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Swisscom GPRS under Fedora

Contents 1 Get MAC 2 Get Channel 3 Create /dev/rfcomm0 4 /etc/ppp/peers/gprs 5 /etc/ppp/peers/gprs.chat 6 Connect Get MAC shell> hcitool scan Scanning … 01:12:3A:55:88:99 myphone   Get Channel shell> sdptool search DUN Inquiring … Searching for DUN on 01:12:3A:55:88:99 … … Continue reading

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XGL on Fedora Core 5

HOWTO install and enable XGL (not AIGLX) on FC5 1. Follow the instructions on –> http://fedoraxgl.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Installation_en. Do NOT enable XGL before (2.) 2. Edit “/usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf” and set the “GdmXserverTimeout” to “60” (If you update GDM, you have to do it … Continue reading

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Installing FC6 on MacBookPro

Preface Hardware [root@pscmbp001 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor  : 0 vendor_id  : GenuineIntel cpu family  : 6 model  : 14 model name  : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz stepping  : 8 cpu MHz  : 2287.197 cache size  : 2048 KB … Continue reading

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Installing Fedora from a USB Stick

Download the DVD image https://getfedora.org/ Install the needed tools Open a terminal, become root and install the following: 1# dnf install livecd-tools Finally copy the image to the USB Stick. In terminal type: 1# livecd-iso-to-disk Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-23-9.iso /dev/sdb1

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