Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, William Kenworthy wrote: > Checking the obvious: you have gone through and manually checked that > the modules are still being built? > Yes. > There has been some renaming going on within netfilter that just using > oldconfig misses a few (leaves them unselected, but didnt as

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-27 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2007. 08. 28, kedd keltezéssel 01.02-kor Norberto Bensa ezt írta: > Quoting Shaochun Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > there is no useable desktop search engine for linux. > > That's the best thing about opensource!!! Code one yourself :-P For comfortable people: there are alternatives, like wind

Re: [gentoo-user] Java Version

2007-08-27 Thread Abraham Marín Pérez
sean escribió: Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: The instructions on Gentoo's site differ a bit from the actual results. eselect java-nsplugin list results as below Available 32-bit Java browser plugins Available 64-bit Java browser plugins No numbered options as to choose one. I am on AMD64 and u

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down WLAN and network

2007-08-27 Thread Michael Gisbers
Am Montag 27 August 2007 schrieb Noud Aldenhoven: > On 8/27/07, Michael Gisbers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Montag 27 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I've already tried my luck on gentoo-laptop but that list seems to be > > > dead. > > > > > > Is there a neat and ea

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-27 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Shaochun Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: there is no useable desktop search engine for linux. That's the best thing about opensource!!! Code one yourself :-P This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 28. August 2007, Shaochun Wang wrote: > Hi guys: > > I wouldn't like, but i have to say that all current available linux > desktop search engines are rubbish. Keep reading, and you'll know why. > > 1. Beagle is full of buggy. Can you imagine what makes a software consumes > five hundre

[gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-27 Thread Shaochun Wang
Hi guys: I wouldn't like, but i have to say that all current available linux desktop search engines are rubbish. Keep reading, and you'll know why. 1. Beagle is full of buggy. Can you imagine what makes a software consumes five hundrend Megabits of memory? On my system, this beast consumes almost

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant issues

2007-08-27 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 8/27/07, Eric Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What pid does it get when you stop the process and start a new one; 5872 or > is that only when you first start up? I had a problem similar to that a > while ago but I haven't used my wireless card in ages... > > > On 8/22/07, Daniel V. Cowsill

[gentoo-user] Re: FQDN v. localhost

2007-08-27 Thread Thufir
Here's what I did, but I didn't do all of the steps specified. Is this correct? I want to configure a FQDN for leafnode: localhost ~ # localhost ~ # localhost ~ # localhost ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/net # This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.* # scripts in /etc/init.d.

[gentoo-user] [maybe solved] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:01:09PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > I got a shiny new Dell Inspiron from the "PC fairy". Windows Vista > works OK (at least good enough for Windows). It does not want to be > formatted. I insert the latest minimal install CD, and things start > off OK at the beginning

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread William Kenworthy
Checking the obvious: you have gone through and manually checked that the modules are still being built? There has been some renaming going on within netfilter that just using oldconfig misses a few (leaves them unselected, but didnt ask if I wanted them built). Not sure which kernel versions wer

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:52:39 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't > >needed with modern hardware. > Unless you want to use LVM. In which case it's just as easy to use a small root partition, including /boot, /lib, /bin etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Dave Jones
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote on 27/08/07 22:52: > On Monday 27 August 2007, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?': >> Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't needed >> with modern hardware. > Unless you want to use L

Re: [gentoo-user] Java Version

2007-08-27 Thread sean
Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: The instructions on Gentoo's site differ a bit from the actual results. eselect java-nsplugin list results as below Available 32-bit Java browser plugins Available 64-bit Java browser plugins No numbered options as to choose one. I am on AMD64 and using the 64 bit

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 27 August 2007, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?': >Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't needed >with modern hardware. Unless you want to use LVM. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant issues

2007-08-27 Thread Eric Martin
What pid does it get when you stop the process and start a new one; 5872 or is that only when you first start up? I had a problem similar to that a while ago but I haven't used my wireless card in ages... On 8/22/07, Daniel V. Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use wpa_supplicant with madwi

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jorge Almeida wrote: > Meanwhile, I ended up by selecting all modules in my former > config, even those that are plainly irrelevant (according to the > help in menuconfig) and shorewall now starts OK. I just wish I > were any wiser, which I'm not. Sure you are. You've learned that shorewall sets

