Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home

2005-07-30 Thread Richard Fish
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

[gentoo-user] PCMCIA Card detection issue

2005-07-30 Thread Ian K
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],

Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home

2005-07-30 Thread Richard Fish
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-30 Thread Will Salt
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home

2005-07-30 Thread Richard Fish
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Xine / libdvdcss can't handle dual-sided discs

2005-07-30 Thread Matan Peled
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 ] ::

Re: [gentoo-user] Matlab under gentoo

2005-07-30 Thread Yuan MEI
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

2005-07-30 Thread Peter Karlsson
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:

[gentoo-user] Shorewall failure following upgrade

2005-07-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall failure following upgrade

2005-07-30 Thread Rumen Yotov
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

[gentoo-user] dwl G650+ causes a hard lockup on insertion

2005-07-30 Thread William Kenworthy
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

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge messages.

2005-07-30 Thread Harry Putnam
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

2005-07-30 Thread Hani Duwaik
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

[gentoo-user] [gentoo-laptop] PCMCIA Card detection issue

2005-07-30 Thread Ian K
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],

[gentoo-user] [gentoo-laptop] PCMCIA Card detection issue

2005-07-30 Thread Ian K
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],

[gentoo-user] PCMCIA Card detection issue

2005-07-30 Thread Ian K
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],

[gentoo-user] dv-dvd encoding

2005-07-30 Thread Luigi Pinna
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

[gentoo-user] unknown network devices

2005-07-30 Thread Fernando Meira
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to signal emerge to stop after the current package?

2005-07-30 Thread Mark Knecht
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,

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown network devices

2005-07-30 Thread Niels Will
-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

[gentoo-user] backup restore solution?

2005-07-30 Thread Jarry
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

[gentoo-user] What gives with tor and forums.gentoo.org?

2005-07-30 Thread Elric Scott
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

Re: [gentoo-user] backup restore solution?

2005-07-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dv-dvd encoding

2005-07-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

[gentoo-user] Re: PPP Issue

2005-07-30 Thread Michael Mauch
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

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown network devices

2005-07-30 Thread Fernando Meira
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

2005-07-30 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
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?

2005-07-30 Thread maxim wexler
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

[gentoo-user] Problem with hostname

2005-07-30 Thread Mark Shields
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

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with hostname

2005-07-30 Thread Mark Shields
(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

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with hostname

2005-07-30 Thread Francesco Talamona
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

Re: [gentoo-user] XML-Parser missing -- is it bad perl?

2005-07-30 Thread Holly Bostick
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:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with hostname

2005-07-30 Thread Mark Shields
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

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.2

2005-07-30 Thread James Colby
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

2005-07-30 Thread Daevid Vincent
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

[gentoo-user] Re: Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64

2005-07-30 Thread Daniel Vrcic
* 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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.2

2005-07-30 Thread Zac Medico
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...

[gentoo-user] Dual Core CPUs SATA HD

2005-07-30 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
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

[gentoo-user] udevd, udevsend problem

2005-07-30 Thread Thomas Schweikle
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

[gentoo-user] NFS - File size limit exceeded

2005-07-30 Thread Mark Knecht
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall failure following upgrade

2005-07-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.2

2005-07-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng default to +pcmcia

2005-07-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

[gentoo-user] serial console

2005-07-30 Thread David H. Askew
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Xine / libdvdcss can't handle dual-sided discs

2005-07-30 Thread Michael Haan
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] ::

Re: [gentoo-user] Xine / libdvdcss can't handle dual-sided discs

2005-07-30 Thread Michael Haan
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]

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Core CPUs SATA HD

2005-07-30 Thread Colin
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64

2005-07-30 Thread Bob Sanders
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

Re: [gentoo-user] serial console

2005-07-30 Thread Bob Sanders
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