I recently installed Mandriva 2008 spring on my laptop and have been trying to locate a video player that offers support for the .wma file type. i've downloaded Media Player with Wine but not even it works with the best success rate. Is there a different program or a site to get the .wma codecs for a KDE based program?

ok i am tired of windows... though wanna keep it aswell as linux..

but idk what to get

my laptop build is a Dell inspiron b130

 

it runs on:

Intel Celeron 1.5GHz

256 SDRAM

Intel mobile extreme graphics

and it currently has Windows XP home edition

 

 

i'm looking at ubuntu cos i want a basic OS n all since m still a noob...

but i wanna know what to get for a dual loader n how i'd use it..

so i can still run windows

n i want to be able to run my messengers(aim, yahoo, n windows live) on there which i know i can do yahoo..

but idk about aim n windows live if you can help with that too...

much appreciated

thanks

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I am a newbie in linux and I am trying to use freenx to remote access my FC6 box (in LAN) in work place from my home windows box. My questions are:

 

1.To install free on linux, all I need to do is "yum install freenx"? Nothing else and not even downloading the package?

 

2.I cannot do port forwarding on the router in my work place, what can I do and what to fill in in the "Host" field in the NX client? I know both ext. and int. IP of the fedora box.

 

3.I did a "yum update", and it says "clearing bah bah bah/removing bah bah bah". After it is finished, it seems many things are removed, I can't even see the things in my panel.

I rebooted it, and it seems to be fine. I did "yum install freenx" again and it says "nothing to do".

I would like to ask is there is any data/program lose due to the "yum update"?

 

Thank you very much for any help. bow*

hi guys, i've Fedora 8 installed on this computer and i setup the wireless card on it yesterday by doing as follows

 

after doing that I added a new wireless connection in system-config-network and gave it an ip address of 192.168.0.3

 

i then activated it and all was cool, for a while, after an hour or so (don't know yet) all internet conectivity would die, i couldn't even ping my smoothwall (192.168.0.1)

 

note: on this same machine using a dell truemobil 1150 pcmcia card it worked 100% so maybe a broadcom firmware issue ?

 

here's what things look like when the internet dies

 

Quote:[root@localhost ~]# ping www.google.comping: unknown host www.google.com

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig wlan1

wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:CE:52:49:D0

inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::216:ceff:fe52:49d0/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:118777 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:94960 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:128962747 (122.9 MiB) TX bytes:10495169 (10.0 MiB)

 

[root@localhost ~]# ping 192.168.0.1

PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=9 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=10 Destination Host Unreachable

 

--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---

12 packets transmitted, 0 received, +6 errors, 100% packet loss, time 10998ms

, pipe 2

Quote:[root@localhost ~]# service network restartShutting down interface wlan1: [ OK ]

Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]

Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig wlan1 up

[root@localhost ~]# ping 192.168.0.1

connect: Network is unreachable

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1

RX packets:22378 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:22378 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:1430515 (1.3 MiB) TX bytes:1430515 (1.3 MiB)

 

wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:CE:52:49:D0

UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:118781 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:94981 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:128964027 (122.9 MiB) TX bytes:10496429 (10.0 MiB)

 

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-16-CE-52-49-D0-B8-D9-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

 

[root@localhost ~]# neat

to get the above card working in Fedora 8 I did the following (as root)

 

get the latest firmware

The terminal states "You will have to enable component called 'universe'" when I try to install ndiswrapper.

Hey all.

 

I'm a complete noob to Slackware and Linux in general, been a Windows bunny until tonight.

Just installed Slackware on a spankingly new PC, and I'm having all sorts of fun trying to make things work, and for the most part I'm doing ok.

 

The one thing I haven't been able to problemsolve my way through is emacs.

When i try and load it, it throws the following error:

emacs: error while loading shared libraries: libXaw3d.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

Unsure how to proceed from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

Thanks!

I am using fedora8.

I donot see any entries for my hard disk partitions in the /etc/fstab file. But strangely all the partitions have a shortcut on the desktop !

is there any other place where these partitons are mounted from ?

nishith

I asked this question in the other thread, but I see this is a better place for it. I am trying to hook in to my Belkin wireless router but having no luck. I've been seeing many folks mention that this is not an uncommon issue and often drivers need to be downloaded from the manufacturer's site? I went to the Belkin site and see a firmware and easy install wizard that I can click on. Do I use a wired connection when running the live ubuntu cd to download these items and then open them and follow directions a la windows or mac?

 

Thanks for the help, I'm enjoying this process, but it has its challenges. Peace, Bman