USB to Ethernet LAN -
by Bob Goodwin
I have a WD 4TB external hard drive connected to my Fedora32 computer on
which I have been saving data. It connects via USB, has no ethernet
port (I am not the one who bought it) and I would like to make it
available on my LAN. Is there any way to do it with software?
--
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3
3 years, 10 months
nmcli won't save VPN password
by Sam Varshavchik
I'm trying to save an OpenVPN password via nmcli, in Fedora 32. I believe I
should be executing:
nmcli connection modify CONNECTIONNAME vpn.secrets "password=[PASSWORD]"
So I execute this as root, and this initially produces very promising noises
in /var/log/messages:
Jul 22 20:41:35 jack NetworkManager[1525]: <info> [1595464895.3350] audit:
op="connection-update" uuid="UUID" name="CONNECTIONNAME" args="vpn.secrets" pid=67812 uid=0 result="success"
However, the password appears to disappear into a black hole:
nmcli --show-secrets connection CONNECTIONNAME | grep secrets
vpn.secrets: --
And nmcli connection up fails because there's no password.
The VPN connection's configuration was imported from the VPN provider's
supplied ovpn file, via "nmcli connection import".
Some searching around found some hits suggesting that my
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/CONNECTIONNAME should have a [vpn-
secrets] section, but mine does not. If I add it, run "nmcli connection
reload", "nmcli connection modify", that just removes the [vpn-secrets]
section.
What would be the right way to do this?
3 years, 10 months
Re: Sane Scanner Resolution Configuration
by Mike Flannigan
Sure thing.
The 'xsane.rc' file at
~/.sane/xsane
is copied here:
http://www.mflan.com/temp/xsane.rc
There is also a 'xsane.mdf' file in there, but
I don't think you need that.
There is also a 'CANON:Canoscan9000FMarkII.drc'
file in there and it is copied here:
http://www.mflan.com/temp/CANON:Canoscan9000FMarkII.drc
Mike
On 7/21/20 10:09 PM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
> Thanks Mike, that's interesting, my Xsane ver 0.999 doesn't provide
> the same functionality. Where your gui has the resolution dropdown to
> let you select between the supported resolutions, my gui has two
> entries, a horizontal resolution and a vertical resolution, and both
> of them are disabled, so that the only way to change it is to manually
> changed the corresponding two lines in the configuration file. I'm now
> wondering whether the Epson driver is having an impact, as in order to
> see and use the Epson scanner xsane seems to be using the settings I
> put in the config file created by the install of Epson's imagescan
> software.
> Are you able to supply the config file, or the resolution part of the
> config file, for your scanner, which if it is stored in the same
> location as it is for me, is in ~/.sane/xsane? I just wanted to see
> how it is set up for you and whether or not I can replicate that in my
> configuration.
3 years, 10 months
bizzare dual-monitor behavior
by Greg Woods
Let me start by saying I have used this same setup literally for years now
and have not seen this new issue until yesterday.
I have a dual monitor setup. One of the monitors is controlled by a KVM
switch; the machines that have only a single graphics port use this monitor
via the KVM switch. The other monitor has two HDMI ports that are connected
to two computers directly, bypassing the KVM switch; I just switch the
second monitor manually between the two as needed.
What used to happen when I switched to a different computer is that I can
use the new computer using the first monitor, the mouse and the keyboard,
just as usual. The second monitor, unaffected by the KVM switch, will
continue to show the image it is getting from the dual-monitor system. I am
used to this; sometimes I even use it to my advantage when the monitor is
showing a web page or something that I can still see while working on a
different computer.
But, what is now happening (since yesterday) is that when I switch to a
second computer, the non-KVM-switched monitor now flashes off and on every
few seconds (and just keeps doing this seemingly forever; I did leave it
this way for more than 15 minutes last night) . This is INCREDIBLY annoying
and makes it impossible to make any use of the image displayed there.
Another oddity is that this is NOT happening with the other dual-monitor
machine. That system is a Dell laptop in a dock. The system with the issue
is a fairly new desktop (which did not exhibit the issue for the first few
days of use, it suddenly started yesterday). Both systems are running
Fedora 32 (but of course they have very different hardware).
