Fedora Linux Motley

Fedora Linux Time Machine / Knowledge base

Published on Sunday, 24 October 2021

this is still a draft, sections need to be organized, divided into separate posts for certain topics

First section is for Fedora 25.

New fedora uses in memory swap, swap partitions are no more required.

To find devices,

lsblk

How to find unallocated disk partition with parted or another tool?

parted /dev/sdb free

Creating bootable USB fedora

clean
conver gpt

Create .ssh dir to connect using ssh key,

sudo su - atiq
mkdir .ssh
chmod 700 .ssh
touch .ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys

Fedora Media Writer,

refs

How to install manual pages for C/C++

dnf install man-pages libstdc++-docs

Install TP Link Wireless Driver packages in fedora (probably from 10 years ago, however, principle still might apply)

Our WIFI adapter model is TL-WN722N info for linux driver at ubunut.com

lsusb command says it has ar9271 chip. Fedora supports it by following ar9271.fw,

# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/firmware/ar9271.fw 
linux-firmware-20120206-0.3.git06c8f81.fc17.noarch

It has the AR9170 chipset as forum says.

  • list loaded modules

    less /proc/modules
    
  • see module info

    ath9k_htc
    ath9k_common
    ath9k_hw
    provides
    firmware:       htc_9271.fw
    firmware:       htc_7010.fw
    
    ath
    

current fedora driver & firmware: ar9170-firmware-2009.05.28-4.fc17.noarch

When a problem occurs update following packages

  • wireless-tools
  • ar9170-firmware-2009.05.28-4.fc17.noarch (most probably it is working for tp link tl-wn722n)
  • ath_info (provides information)

install cmd,

dnf -y update ar9170-firmware wireless-tools linux-firmware

listing firmware packages,

# rpm -qa | grep firmware
ar9170-firmware-2009.05.28-4.fc17.noarch
iwl6000g2b-firmware-17.168.5.2-2.fc17.noarch
iwl5000-firmware-8.83.5.1_1-2.fc17.noarch
atmel-firmware-1.3-9.fc17.noarch
linux-firmware-20120206-0.3.git06c8f81.fc17.noarch
alsa-firmware-1.0.25-1.fc17.noarch
iwl1000-firmware-39.31.5.1-2.fc17.noarch
iwl100-firmware-39.31.5.1-3.fc17.noarch
ql2500-firmware-5.06.05-1.fc17.noarch
iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-4.fc17.noarch
rt73usb-firmware-1.8-9.fc17.noarch
netxen-firmware-4.0.534-5.fc17.noarch
iwl6000-firmware-9.221.4.1-3.fc17.noarch
iwl6050-firmware-41.28.5.1-4.fc17.noarch
iwl6000g2a-firmware-17.168.5.3-2.fc17.noarch
ivtv-firmware-20080701-22.noarch
rt61pci-firmware-1.2-9.fc17.noarch
iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-6.fc17.noarch
libertas-usb8388-firmware-5.110.22.p23-6.fc17.noarch
aic94xx-firmware-30-3.fc17.noarch
ipw2100-firmware-1.3-13.fc17.noarch
ipw2200-firmware-3.1-6.fc17.noarch
alsa-tools-firmware-1.0.25-2.fc17.x86_64
iwl5150-firmware-8.24.2.2-3.fc17.noarch
zd1211-firmware-1.4-6.fc17.noarch

How to install avro-keyboard in fedora (from 2016 or earlier)

Install scim and development files. We need devel files for compiling scim-avro Run following commands as root yum -y install scim-devel scim

clone scim-avro latest version.

git clone https://github.com/mominul/scim-avro

cd scim-avro/
chmod a+x configure
./configure
make
sudo make install

As a regular run following command im-chooser

some cmds from online,

cd 
chmod a+x configure
./configure
cd po
msginit --input=scim-avro.pot --output-file=ja.po --locale=ja

In old times, we used to groupinstall bengali-support for Bangla lang support. ref, scim-avro

install video players in fedora core adding codecs/ plugins for totemplayer,

 dnf -y install gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-good-extras gstreamer-plugins-ugly