Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home
Alexander Skwar wrote: Pupeno schrieb: On Wednesday 27 July 2005 20:54, Luigi Pinna wrote: I use the dm-crypt from the kernel I've read that it is unsecure Where? And how is it insecure? Some history: The original crypto-loop from 2.4 is very susceptible to watermark attacks, where the attacker can write known data to the disk, and look at the encrypted results, and then calculate the key from the two. Actually, the attacker doesn't even need to write data to the disk if he can make a good guess at what a particular block already contains, such as with filesystem superblocks. Dm-crypt has some protection against this by using the sector number of the disk as a IV (initial vector) for the hash. This makes the attack more difficult, but not impossible, because the sector number is very predictable. loop-AES can provide much more secure protection against watermark attacks in 'multi-key mode' by using a set of 64 keys that are rotated for the encryption. So an attacker must crack 64 keys, instead of just 1. So dm-crypt today provides the same level of security as loop-AES in single key mode, which as I already stated in a previous email, should be sufficient for most people. However, you did ask how it was insecure! :-) -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] PCMCIA Card detection issue
Hi guys, I have a Panasonic Toughbook CF-37 notebook here, and I finally have the Ricoh cardbus of hell working. :) I now, need to get the driver for my Linksys WPC11 Version 4.0 Card working. I insert the card, and upon a # cardctl status I get: Socket 0: 3.3v CardBus Card function 0: [ready], [bat dead] Now, when I use the appropriate driver: I get: #modprobe rtl8180_24x /lib/modules/2.4.28-gentoo-r9/pcmcia/rtl8180_24x.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg /lib/modules/2.4.28-gentoo-r9/pcmcia/rtl8180_24x.o: insmod/lib/modules/2.4.28-gentoo-r9/pcmcia/rtl8180_24x.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.28-gentoo-r9/pcmcia/rtl8180_24x.o: insmod rtl8180_24x failed Here is the dmesg output: RTL8180 Wireless Lan Driver 2003-11-24 loaded rtl8180: No devices found, RTL8100 Wireless Lan Driver 2003-11-247 unregistered So ya, thats my perdicament. Any thoughts? Thanks!~ Ian begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A= 256MB RAM=0D=0A= 80.0GB HDD=0D=0A= ATI Radeon 7000 Evil Wizard 64MB=0D=0A= Computer name: PentaQuad=0D=0A= x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home
Alexander Skwar wrote: Richard Fish schrieb: Pupeno wrote: I use the dm-crypt from the kernel I've read that it is unsecure and I also read that it is not yet vory well suported. Dm-crypt is fairly well supported, since it is in the kernel, but I find it to be harder to setup hard to setup? How? What's hard about it? You just encrypt the block device and create an fs on it. /sbin/lvcreate -nToBeEnc -L5g sys \ echo 'sekret' | /bin/cryptsetup create Crypted /dev/sys/ToBeEnc \ mkfs -t reiser4 /dev/mapper/Crypted \ mount /dev/mapper/Crypted /some/where Obviously, the lvcreate and mkfs steps are just a one time step :) First, I did not say dm-crypt was hard to setup. I said I find it harder to be setup than loop-AES. Please quote me correctly. :-) Have you used both loop-AES and dm-crypt? I have. If you want to know what, specifically, I find more difficult about cryptsetup, it is the documentation. The grand sum of documentation available for dm-crypt/cryptsetup after doing an 'emerge cryptsetup' is cryptsetup --help. Not terribly informative compared to man losetup or /usr/share/doc/loop-aes-3.0d/README.gz. And yes, I know there are better guides online, but it is not always possible to go online. Also, I wanted to be able to change my password. With loop-AES, this is a simple matter of re-encrypting my key file with a new password. cryptsetup makes this more difficult. Not impossible, just more difficult. advice Also, echoing your password on a command line to cryptsetup is an extremely bad idea. If an attacker happens to be on your system at that moment, a simple 'ps' will show them your passphrase. Even if you are not worried about that, you should still take special precautions regarding the shell history file. Otherwise all someone has to do is crack your system while it is up and cat your .bash_history file. /advice and less 'flexible' than loop-AES (the changing passphrase thing, for example). Any other example? Sure: o Ability to specify encryption parameters in fstab. o Automatic cleanup of the encrypted device when the filesystem is unmounted. o Additional security options, if someone really requires them. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card
On 24/07/05 18:06:51, Stroller wrote: On Jul 24, 2005, at 1:49 am, Ian K wrote: I have an older laptop that I want to add to my network, (its a 802.11B one) and I was wondering what brands/models would work the best under Linux. Im fairly flexible, and would really not like to tinker with too many drivers. Any good ideas? Currently available are cards using the Ralink chipset, as this manufacturer has open-sourced their own drivers and there is a strong GPL project that will (I believe) eventually join the main kernel tree. I bought one of these by accident - I bought a PC with an Asus A8V motherboard without realising that it included on-board wireless with the RT2500 chipset.* The main thing to beware of is that the RT2500 driver doesn't work with SMP kernels; at first, before I realised this, I was using an SMP kernel even though I have a single-processor system, and found that the system would lock up within seconds of loading the RT2500 module. * Asus made (make?) two motherboards with almost-identical part numbers, and almost identical specs, the main difference being the wireless chipset. When I bought my PC, the spec didn't mention enough of the mb part number to tell which it was; but as wireless wasn't mentioned in the PC spec, and I was offered (and turned down) a wireless card as an optional extra, I assumed I'd be getting the cheaper non-wireless MB. I was pleasantly surprised to find the more expensive one in the case when it arrived. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home
