Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-16 Thread Mick
On Thursday 16 Jun 2011 23:13:28 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16 2011, Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 16 Jun 2011 15:38:30 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> I have an htc incredible and want to use it to act as a modem for my > >> gentoo laptop. [snip...] > >> I haven't seen any howtos for tethering

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering RAID1 after disk failure

2011-06-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Mike Diehl wrote: > I've got a sw RAID1 that just had a failed drive replaced with an identical > drive. > > However, the good drive started on sector 63 and the new drive want's to start > on sector 2048.  Fdisk won't let me create the partition table on the new

[gentoo-user] Recovering RAID1 after disk failure

2011-06-16 Thread Mike Diehl
Hi all, I've got a sw RAID1 that just had a failed drive replaced with an identical drive. However, the good drive started on sector 63 and the new drive want's to start on sector 2048. Fdisk won't let me create the partition table on the new drive as it is on the old drive. This is the good

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 16:10 +0200, Cahn Roger wrote: > > Apologies if I missed someone already asking these: > > No problem! Thanks to try to help me. > > > 1. are the lights on or flashing with a cable plugged in and pinging > > something valid? > > No. They are stable > That indicates a prob

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Jun 16 2011, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 16 Jun 2011 15:38:30 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> I have an htc incredible and want to use it to act as a modem for my >> gentoo laptop. >> >> The htc manual says that I first must install htc sync. >> When I go to the htc web site, I find that htc sync

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-16 Thread Mick
On Thursday 16 Jun 2011 15:38:30 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I have an htc incredible and want to use it to act as a modem for my > gentoo laptop. > > The htc manual says that I first must install htc sync. > When I go to the htc web site, I find that htc sync is only available > for ms windows. I wo

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Jun 16 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> I have an htc incredible and want to use it to act as a modem for my >> gentoo laptop. > >> I haven't seen any howtos for tethering directly with gentoo. > > Check out this forum post: > https://f

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread Cahn Roger
> Wait 5 minutes and then restart the whole thing. I did it, but without success :-(

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 16 June 2011 17:20:10 Thanasis wrote: > on 06/16/2011 05:11 PM Cahn Roger wrote the following: > >> Reset the switch too? > > > > Excuse me Thanasis but I don't understand what you mean ;-( > > Reset, or power-off and power-on the switch/hub. Or simply, shut down everything that's

[gentoo-user] gentoo-source-2.6.38-r6 as PV domU in XEN no Console

2011-06-16 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, it is booting, I can log in. (dom0 is xen-sources-2.6.34-r4). However I do not have a complete console (tried with xensons=tty). Last message while starting with xm create -c is: [0.284193] uname used greatest stack depth: 5856 bytes left [6.801094] init-early.sh used greatest stack

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-16 Thread YoYo Siska
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 09:23:16AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Is there a simple explanation concerning the difference between the > >> two locales I have seen on Gentoo machines?

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/16/2011 07:45 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I think the root of my question is really the (possibly) unfortunately use of the word 'locale' for the glibc stuff. locale.gen looks a bit cryptic, but the "gen" refers to generating locales. To have locales available for use, they need to be genera

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/16/2011 07:23 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Is there a simple explanation concerning the difference between the two locales I have seen on Gentoo machines? 1) /etc/locale, as specified i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 06/16/2011 06:45 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Is there a simple explanation concerning the difference between the >> two locales I have seen on Gentoo machines? >> >> 1) /etc/locale, as specified in the installation documents >> >> 2)

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Is there a simple explanation concerning the difference between the >> two locales I have seen on Gentoo machines? >> >> 1) /etc/locale, as specified in the installation documents >> >>

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/16/2011 06:45 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Is there a simple explanation concerning the difference between the two locales I have seen on Gentoo machines? 1) /etc/locale, as specified in the installation documents 2) /etc/env.d/02locale as has been discussed on the list recently There is no /

Re: Odp: [gentoo-user] Re: polish fonts xorg.conf

2011-06-16 Thread fajfusio
Dnia 15-06-2011 o godz. 21:59 Mick napisał(a): > On Wednesday 15 Jun 2011 16:41:29 YoYo Siska wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:46:54PM +0200, fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: > > > Dnia 14-06-2011 o godz. 21:51 walt napisał(a): > > > > On 06/14/2011 09:02 AM, fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: > > > > > Hello > > > >

[gentoo-user] /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Is there a simple explanation concerning the difference between the two locales I have seen on Gentoo machines? 1) /etc/locale, as specified in the installation documents 2) /etc/env.d/02locale as has been discussed on the list recently I'm helping a Windows friend bring up his first Gentoo box.

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I have an htc incredible and want to use it to act as a modem for my > gentoo laptop. > I haven't seen any howtos for tethering directly with gentoo. Check out this forum post: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-843255-start-0.html

[gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have an htc incredible and want to use it to act as a modem for my gentoo laptop. The htc manual says that I first must install htc sync. When I go to the htc web site, I find that htc sync is only available for ms windows. I believing others on this group have tethered their incredibles and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread Thanasis
on 06/16/2011 05:11 PM Cahn Roger wrote the following: > >> Reset the switch too? > > Excuse me Thanasis but I don't understand what you mean ;-( > > > Reset, or power-off and power-on the switch/hub.