I normally use GNOME on Xorg, but I have tried plain GNOME (Wayland) and
Cinnamon too and the problem exists there as well. I briefly tried Plasma,
but that results in a solid green screen, and when I switch back to the
two-monitor system, the first monitor is solid green too and none of the
keys respond, so I had to use a remote ssh shutdown to recover.
Has anyone ever seen anything like this and know what I could do to stop it?
Thanks,
--Greg
3 years, 10 months
Printing failure -
by Bob Goodwin
Earlier today I discovered that I could not print from this Fedora 32.
It has always printed without a problem. The printer is Ethernet
connected to my LAN. I have gone through the setup with cups, the
fedora/gnome admin app, and now the Brother liinux install tool.
Cups shows:
HLL5100DN <http://localhost:631/printers/HLL5100DN> HLL5100DN
Brother HLL5100DN for CUPS Paused - "could not create directory
"/root/BRF": Permission denied"
The Brother install tool quits when it tries to make a test print and
finds it can't see the printer:
lpadmin -p HLL5100DN -v cups-brf:/ -E
Test Print? [y/N] ->y
wait 5s.
lpr -P HLL5100DN /usr/share/cups/data/testprint
ls: cannot access '/etc/udev/rules.d/*.rules': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '/etc/udev/rules.d/*.rules': No such file or directory
Hit Enter/Return key.
I began writing this yesterday, this morning we tried and were able to
print from a Mac portable via wifi so that says the printer works at
least. Something is corrupted in my computer it appears?
And doing "ctrl p" fails with:
> Cups shows:
> HLL5100DN <http://localhost:631/printers/HLL5100DN> HLL5100DN
> Brother HLL5100DN for CUPS Paused - "could not create directory
> "/root/BRF": Permission denied"
>
>
> The Brother install tool quits when it tries to make a test print and
> finds it can't see the printer:
>
> lpadmin -p HLL5100DN -v cups-brf:/ -E
> Test Print? [y/N] ->y
Any thoughts on what to do? Bob
--
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3
3 years, 10 months
Alternatives link broken after package upgrade
by Terry Polzin
I've been dealing with this issue on a couple of my Fedora 32 machines.
It appears that the upgrade of icedtea-web
from icedtea-web-1.8.2-3.fc31.x86_64 to
icedtea-web-2.0.0-pre.0.3.alpha13.patched1.fc32.x86_64 breaks the
alternatives link to javaws.x86_64.
I have to downgrade icedtea-web to be able to run JNLPs
3 years, 10 months
podman and PCI passthrough
by Mauricio Tavares
What is the argument I need to properly pass a PCI or PCIe
device to a podman container at runtime (podman-run)?
3 years, 10 months
Re: Sane Scanner Resolution Configuration
by Mike Flannigan
My XSane ver 0.999 allows changing the resolution
by selecting the dropdown on the main screen and
selecting 75, 150, 300, 600, etc.
http://www.mflan.com/temp/res1.jpg
Mike
On 7/21/20 4:08 AM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
> Subject:
> Sane Scanner Resolution Configuration
> From:
> Stephen Morris <samorris(a)netspace.net.au>
> Date:
> 7/21/20, 4:08 AM
>
> To:
> fedora <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
>
>
> Hi,
> Having installed imagescan from Epson, and installed sane and
> xsane, and edited the imagescan config file to specify the network
> settings of my printer all-in-one, I now have xsane finding my
> scanner, but this has highlighted a problem.
> Having run xsane it has created Epson:ET-3700.drc in path
> ~/.sane/xsane, which contains all the options used by xsane for
> scanning. Two of the options are for the horizontal and vertical scan
> resolution, which by default are set to 75. These options are
> reflected in the xsane gui, but they are disabled so I can't alter
> them from the gui, I have to edit the config file and specify the
> resolution I want in there.
> Where can I find documentation on the format of that xsane config
> file, that would tell me how I get the list of resolutions the scanner
> supports into that config file so that they are selectable by a
> dropdown in the xsane gui?
>
> regards,
> Steve
3 years, 10 months
More portal nonsense?
by Tom Horsley
Imagine my surprise to find this in my daily logwatch:
df: /root/.cache/doc: Operation not permitted
So I check it out:
[root@zooty ~]# mount | fgrep doc
portal on /root/.cache/doc type fuse.portal (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0)
More nonsense from portal and flatpak being dragged in?
3 years, 10 months