Alexander Skwar wrote: Richard Fish schrieb: So dm-crypt today provides the same level of security as loop-AES in single key mode, which as I already stated in a previous email, should be sufficient for most people. However, you did ask how it was insecure! :-) Yep, I did ask and I wish to thank you for your explanation! If I understood you right, the statement that dm-crypt is insecure is, as far as the usage pattern of most of the users will go, nothing but FUD. Yep, FUD, or based on very outdated information, as early versions of dm-crypt had the same vulnerability as cryptoloop. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xine / libdvdcss can't handle dual-sided discs
Michael Haan wrote: Has anyone else seen this and have an idea for a fix? Are you sure its not your DVD drive that can't handle them? -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed plain text preferred signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Matlab under gentoo
Hi, Anybody know how to solve it? I know under suse this could be done by LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 but I don't want to leave gentoo. -- Yuan MEI -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Matlab under gentoo
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Yuan MEI wrote: Hi, Anybody know how to solve it? I know under suse this could be done by LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 but I don't want to leave gentoo. Have you tried it? You need to have a linuxthreads-compatible glibc... (i.e. not a NPTL-only version) See: http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/data/1-1ATCE.html?solution=1-1ATCE Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Shorewall failure following upgrade
I have recently updated shorewall on my 2.4 gentoo OS I now get the following error: /usr/share/shorewall/firewall: line 254: exists_:_frwd=Yes: command not found Warning: wierd character in interface `$' (No aliases, :, ! or *). iptables v1.2.11: Couldn't load match `policy':/lib/iptables/libipt_policy.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. ERROR: Command /sbin/iptables -A ppp0_fwd -s 0.0.0.0/0 -o $ -d _hosts -m policy --pol ipsec --dir out $:_ipsec_options $:_ipsec_out_options -j :_policychain Failed Processing /etc/shorewall/stop ... IP Forwarding Enabled Processing /etc/shorewall/stopped ... Terminated It works correctly on my 2.6 Gentoo OS. Any suggestions on how to repair gratefully received. Thanks Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall failure following upgrade
Jeff Cranmer wrote: I have recently updated shorewall on my 2.4 gentoo OS I now get the following error: /usr/share/shorewall/firewall: line 254: exists_:_frwd=Yes: command not found Warning: wierd character in interface `$' (No aliases, :, ! or *). iptables v1.2.11: Couldn't load match `policy':/lib/iptables/libipt_policy.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. ERROR: Command /sbin/iptables -A ppp0_fwd -s 0.0.0.0/0 -o $ -d _hosts -m policy --pol ipsec --dir out $:_ipsec_options $:_ipsec_out_options -j :_policychain Failed Processing /etc/shorewall/stop ... IP Forwarding Enabled Processing /etc/shorewall/stopped ... Terminated It works correctly on my 2.6 Gentoo OS. Any suggestions on how to repair gratefully received. Thanks Jeff Hi, Works OK on a 2.6 system, too. It depends only on: iptables, iproute2 and virtual/libc (glibc). Some suggestions: 1.try revdep-rebuild -pv later w/o p to check if something needs to be rebuild (suspect 'iptables' here); 2.Check for required options (see shorewall docs) in the kernel config (maybe something was changed); 3.Check the five 'basic' ;) config files: /etc/shorewall/shorewall.confpolicyinterfaceszonesrules. HTH. Rumen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
[gentoo-user] dwl G650+ causes a hard lockup on insertion
Anyone have a clue: I have a d-link dwl-G650+ pcmcia wireless card that causes a hard crash whenever it is inserted into a dell i8200 laptop. I last emailed about this many months back, and a number of others had a similar problem but no fixes. I am hoping that by now someone will have a fix or I might as well ebay the card and see if something else will work. The error is: CPU: Machine Check Exception: 004 Bank0: a20084010400 Kernel Panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt If I dont install the pcmcia modules I can insert the card. yenta_socket appears to be the culprit as the crash occurs when this module loads. On rare occasions, I can insert (and use) the card, but the next time - crash! This has happened since I bought the card just after I started using the early 2.6 kernels, and is occurring with gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r6. An old hermes card works fine, so I know there is no hardware problem. BillK -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge messages.
