Nishit Dave wrote:
- Environmental proxy settings: my internet connection goes through an
open proxy that does not require any UID or password. I have manually configured firefox and konqueror's proxy settings and I can connect to the internet through them. However, yum / pup / pirut do not work. I have specified the proxy settings in the root bash profile, my (user) bash profile, and in the global profile under /etc/profile, but I cannot still connect. Any pointers?
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fc-8-yum-error-with-proxy....
- Crashes: The network card control applets under KDE available as
nm-applet or system-control-network crash when run. This happened even before I had specified any network settings. system-config-network works properly, methinks. Has anybody else faced this problem, and is there a solution?
Edit the file directly /etc/sysconfig/*network-**scripts*/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx BROADCAST=xxx.xxx.xxx.255 ONBOOT=yes
- Multimedia: Kaffeine, Amarok, etc. are unable to play even audio CDs. I
wonder why. Is this what bleeding edge is supposed to be?
Your sound system may not be properly setup. Sometimes sound is muted by default, till its enabled. Volume levels may be low. PCM and headphones levels should be high in the mixer ( kmix )
Remember, my system is not updated, as yum doesn't work.
Oh, and having installed grub on /dev/sda3 and not the MBR, I have found and started using Super Grub Disk (http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org/) to boot Fedora. I have burnt its ISO to a CD/RW. It is really wonderful. I think all distros should offer it as a part of their live CD distributions. The ISO is just 3.5 MB, and a bz2 archive is only 500k odd in size.
http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm