Q re networking, might need guru
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu May 18 15:10:13 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 09:58, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> And I did have yumex search for etherape, but it came up empty. I
> >>>> needed a network analyzer that worked, and now I have nothing but
> >>>> tcpdump and tethereal, neither of which shows me what I need to know.
> >>> tethereal? If you 'yum install ethereal-gnome' you should get
> >>> the GUI ethereal which is pretty nice to use. Give it an
> >>> expression like you would with tcpdump to limit the capture
> >>> to what you want to see. Or you can use tcpdump -w and
> >>> an appropriate -s snaplength to capture to a file, then
> >>> analyze it with ethereal, even on a different machine.
> >> Tell that to the packagers. I'd first had 'yum install ethereal', but
> >> that didn't get me ethereal,it got me tethereal for some unknown
> >> reason. tethereal looks like tcpdump as near as I can tell. AFAIKS this
> >> whole networking thing is pretty badly fubar, it took me about 10 days
> >> just to make my broadcom radio work.
> >>
> >> So where can I find an rpm of etherape that will run on FC5?
> >
> > Did you try 'yum install ethereal-gnome'? After that, it should
> > show up in the applications/internet menu or you can start it
> > with the 'ethereal' command.
> >
> Yes I did that, but I'm running kde Les, and have to start it from the
> cli. It didn't work, I presume its too gnome-centric so I removed it,
> and now etherape, another GTK+ app, cannot be made to work.
You have something even worse wrong. I see ethereal in the
internet menu in a KDE session and it also works fine started
from the command line in a Konsole window. There is nothing about
running kde that breaks gtk/gnome apps.
> If this
> yumex update ever gets done, its been working on it for 4 hours now,
> I'll reboot to 2118_FC5 and see if that does any good. That will bring
> in a new compiler version & maybe a 3rd rebuild will restore etherape.
> We'll bow to the east & all that if it does.
It's always a good idea to do frequent 'yum update's, but I'm
guessing you clobbered a system library yourself. I'd fix that
before going much farther with trying to debug an application.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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