Oct 26, 2012
How To Install and Configure HPLIP on Fedora 17
It’s great to have all-in-one devices and some of the great printers that HP makes but, it is also sometimes an issue in Linux to not be able to use all of the features and functionality. With HP this is not a big issue with HPLIP. HPLIP (HP Linux Imaging and Printing) is print, scan and fax drivers for Linux. While CUPS is great for getting the basics for printing there are some of the CUPS drivers... read more
Oct 25, 2012
How to install NIVIDIA drivers on Fedora 17
Recently i felt the need to upgrade the video card to an NVIDIA GT610 on my Fedora 17 system and with that thought installing the proprietary drivers might be a good idea. Lucky for me rpmfusion provides the drivers I am looking for installation. First step is to make sure your are at the latest kernel, so run $ sudo yum update kernel\* selinux-policy\* and reboot after completed. Second step is to make... read more
Oct 22, 2012
How To Setup a DDNS enabled Router Through Double NAT
Recently my ISP upgraded my trusty Cisco 675 to a Westell 6100 due to an upgrade of my service. It was shortly afterwards I noticed I could no longer access my Linux server using DynDNS. Nothing had changed with my account and settings on both ends. Upon investigating I noticed my ISP DNS had changed from a routable 10.x.x.x address to a non-routable 192.168.x.x. After searching the Internet and checking... read more
Oct 21, 2012
How to Install VMWare Workstation 8.0.4 on Fedora 17
Recently ran into an issue were I was receiving VMWare module compilation errors when installing VMWare Workstation 8.0.4. The error I was receiving was it couldn’t execute and find the kernel-headers which were installed but not where VMWare was looking for them. Download and install latest licensed version 8.0.4 from http://www.vmware.com/support $ chmod +x... read more
Oct 20, 2012
Plex Media Server Startup soci_error
A good friend of mine recently ran into an issue where Plex Media Server running on Fedora would not start up. After multiple times trying to start\stop it, deleted pid files, removing subsys lock files, discovered that /var was full, so it couldn’t write something during startup which was causing it not to start. Receiving an error similar to this: Starting PlexMediaServer: terminate called after... read more