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down WLAN and network

2007-08-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 27 August 2007 19:45:47 schrieb Noud Aldenhoven: > On 8/27/07, Michael Gisbers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Montag 27 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I've already tried my luck on gentoo-laptop but that list seems to be > > > dead. > > > > > > Is there a ne

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 August 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:29:58 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: > > Yeah, I should have set noauto the instant I found out about it. Any > > other recommended mount options? Right now they are > > > > defaults,noauto,user_xattr 1 2 > > The trouble with using

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, David Snider wrote: > > > Here's my .config > Thanks, David. Your configuration works for me. Meanwhile, I ended up by selecting all modules in my former config, even those that are plainly irrelevant (according to the help in menuconfig) and shorewall now starts OK. I jus

Re: [gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 August 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 27 August 2007, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have a box which until recently had only one user. When I created > > this user as e.g. user_name1 his home became owned by > > user_name1:users. This cascaded to directories below > > /ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down WLAN and network

2007-08-27 Thread Noud Aldenhoven
On 8/27/07, Michael Gisbers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Montag 27 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: > > Hi! > > > > I've already tried my luck on gentoo-laptop but that list seems to be dead. > > > > Is there a neat and easy way to shut down the ethernet and WLAN adapters of > > my notebook

Re: [gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 August 2007, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag, 27. August 2007 schrieb ext Mick: > > I have a box which until recently had only one user. When I created this > > user as e.g. user_name1 his home became owned by user_name1:users. This > > cascaded to directories below /home/user_name

[gentoo-user] [solved] Re: gensplash problem with X

2007-08-27 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Marc Blumentritt schrieb: > Hi, > > when I boot my new system with gensplash, the console is OK up until X > is started via gdm. Afterward all consoles are "smeared" and "broken". > Starting X via startx results in a similar problem plus X is not > starting. I try to give you all relevant data in

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down WLAN and network

2007-08-27 Thread Michael Gisbers
Am Montag 27 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: > Hi! > > I've already tried my luck on gentoo-laptop but that list seems to be dead. > > Is there a neat and easy way to shut down the ethernet and WLAN adapters of > my notebook when I don't need them? Hi, it's me again ;-) Do you want to shut t

[gentoo-user] Shutting down WLAN and network

2007-08-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I've already tried my luck on gentoo-laptop but that list seems to be dead. Is there a neat and easy way to shut down the ethernet and WLAN adapters of my notebook when I don't need them? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message par

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant+ndiswrapper, Dell E1505, Broadcom 4311 wireless problem

2007-08-27 Thread Willie Wong
The following lines worries me a bit. On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:16:23AM -0400, Penguin Lover Lingyun Yang squawked: > Starting AP scan (specific SSID) > Scan SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=6): > 41 50 54 32 32 42 APT22B > Trying to get current scan results first wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:22:56 -0400 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that I have a working keyboard and a busybox shell, I'm trying > to mount a USB key. I did... > > mknod /dev/sda b 8 0 > mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1 > > ...inserted a USB key, and tried mounting it. dmesg indica

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 August 2007, Mick wrote: > On Monday 27 August 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't > > needed with modern hardware. > > Please tell us more. Many many many years ago, back in the dark days of small drives and broken BIOSes,

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies from eclass and from ebuild

2007-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 August 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Monday 27 August 2007 10:58:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > If I switch to paludis, is it relatively[1] easy to revert back to > > portage in the event of $UNKNOWN_REASON? (I'm really just looking > > for a yes or no here) > > [SNIP] > > > [1] 'r

Re: [gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 August 2007, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a box which until recently had only one user. When I created > this user as e.g. user_name1 his home became owned by > user_name1:users. This cascaded to directories below > /home/user_name1. No directory called user_name1 was created at

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Mick, > > Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't > > needed with modern hardware. > > Please tell us more. A separate /boot is to get round BIOS limitation that prevent accessing beyond the first so many cylinders (1024?) of a drive, so it was essential to have

Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up

2007-08-27 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 27 August 2007 03:28:34 W.Kenworthy wrote: > Some files did turn out to be from currently installed packages (curl, > gnuplot, glade, ...) that revdep-rebuild didnt pick up - a bit of a > worry ... Probably the most reliable version of revdep-rebuild currently in the tree is in gentoolk

