Networking problems on HP dv2000 Series.

[borne.inc]

Help...

Ok im a little confused. I have used most previous versions of Ubuntu and my networking both wireless and wired has worked perfectly without a hitch. But ubuntu has out stayed its welcome and i have played with Fedora and love it, So good work guys!

Anyway I have just recently installed Fedora 9.0 on my HP dv2000series notebook from the DVD installer, when it boots up i get the following message;

Bug Reporting tool.
The Application nm-applet has crashed. etc etc etc. (see attached bug report.)

I have no access to the net at all, and have re - installed it 3 times same result.

Is my version of fedora currupt? i hope not as i cant really download another 3.3gig.

Anyway please let me know what i can do if anything. I am presently on my work laptop.

Thanks in Advance.

Ben.

Bug Report...Ok first para of it. Its 104pages long, let me know what you need.

System: Linux 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:28:41 EDT 2008 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10499901
Selinux: Enforcing
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks
Icon Theme: gnome

Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0



----------- .xsession-errors ---------------------
SESSION_MANAGER=local/unix:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/9403,unix/unix:/tmp/.ICE-unix/9403
** (gnome-session:9403): WARNING **: Host name lookup failure on localhost.
Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/benjamin/.metacity/sessions/default1.ms: Failed to open file '/home/benjamin/.metacity/sessions/default1.ms': No such file or directory
Failure: Module initalization failed
** (nautilus:9577): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported
--------------------------------------------------

[hyperspace]

When was the last time you installed fresh and allowed yum to get the latest updates?

Just a few days ago (or less), there were 3 new NetworkManager updates.

[borne.inc]

Yum has not run as i cant use the networking device?
Is it possibe to download the lastest versions and run them locally?

[sanjay_ankur]

hi,

yeah u can do that.. :

from another machine that is running fedora 9


[Ankur@Ankur ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@Ankur ~]# yum install yum-downloadonly
[root@Ankur ~]# yum --downloadonly update NetworkManager # will only download.. not update..


then you can localinstall on your machine..


[root@Ankur ~]# yum local install Network...


Ankur

[borne.inc]

ok... Bad think is, i dont have another fedora machine, only have a windows Visa machine for work and a media centre lol....

i gather im buggered?

or is there a way to download them to my vista machine then transfer via usb drive?

[sanjay_ankur]

hi,


yes i think there is.. :)

using your web browser in Windoz..

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/9/x86_64/


select a mirror.. you can manually download the NetworkManager rpm from these...

i just updated and it also updated NetworkManager-glib and NetworkManager-gnome so it might be a good idea to download those as well..

put them onto a flash drive..mount her.. install.. using rpm -ivh.. should get it done.. however there is small small risk of dependancy error.. best of luck..

Ankur

[borne.inc]

Yep downloaded them and got Fail Dependencies errors on all files.... i think i need to reinstall...

Prob a wrong place to post this, but is there a netinstall for Fedora?

[sanjay_ankur]

Yep downloaded them and got Fail Dependencies errors on all files.... i think i need to reinstall...



hi,

i had a feeling dependancies would trip..


[root@Ankur ~]# yumdownloader --resolve NetworkManager
Loaded plugins: presto, protectbase
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
No Presto metadata available for livna
No Presto metadata available for google
No Presto metadata available for fedora
No Presto metadata available for updates
No Presto metadata available for fusion
Excluding Packages from Livna for Fedora Core 9 - x86_64 - Base
Finished
17 packages excluded due to repository protections
--> Running transaction check
---> Package NetworkManager.x86_64 1:0.7.0-0.9.4.svn3675.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package NetworkManager.i386 1:0.7.0-0.9.3.svn3623.fc9 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: NetworkManager-glib = 1:0.7.0-0.9.3.svn3623.fc9 for package: NetworkManager
--> Processing Dependency: libnm_glib.so.0 for package: NetworkManager
--> Processing Dependency: libdbus-glib-1.so.2 for package: NetworkManager
--> Processing Dependency: libnl.so.1 for package: NetworkManager
--> Processing Dependency: libhal.so.1 for package: NetworkManager
--> Running transaction check
---> Package dbus-glib.x86_64 0:0.74-8.fc9 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: dbus-glib = 0.74-6.fc9 for package: dbus-glib-devel
---> Package libnl.i386 0:1.1-3.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package dbus-glib.i386 0:0.74-8.fc9 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: hal-libs = 0.5.11-0.7.rc2.fc9 for package: hal
---> Package NetworkManager-glib.i386 1:0.7.0-0.9.3.svn3623.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package hal-libs.x86_64 0:0.5.11-2.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package hal-libs.i386 0:0.5.11-2.fc9 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package dbus-glib-devel.x86_64 0:0.74-8.fc9 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: hal = 0.5.11-0.7.rc2.fc9 for package: hal-devel
---> Package hal.x86_64 0:0.5.11-2.fc9 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package hal-devel.x86_64 0:0.5.11-2.fc9 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution



These are probably all the dependancies youll need to install if you wanna try.. no guarantee here too.. :(


Ankur

[borne.inc]

ok i have fixed it, i removed the network manager from starting when the service starts and it worked perfectly. Sorry to be a pain, ill now try to iinstall the updates.

[hyperspace]

I missed the part about no access to the network. Sorry. NetworkManager has been problematic for many but the latest updates via yum include several NetworkManager updates which seem to fix some of the problems.