Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-08 Thread Dale
Jason Carson wrote: > Hey all, > > I think I might know the problem. After doing some reading apparently many > distrutions, including Gentoo, don't ship hostapd with support for the > nl80211 driver. I checked the Gentoo tarball and this is the case. I tried > editing the defconfig file in hostapd

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-08 Thread Jason Carson
> On Tuesday 09 June 2009, Jason Carson wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I am trying to setup a wireless access point using the atheros kernel >> driver (Built into the kernel, not as a module). I am using >> Vanilla-Sources 2.6.29.4. I need my wireless network card to start up in >> "master mode" but fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-08 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 09 June 2009, Jason Carson wrote: > Greetings, > > I am trying to setup a wireless access point using the atheros kernel > driver (Built into the kernel, not as a module). I am using > Vanilla-Sources 2.6.29.4. I need my wireless network card to start up in > "master mode" but for some r

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-08 Thread Jason Carson
Hey all, I think I might know the problem. After doing some reading apparently many distrutions, including Gentoo, don't ship hostapd with support for the nl80211 driver. I checked the Gentoo tarball and this is the case. I tried editing the defconfig file in hostapd.tar.gz (enabling CONFIG_DRIVER

[gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-08 Thread Jason Carson
Greetings, I am trying to setup a wireless access point using the atheros kernel driver (Built into the kernel, not as a module). I am using Vanilla-Sources 2.6.29.4. I need my wireless network card to start up in "master mode" but for some reason it is starting up in "managed mode". When wlan0

[gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from GENTOO_MIRRORS. Doable?

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-08 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:52:23PM -0500, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > >> Questions: You knew I subscribed to this list. lol I ran the command: >> >> find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs qfile -o >> >> and I got a lot of hits. I'm just going to post snippets of the >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:52:23PM -0500, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > Questions: You knew I subscribed to this list. lol I ran the command: > > find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs qfile -o > > and I got a lot of hits. I'm just going to post snippets of the > directories here. It is a LO

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-08 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:44:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >> Is there an easy way to detect the orphaned libs on and old machine >> who's install dates back to 2004? The only idea I can come up with is >> >> for I in /usr/lib/*.so.* ; do equery belongs $I ; done >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:54:08PM +0100, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:44:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to detect the orphaned libs on and old machine > > who's install dates back to 2004? The only idea I can come up with is > > > > fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-08 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 08 June 2009 22:54:08 Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:44:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> Is there an easy way to detect the orphaned libs on and old machine >>> who's install dates back to 2004? The only idea I can come up with is >>> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 08 June 2009 22:54:08 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:44:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Is there an easy way to detect the orphaned libs on and old machine > > who's install dates back to 2004? The only idea I can come up with is > > > > for I in /usr/lib/*.so.* ; do eque

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Mick
On Monday 08 June 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > 090608 Mick wrote: > > I seem to have installed kde-base/mimelib, I guess as dependency: > > kde-base/mimelib > > Installed versions: 3.5.10(3.5)(20:11:53 06/07/09)(-debug > > -elibc_FreeBSD) I also tried changing fluxbox for kdm (in case this is a >

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Is it possible to update LITE-ON firmware? > > Yes, but only from within MS Windows as far as I know. Here is the > latest official firmware for your LDW-411S: > > http://www.liteonit.com/DO

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:44:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Is there an easy way to detect the orphaned libs on and old machine > who's install dates back to 2004? The only idea I can come up with is > > for I in /usr/lib/*.so.* ; do equery belongs $I ; done qfile --orphans /usr/lib/*.so.* or, m

[gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, Is there an easy way to detect the orphaned libs on and old machine who's install dates back to 2004? The only idea I can come up with is for I in /usr/lib/*.so.* ; do equery belongs $I ; done which strikes me as being a tad overkill... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] slim login manager issues

2009-06-08 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Laurent Lejeune (olo...@gmail.com) [08.06.09 19:19]: > Hi all, > > I'm having some issues with the slim login manager, which suits my very > basic needs very well, except from those two things: > > * When starting, the keyboard doesn't respond quite well. The > characters don't show o

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
090608 Mick wrote: > I seem to have installed kde-base/mimelib, I guess as dependency: > kde-base/mimelib > Installed versions: 3.5.10(3.5)(20:11:53 06/07/09)(-debug -elibc_FreeBSD) > I also tried changing fluxbox for kdm (in case this is a fluxbox WM issue) > and restarted X with kdm. Ran kbui

[gentoo-user] Working tftp ebuild?

