savio_mit_glug

Hi, everyone, This may seem like a strange problem as, so far, I have not come across it anywhere on the web. I study in an Engineering College. In our hostel, many of us use Linux. A few of us use Debian and the rest, Fedora. Everything was fine with FC3, but when some of us tried to upgrade to FC4, for some reason, the console terminals 1 to 6 (Ctrl+Alt+F1, Ctrl+Alt+F2, etc) did not appear. Only the GUI worked.Pressing the keys only caused the screen to blank out and do nothing else. Other than that, FC4 worked fine. Here comes the strange part: for those few of us who had Intel 915 motherboards (most of us have 845) and AMD Azus, the terminals appeared without a hitch! On the other hand for the rest of us, they didn't appear. We all tried to find out what the issue was. But we could not succeed. If any of you knows the solution, please let me know. I'll be very grateful to you. Thanking you in advance, Yours, Savio

Dear Danleff, I'm very sorry about my bad manners in not replying to thank you for your prompt reply. The fact is that the next day after I posted this, I had to leave home for a month to attend a course. I accessed this forum only now after a month. Thank you so much for replying so soon. I'll try what you said. Again, thank you very much. Yours, Savio

Hello, Everyone! This is my first post here. I got introduced to Linux since RMS visited my college in March and I've been hooked onto it since then. I never thought that just using an OS would be so much fun. However, I can't claim any great expertise in Linux.I'm still much of a newbie! Last month, I managed to get a Broadband ADSL Ethernet Router/Modem working on FC3 at my uncle's house. <Huawei SmartAX MT800 > The service provider was BSNL Dataone.( Chennai,TN,India) Now, I'm trying to get the same Broadband running at my home.<Nagercoil,TN> The problem is that at my hometown,there are so few subscribers to Broadband at this time that they have not setup the Broadband in the usual way as at Chennai. Instead of storing the Username and Password in the modem, they have used a dialup bridge in which accesses the broadband by dialing up a number instead of the usual "always on" broadband. Also, the ADSL router they have provided here is connected through the USB port and not to the Ethernet card. The router is : Huawei Sterlite SmartAX MT882 They have provided a device driver for Linux,but it is for RH8.0 and it does not work under FC3. At the helpdesk, they told me that at present, their server does not support always on Broadband and that was why they had installed the dialup bridge. I tried to access the modem through browser and store the username and password but then the Broadband didn't work. So,I have reverted back to the bridge. But even that works only under Windows. So far I have had no success trying to make it work in GNU/Linux. The device driver is also available online at this URL: http://list.driverguide.com/list/LINUX/company2033/ If anyone has any suggestions to make, please reply and tell me. I thank you for taking your time to read this. Yours, Savio. P.S: I didn't know whether the correct place to post this was the hardware forum or the network forum. I hope its in the right place.