[gentoo-user] guest additions for vbox-1.6 gentoo guest on xp host

2008-05-12 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello, Has anyone been able to install successfully the guest additions in a vbox-1.6 gentoo guest? I get the following when installing the additions: Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 1.6.0 Guest Additions for Linux installation ... VirtualBox 1.6.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 May 2008 16:51:08 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > · Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> And last, but not least: Why should backup directories be shared in > >> the first place? > > > > They shouldn't, and I never stated that they should. > > You stated that there might be such

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-12 Thread Stroller
On 12 May 2008, at 14:07, Michael Schmarck wrote: ... Reasons: - "DOS Filesystems" (fat, ntfs) don't allow to store all the metadata you find on Linux. - "Linux filesystems" (ext*, reiser, ...) don't allow to store all the metadata you find on Windows. - Sharing backup space means, that it get'

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] MTRR and PAT

2008-05-12 Thread Andrey Falko
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:30 PM, pk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrey Falko wrote: >> >> Try 2.6.24, I'm afraid that your video might be too new for 2.6.23. > > Well, I think you have misunderstood my question(s). I may have been unclear > as to what I would like to achieve... My goal is to see i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] MTRR and PAT

2008-05-12 Thread pk
Andrey Falko wrote: Try 2.6.24, I'm afraid that your video might be too new for 2.6.23. Well, I think you have misunderstood my question(s). I may have been unclear as to what I would like to achieve... My goal is to see if my MTRR settings are ok or not; well, even better would be if I could

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [wildly OT]advice for a wireless antenna?

2008-05-12 Thread b.n.
Grant ha scritto: Sorry, I don't see how firmware can affect sensitivity. I've been involved in writing firmware for RF data communications stuff for a long time, and I've certainly never been able to affect sensitivity. I can say that I was really struggling to get a reliable wireless conn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [wildly OT]advice for a wireless antenna?

2008-05-12 Thread Grant
> >> What do you mean by "outperform"? I can see how drivers can > >> affect throughput. The Windows drivers for my Laptop's WiFi > >> chipset (Intel Pro-something) only get about 1/4 of the > >> bandwidth that the Linux drivers do. > >> > >> But, I don't understand how the driver can affec

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [wildly OT]advice for a wireless antenna?

2008-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 May 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: > > As modified by the firmware in the device. OK, it's not the > > driver per se, but it's certainly not the hardware either > > Sorry, I don't see how firmware can affect sensitivity. I've > been involved in writing firmware for RF data communications >

[gentoo-user] Re: [wildly OT]advice for a wireless antenna?

2008-05-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-05-12, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What do you mean by "outperform"? I can see how drivers can >> affect throughput. The Windows drivers for my Laptop's WiFi >> chipset (Intel Pro-something) only get about 1/4 of the >> bandwidth that the Linux drivers do. >> >> But, I do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [wildly OT]advice for a wireless antenna?

2008-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 May 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-05-12, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> A curiosity: by itself, the Hawking USB adapter has more or > >> less sensitivity than the simple Airport glued to my Macbook > >> motherboard? > > > > I think it depends a lot on the maturity of the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Automated Builds - Advice Plz

2008-05-12 Thread Andrés Becerra Sandoval
On 5/12/08, Paul Sobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > Not sure this is the perfect place to post, but you are such a helpful > bunch, I thought I'd give it a crack. > > In several previous jobs I've put together automated builds for Windows > boxes, complete with app installs, conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Canon Pixma driver cnijfilter-common-2.60-1.src.rpm

2008-05-12 Thread Justin
deface schrieb: Justin wrote: Hi guys! Is there anybody out there who has still the "*cnijfilter-common-2.60-1.src.rpm*" in his ${DISTDIR}? The original source isn't valid anymore and I need those drivers for my printer. If someone could give them to me, then I would host them for puplic o

[gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello Sandro. · Sandro Hannemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Correct. However you said, that "you need to access it (Linux backup >> directories) from Windows too". And that's the main point and the point >> that hasn't been answered yet: Why do you think, that such a need >> exists? > > > Supp

[gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 12 May 2008 15:07:06 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> And last, but not least: Why should backup directories be shared in >> the first place? > > They shouldn't, and I never stated that they should. You stated that there might be such a need. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 May 2008 15:07:06 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > And last, but not least: Why should backup directories be shared in > the first place? They shouldn't, and I never stated that they should. -- Neil Bothwick I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.

