Fedora Hardware :: New System Board And All New Configuration?
Jan 14, 2010
Here's the situation: My Dell Latitude D830 video chip failed. Dell has replaced the system board under warranty. The following problems now exist:
1. eth0 has become eth1. The system failed to see the current ethernet as the only ethernet.
2. wlan0 has become wlan1. The same has occurred.
3. The pulse audio applet (I know, not officially supported) will not start up properly at boot complaining about something missing or wrong in the configuration. I suspect the hardware for sound is also not recognized as the previous.
4. Pidgin and Firefox are both having issues with anything SSL and digital certificates. In pidgin, I can no longer log into AIM. With Firefox, I had to accept a bunch of new SSL certificates. (Did that once for any https web site I have accessed for the first time since the system board change)
I would seriously like to understand how the hardware detection situation affects all of this. I was able to tweak some configuration files to get eth0 back to normal operation by manually changing the MAC address. But that isn't working for wlan0/wlan1 as I attempted to make corrections using the GUI and that didn't work out too well.
Where would I find the central point of identifying hardware devices and device names? And I suspect the encryption cert issues are related to the change in hardware as well which makes me wonder a few things. What happens when a non-laptop user changes a network card? Is Fedora married too closely to the hardware? What happens if we were to try to "ghost" a Fedora installation?
I was trying to get a SMART board to work with my install of Lenny on my iBook G4. By work with, I just need it to display what's on the iBook's screen, I don't need any kind of interactivity. Since it is an iBook, it uses a PowerPC processor, instead of an Intel, and the SMART board driver only works on an x86 processor, I can't use the driver provided. Is there any way to get this to work? I imagine that I need to edit the X.org configuration file!
i want to select some text from vim using "yank" command and then access the same on shell prompt using ^v or shift ^Insert.How can that be done. My OS is ubuntu.
I want to get file system for board Em2440 III (has s3c2440 processor), has this specification 1- has driver of GSM module ( Telit GE865). 2- its size less than 64MB.
My friend has a HP Pavilion dv2699ea (dv2500 series - somehow *shrugs*) that has stopped working. It's a Core2Duo laptop with a Nvidia GPU. The unit is no longer under warranty. Problems first started a few days ago with the laptop showing corrupted graphics in Windows and BSOD'ing after a few minutes of use. I tried booting to an Ubuntu LiveCD which worked for a while before succuming and crashing as well. The freezing/graphics corruption/BSODing does seem somewhat heat related (CPU runs at ~95'c under load) however I believe that if it is heat related, then it's already damaged components inside.
Now the system has corrupted graphics on bootup[1], including booting Ubuntu[2], and neither operating systems will boot at all (Windows can sometimes get logged in before showing a black screen and becoming unresponsive. Ubuntu just looks like [3] after X starts). (See comment below for links.)
The fact the problem occurs both under Linux and Windows says to me this is not a driver issue. I have run Memtest which passed fine and none of this seems HDD related as I managed to get ~30GB of data off the system before it finally gave up the ghost.
She has been using it repeatedly without giving it adequate ventilation for years (i.e. on the bed, or on a pillow), so it's my opinion that the system board has probably warped over years of cooling/heating and that's causing this current problem. If that is the case, then I can buy a replacement system board and fit it myself, saving about £200 over the cost of an out-of-warranty HP repair. Of course, I don't want to make her spend £100 on a replacement part for it to be the wrong thing, hence asking for a second opinion here!
Hopefully I've covered all the bases here. I'm a former IT support guy myself, so I've tried all the dumb stuff (driver updates, examining memory dumps from BSODs [one 'unrecoverable hardware error', three relating to the graphics card], etc).
I'm looking for doing AOE (Ata over ethernet) inexpensively with single board computers, like Routerboard stuff, but is there anything with sata plugs. Hopefully I can get each board for hopefully around $50, but a little more would be ok. Non-x86 is fine, Debian is as good as Ubuntu.
I am trying to run Fedora on a Soekris 5501. To do this I have written F10 to an 8GB compact flash disk using Fedora Live USB Creator, with one 2GB partition for the OS and a 6GB partition for storage. I get the following error when attempting to boot:
I'm wondering if I could put my old DualCore PCIe Board into a Proliant 3000? Why not; I mean, the Array Controller should plug right into the PCI slot on the DualCore board. Of course, I'll have to shoehorn a second power supply into the case for the newer Board, but wouldn't it be a monster! Two 3GHZ Processors, with a 256 MB nVidia graphics card, 1.5 GB of RAM, and 8 Hard Drives! (7, actually, because one of them doesn't work). I'm up late, and I think I'll start working on it right now.
This may fall under the "ain't broke don't fix it" category but it's driving me nuts. I've got the Broadcom 4322 wireless adapter in my laptop and it works fine with broadcom-wl driver and kmod. However there is no ifcfg-eth1 file and the card does not show up in system-config-network.
I have a fedora 11 machine set up in a class room. Every time I plug the Smart Board in, the mouse jumps to the top left corner and every time I move the mouse it jumps back there again.As soon as I unplug the Smart Board the mouse goes back to normal.I have used the exact same Smart Board with a Fedora 10 machine without any problems.ideas on what could be causing this problem and how I could fix it
Doing a fresh F12 install on a Dell Vostro 430. Machine needs to have 2 Network adapters for our setup.The install seems to go just fine but the on board network adapter doesn't appear to get detected/configured. If I look in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts all I find is ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-lo. Looking carefully at ifcfg-eth0 I see it's the second card that I've put in the machine.As a test I removed the second network card and did another fresh install of F12. This time in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts all I have is ifcfg-lo. When I go to system>Administration>Network Device Control I see no network devices displayed.