Nagatoro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://gentooexperimental.org/script/repo/list can this repo be accessed with emerge allowing packages to be installed? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home
I'm not sure if anyone has covered this, but the following pdf was very useful for me to encrypt my home dir: www.flyn.org/docs/ehd.pdf The interesting part was using openssl to encrypt the key and then using your account's linux password to encrypt the openssl file. This way, you can change your account password and without having to change the encrypted filesystem password/key (in the example, they create a very random key for the encrypted filesystem and then use pam_mount to automatically decrypt and mount the filesystems during login). HTH, -Hani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [gentoo-laptop] PCMCIA Card detection issue
Hi guys, I have a Panasonic Toughbook CF-37 notebook here, and I finally have the Ricoh cardbus of hell working. :) I now, need to get the driver for my Linksys WPC11 Version 4.0 Card working. I insert the card, and upon a # cardctl status I get: Socket 0: 3.3v CardBus Card function 0: [ready], [bat dead] Now, when I use the appropriate driver: I get: #modprobe rtl8180_24x /lib/modules/2.4.28-gentoo-r9/pcmcia/rtl8180_24x.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg /lib/modules/2.4.28-gentoo-r9/pcmcia/rtl8180_24x.o: insmod/lib/modules/2.4.28-gentoo-r9/pcmcia/rtl8180_24x.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.28-gentoo-r9/pcmcia/rtl8180_24x.o: insmod rtl8180_24x failed Here is the dmesg output: RTL8180 Wireless Lan Driver 2003-11-24 loaded rtl8180: No devices found, RTL8100 Wireless Lan Driver 2003-11-247 unregistered So ya, thats my perdicament. Any thoughts? Thanks!~ Ian begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A= 256MB RAM=0D=0A= 80.0GB HDD=0D=0A= ATI Radeon 7000 Evil Wizard 64MB=0D=0A= Computer name: PentaQuad=0D=0A= x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
[gentoo-user] [gentoo-laptop] PCMCIA Card detection issue
Hi guys, I have a Panasonic Toughbook CF-37 notebook here, and I finally have the Ricoh cardbus of hell working. :) I now, need to get the driver for my Linksys WPC11 Version 4.0 Card working. I insert the card, and upon a # cardctl status I get: Socket 0: 3.3v CardBus Card function 0: [ready], [bat dead] Now, when I use the appropriate driver: I get: #modprobe rtl8180_24x /lib/modules/2.4.28-gentoo-r9/pcmcia/rtl8180_24x.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg /lib/modules/2.4.28-gentoo-r9/pcmcia/rtl8180_24x.o: insmod/lib/modules/2.4.28-gentoo-r9/pcmcia/rtl8180_24x.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.28-gentoo-r9/pcmcia/rtl8180_24x.o: insmod rtl8180_24x failed Here is the dmesg output: RTL8180 Wireless Lan Driver 2003-11-24 loaded rtl8180: No devices found, RTL8100 Wireless Lan Driver 2003-11-247 unregistered So ya, thats my perdicament. Any thoughts? Thanks!~ Ian begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A= 256MB RAM=0D=0A= 80.0GB HDD=0D=0A= ATI Radeon 7000 Evil Wizard 64MB=0D=0A= Computer name: PentaQuad=0D=0A= x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
[gentoo-user] PCMCIA Card detection issue
Hi guys, I have a Panasonic Toughbook CF-37 notebook here, and I finally have the Ricoh cardbus of hell working. :) I now, need to get the driver for my Linksys WPC11 Version 4.0 Card working. I insert the card, and upon a # cardctl status I get: Socket 0: 3.3v CardBus Card function 0: [ready], [bat dead] Now, when I use the appropriate driver: I get: #modprobe rtl8180_24x /lib/modules/2.4.28-gentoo-r9/pcmcia/rtl8180_24x.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg /lib/modules/2.4.28-gentoo-r9/pcmcia/rtl8180_24x.o: insmod/lib/modules/2.4.28-gentoo-r9/pcmcia/rtl8180_24x.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.28-gentoo-r9/pcmcia/rtl8180_24x.o: insmod rtl8180_24x failed Here is the dmesg output: RTL8180 Wireless Lan Driver 2003-11-24 loaded rtl8180: No devices found, RTL8100 Wireless Lan Driver 2003-11-247 unregistered So ya, thats my perdicament. Any thoughts? Thanks!~ Ian begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A= 256MB RAM=0D=0A= 80.0GB HDD=0D=0A= ATI Radeon 7000 Evil Wizard 64MB=0D=0A= Computer name: PentaQuad=0D=0A= x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
[gentoo-user] dv-dvd encoding
