Tuesday, December 2, 2008

A new look , a new system, its Fedora 10

Here is a new look with my Acer aspire 4730Z, using fedora 10.





Even though there was a bug with the fedora 10 it looks fine.The bug is that the network manager and network GUI setting is not changing the subnet mask Then we change the subnet mask in GUI.The bug can be fixed manually by disabling the network manager from System>administration>services
Become substitute user(su) and login as root, then goto the /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/
using
cd /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/

edit the file ifcfg-eth0 using gedit or any other editor

gedit ifcfg-eth0

it looks like this
# Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=none
HWADDR="mac"
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=no
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=192.168.11.130
GATEWAY=192.168.11.123
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
IPV6INIT=no
add the line in blue text if there is no such text,then save the file and run the binary ifdown eth0 in sbin

/sbin/ifdown eth0
then
/sbin/ifup eth0
now we will be getting the connection.To configure the yum we need to configure the yum.conf file in etc ,if there is a proxy server
add a line
proxy=http://(IP eg:192.168.1.1 etc):port number/

save the file and use yum install something in shell.Use the same settings for wlan to configure Wifi.In fedora 9 the driver for my atheros was not there but for fedora 10 release the driver got automatically installed on upgradation from fedora 9 to fedora 10.Here is a set of pictures from fedora 10, I have configured fedora 10 to look like a new one.










To enable the desktop effects in fedora 10 goto system>preferences>look and feel>desktop effects>enable desktop effects.Use alt+ctrl+arrow keys to rotate the desktop.

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