Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

2008-04-11 Thread Hamie
On Friday 11 April 2008 13:49:11 Roger Mason wrote:
 Hello,

 I'm trying to configure the firewall on a client to allow that client
 to mount an nfs directory.  The client runs a netfilter firewall, the
 server uses tcpwrapper.

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 If I drop the client firewall the mount succeeds.

 Can someone help me figure out what must be put in my iptables script
 to get this to work?


Do you have the option to run nfsv4? It uses only port tcp-2049. That way you 
don't need portmapper (port 111), lockmgr, status, or mountd.

Hamish.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread Hamie
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 08:41, Rumen Yotov wrote:
 Hi,

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 Don't want to seem i recommend it, but you can try the Sabayon-miniCD
 for a new install.
 Don't know how actual the kernel/userspace are but in all cases newer
 then 2006.1.
 It's a Gentoo-based (slightly modified) distro.
 A good thing is it updates it's install-CDs quite often.

Hey thanks I'd never heard of it I'll give it a go

regards
  Hamish


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Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Hamie
On Sunday 15 April 2007 07:37, Dale wrote:
 Norberto Bensa wrote:
  Daniel da Veiga wrote:
  On 4/15/07, Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Not true. 2006.1 doesn't boot on my hardware.
 
  ...
 
  We (I) need 2007.0 ASAP.
 
  Just get any old version (that works),
 
  That's the point. None works. The media needs kernel 2.6.18 or better.
 
  I can use Knoppix or Ubuntu, but that's not the point.

 Maybe some are not understanding the point he is making.  If I
 understand correctly, he needs a newer release so that when he boots the
 CD to do a install, it will see his hardware.  It would appear that the

The same thing happens on my laptop as well (Thinkpad Z61m, core2Duo). The 
Gentoo boot disks just don't have the drivers. I had to boot a Knoppix disk, 
install that, then do gentoo as a chroot... Which was a REAL nightmare 
because the knoppix was 32bit  I wanted a 64-bit install (It took messing 
around with a kernel from a ~amd64 desktop manually copied over as well 
before I could get gentoo installed correctly).

I'd hate to have to try  rebuild...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Canon wants feedback from the linux community

2007-03-28 Thread Hamie
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 10:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 We have all seen the enourmous feedback that Dell has got when asking for
 the opinion of the community and hopefully they will use that feedback.
 Now also Canon, who earlier has had very little interest in the Linux
 community wants to know how many would be interested in them providing
 Linux drivers for their printers. To make your  voice heard please go to
 http://www.canon-europe.com/Support/Software/Linux/registration.asp. I also
 hope that you all will help me in getting the word out so that as many as
 possible will use this chance to make a diffrence.

 Best regards


Not very useful... It's a bit chicken  egg...

If you would like to register your interest in Linux printing for another 
Canon printer product please complete the following form and we will 
contact you if we release drivers matching your requirements. Please note 
that by registering Canon does not guarantee that drivers will be 
developed.

So they want people to register for notification of drivers for a printer they 
already own... But most Linux users won't buy a printer unless it has drivers 
already. And the message I got from it was that they just want your email 
address incase they may do something in the future...

I didn't see anywhere to put any feedback either...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XV locks up X server after recent update

2007-02-23 Thread Hamie
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 17:37, Grant Edwards wrote:
 On 2007-02-21, Hamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  The ati-drivers package was updated from 8.27.10-r1 to 8.32.5.
  Rolling it back to 8.27.10-r1 made xv work again.  The lock up
  occurred with xorg-xserver versions 1.1.1-r1, 1.1.1-r4,
  1.2.0-r1.  ati-drivers 8.33.6-r1 also locked up.

 On my list of things to do is check to see if 8.28.8 with the
 2.6.19 patch works...

  Hmm... My ati-drivers actually crashes the XServer completely.
  And (Usually) restarts (Sometimes kdm just gives up as well).
 
  I did attempt to raise a support request about it... And got
  an email back from ATI/AMD saying I shuld be thankful for what
  they've given me  not to bother them about it...

 I was bying ATI cards because the open-source driver supported
 DRI (it was a bit flakey, but it mostly just worked). But,
 that ended with the 92xx series.  My experience (and the
 general consensus, AFAICT) is that the NVidia closed-source
 drivers are far less problematic than the ATI ones.

 I've got a 3 year old ATI card that ATI doesn't support at all
 anymore with Linux drivers.  I've got a 6 year old NVidia card
 that still works perfectly and all I had to do is emerge
 nvidia-drivers

 So I think NVidia is the way to go in general.

 [The problem is that you don't get much of a choice with
 laptops.  My IBM ThinkPad was too good a deal to pass up even
 though it came with an ATI M300.]


If you have anything up to X600 (Maybe even X700) graphics (basically 9600 on 
PCIe) then the open source drivers should work fine... Mine is an X1400 
sadly, so I don't even get LCD native resolution without the damned ATI 
drivers (Because it's flakey as hell with their DRI, and suspend to RAM 
doesn't work... Still... So why even bother).


Hamish.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XV locks up X server after recent update

2007-02-21 Thread Hamie
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 17:36, Grant Edwards wrote:
 On 2007-02-20, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Neither the ati-drivers version nor kernel has changed.

 Bzzt, wrong!

 The ati-drivers package was updated from 8.27.10-r1 to 8.32.5.
 Rolling it back to 8.27.10-r1 made xv work again.  The lock up
 occurred with xorg-xserver versions 1.1.1-r1, 1.1.1-r4,
 1.2.0-r1.  ati-drivers 8.33.6-r1 also locked up.


Hmm... My ati-drivers actually crashes the XServer completely. And (Usually) 
restarts (Sometimes kdm just gives up as well).

I did attempt to raise a support request about it... And got an email back 
from ATI/AMD saying I shuld be thankful for what they've given me  not to 
bother them about it... Not sure why they even bother to solicit feedback 
myself...

H


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Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

2007-01-25 Thread Hamie
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 21:37, Thomas Kear wrote:
 Well I've grown quite attached to my low-cost laser, an HP LaserJet 1022.
 19ppm black on A4, 20ppm on letter, 1200x600 or 600x600dpi.  They could
 have been a bit more generous than the 8MB of ram they gave this model, but
 it doesn't present a problem in anything but extreme images (which you
 wouldn't be printing on a BW laser printer of this price anyway).
 No problems connecting via USB (HP even include a USB cable, not a common
 thing nowadays), for a small amount more money the 1022n comes with inbuilt
 ethernet.  Mine is attached to an external JetDirect which seems to work
 fine as well.

 More info from linuxprinting.org:
 http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1022

 I recommend the 1022 over the slightly cheaper 1020 (suggested by another
 user) due to not requiring boot-time firmware loading, one less thing to
 worry about.

 By the looks you should be able to make one yours for under USD$200.


Damn, that's a good price... 

I have a LaserJet 2600N (Network connected), which works like a charm. It 
needed a custom config file from the net somewhere, but it's a cracker apart 
from that (Except the envelope feed. You have to remove the paper to feed an 
envelope else you get a piece of paper infront of the envelope  the printing 
goes on the paper instead.

I also have a PSC1210. All-in-one job. I've had one problem with that under an 
older kernel that wouldn't create the device nodes properly (Umm... Fro 
memory the nodes were there, but you couldn't write to them).

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