Category Archives: Administrative

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Network Problems

What would cause computer A to be able to ping Computers B and C, but B and C be unable to ping A (though they can ping each other)? FWIW, A is on a wireless connection. B and C are ethernet.

[Update a few minutes later]

In answer to the question in comments, I’m pinging by IP. The router is running in DHCP mode.

[going off to try something]

That was it. Zone Alarm was blocking the pings. I shut it down, and it works now. Guess I need to add the local network to its trusted zone.

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New Fedora Problem

OK, so I took Pete’s advice, and did an ftp install of Core 7 from download.fedora.redhat.com. It seemed to work all right, until it started to actually install, at which point I got an error message that the package libxml2-devel-2.6.28-2.i386.rpm couldn’t be found, or was corrupt. Now what? If Fedora’s own server doesn’t have the file right, who does?

[Update at 12:30 PM EDT]

OK, I switched to the University of South Florida, and it’s installing packages now. There may be some light at the end of this tunnel.

[Update mid afternoon]

Well, I’m the father of a bouncing baby Fedora Core 7 system. Now to see if I can mount my old drive and get the data off it…

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Fedora Problem Update

OK, so I determined that both Ubuntu and Fedora Core 7 (rescue CD) could see my network cards. Ubuntu could see the one on the mother board, and Fedora Core 7 could see both. But Ubuntu couldn’t connect to my network via DHCP.

So I decided to use Fedora. But when I tried to download via http, it demanded a domain and a folder on that domain. When I input both, it insisted on inputting double slashes between domain and folder, even when I deleted them from both ends, so naturally, the repository couldn’t be found.

So I decided to download the Live CD. When I did so, it turned out to be larger than 700 meg, which meant that I couldn’t burn it on to a CD–I had to use a DVD. If I’d know that, I would have simply downloaded the entire DVD iso.

The problem is, I’ve never burned a DVD (though I have a DVD burner) so that means that I have to go out to wherever, and buy blank DVDs. Why couldn’t Fedora put a Live install on a CD? It wouldn’t have been much smaller…

[Update a few minutes later]

I should add that I suspect that my earlier problems were due to attempting to install a 32-bit version of the OS on an AMD 64 chip. So perhaps a solution is to burn a 64-bit version of Core 6…

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In Saint Augustine

Doing touristy things. We’ll go see the fort, but I’ve been to too many big ones in the Caribbean (e.g., El Morro, Jefferson) to be impressed, at least gauging by the exterior. Posting will be sparse/intermittent until tomorrow night.

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Change Of Venue

We’re driving up to Orlando for a couple days (where Patricia has some work) and then perhaps to St. Augustine for the weekend, where we’ve never been (any tips from Transterrestrialers in terms of places to stay or things to see/do would be appreciated). I expect to have Internet access when we get there, but one never knows…

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Administrative Note

Based on the remarkable similarity to Anonymous Moron #1, in terms of (lack of) grammar, and posting style (e.g., referring to me as “Simberg,” and employing the idiotic chickenhawk argument, and being, well, moronic) I’ve banned Anonymous Moron #2, as exemplified in comments here. I think that my readers deserve better than to read such idiotic drooling. For anyone who wants to complain, other than said moron, the comments section is open.

Just in case anyone was wondering why the quality of the comments section dramatically improved…

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LAN Driver Question

So, I downloaded the latest driver from RealTek to attempt to solve my problem. I removed the old r8169 with rmmod, but when I do a “make clean modules” from within the directory with the Makefile, I get the following errors:

make -C src/ clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/temp/r8169-6.003.00/src’
rm -rf *.o *.ko *~ core* .dep* .*.d .*.cmd *.mod.c *.a *.s .*.flags .tmp_versions Module.symvers rset
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/temp/r8169-6.003.00/src’
make -C src/ modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/temp/r8169-6.003.00/src’
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build SUBDIRS=/root/temp/r8169-6.003.00/src modules
make: Entering an unknown directory
make: Leaving an unknown directory
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/temp/r8169-6.003.00/src’

Can anyone tell me what’s going on? Do I have to have untarred the files into some specific directory?

[Update a few minutes later]

Well, this is kind of discouraging news:

Beware:

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Back To FL

Blogging continues to be light. I’ve been working on a piece for Popular Mechanics. I’ve got a red eye tonight, but I need to make a Fry’s run, and meet someone for dinner. Back later, for those of you who have inexplicably been on the edge of their seats.