Hello! I have a semi problem: I usually encode from dv (digital video camera) to standard dvd format (MPEG-2); I usually use kino to convert the files. Now, I think that my computer is a good computer to encode them (AMD64 3000 1 GByte RAM), and I think that it uses too much time to encode 1 hour video: about 7 hours! I think that I set something wrong and it uses a lot of time more than it needs... the problem is that I have no idea how and what check to optimize the encoding. Any tricks? Thanks, Luigi -- Public key GPG(0x073A0960) on http://keyserver.linux.it/ pgpIffWa0oQEm.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] unknown network devices
Hi, I had ethernet (eth0) and wireless (wlan0) working well before I run an emerge world (which updated baselayout) At that time I also had eth1, which I don't know why, and the normal lo. After the emerge, my wlan0 was gone. I still have the init script (not sure if is a new one, or was overwritten), that gives the following errors: # /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start SIOCSIFADDR: No such device wlan0: unknown interface: No such device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device wlan0: unknown interface: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device The ifconfig command presents this: # ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E2:8F:5B:59 inet addr:192.168.1.30 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::200:e2ff:fe8f:5b59/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:7113 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2931 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2435138 (2.3 Mb) TX bytes:481373 (470.0 Kb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe800 eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr FF-FD-B7-A7-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:300 (300.0 b) TX bytes:300 (300.0 b) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Now I have a new sit0... again, no idea why!! So what I would need is to know how to get back wlan0 and get rid of eth1 and wlan0. Sorry for presenting so simple problem... thanks in advance Fernando.
Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to signal emerge to stop after the current package?
On 7/29/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I have an 'emerge system' going on that will do 74 packages. I would like to halt it for the evening and restart it tomorrow. Is there anything more elegant then kill or Ctrl-C for doign this? Many thanks, Mark Use Ctrl-Z instead and then in the morning use fg to restart it. Just kidding. Actually, when I had Software Suspend 2 setup on my computer I could leave emerge running through suspend to disk with no problems. If you're really going to do a full shutdown though, I recommend Ctrl-C and then FEATURES=keepwork emerge --resume in the morning. With keepwork portage won't clean up the builds automatically so you need to manually clean up PORTAGE_TMPDIR in order to reclaim diskspace. Zac Thanks Zac. By the time this message came through it was at 72 out of 74 so I just let it finish. However I'll save the suggestion for next time this comes up. cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unknown network devices
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:35:55 + Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I had ethernet (eth0) and wireless (wlan0) working well before I run an emerge world (which updated baselayout) At that time I also had eth1, which I don't know why, and the normal lo. After the emerge, my wlan0 was gone. I still have the init script (not sure if is a new one, or was overwritten), that gives the following errors: What kind of Wireless-Card do you have? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC67NnHOeUS5YuYDMRAmDxAKCW7p2B4Wr/SNLWp9FSGr+STMp7YACfR5i2 EQvwrIdcLCTYII9Z7YMh7G0= =P+ZP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] backup restore solution?
Hi, I am now looking for some sort of backup restore solution which would help me to get my gentoo-server up and running after fatal disk failure. I want to burn at regular intervals compressed partition images of disk on internal dvd/rw/ram (4.5 GB should be enough for archiving the whole disk, without /home partition). But what I also need is fast and reliable restore function, for the case that all I have is a new replacement-disk, gentoo installation cd, and dvd/rw/ram with archived partition images (+ restore sw on floppy). Could you recommend me some software? I checked software in app-backup, but there is nothing about quick easy restoring... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] What gives with tor and forums.gentoo.org?
