Hi Akemi,
Thanks a lot for your feedback. Also many thanks to your tester(s).
This really helps.
WLAN card: I think that also RHEL/CentOS/SL53 will not recognize the WLAN RaLink RT2561/RT61 card
correctly. I guess it's more a RHEL kernel issue than a LiveCD issue - but I'm only guessing.
Display resolution: Maybe it would help to specify the display resolution on boot prompt with boot
parameter screen:
linux screen=1680x1050
Or for NVIDIA cards. I have added the Nvidia driver on the LiveDVDs (not on the LiveCD). This is not
well tested but one can try to boot with
linux nvidia
Clock: I have seen these kinds of problems before. And I'm quited puzzled.
What I do: The file /etc/sysconfig/clock does not exist on the LiveCD. So my intention was not to
set the time zone. Therefore the system time should be set to the hardware clock. The output of
"date" should be equal to the output of "/sbin/hwclock", which seems not to be the case (always?).
During shutdown the hardware clock is synchronized with the system clock, which screwed up the clock
in the case below.
I think I will remove the synchronization of the hardware clock at shutdown of the LiveCD.
However, I don't understand why the system time is not equal to the hardware time if
/etc/sysconfig/clock is empty.
Cheers,
Urs
Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Urs Beyerle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If you want to test SL53 beta without installing, I have made some first LiveCD/DVD based on
>> Scientific Linux 5.3 Beta 1:
>>
>> Download:
>> http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/53/
>>
>> New SL LiveCD Webpage:
>> http://www.livecd.ethz.ch
>>
>> Feedback is very welcome.
>
> Thanks, Urs, as always for your hard work. I asked a few of my
> friends to test the LiveCDs. I am copying a result sent back from one
> of them below. I also plan to do some test shortly.
>
> Akemi
>
> =================================
> Quick note about SL-53beta x86_64 LiveCD...
>
> Laptop (HP with amd dual core):
>
> Did not detect my wireless (Broadcom BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03) ).
> The bcm43xx module did load manually without error, but still no
> wireless. System-config-network didn't show anything useful.
>
> Desktop (Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard with amd dual core, nvidia
> graphics):
>
> It guessed the wrong display resolution (actual is 1680 x 1050 - 22\u201d
> widescreen).
>
> Detected my RaLink RT2561/RT61 wireless (Linksys WMP54G rev. 4.1), but
> did not connect to wlan. Lsmod showed lots of ralink modules loaded
> (rt2x00lib, rt2x00pci, rt61pci). Even with access point security
> disabled, it could not see the wlan. System-config-network showed the
> wireless parameters as you might expect and the NetworkManager editor
> showed what looked like a functional wlan setup. Dud.
>
> Properly detected the software raids and lvm components. It would make a
> good repair/setup cd.
>
> A warning: It resets your hardware clock on the way
> out. My hardware time (local, not GMT) on both systems was of by 5 hr
> after reboot (I am UCT minus 5 here).
>
> Summary:
>
> Works, but did not get either wireless to work (neither worked before
> without additional drivers).
>
> Would make a good repair/setup cd.
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Urs Beyerle
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
ETH Zurich
Universitätstrasse 16 (CHN N 16.2)
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Tel +41 44 632 82 55
Fax +41 44 632 13 11
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