Fedora Hardware :: One Of The Older Machines Fried Onboard LAN - Rt8139 Not Detected?
Jan 31, 2011
One of the old machines in the lab has a problem with onboard LAN, it's detected but not sensing cable - most likely transiver has died.I am trying to revive the machine temporarily by disabling onboard Intel Pro100 and installing a perfect working PCI Realtek 8139 card, but F14 is not loading the module.Being smart I added "alias eth0 8139too" and the module loads now, but there is still no eth0 device, only lo.
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Apr 23, 2010
I am looking for a Linux distro that runs on older machines and suitable for non-geeks (and geeks like myself, relatively innocent of Linux). I have tried Puppy, Xubuntu, and a few others, but have not been satisfied. Lubuntu has been suggested and sounds promising, but I am having trouble running or even installing this on several old machines. Specs suggest Pentium-200 and 128 Mb as a minimum. Most of the time the install bails out or leaves a blank screen. I could not find a Lubuntu thread. What experiences are those in the know willing to share?
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Aug 16, 2011
I do some volunteer work repairing and re-purposing older computers for the Salvation Army Thrift store where I live. Of course most of the computers we get are older. My reason is to get some of the poorer kids a fighting chance at school. We sell these things for next to nothing to accomplish this. I include free tech/training support for 30 days to get them started as. My problem is that finding a version of ubuntu and openoffice that will run on them is becoming difficult. Any suggestions as to a version that works for those not real familiar with computers?
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Mar 16, 2010
I recently installed Arch Linux on an old desktop machine. Everything works well except the onboard audio isn't detected at all.
I am using the 2.6.32-ARCH kernel
My lspci output is:
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# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS645DX Host & Memory & AGP Controller
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
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On another note, the manufacturer (ASUS) actually provides Linux audio drivers for my motherboard (model: P4S533). I attempted to install them, but the configuration process involves using make menuconfig, make xconfig, or make config to add the drivers to the kernel (I think) and I'm still a relatively new Linux user and had no clue what I was doing.
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Sep 8, 2010
I just built a computer and the onboard nic pluggin is loose and won't register or connect right... so I had to put another nic card in pci to connect to wired network for internet. Problem now is its delaying something fierce... i'm thinking if i can manage to uninstall or disable the onboard nic maybe things would work better... problem is i wouldn't know how to do it... I know hardware is connected via a document somewhere in the file system... if I were to delete the file would that disable the nic or would it just reinstall itself on the next boot?
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Jan 13, 2010
Plugged in, the PSU will not show any power, unconnected to the board, the led flashes. How do I test to see if the PSU is fried or if it is the motherboard?
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Jul 16, 2010
I learned a couple of days ago why you should do regular backups. Left my laptop working for the day in hot weather. When I came back it had crashed. On reboot it no longer booted up. I could still access the BIOS and boot from alternative media but not from the hard drive. The laptop tried to access the hard disk for a couple of minutes (hard drive light was blinking) and then failed. I made an ubuntu live usb stick and am currently working from there, trying to access my hard drive so I could image my data on another disk before sending the laptop for repairs. All my data is on that disk including my passwords and the password for this site conveniently so I had to register a new account to post this thread.
The laptop is IBM Thinkpad X41. The hard drive is accessed during when boot options are presented, again when the live cd boots up and determines the hardware available and also when manually probing for hard disks using the script below. The hard disk however does not show up in dev. If I could get so far to get it there, I could use dd_rescue to image it away. My hope lies in that the drive still spins up and is accessed producing error messages, however indicating that the system still knows it exists. Excerpt from dmesg concerning the drive:
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Feb 7, 2011
Im using RHEL 4.2, here in bios level onboard network port is detecting. But when trying to fetch that network port i cant able to connect internet. when i put ifconfig eth1 the port is not available in onboard.
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Oct 17, 2010
I am a bit overwhelmed with all the information out here, and can't get this to work properly after trying to for two days. I have a PCI ATI card(Sapphire Radeon 9250):
00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01)
00:08.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 01)
of which I am only wanting to use the Primary, and my onboard video:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. KM400/KN400/P4M800 [S3 UniChrome] (rev 01)
right now my xorg.conf is empty and I only get a display off my ATI card. How can I get my onboard to display as well like it does in windows?
I've tried many ways that I found and nothing seems to work.
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Oct 8, 2010
I have a system with an on-board S/PDIF output (the one I want to use) and a ATI graphics card that has an HDMI output and therefore an own audio device./proc/asound/cards shows me the following:
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0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
HDA ATI SB at 0xfe7f8000 irq 16
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Apr 24, 2011
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.
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Oct 12, 2010
In understanding with Fedora logs are trying to tell me and if I need to adjust some settings on my system to address these issues.