I cant get to the gentoo forums anymore. I get. Due to people abusing it you can not view this site whilst using Tor Unfortunately the way things are set up here, tor is the _only_ way I have to view the outside world. This does make things a little difficult. -- - Elric At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying. pgp1w5xtiyp9Y.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] backup restore solution?
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 19:24:06 +0200, Jarry wrote: But what I also need is fast and reliable restore function, for the case that all I have is a new replacement-disk, gentoo installation cd, and dvd/rw/ram with archived partition images (+ restore sw on floppy). Could you recommend me some software? I checked software in app-backup, but there is nothing about quick easy restoring... For restoring entire partitions, backups made with tar or partimage are good. In either case, a single command is all you need to restore the partition. -- Neil Bothwick Like an atheist in a grave: all dressed up and no place to go. pgpwd9vtm46VK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] dv-dvd encoding
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:17:43 +0200, Luigi Pinna wrote: I usually encode from dv (digital video camera) to standard dvd format (MPEG-2); I usually use kino to convert the files. Now, I think that my computer is a good computer to encode them (AMD64 3000 1 GByte RAM), and I think that it uses too much time to encode 1 hour video: about 7 hours! Is playback in Kino also slow? If so, try emerging it with the ffmpeg flag. I don't know if it is still the case, but there were problems with libdv running very slowly on some amd64 system, mine included, and getting Kino to use ffmpeg instead was the fix. -- Neil Bothwick The Borg assimilated my race all I got was this T shirt. pgpZ8HqXy1T1c.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: PPP Issue
Jamie Dobbs wrote: After any reboot, when I try to make a PPP connection to my workplace I get the following error: /usr/sbin/pppd: pppd is unable to open the /dev/ppp device. You need to create the /dev/ppp device node by executing the following command as root: mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 I enter the mknod command which recreates the device and I can then PPP into wokr but after a reboot that device always disappears. How can I stop this happening? I had the same problem after switching to udev. I don't know what the correct solution is, but I stuck ppp_generic in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and ran upgrade-modules to fix it. Regards... Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unknown network devices
On 7/30/05, Niels Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of Wireless-Card do you have? I have a LinkSys WPC54G. It was working well before the emerge world.
[gentoo-user] DELTUP servers
It seems like DELTUP_SERVER=http://linux01.gwdg.de/~nlissne/deltup.php; is under reconstruction (standard apache page is shown). Are there other DELTUP servers? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] XML-Parser missing -- is it bad perl?
Hello everyone, Seems like trying to emerge firefox, xmms, others? leads to XML::Parser configure:1711: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool Some say re-emerge XML-Parser. Nope. Some say eliminate it. Nope. Another says emerge libxml-perl. Another says rebuild perl. While I'm off attempting the former will someone please explain how to do the latter? -mw __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem with hostname
I first noticed this problem when the tightvnc server refused to start, giving some errors about unknown token ( and ). I then noticed my prompt had changed from -- laeb mark# -- to -- (none) mark # . A day or so prior I had moved the hostname and dnsdomainname from their deprecated location to the new location, /etc/conf.d/. Prior to that I believe it was working fine. I have since powered it down once (moved it from one location to another). Any ideas? As for seeing what the server prints out on screen before it gives a login prompt (to see what FQDN it prints out), I'm unable to give that information at the moment as I'm logged in at work via ssh. - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with hostname
(none) mark # cat /etc/conf.d/hostname cat /etc/conf.d/dnsdomainname laeb laeb.dyndns.org (none) mark # On 7/30/05, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I first noticed this problem when the tightvnc server refused to start, giving some errors about unknown token ( and ). I then noticed my prompt had changed from -- laeb mark# -- to -- (none) mark # . A day or so prior I had moved the hostname and dnsdomainname from their deprecated location to the new location, /etc/conf.d/. Prior to that I believe it was working fine. I have since powered it down once (moved it from one location to another). Any ideas? As for seeing what the server prints out on screen before it gives a login prompt (to see what FQDN it prints out), I'm unable to give that information at the moment as I'm logged in at work via ssh. - Mark Shields -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with hostname
On Saturday 30 July 2005 21:36, Mark Shields wrote: (none) mark # cat /etc/conf.d/hostname cat /etc/conf.d/dnsdomainname laeb laeb.dyndns.org (none) mark # [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ cat /etc/conf.d/hostname # /etc/conf.d/hostname # Set to the hostname of this machine HOSTNAME=aemaeth Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.12-gentoo-r6, Compiled #2 Wed Jul 27 18:03:14 CEST 2005 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4325.37 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XML-Parser missing -- is it bad perl?
