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Broadcom provides Linux drivers for most of its wireless chipsets. Prior to the release of official drivers from Broadcom, the open source software community had various workarounds. Some people used Windows drivers through ndiswrapper. Others used fwcutter.

The RPM Fusion Repository for Fedora offers the Broadcom wireless drivers from its repositories. You can install them using yum.

Step 1: Enable the RPM Fusion repositories

 
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

How to play music and video(MP3, MPEG, AVI, FLV and other multimedia files) in Fedora 12?

Due to patent encumbrance codecs required to play some proprietary file formats are not shipped with Fedora. Codecs are the programs that encode and decode digital data. These codecs are available in the rpmfusion repository for Fedora. You will be able to play mpeg, mp3, avi, flv and other commonly used file formats for music and video. You will require an Internet connection to download and install these packages on your computer.

Let us get started. Are you ready?

How to configure keyboard short cut to minimze all windows on KDE 4.3.3 on Fedora

Having the Show Desktop button on the panel is something everyone would want. If you are unable to find the settings follow the instructions below.

1. Install the kdeplasma-addons package.

# yum install kdeplasma-addons -y

2. Add the Show Desktop widget to the panel.

• Click the Cashew button on the panel - the rightmost corner button
• Click Add Widgets
• Click Show Desktop
• Click Add Widget

MySQL has a query logging feature. In order to use it you have to first enable it.

Enabling the general query log

Step 1: Set your log file in /etc/my.cnf

vi /etc/my.cnf

In the [mysqld] section specify the general log file name:

log=/var/log/mysqld.general.log

Step 2: Create the file and make sure it is owned by the system user mysql

touch /var/log/mysqld.general.log
chown mysql.mysql /var/log/mysqld.general.lo

In a previous article we discussed how toinstall, remove, update and search for software packages using yum. In this post we discuss how to install only security updates using yum.

We discussed how to install LAMP in one of our previous articles. Some of you may be wondering how to create databases, users and tables on your newly installed MySQL server. This blog post introduces the preliminary steps to work with your new LAMP server.

We are going to learn the following:

• Changing MySQL user password
• Creating databases
• Deleting databases
• Creating MySQL user accounts
• Deleting MySQL user accounts
• Connecting to the MySQL server from the command line

Apache HTTP server is capable of hosting multiple websites on the same server. The feature is popularly known as virtual host.

The term Virtual Host refers to the practice of running more than one web site (such as www.company1.com and www.company2.com) on a single machine. When you configure virtual hosts your web server runs many websites at any given instance. You don't need to edit Apache configuration file and restart Apache every time you switch to a different website.

Follow the instructions below to configure virtual hosts in Apache.

Have you fallen in love with the command line? Do you use a graphical browser to visit dictionary sites like wiktionary.org?

Use dictd.

What does dictd do?

[sudheer@localhost ~]$ yum info dictd
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
Name       : dictd
Arch       : i386
Version    : 1.10.11
Release    : 3
Size       : 728 k
Repo       : installed
Summary    : DICT protocol (RFC 2229) command-line client
URL        : http://www.dict.org/
License    : GPL+ and zlib and MIT

Many of us have suffered from failing package repository mirrors. Some are slow, some won't have updated content, etc. You might want to remove/blacklist a particular mirror in your yum configuration.

Before trying to remove a mirror, install the fastest mirror plugin.

yum install yum-fastestmirror -y

The fastest mirror plugin is capable of determining mirror speeds and cache it. If that works for you well and good.

Problem: You are trying to use the command svn propedit svn:externals and you are receiving the error:

svn: None of the environment variables SVN_EDITOR, VISUAL or EDITOR are set, and no 'editor-cmd' run-time configuration option was found

Solution: Set vim as your SVN_EDITOR

Command:

export SVN_EDITOR=vim

To permanently set this environment variable put the below line in your ~/.bash_profile file.

export SVN_EDITOR=vim

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