptop-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-laptop-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Francesco PIRAS Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 2:12 AM To: fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com Subject: out of fedora list I don't want to be part of this mailing list anymore... what can I do to delete my contact? Thanks _______________________________________________ Fedora-laptop-list mailing list Fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ From manuvigo at gmail.com Fri Jun 29 14:20:56 2007 From: manuvigo at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Manuel_Mor=E1n_Vaquero?=) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:20:56 +0200 Subject: F7 on a Toshiba A200 , and problems Message-ID: <46851548.8050600@gmail.com> Hi: I've written a report about F7 installation on a Toshiba Satellite A200: http://www.immv.es/index.php?page=linux-on-a-toshiba-a200-12x Still having two big problems: - SUSPEND doesn't work as of current kernel (hibernate DOES work). Tested every quirk in HAL page. Nothing: my laptop suspends but never resumes (hangs, and find / doesn't work). Should I fill a bugzilla? - HARD DISK HEADS suffer from emergency parking because of this unresolved bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243021 The bug is now open for more than 20 days and being a critical thing, it hasn't been solved yet. I have to boot into Windows to poweroff my laptop so as not to damage hard disk heads. Any hints or help? I hope that my report is of help to new users. Regards, Manuel Moran