How to get the update notifications working on a installed Fedora KDE Live CD? + wireless problems + RHGB

[Kam Leo]

On 6/5/07, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Update Notifications not showing up
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> recently i installed Fedora 7 KDE Live CD and it works good on my acer 5630
> notebook. (details:
> http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/as5630.htm)
> i also checked if there where updates availible (becuase i didn`t saw any
> notifications) and updates where indeed availible.
> At this moment i have a few updates in the update list but i don`t see any
> notifications. so now i suspect the notifications aren`t installed.
>
> anyone any idea what i need to install to get the notifications working?
> (notifcation-daemon + yum-updatesd didn`t do the trick)
>

Do you have pirut installed?

>
> Wireless problems
> -----------------------------
>
> The wireless network in kde (don`t know for gnome because i didn`t install
> it yet) is really troubling me..
> sometimes it works sometimes it doesn`t.. when it works it`ds likely to be
> disconnected pritty fast (within 15 minutes)
> also the encryption stuff has some issues.. if i try to connect to my wlan
> network i won`t succeed.. instead i need to
> add my network manually (with the same settings as that thing detected!!)
> and than it`s working.. kinda strange.
>
> Any idea on how to resolve this issue?
>

Nope. Don't have a laptop.


> RHGB
> -----------
>
> Strange enough i don`t have a graphical boot. i did install RHGB but that
> didn`t help. my notebook has a intel graphics card.
> the startup line (kernel stuff) has "rhgb" in it so that isn`t the problem
> aswell..
>
> any idea on this issue aswell?

Have you examined the output from dmesg? It might give you a clue.

> Thanx in favor,
> Mark.