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread Cahn Roger
> Reset the switch too? Excuse me Thanasis but I don't understand what you mean ;-(

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread Cahn Roger
> Apologies if I missed someone already asking these: No problem! Thanks to try to help me. > 1. are the lights on or flashing with a cable plugged in and pinging > something valid? No. They are stable > 2. can you ping yourself (both 127.0.0.1 and the nic IP) - cable plugged > in They work bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo server installation

2011-06-16 Thread Perenaster
thank you al for your responses! this really helped a lot I will try to install and use Gentoo as server and I also will contact the gentoo-server mailinglist if I experienace any problems Thanks Tom 2011/6/10 Pandu Poluan > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 21:29, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > Apparently,

[gentoo-user] sysklogd

2011-06-16 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
Someone that use sysklogd know how to create /dev/xconsole? Cos every time that sysklogd start during the boot appear some message about this "file" and something like "No such file or directory". But the sysklogd starting normally. Thanks for any help. -- --- Zhu Sha Zang

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking conflicts in kde packages when updating world

2011-06-16 Thread Alex Schuster
"ifj. Stefán István" writes: > I want to make an update on my Gentoo system and get a lot of blocking > packages. > I use this command for upgarde: > USE="semantic-desktop" emerge -pv --update --newuse --deep world Add --tree, this may help to see what pulls in which packages. I had a similar blo

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread Thanasis
on 06/16/2011 10:50 AM Cahn Roger wrote the following: > Or someone's standing on the cable :-) > > Yes, a bad spirit!!! > > I resume. > 1-The problem occured after I tried to share my Epson printer > between my three PCs: Gentoo+XP (twice) and W7 > 2-The NIC is included in the motherboard (Asu

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread Mick
On Thursday 16 Jun 2011 09:02:01 Cahn Roger wrote: > > OK, let's look at this from the router side ... what router make & model > > do you have? > > It's a box through which I get internet, telephone. > The name is Neuf-Box and given by access supplier SFR. > It continue to work well on my two oth

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread William Kenworthy
Apologies if I missed someone already asking these: 1. are the lights on or flashing with a cable plugged in and pinging something valid? 2. can you ping yourself (both 127.0.0.1 and the nic IP) - cable plugged in 3. do you have IP tables installed - "iptables -vnL" and check you have not firewa

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread Cahn Roger
> Based on all the information provided already, there is a very good chance > that the network card on your mainboard is no longer working correctly. I'm afraid you're right, because neither Gentoo nor XP work and they're on two different HD. > I am, to be honest, hoping that it is caused by in

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 16 June 2011 10:28:47 Cahn Roger wrote: > > Can you get hold of a PCI* NIC to try, it will appear as eth1. > > Excuse me, I don't understand what you mean " get hold of a PCI* NIC" :-( > > A lspci gives: > > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E >

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 16 June 2011 09:50:00 Cahn Roger wrote: > Or someone's standing on the cable :-) > > Yes, a bad spirit!!! > > I resume. > 1-The problem occured after I tried to share my Epson printer > between my three PCs: Gentoo+XP (twice) and W7 Is the printer still connected and switched on? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread Cahn Roger
> Can you get hold of a PCI* NIC to try, it will appear as eth1. Excuse me, I don't understand what you mean " get hold of a PCI* NIC" :-( A lspci gives: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:06:19 +0200, Cahn Roger wrote: > This really sounds like broken hardware and if the > > cable is fine, the NIC is suspect. > > I'm afraid you're right! > But, as I just wrote, the NIC is included in the motherboard... > > PERHAPS a solution: try a restore from the > exter

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread Cahn Roger
This really sounds like broken hardware and if the > cable is fine, the NIC is suspect. I'm afraid you're right! But, as I just wrote, the NIC is included in the motherboard... PERHAPS a solution: try a restore from the external HD where I have saved a week ago with fsarchiver on SystemRescueCD.

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:50:00 +0200, Cahn Roger wrote: > 2-The NIC is included in the motherboard (Asus P5K-E) Can you get hold of a PCI* NIC to try, it will appear as eth1. If it works the problem is with the motherboard NIC. I'd also check the BIOS to make sure the pixies haven't disabled the NI

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread Cahn Roger
Or someone's standing on the cable :-) Yes, a bad spirit!!! I resume. 1-The problem occured after I tried to share my Epson printer between my three PCs: Gentoo+XP (twice) and W7 2-The NIC is included in the motherboard (Asus P5K-E) 3-The cable from the dektop, where the problem exists, works f

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems

2011-06-16 Thread JDM
Apologies for this. It was supposed to be a general term With regards to usb issues 2.6.39-r1 has seemed to solve a lot of issues. --Original Message-- From: Peter Humphrey To: Gentoo ReplyTo: Gentoo Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems Sent: 16 Jun 2011 00:34 On Sunday 12 June 2011

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Modules

2011-06-16 Thread Stroller
On 15 June 2011, at 19:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 15 June 2011 17:25:23 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:07:01 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> I'd like to use this but I don't have shopt. Which package is it in? If >>> I ask Google I get a list of places to buy T-shir

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 June 2011 23:38:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:14:28 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > If not please change the ethernet cable. > > > > > > I did it, it was even a new one! > > > > > > > This seems s much like a hardware failure > > > > > > > > I can't think of an