The system motherboard (Gigabyte GA-MA785GT-UD3H) has onboard graphics. I understand that some of the system RAM is taken up by the graphics subsystem.
Very occasionally, I am seeing Nautilus and some other apps crash with SIGSEGV errors. Also, on the couple of occasions, parts of the display started going black - minimising and maximising the window redrew the area as before. This appears to be to do with memory access issues. I have already tested my RAM, applied the latest BIOS update on the mobo. I'm trying to understand if this is some sort of memory access violation that is resulting from the Linux kernel going off and accessing the wrong parts of the RAM and if there is a way to tell it that the graphics and system areas of the RAM are separate, through BIOS settings or kernel parameters and such?
Some questions:
1. Is my system using AGP? I don't think so. I understand AGP is on its way out. So what does the below log output mean wrt AGP?
2. Which part of the log is actually describing the memory assignment for the graphics memory?
3. Would it be of any use trying iommu=noaperture here? I am trying this out, but I don't understand if it is helping in anyway.
Have done a Google search and read on AGP, iommu, shared memory for graphics, but their interaction with each other at the hardware level and how Fedora is handling this is not sinking into my dull brain.
I have put up the system configuration, BIOS settings, logs etc for your perusal here [url]. Parts that caught my attention are highlighted.
Now, onto the bits that has my attention:
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No AGP bridge found
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Jan 17, 2010
i wanna install older versions of fedora(10 or 11), and after looking everywhere, i found that if you search the available mirrors through the download page. This allows you to select mirrors with the version you want. I didnt know if that was the way to get older versions or if there is another way.
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Feb 13, 2010
How can I install older fedora kernel? Because I accidentally removed the working kernel among three kernels. I've tried yum install kernel-2.6.30.10-105.2.4.fc11.i586 but fails.
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Jun 12, 2010
Is there way to tweak it in some way so the speed is back, because before F13 World of Goo played perfectly and now in F13 it is playable but not "fluid" as before? Also if it is because of changes in F13 considering graphics what to expect in future, would performance be back?
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Jul 15, 2010
My company offers Linux preloads in RHEL, Fedora and Ubuntu. I have Fedora 13 installed on my laptop. I want to install it on a desktop but the 2.6.33 kernel hangs the desktop when the Fedora 13 or Ubuntu Lucid DVD boots. I have the Ubuntu Jaunty preload on the desktop but would prefer Fedora. The preload includes a few apps for my job that aren't included with Ubuntu. Is it possible to select an older kernel to boot to and/or use that during the install? I think it is the SCSI controller causing this. I have the same model machine at home configured the same way except the onboard SCSI is disabled, I am using SATA drives in it.
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Nov 30, 2008
Where can one get updates for old Fedora releases such as Fedora 5, 6, 7 etc? I have a couple of pcs still having Fedora 5 and 7.
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Dec 12, 2010
I just been given a project to compile code to run under Red Hat Enterprise Desktop 5.3.
Does anyone know if Red Hat sells older versions of Red Hat Enterprise Desktop? RHEL 6 was just released last month. As I understand it, code compiled under RHEL 6 will probably not work under 5.3 due to difference in glibc.
Can I compile code using a Fedora distribution and run the code under Red Hat Enterprise Desktop 5.3 without recompiling the code? If so, does Fedora offer older versions of their distribution?
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Feb 28, 2009
I'm trying to find ssh logs from up to 6 months ago. I can only access the /var/log/secure* logs up until the beginning of this month. Any way to find the older ones? Do they get archived somewhere else?
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May 10, 2009
June 12, 2011. It appears that quite a few of the alternative repositories that I've suggested in the posts below are no longer functional. Rather than flog a dead horse I'm closing this thread and strongly suggest that you use a supported release of Fedora.The Fedora releases here, Fedora Core 1 through Fedora 12, are no longer supported or maintained, so they do not receive bug fixes or security updates. We do not recommend using these releases any more. I've spent the last day or so installing every Fedora release since Fedora Core 1, excluding Fedora 11, on a computer I had laying around. My goal was to figure out how to get yum to work despite the fact that the stock repositories are long gone in most cases.
I was motivated by the fact that the yum questions are never ending here at Fedora Forum and the question of how to make yum work for these older versions of Fedora seem to be quite common. The usual response is to install the newest and greatest Fedora. That's fine, but there are cases where this is just not possible. I'll outline separately what I've done for each release. You will only get one update, however, you should be able to install any software that is available through these repositories. You could consider adding other repositories if you need additional software.
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Dec 30, 2009
The newest version of wine 32-bit (1.1.32?) seems to be a disaster. I had Newsbin Pro working great in Fedora 10. Now this program won't run with wine.i686 on Fedora 12 x64.
