Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet not working on new laptop (dell e6510)

I just purchased a dell latitude E6510, with a gigabit (hardwired) ethernet. It works fine under windows. I now have the (newest) gentoo installation disk (april) in the machine. The device is recognized and the e1000e module is loaded. ifconfig shows the mac address, but no IP addr. My

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world: another obstacle

A likely source of the problem could be when I was advised to compile qt with thread support which I took to mean USE=threads etc. But when I looked at the log it just mentions the verbose switch, nothing about threads. Another might be that qt-4.3.3 is currently on my system and there's no

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LiveUSB

On Friday 11 January 2008, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: 2nd question: I must be dense on this one so someone help me out. Since a USB stick is seen as a hard drive, why can't I do a standard install to it? Is it because until lately they haven't been large enough? I'm thinking of using an 8GB

RE: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

-Original Message- From: Enrico Weigelt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 4:00 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers * Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan

Re: [gentoo-user] rejecting I/O to dead device

Hello On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 10:47:42PM +0100, Fred Kastl wrote: i get this message 2 -3 times within a second. This floods my logfile. Dec 30 16:54:46 server kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device Dec 30 16:54:47 server kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device Dec