maxim wexler schreef: Another says emerge libxml-perl. Another says rebuild perl. While I'm off attempting the former will someone please explain how to do the latter? eix perl-cleaner * app-admin/perl-cleaner Available versions: 1.01 Installed: 1.01 Homepage:http://dev.gentoo.org/~mcummings/ Description: User land tool for cleaning up old perl installs perl-cleaner --help Usage: /usr/bin/perl-cleaner [options] [ask] modules - rebuild perl modules for old installs of perl allmodules - rebuild perl modules for any install of perl libperl - rebuild anything linked against libperl ph-clean - clean out old ph files from a previous perl phupdate - update existing ph files, useful after an upgrade to system parts like the kernel phall - clean out old ph files and run phupdate all - rebuild modules, libperl linkages, clean ph files, and rebuild them reallyall - rebuild modules for any install of perl, libperl linkages, clean ph files, and rebuild them ask - ask for confirmation on each emerge That's one way. Perl-cleaner can also be found in /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/files. I find it odd that re-emerging XML-Parser didn't work for you; it always did for me (although I haven't encountered this error recently, certainly not with Firefox... and I do compile it), and I have surely had this ...annoying.. issue with XML::Parser often enough to say that. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with hostname
Ah ha! Thanks (btw I did look for this prior to asking) On 7/30/05, Francesco Talamona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 30 July 2005 21:36, Mark Shields wrote: (none) mark # cat /etc/conf.d/hostname cat /etc/conf.d/dnsdomainname laeb laeb.dyndns.org (none) mark # [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ cat /etc/conf.d/hostname # /etc/conf.d/hostname # Set to the hostname of this machine HOSTNAME=aemaeth Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.12-gentoo-r6, Compiled #2 Wed Jul 27 18:03:14 CEST 2005 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4325.37 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.2
Good afternoon - Does anybody know when the split ebuilds for KDE 3.4.2 will move into ~x86? Is there a date set? Is there a list or webpage that I can use to check for myself? Thanks, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng default to +pcmcia
I have been pulling my hair out for a while after updating my kernel, I couldn't get my wlan0 wireless PCMCIA card to work again. I kept re-emerging the net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng but was never getting the module. daevid ~ # emerge -av net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre23 -build -pcmcia -usb 437 kB Total size of downloads: 437 kB Then after staring at the ebuild line I realized much to my astonishment that it is set to -pcmcia. WTF?! This seems to me absurd. 90% of the wireless cards out there are PCMCIA. So I had to edit my /etc/portage/package.use file and add 'pcmcia' to it for this ebuild. I guess I never noticed or even considered the possibility that it would default to not building PCMCIA. I would like to request that pcmcia be on by default for this ebuild. This would also go for net-wireless/hostap-driver. net-wireless/madwifi-driver doesn't have this problem. It just works. Is there some logic or reason behind them being defaulted to off for these that I'm just not seeing? I've added it as http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100835 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64
* Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-07-30 01:20]: On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:51:53 +0200 Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your advise. I got sound working by disabling ALSA and using OSS instead. I think this is an ALSA AMD64 issue. ... At some point, the problem will need resolution as kernel OSS is going away. But for now I'm glad you have it working. I'm aware of the fact that OSS is deprecated and that it will be removed, but in this case I don't like that fact. Why? I have old SB Live! card, based on emu10k1 chip too, and I think that emu10k1 kernel driver gives better sound than ALSA driver. I've noticed that especially with bass lines. I also like feature of configuring internal routes of emu10k1 chip with emu tools (I can capture TV program and listen music in the same time) and occasional front/rear channel swapping (sound on the rear channel is generated by the I2S codec - better one, while the front one is generated with analog AC97 codec). Ok, I must admit I haven't played with ALSA too much so my question would be is this possible with ALSA, especially front/rear inverting? TIA! -- Daniel Vrcic -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.2
James Colby wrote: Good afternoon - Does anybody know when the split ebuilds for KDE 3.4.2 will move into ~x86? Is there a date set? Is there a list or webpage that I can use to check for myself? Thanks, James It's already happened, I'm building it now... http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=kde-base;name=kde-meta Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Dual Core CPUs SATA HD
