Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-06 Thread Alexander Skwar
Lord Sauron wrote: Sorry to be a bit elementary, but if you're not colocating your box, and you don't often use SSH, you might want to consider disabling remote administrative things. Of course - disable everything, that you don't need. ESPECIALLY, if it is reachable over the network. All

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-06 Thread Lord Sauron
On 7/5/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven Susbauer wrote: On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Ryan Tandy wrote: Lord Sauron wrote: If you can, what I'd do is try and get the guy's MAC Address or something and then totally block that off. That's send him away right quickly. I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-06 Thread Lord Sauron
On 7/5/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lord Sauron wrote: Sorry to be a bit elementary, but if you're not colocating your box, and you don't often use SSH, you might want to consider disabling remote administrative things. Of course - disable everything, that you don't need.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables wiki

2006-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:59:09 -0500, Dale wrote: Have you tried kmyfirewall ? I didn't know it existed actually. It would be so nice if there was somewhere we could go to find out about all this stuff. There is no telling how many programs are out there that we have no clue exists.

[gentoo-user] march in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-06 Thread Pawel K
Hello I've changed -march from pentrium4 to pentium3 and wanted to recompile everything. I've used the following command to do that: emerge --update --deep --newuse world but only about 50% packages have been recompiled. 1) How can I recompile all of them ? I don't want to download new

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage: missing pieces

2006-07-06 Thread Molle Bestefich
Daniel da Veiga wrote: Try emerge -Dtpv world, it will give you a hierarquical tree that will show what package is seeking to downgrade xorg. Thanks for the tip! Unfortunately, the spurious xorg-x11-6.9 package just shows at the top of the tree: # emerge -Dtp world These are the packages

Re: [gentoo-user] march in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 6. Juli 2006 10:22 schrieb ext Pawel K: First, please don't start a new thread by replying to an existing one (aka Thread hijacking). Thanks. I've changed -march from pentrium4 to pentium3 and wanted to recompile everything. I've used the following command to do that: emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous

2006-07-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 21:19 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Richard Fish wrote: Just want to give a big public Thank You to spyderous for hanging out in -user and helping out those who had/are having trouble with the modular-X upgrade. I've been trying to do the same on the forums, for

Re: [gentoo-user] march in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-06 Thread Janusz Bossy
On 7/6/06, Pawel K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) How can I recompile all of them ? I don't want to download new packages, I just want to recompile existing ones. emerge -e 2) Can I work on that machine during recompilation. I mean what happens with binaries that are currently executed and need

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage: missing pieces

2006-07-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Molle Bestefich wrote: Unfortunately, the spurious xorg-x11-6.9 package just shows at the top of the tree: Calculating world dependencies... done! [blocks B ] =sys-apps/shadow-4.0.14-r2 (is blocking sys-apps/pam-login-4.0.14) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous

2006-07-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Ow Mun Heng wrote: I'm still stucked on Xorg-6.8 and not intending to upgrade anytime soon unless there is a lot of good things to expect out of it. Right now, as long as there's no exploit/bug for xorg-6.8, I'll keep it that way. Yep, that's your prerogative. But the next exploit may not get

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-06 Thread Alexander Skwar
Lord Sauron wrote: On 7/5/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lord Sauron wrote: How should *THAT* help? In 99.999% of the times, the attacker won't be on the same subnet, and thus the MAC isn't available. Couldn't hurt. Well, as it doesn't buy you

Re: [gentoo-user] march in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-06 Thread Alexander Skwar
Pawel K wrote: Hello I've changed -march from pentrium4 to pentium3 and wanted to recompile everything. What does this have to do with the iptables wiki? IOW: Please do *NOT* capture threads! Do *NOT* reply to a message and change the subject, when you want to start a new thread! Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] march in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-06 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Yes. Open files are not overwritten, Uh? Open files *ARE* overwritten! That's Linux, not Windows or HP-UX! Alexander Skwar -- The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. -- Lao Tsu -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] march in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 6. Juli 2006 11:27 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Yes. Open files are not overwritten, Uh? Open files *ARE* overwritten! That's Linux, not Windows or HP-UX! Hmm, how does it work, then? Because the old version ist still in memory? Bye... Dirk --

Re: [gentoo-user] march in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 July 2006 10:27, Alexander Skwar wrote: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Yes. Open files are not overwritten, Uh? Open files *ARE* overwritten! That's Linux, not Windows or HP-UX! No, open files are not overwritten. The new file with the same name (and path of course) is written to disk, true,

[gentoo-user] cyrus pop-imap certs problem

2006-07-06 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, I recently installed cyrus-imapd server (2.2.12). I looked into the impad.conf file and found: tls_ca_path:/etc/ssl/certs tls_cert_file: /etc/ssl/cyrus/server.crt tls_key_file: /etc/ssl/cyrus/server.key So, cyrus has installed its own certs: #equery belongs

Re: [gentoo-user] march in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-06 Thread Alexander Skwar
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 06 July 2006 10:27, Alexander Skwar wrote: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Yes. Open files are not overwritten, Uh? Open files *ARE* overwritten! That's Linux, not Windows or HP-UX! No, open files are not overwritten. The new file with the same name (and path of course) is

Re: [gentoo-user] march in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:26:55 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Generally speaking, yes, you can. Your system will be slower, but that's of course to be expected, as it is busy. Setting PORTAGE_NICENESS in make.conf will help here, but there'll still be some slowdown. -- Neil Bothwick I am

[gentoo-user] xorg-server does not build on amd64

2006-07-06 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, compiling xorg-server fails on my amd64 complaining about something not defined in a glxXXX header file. VIDEO_CARDS is set to nvidia and nv. Anybody had similar problems? Konstantin -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elwood@agouros.de Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server does not build on amd64