2009-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
Which of the tftp server ebuilds works? I've tried tftp-hpa, but its /etc/init.d/in.tftpd script appears to be broken. Do any of the other tftp servers work? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! A dwarf is passing out at some

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Is it possible to update LITE-ON firmware? Yes, but only from within MS Windows as far as I know. Here is the latest official firmware for your LDW-411S: http://www.liteonit.com/DOWNLOADS/ODD/LDW-411S/firmware/DR4FS0K.zip >From your logs, you'

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Mick
On Monday 08 June 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > 090608 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > are you missing mimelib > > Yes, in fact I've never heard of it before. > Has it suddenly become necessary with the latest KDE 3.5.10 ? > > > have you updated from monolithic to split - and missed a couple of > > pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Your problem is that either your CD-ROM drive has buggy formware or that the > CD > is mastered in a way that contains illegal characters... > > Given the fact that is is most unlikely to have the same ISRC for all tracks > on > the CD,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
090608 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > are you missing mimelib Yes, in fact I've never heard of it before. Has it suddenly become necessary with the latest KDE 3.5.10 ? > have you updated from monolithic to split - and missed a couple of packages? Not here. -- ,,=

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Joerg > Schilling wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > >> Always up for other interpretations as to what might be going on, and > >> also VERY interested in learning a good set of commands with cdrtools > >> to copy and write CD's without havin

[gentoo-user] peculiar ppp problem

2009-06-08 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, I have been switching my dial-up account between my desktop PC and my netbook eee. Both use identical ppp conf files except the PC uses /dev/ttyS0 and the netbook uses /dev/ttyUSB0(created by the pl2303 driver and a usb/serial connector). I'm using separate but identical USR modems. Bot

[gentoo-user] slim login manager issues

2009-06-08 Thread Laurent Lejeune
Hi all, I'm having some issues with the slim login manager, which suits my very basic needs very well, except from those two things: * When starting, the keyboard doesn't respond quite well. The characters don't show on screen imediately, and sometimes, it gets even worse: it free

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Always up for other interpretations as to what might be going on, and >> also VERY interested in learning a good set of commands with cdrtools >> to copy and write CD's without having to use k3b. > > The related comma

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 08 Juni 2009, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Can't recall if anyone else posted on this. Just updated my KDE to > the latest 3.5.10 and discovered that there is no KDE menu! This > means no KDE applications menu, as well as no menu on the left hand > pane when I run kcontrol from a terminal:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Mick
2009/6/8 Cristian Gary : >  Run in konsole  kde 4.2  , "  bash$  kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental"   with > this you force the rebuild of kde menu. Thank you both. I am still running kde-3.5.10 so I ran: $ kbuildsycoca --noincremental Warning: kbuilds

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
090608 Cristian Gary wrote: > 2009/6/8 Philip Webb >> 090608 Mick wrote: >>> The problem remains with most menus and submenus in KDE applications: >>> e.g. right-click on a file in Konqueror, then 'Open With' >>> and there are no applications in the popup to select from . >> Yes, that reminds me t

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Cristian Gary
Run in konsole kde 4.2 , " bash$ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental" with this you force the rebuild of kde menu. Saludos. 2009/6/8 Philip Webb > 090608 Mick wrote: > > I noticed 'konqueror' works fine, so I changed the FB menu accordingly. > > Apwal looks cool, I will give it a spin, > > tho

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
090608 Mick wrote: > I noticed 'konqueror' works fine, so I changed the FB menu accordingly. > Apwal looks cool, I will give it a spin, > though I am conditioned to years of using the FB right-click menu. I have L-mouse = Apwal & R-mouse = FB menu : in ~/.fluxbox/init : OnDesktop Mouse1 :Exec

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange world

2009-06-08 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 08 June 2009 13:45:38 KH wrote: > >> econti schrieb: >> >>> Hi all >>> my to-day "world" is the one attached. I am just a little bit confused. >>> Can anyone explain to me what's happening? :-( >>> Thanks >>> emilio >>> >> Also there is some qt stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to (re)build kaffeine 0.8.6.

2009-06-08 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/7/09, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Arttu V. [09-06-07 18:01]: >> On 6/7/09, Arttu V. wrote: >> > Could you try copying it over to /usr/kde/3.5/share/services/ and see >> > if the problem persists? >> > >> > image # find . -iname 'xine*.desktop' >> > ./usr/kde/3.5/share/services/xine_part.de

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Mick
2009/6/8 Philip Webb : > 090608 Mick wrote: >> Just updated my KDE to the latest 3.5.10 and discovered >> there is no KDE menu!  This means no KDE applications menu, >> & no menu on the left hand pane when I run kcontrol from a terminal: >>   kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
090608 Mick wrote: > Just updated my KDE to the latest 3.5.10 and discovered > there is no KDE menu! This means no KDE applications menu, > & no menu on the left hand pane when I run kcontrol from a terminal: > kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found! > Defaultin