Hi, I'm just about to install gentoo on a dual core Intel CPU machine with a SATA HD. So, essentially, I have two questions. What CFLAGS are recommended for a dual core CPU and what precautions must one take to have the SATA HD recognised by the install media? I don't think the CPU is 64 bit in case you need to know. Many thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] udevd, udevsend problem
Hi! I've switched to udev some time ago without problems. But now, with kernel 2.6.11-r9: I can boot, but after a while there are 10 udevsend processes hanging around. This isn't fatal at all, but if I start emerge -uD world, the number increases up to 400. Puting a CDROM in makes the number explode: within seconds there are over 4000 udevsend processes running. It might take more than 20 minutes until keypresses are shown in the terminal. Systemload is up to 100 and more. In short: the system is unusable. Any idea what could be the cause for those udevsend processes and a workaround? -- Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] NFS - File size limit exceeded
Hi, I set up a remote NFS hard drive today as a larger storage location for MythTV. I wanted to copy over the existing recordings in /TVstorage (local) to /video (the NFS mount) but it failed on the first recording looking like this: dragonfly TVstorage # ls 1003_20050729233500_20050730003700.nuv 1009_2005072912_2005072913.nuv 1003_20050730003700_20050730013600.nuv 1036_2005072722_20050727230100.nuv 1005_2005072922_2005072923.nuv 1042_2005072922_2005072923.nuv 1005_20050729233500_20050730003700.nuv 1067_20050728203000_2005072821.nuv 1009_2005072712_2005072713.nuv 1068_2005073001_2005073002.nuv 1009_2005072812_2005072813.nuv nfslockfile.lock dragonfly TVstorage # mv * /video/ File size limit exceeded dragonfly TVstorage # Is there any easy way to configure NFS to allow larger copies? Or am I just better off to blow all the existing recordings away and start from scratch. Nothing real important in the database. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall failure following upgrade
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 16:17 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Works OK on a 2.6 system, too. It depends only on: iptables, iproute2 and virtual/libc (glibc). Some suggestions: 1.try revdep-rebuild -pv later w/o p to check if something needs to be rebuild (suspect 'iptables' here); 2.Check for required options (see shorewall docs) in the kernel config (maybe something was changed); 3.Check the five 'basic' ;) config files: /etc/shorewall/shorewall.confpolicyinterfaceszonesrules. HTH. Rumen It seems there was something wrong with the revised configuration files. revdep-rebuild didn't come up with anything related to the packages you identified, so I cheated and copied over the entire /etc/shorewall directory from my 2.6 system to the 2.4 partition (renaming the original directory to a dummy name first, just in case the result was badg). I was then able to successfully restart shorewall and pass a stealth test on www.grc.com (shields-up). Thanks :-) Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.2
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:33:42 -0400, James Colby wrote: Does anybody know when the split ebuilds for KDE 3.4.2 will move into ~x86? If you're in that much of a hurry, unmask them yourself, as I did. qpkg -I -nc -g kde-base | sed 's/\(.*\)/=\1-3.4.2/' /etc/portage.package.unmask Is there a list or webpage that I can use to check for myself? http://packages.gentoo.org -- Neil Bothwick PENTIUM: Produces Erroneous Numbers Thru Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics pgpTWOu9jZd3h.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng default to +pcmcia
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:34:31 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: [ebuild N] net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre23 -build -pcmcia -usb 437 kB Total size of downloads: 437 kB Then after staring at the ebuild line I realized much to my astonishment that it is set to -pcmcia. WTF?! This seems to me absurd. 90% of the wireless cards out there are PCMCIA. 90% of the wireless cards out there don't need wlan-ng. For example, the prism2 PCMCIA cards are supported in the kernel but the prism2 USB ones are not. I suppose the moral is, never trust the defaults, especially as they are global, not per ebuild. If your computer has a PCMCIA slot, set the pcmcia USE flag in make.conf. -- Neil Bothwick You couldn't get a job as a firing squad target. pgplJlQ3OMJIv.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] serial console
I want to setup a serial console to one of my servers. I realize that this will require a specific type of cable. As I understand it, the cable will have an RJ-45 connector on the host side, and a serial connector on the server side. I'm assuming since my server only has a standard 9-pin connector, thats what I need. I was looking around and found a Cisco console cable in a box of old junk. It has, surprise surprise, RJ-45 on one side, and 9-pin serial on the other. Would that work? Just thought I'd ask before I start ... perhaps it will save me some hair any help would be appreciated ... - Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xine / libdvdcss can't handle dual-sided discs
