Workaround for Wired Network Connection Switching with nmcli - Gnome 3.10 Fedora 20

Fedora 20 is released on 17th December 2013. It was shipped with Gnome 3.10. There is a issue with Gnome 3.10 by design. There is no Wired Network Control from Network Manager applet. (GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 708966)

USB Flash Drive Encryption with LUKS and dm-crypt - BitLocker Alternative for Linux

USB flash drives have become common day to data transportation media today. Windows supports disk drive encryption with BitLocker. LUKS with dm-crypt can be used used an alternative to BitLocker in Linux. Following steps can be used encrypt USB drive. Flash drive in encrypted in Gnome desktop in fedora. It was tested and working on KDE,Unity and Cinnamon with Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

How to Install phpMyAdmin to CentOS 6.4

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The package phpMyAdmin is not included in CentOS defualt base, extras and updates repositories. To install it "EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux)" Repo should be added.

Workaround for Atheros Communications AR8152 Driver Hanging up Problem in Linux

My Ethernet controller AR8152 starts to hang up after few minutes of operation. I am running on Fedora 18. This issue was not there in Fedora 16.

[kasun@localhost ~]$ lspci | grep Atheros
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
[kasun@localhost ~]$

However this is a known issue which from February 2013.
Kernel Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54021
Red Hat Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928220 
My kernel is "3.9.6-200.fc18.x86_64". Here is the workaround I used.

How to Solve Toshiba Satellite L655 Battery not Shown in Linux

Toshiba Satellite L655

Battery icon is not there when Ubuntu or Fedora is installed on Toshiba Satellite L655. Here is the way to show the battery.

Step 1: Take a copy of current Differentiated System Description Table as follows.

sudo cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT > DSDT.dat

How to Play H.264 Movies in Fedora 18 Movie Player (Totem)

After moving to Fedora 18, I added "rpmfusion" and installed gstreamer plugin pack. Unfortunately Totem can not play mkv movie a.k.a H264 movies and AAC codec.

How to make your USB drive bootable for Fedora 18 DVD ISO

Fedora 18

After more than year of usage of Fedora 16, I decided to install Fedora 18. Since my DVD ROM started to give me problems few months ago, I decided to install Fedora 18 from USB drive. I had good experience with installing Ubuntu from USB drive. I used UNetbootin to make USB drives bootable. I tried same thing for Fedora 18 DVD. USB drive became bootable. But installer failed with "failed to mount /dev/root". Same problem with Fedora Live USB Creator.