Re: [gentoo-user] on AMD64 firefox + java (32bit) - howto

2009-06-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 08 June 2009 16:20:42 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I've firefox-bin-3.5beta4 installed on my AMD64 Gentoo system. > Typing about:buildconfig as URL it's saying it's a 32bits application. > For java(-applets) to run, I need a 32 bit java. > GenToo installs 64 bit java jre/jdk on my sys

[gentoo-user] on AMD64 firefox + java (32bit) - howto

2009-06-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've firefox-bin-3.5beta4 installed on my AMD64 Gentoo system. Typing about:buildconfig as URL it's saying it's a 32bits application. For java(-applets) to run, I need a 32 bit java. GenToo installs 64 bit java jre/jdk on my system by default. How can I install a 32bit version in addition (jus

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mark Knecht wrote: > Always up for other interpretations as to what might be going on, and > also VERY interested in learning a good set of commands with cdrtools > to copy and write CD's without having to use k3b. The related commands are in the EXAMPLES section for cdda2wav and/or cdrecord. J

[gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Mick
Hi All, Can't recall if anyone else posted on this. Just updated my KDE to the latest 3.5.10 and discovered that there is no KDE menu! This means no KDE applications menu, as well as no menu on the left hand pane when I run kcontrol from a terminal: kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:25:57 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > On this system, I just left portage at what seemed to be a working > version to avoid the problems caused by the downgrade. I think the key word here is "seemed" :( -- Neil Bothwick There's no place like ~ signature.asc Descript

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-08 Thread William Kenworthy
2.1.6.13 was the latest when ... - thats as kindly as I can think of the person and his reasons for putting me through a lot of work as I didnt notice the downgrade on one system in time. If it was for security or other reasons I could understand it, and maybe not agree with it ... but just becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-08 Thread William Kenworthy
hmmm ... sounds a bit cranky! - had a tooth out today :( BilLK On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 20:25 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > 2.1.6.13 was the latest when ... - thats as kindly as I can think of the > person and his reasons for putting me through a lot of work as I didnt > notice the downgrade on

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange world

2009-06-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 08 June 2009 13:45:38 KH wrote: > econti schrieb: > > Hi all > > my to-day "world" is the one attached. I am just a little bit confused. > > Can anyone explain to me what's happening? :-( > > Thanks > > emilio > > Also there is some qt stuff going on: > > > [blocks b ] is blocking x1

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange world

2009-06-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 08 Juni 2009, KH wrote: > econti schrieb: > > Hi all > > my to-day "world" is the one attached. I am just a little bit confused. > > Can anyone explain to me what's happening? :-( > > Thanks > > emilio > > Also there is some qt stuff going on: > > > [blocks b ] is blocking x11-libs/q

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange world

2009-06-08 Thread KH
econti schrieb: > Hi all > my to-day "world" is the one attached. I am just a little bit confused. > Can anyone explain to me what's happening? :-( > Thanks > emilio > Also there is some qt stuff going on: [blocks b ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange world

2009-06-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 08 June 2009 11:05:28 econti wrote: > Hi all > my to-day "world" is the one attached. I am just a little bit confused. > Can anyone explain to me what's happening? :-( > Thanks > emilio You appear to have monolithic kde packages installed. These have been removed for kde-3.5.10. So kde

[gentoo-user] Strange world

2009-06-08 Thread econti
Hi all my to-day "world" is the one attached. I am just a little bit confused. Can anyone explain to me what's happening? :-( Thanks emilio [ebuild U ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.5.2.9 [6.5.1.0] USE="X bzip2 corefonts openmp perl truetype zlib -djvu -doc -fontconfig -fpx -graphviz -gs -hdri -jbi

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Patch failed to apply - System will no longer upgrade

2009-06-08 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:50:09 +0200 Rod wrote: > For this package and everything else I wish to apply, this is > locking my system in time so I can no longer upgrade any software ;o( You can use "emerge --keep-going" flag for portage-2.2 or "emerge --resume --skip-first" for earlier versions

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Patch failed to apply - System will no longer upgrade

2009-06-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 07 June 2009 19:02:54 Rod wrote: > Hi. > > This issue is really pissing me off, I have ried almost all the > fixes, even to the point of booting and copying a Stage3 tarball over > the running system and doing a Stage3 Install. > > No matter what I do, and for almost ALL packa

Re: [gentoo-user] generic command monitor

2009-06-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 6/8/09, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > watch(1) (part of sys-process/procps) > Perfect. Thank you Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail

[gentoo-user] Portage Patch failed to apply - System will no longer upgrade

2009-06-08 Thread Rod
Hi. This issue is really pissing me off, I have ried almost all the fixes, even to the point of booting and copying a Stage3 tarball over the running system and doing a Stage3 Install. No matter what I do, and for almost ALL packages I get .. * Portage patch failed to apply (ltmain.s