On 7/30/05, Matan Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Haan wrote: Has anyone else seen this and have an idea for a fix? Are you sure its not your DVD drive that can't handle them? -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed plain text preferred Pretty sure that I've read one of these before, but I'll check again. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xine / libdvdcss can't handle dual-sided discs
On 7/30/05, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/30/05, Matan Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Haan wrote: Has anyone else seen this and have an idea for a fix? Are you sure its not your DVD drive that can't handle them? -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed plain text preferred Pretty sure that I've read one of these before, but I'll check again. It's a Samsung TS-H552B which seems to mention support for writing dual-layer, but nothing about reading double-sided. Still, I find it odd that it can't handle dual-sided, even one side at a time. Not sure why that's any different than any other DVD except that it depends which side is down. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Core CPUs SATA HD
On Jul 30, 2005, at 5:40 PM, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hi, I'm just about to install gentoo on a dual core Intel CPU machine with a SATA HD. So, essentially, I have two questions. What CFLAGS are recommended for a dual core CPU and what precautions must one take to have the SATA HD recognised by the install media? I don't think the CPU is 64 bit in case you need to know. A multi-core single-CPU system (yours) is virtually identical to a single-core multi-CPU system. I would use MAKEOPTS=-j2 or higher (basically, twice what you would do for a single-processor system) in your make.conf to take advantage of all that parallel processing power. Use the normal CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, there aren't any special options for multiprocessor systems there. When you compile your kernel, be SURE to include SMP (symmetric multi-processing) support to let the kernel use both cores. SATA hard drives, if supported natively by the southbridge, require no extra drivers. Since your motherboard must be relatively new, this is your case. If they aren't supported natively, one of the various sata_* modules will autoload and handle it. They might be enumerated as SCSI devices, though (/dev/sd* rather than /dev/hd*), but I believe this is perfectly normal. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:39:17 +0200 Daniel Vrcic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm aware of the fact that OSS is deprecated and that it will be removed, but in this case I don't like that fact. Why? I have old SB Live! card, based on emu10k1 chip too, and I think that emu10k1 kernel driver gives better sound than ALSA driver. I've noticed that especially with bass lines. I wouldn't doubt that as SB was initially pretty reluctant to work with the open source developers. But that card was a nightmare load on the system - 5 IRQs and 2 DMA channels consumed, as I recall. It has wreaked havoc on many a system. I also like feature of configuring internal routes of emu10k1 chip with emu tools (I can capture TV program and listen music in the same time) and occasional front/rear channel swapping (sound on the rear channel is generated by the I2S codec - better one, while the front one is generated with analog AC97 codec). Any card with hardware mixing is a great thing. Ok, I must admit I haven't played with ALSA too much so my question would be is this possible with ALSA, especially front/rear inverting? Yes, but I've not done more than run a few things at the same time, and none front/rear - I only have a 2.1 system. However, if you use KDE and ARTS, it'll interfere. Linux is not as clean as WinXX nor IRIX in regards to sound. They are getting there. While ALSA with dmix will allow the mixing, you'll need to spend time setting it up. It might be more benefical for you to combine ALSA with JACK - [ I] media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit (0.99.0-r1): A low-latency audio server But not every application works with JACK. So there are some helpers, but it still doesn't cover everything. If you have esearch just do an - esearch -Sc jack Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] serial console
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 19:20:36 -0400 David H. Askew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking around and found a Cisco console cable in a box of old junk. It has, surprise surprise, RJ-45 on one side, and 9-pin serial on the other. Would that work? Maybe, but Cisco is known for having a special pinout. Best bet is to get a build-it-yourself RJ45 to DB9F adaptor - about US$2.90, and the associated pin pusher - cause you'll mess up a few times. you;ll need to figure out which pins are transmit and receive - 2, and 3 on the DB9 side. Also, note that different brands of RJ45 to DB9F connectors have different color codes for the wires. Typically you'll use 5 of the 8 wires, so best to create a map on paper. There is supposed to be the Yost standard, but certain folks do violate it at times - Cisco, Dell, etc. So you need to know the RS232 pinout of your system. Here are some pretty decent resources - http://www.ossmann.com/5-in-1.html http://yost.com/Computers/RJ45-serial/ Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