[gentoo-user] Re: [wildly OT]advice for a wireless antenna?

2008-05-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-05-12, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A curiosity: by itself, the Hawking USB adapter has more or >> less sensitivity than the simple Airport glued to my Macbook >> motherboard? > > I think it depends a lot on the maturity of the drivers. As I > said, my Netgear PCI card uses the mad

Re: [gentoo-user] Canon Pixma driver cnijfilter-common-2.60-1.src.rpm

2008-05-12 Thread deface
Justin wrote: Hi guys! Is there anybody out there who has still the "*cnijfilter-common-2.60-1.src.rpm*" in his ${DISTDIR}? The original source isn't valid anymore and I need those drivers for my printer. If someone could give them to me, then I would host them for puplic on my site! Than

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-12 Thread Sandro Hannemann
> Correct. However you said, that "you need to access it (Linux backup > directories) from Windows too". And that's the main point and the point > that hasn't been answered yet: Why do you think, that such a need > exists? Suppose, you've got a project on which you work on both Windows and Li

[gentoo-user] [OT] Automated Builds - Advice Plz

2008-05-12 Thread Paul Sobey
Hello All, Not sure this is the perfect place to post, but you are such a helpful bunch, I thought I'd give it a crack. In several previous jobs I've put together automated builds for Windows boxes, complete with app installs, configuration, bla bla. Now in a new role, I need to develop an automa

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 10 May 2008 08:07:25 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> At least I wouldn't store everything in the same directory. It would >> of course be a good idea to seperate things. > > When did I ever mention using a single directory to mix up all > back

Re: [gentoo-user] Canon Pixma driver cnijfilter-common-2.60-1.src.rpm

2008-05-12 Thread Justin
Justin schrieb: Hi guys! Is there anybody out there who has still the "*cnijfilter-common-2.60-1.src.rpm*" in his ${DISTDIR}? The original source isn't valid anymore and I need those drivers for my printer. If someone could give them to me, then I would host them for puplic on my site! Th

[gentoo-user] Canon Pixma driver cnijfilter-common-2.60-1.src.rpm

2008-05-12 Thread Justin
Hi guys! Is there anybody out there who has still the "*cnijfilter-common-2.60-1.src.rpm*" in his ${DISTDIR}? The original source isn't valid anymore and I need those drivers for my printer. If someone could give them to me, then I would host them for puplic on my site! Thanks for help, ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [wildly OT]advice for a wireless antenna?

2008-05-12 Thread Grant
> I'm talking about the USB wireless adapter (I don't think I can > connect the antenna to my laptop directly), > not the passphrase key... > >>> > >>> Ah. I've got a Hawking HWUG1 USB WiFi adapter that works fine > >>> with Gentoo (I had to download driver source from somewher

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-12 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 12 May 2008, 00:41, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > I am curious why it reads "rootfs" and "/dev/root" in the output of > > df instead of "/dev/hda2" as I have it in my /etc/fstab, and why > > there are two entries. > > > > W > > Alright. Perhaps "man libblkid". > > Which leads me to one *really

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge output confusion regarding upgradeable packages

2008-05-12 Thread PaulNM
Alan McKinnon wrote: This is expected behaviour. The three packages you mention are not in world and thus don't form part of the initial search. Even though you are using -uN, nothing in world *requires* specifically those updated/latest versions, so they never make it into the dependency t

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 12. Mai 2008 schrieb Daniel Iliev: > Try refreshing your block device identification cache by: > > rm /etc/blkid.tab* I don't have those files, although I see the rootfs line in df output. But again: Why would I care? What's the problem? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Descripti