Is this an issue others have seen with F12 or is it possible my on board network adapter has an issue?BTW I did check the BIOS to be sure that Onboard Lan was enabled and it is.output from "lspci -k " with both cards installed on machine (I only listed Ethernet controllers)
I am using Squessze and Gnome. When I try to use the gui System>Administration>Network or Users and Groups I get the error The configuration could not be loaded. You are not allowed to access the system configuration.Everything was working before. I read around a bit. In some cases,it was caused by mismatching group and password files after using the gui. I do not know how to check if they are matching. Of course I do not know for sure that is the problem in my case.
I have installed Fedora 14 on Intel's DH67BL mother board, which has a on board LAN port, Fedora 14 does not detect on-board LAN. Unfortunately, intel does not provide any driver support for linux OS :-(. However, if I install an additional LAN card, Fedora 14 detects it and everything works fine.
I have b43 wireless. In network Configuration on system->administration the interface it appears as inactive it appers in hardware also as b43 associated to wlan0 but i cannot have access to any wireless network. What i have to do to put this b43 to work.
I installed Fedora 14 on a Toshiba Satellite L650-18X laptop. The on board speakers work fine but when I try to connect external headphones, the sound still comes from the on board speakers and not from the connected headphones. Also the microphone jack doesn't work.
As I searched the web for possible solutions I think the problem is related to the Alsa sound driver. I kindly ask if someone with experience could share details regarding the Alsa configuration for this particular sound driver in Fedora 14 in order to solve this issue.
For users whom wish to install the wireless driver on the Toshiba Satellite L650-18X, Broadcom offers great information on it's official site
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Here are the steps the user needs to perform in a terminal window in order to install the wireless driver :
I am using Red Hat Linux 9 for my small office.I want to know the basic configuration for DNS server.Can you please guide me the steps involve for DNS configuration ?
I would like to remove a specific domU (test01--pv--guest) from my machine. I am not sure how far/to what extent to remove files. Here are the files and properties it seems I should remove:
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 254, 0 Jan 9 01:03 /dev/dm-0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 254, 1 Jan 9 01:03 /dev/dm-1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 254, 2 Jan 9 01:03 /dev/dm-2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 254, 3 Jan 9 11:05 /dev/dm-3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 254, 4 Jan 9 01:03 /dev/dm-4 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 254, 5 Jan 9 01:03 /dev/dm-5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 254, 6 Jan 9 01:03 /dev/dm-6 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 254, 7 Jan 9 01:03 /dev/dm-7
Will they be deleted automatically or should/can I remove them? How do I check the need for the other dm-? files? As indicated below, it seems like some may be duplicates.
I also found this set in /etc/lvm/archive/:
-rw------- 1 root root 2909 Oct 17 00:41 Relaise-vg_00000-1453251236.vg -rw------- 1 root root 2929 Oct 24 22:08 Relaise-vg_00001-1530642081.vg -rw------- 1 root root 2924 Oct 25 19:33 Relaise-vg_00002-328450675.vg -rw------- 1 root root 2901 Oct 26 19:53 Relaise-vg_00003-1555350964.vg -rw------- 1 root root 2902 Oct 26 19:53 Relaise-vg_00004-1044927704.vg
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Some of these seem like duplicates. This may be due to multiple attempts to build the volumes. Is there a way to determine if all of the are useful?
If I shutdown from X the system hangs and I have to yank out the power cord. Same on logout.
ctrl+alt+f1 hangs for a few minutes and then starts a terminal; which does not respond to the keyboard.
There are no tty.conf files in /etc/init .
But inittab looks normal to me and includes tty (1-6)
Executing init 6 from a terminal in X will reboot the system
I was thinking this might be a dbus issue, but I am not sure. I also understand some recent issues exist with SysRq sequences. May be a video card issue,,,
Other than normal package upgrades the only changes were a recent change from a VGA to HDMI cable. I can't see why that would matter
Linux Lugh 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I was wondering if a standard Debian 8 system with Gnome desktop does any kind of local dns caching, and if so, what the command is for clearing it. (Assuming I haven't purposely installed any DNS server software.)
I found multiple posts on the Web about unix DNS caching, but with widely different answers across distributions and across time.
I am running Debian on an ARM module (BananaPi).5 minutes ago, i started upgrading the system, but fortunately the power cable moved and the system closed.Now i open it up again and i'm trying to re-upgrade the system but i'm always getting this message
# apt-get upgrade E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
I have installed jessie on a couple of machines. One is configured as the NFS filesystem exporter and NIS server. The other one, I am trying to configure as NFS and NIS client. NFS does not seem too much of a problem, I can mount the exported filesystem to a directory in the client and unmount it, but when I install NIS the system becomes very slow. Any command preceded by "sudo" takes a very long time (a few minutes) to complete. Then, upon rebooting the system, it reports many services failed to start (login, accounts, modem manager, avahi, network manager, exim). When if finally completes, I get a terminal login, instead the graphic login window.
