On Mon, 4 May 2009 20:32:33 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote:

> > Does the dialup work at all. Can you ping any of the gentoo
> > mirrors? Did
> > mirrorselect work?
> 
> emerge mirrorselect is further down the page under "Last configuration
> touches".  Which is a puzzlement. Before failing portage tried
> connecting to a long list of sites. How did portage know where to look?
> make.conf has only the CFLAGS and CHOST lines. Nothing about where to
> look for files.

Portage uses sensible defaults wherever possible.

> Yeah, the weird thing is I could download stuff onto the Desktop but
> not emerge or even wget from the chrooted environment.

Did you copy /etc/resolv.conf to your chroot?

> IIRC tuxonice's wifi wouldn't work so I used xubuntu, wifi starts up
> automaticamente on this model.

I'm sending this from my Eee PC 900 running tuxonice-sources-2.6.29-r1,
you need to enable ATH5K.


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