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 August 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't needed > with modern hardware. Please tell us more. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have a box which until recently had only one user. When I created this user as e.g. user_name1 his home became owned by user_name1:users. This cascaded to directories below /home/user_name1. No directory called user_name1 was created at the time. More recently, I created a new use

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies from eclass and from ebuild

2007-08-27 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 27 August 2007 10:39:25 David Bonnafous wrote: > After a sync (see below what and how) when I try to re-merge a package > (same version) and emerge tell me that there is a dependency not > satified I would like to know where this dependency come from. Because > this is a "new" dependency,

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread David Snider
Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, David Snider wrote: Anybody managed to get shorewall working with gentoo-sources 2.6.22-r5? I upgraded from 2.6.20, and there went the firewall. I used oldconfig I recently updated to 2.6.22-r5. Shorewall seems to be working

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies from eclass and from ebuild

2007-08-27 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 27 August 2007 10:58:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: > If I switch to paludis, is it relatively[1] easy to revert back to > portage in the event of $UNKNOWN_REASON? (I'm really just looking for a > yes or no here) [SNIP] > [1] 'relative' is a relative term :-) If it's a similar order of > magnitu

[gentoo-user] Re: building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-27 Thread James
Florian Philipp addcom.de> writes: > If you buy new drives, buy SATA. Although IDE is fast enough for optical > drives, the cables block the airflow in your case and with SATA you don't > need to think about hdparm tuning, jumpers and such like. Sata has one property that is identical to ID

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:29:58 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: > Yeah, I should have set noauto the instant I found out about it. Any > other recommended mount options? Right now they are > > defaults,noauto,user_xattr 1 2 The trouble with using noauto is that sooner or later you will forget to mount /b

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 27 August 2007 07:52:35 schrieb Michael Gisbers: > Am Sonntag 26 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: > > Am Sonntag 26 August 2007 21:53:47 schrieb Michael Gisbers: > > > Am Samstag 25 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: > > > > Am Mittwoch 22 August 2007 17:31:33 schrieb Florian Philip

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, David Snider wrote: > > > > > Anybody managed to get shorewall working with gentoo-sources > > > > > 2.6.22-r5? > > > > > I upgraded from 2.6.20, and there went the firewall. I used oldconfig > > > > > > I recently updated to 2.6.22-r5. Shorewall seems to be workin

Re: [gentoo-user] building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 27 August 2007 05:44:55 schrieb Philip Webb: > 070826 Aaron Clark wrote: > > On 20-Aug-07, at 3:06 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > >> (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as > >> "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 > >> integrated High-definition video processin

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies from eclass and from ebuild

2007-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 24 August 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 24 August 2007 18:49:38 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Sounds like you want to keep the old eclass around inside the > > overlay and let portage update ${PORTDIR}/eclass/* as it sees fit? > > > > I have this setup, I simply created an eclass

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-27 Thread purple
ummm, anyone there who tried to help, just to let you know problem is solved with this morning's emerge -NDuva world where new udev release (115) apeared..i just casualy pluged stick and it was instanty automounted on fstab defined point (/mnt/usb) as well as a cdrom with same instant mounting few

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies from eclass and from ebuild

2007-08-27 Thread David Bonnafous
Hi, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 24 August 2007 18:24:33 David Bonnafous wrote: >> I'm working to get a "stable portage overlay" to keep ebuild and files >> I used to build my system. >> >> But even if I keep the ebuild and all the files needed, the command >> "emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Philip Webb, > > OTOH, I do have a couple of words of caution about the Motherboard. > > The new Intel chipsets do not provide an IDE controller > > so motherboard manufacturers have to go get a 3rd party IDE/PATA > > controller if they want that support on their Intel motherboards. > > M

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, W.Kenworthy wrote: > No problems on multiple systems built using oldconfig and not rebuilding > iptables. OK, that means it's not some problem related with gentoo-sources patches. > > In the kernel I turn everything on by default and build it modular - > this might be the cau

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Java Version

2007-08-27 Thread Abraham Marín Pérez
Thufir escribió: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:41:49 +0200, Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: How do I get the plugin into Firefox? I have the USE flag in place, and a 32 and 64 bit plugin appears available, but still nothing shows for about:plugins. The fetch restriction appears when downloading