I have tried Crossover Linux 8 standard and Newsbin Pro works with that. Crossover is using wine 1.1.18. However that will cost me $40.
How do I install an older version of wine with the dependencies in Fedora 12 x64?
I searched for an rpm and found various flavors of wine rpms. Can I just install that older rpm?
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Jun 10, 2010
I have a Sun Fire X4450 running RHEL 5.3. Attached to this server via FC is a Sun StorageTek ST2540 that allows additional storage capacity. In order to administer the ST2540, a software application from Sun (CAM 6.6) has been installed. Part of the install process for this application also installs Java JDK1.6.0_12 (64-bit).
However as we use this hardware as a database server, our database software will not install properly as it requires an earlier version of Java JDK1.5.0_11 to be installed. When I try and install the older JDK rpm package, RHEL will not let me. How can I get both versions of Java installed?
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Sep 30, 2010
This is probably a dumb question...but you know what they say about dumb questions...
I would like to install Fedora 13 on an older Dell PC (which had at one point run Fedora).
But I plan to download and burn the ISO bootable Fedora CD/DVD on my Windows 7 box.
The question then becomes: Does the 32-bit versus 64-bit distinction have to do with the download and ISO-CD/DVD creation (what OS and hardware you're doing it on)?
or
Does the 32-bit versus 64-bit distinction have to do with the *Target* OS and hardware (in this case Fedora 13, and I assume 32-bit)?
So, do I download the 64-bit version or the 32-bit version (the older Dell is 32-bit hardware)?
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Dec 21, 2010
I am running FC13 on a Compaq Presario 2100 using a Broadcom BCM4306. I was able to get it running thanks to Fedora Unity Project. But It's a very unstable connection. I don't know what settings to adjust or enable or disable. It's not my router, this is the only wireless connection in the house that I have trouble with.
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Mar 3, 2010
I am building a series of custom kernels...for one of them i am using a kernel that is older than my currently installed ones.
I am using rpm to install this kernel and it will not install, period. i don't get why i can't install this....what does it matter that i am installing an older kernel? and why is fedora/rpm designed to not let me do this?
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There should be an easy way to get around this, but i haven't figured it out yet. i've googled around, no luck. i bounce between kernel versions all the time without problems on my system, so why is rpm setup for strict versions on a kernel? and is there no way around this, and i just have to delete all three of those kernels, i don't really want to. 2 of them are awesome and i shouldn't have to build them again, that would be complete crap! and i wouldn't have this problem on my debian setup, so why fedora? (i generally think fedora is better)
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Mar 31, 2010
I just did an upgrade and it included the kernel. As time goes by, I will be stuck with a lot of kernels to choose from, and lower disk space. How do I remove an older kernel and everything it's related to it without breaking stuff?
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Jul 8, 2010
I have been out of the linux game for a few years and decided to get back into it, I've been working now for a few days on figuring out why my machine's network card does not seem to want to work on a new FC13 installation.The machine is an older Dell Dimension with an 2.53 Gig Celeron Processor, 512 Megs of RAM (A gig soon) and the ethernet card is an Intel Corporation 82562EZ. Sone generic thing, though FC13 does recognize and appears to have appropriate software.
ifconfig shows no IP address in the x.x.x.x sense, and restarting the network doesn't seem to do anything. The network card is in working order, I tested it in a winxp installation, and the cable is also functioning.
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Feb 3, 2011
I just had a hard drive failure on my mythtv box that I had been running F14 on. I reinstalled F14 and just got about everything up and running like normal again except that I upgraded the kernel by mistake when I was upgrading everything else to current levels. The problem is that I run a hauppauge pvr150 on this mythtv box, and the code for capturing on this card is broken on the latest kernel version. I have the kernel headers and development files installed for the newest kernel that I can't really use, but I didn't install the kernel headers for the older kernel before the upgrade. Now, I am looking for a way to forcefully install the older kernel development files so that I can compile my the proprietary nvidia drivers against it for my adapter. I downloaded the rpm files from the fedora 14 repository directly. Is there an option for rpm that I can use to force the installation?
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Apr 25, 2011
I've got a MythTV 0.23 backend and I'm trying to get the frontend working on my Fedora box, but by default yum installs 0.24 which has a different database model and so won't work with a 0.23 backend. I've got the RPM for 0.23 but it has a bunch of dependencies so I need to track down the RPMS for those, too, so I was wondering if I can do this in yum? I've seen an old thread about installing a yum-allowdowngrade package but that doesn't seem to be available any more.
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Jun 21, 2011
is it possible to import mail from older evolution client (GNOME evolution 2.28.3) to the evolution now running on fedora 15 ( Evolution 3.0.2)on the older client, there appears to be a .evolution folder off home directory and mail under that.However I dont see this hidden directory on fedora 15.Is there a way to transfer the mails?
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