2006-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 08:44:06 + (UTC), Konstantinos Agouros wrote: compiling xorg-server fails on my amd64 complaining about something not defined in a glxXXX header file. VIDEO_CARDS is set to nvidia and nv. I've had a couple of other programs fail with this sort of error. Using eselect

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server does not build on amd64

2006-07-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, compiling xorg-server fails on my amd64 complaining about something not defined in a glxXXX header file. VIDEO_CARDS is set to nvidia and nv. Anybody had similar problems? Try updating your emul-xlibs package to 7.0. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-06 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/6/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/5/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven Susbauer wrote: On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Ryan Tandy wrote: Lord Sauron wrote: If you can, what I'd do is try and get the guy's MAC Address or something and then totally block that off.

[gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem

2006-07-06 Thread Grant
I upgraded my laptop to modular xorg but X won't start. Based on the errors I see, it seems to be due to the mouse in some way. I've tried compiling xorg-x11 with only 'synaptics' and both 'synaptics' and 'mouse' in my INPUT_DEVICES. I've also commented and uncommented the two 'Driver' lines

[gentoo-user] gentoo-xcursors in xfce4

2006-07-06 Thread Grant
It looks like modular xorg installs gentoo-xcursors by default. How can I give them a try in xfce4? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem

2006-07-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Grant wrote: I upgraded my laptop to modular xorg but X won't start. Based on the errors I see, it seems to be due to the mouse in some way. I've tried compiling xorg-x11 with only 'synaptics' and both 'synaptics' and 'mouse' in my INPUT_DEVICES. I've also commented and uncommented the two

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-xcursors in xfce4

2006-07-06 Thread Mick
and, or in fluxbox please? On 06/07/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like modular xorg installs gentoo-xcursors by default. How can I give them a try in xfce4? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Modular xorg mouse problem

2006-07-06 Thread Mick
I thought that you meant to add synaptics as a USE flag (but not sure). Anyway, try to change /dev/mouse to /dev/mice and see if it gets any better. On 06/07/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded my laptop to modular xorg but X won't start. Based on the errors I see, it seems to be

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-xcursors in xfce4

2006-07-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Grant wrote: It looks like modular xorg installs gentoo-xcursors by default. How can I give them a try in xfce4? To do it on the system level, create /usr/local/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default/ and drop an index.theme file in there: $ cat /usr/local/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default/index.theme

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem

2006-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/6/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded my laptop to modular xorg but X won't start. Based on the errors I see, it seems to be due to the mouse in some way. I've tried compiling xorg-x11 with only 'synaptics' and both 'synaptics' and 'mouse' in my INPUT_DEVICES. I've also

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem

2006-07-06 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/6/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded my laptop to modular xorg but X won't start. Based on the errors I see, it seems to be due to the mouse in some way. I've tried compiling xorg-x11 with only 'synaptics' and both 'synaptics' and 'mouse' in my INPUT_DEVICES. I've also

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage: missing pieces

2006-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/6/06, Molle Bestefich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... snip ... Any other suggestions? Dont snip. The relevant part comes *after* the blocks lines. Also, you are mis-interpreting the blocks lines. The correct reading of X (is blocking Y) is that you have (or should have) X installed, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg loses 4 characters

2006-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/6/06, Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since upgrading to 7.0-r1 from 6.8 I've lost a few characters. I use xmodmap to get accented and other characters but four of those characers are now missing: leftarrow, rightarrow, uparrow and downarrow. When typed they just show up as

Re: [gentoo-user] making sense of emerge --sync

2006-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/5/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2006 which contains the following: move net-wireless/madwifi-tools net-wireless/madwifi-ng-tools move net-wireless/madwifi-driver net-wireless/madwifi-ng These are instructions to portage to move things around

[gentoo-user] xorg-6.8 -- xorg-7.0 -- 6.8 -- 7.0 impossible?

2006-07-06 Thread Grant
I had some trouble upgrading to xorg-x11-7.0 due to a mouse issue so I downgraded back to xorg-x11-6.8 via the -K emerge option. Now I'm trying to get back to 7.0 to test the fix and I can't seem to do it. After unmerging 6.8, 7.0 emerges just fine without or without the -K option. Trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous

2006-07-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 01:54 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: I'm still stucked on Xorg-6.8 and not intending to upgrade anytime soon unless there is a lot of good things to expect out of it. Right now, as long as there's no exploit/bug for xorg-6.8, I'll keep it that way.

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg loses 4 characters

2006-07-06 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 17:56 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: Since upgrading to 7.0-r1 from 6.8 I've lost a few characters. I use xmodmap to get accented and other characters but four of those characers are now missing: leftarrow, rightarrow, uparrow and downarrow. When typed they just

[gentoo-user] Kernel output to ttyS1

2006-07-06 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, I'm migrating my router to Gentoo. Therefore I have to boot the old system from time to time. This I'm doing through a serial connection. Grub und the getty communicate to Minicom without complaint. However, the kernel messages while booting get lost. The Grub configuration is: serial

[gentoo-user] bind: no logging...?

2006-07-06 Thread Jarry
Hi, I'm testing my chrooted bind/nameserver with dig/nslookup, but I think I screwed up its configuration somehow, because I'm not getting expected answers. So I tried to search logs, but to my surprise, it seems to me that bind does not make any logs. Or at least I can not find anything, just

Re: [gentoo-user] bind: no logging...?

2006-07-06 Thread kashani
Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm testing my chrooted bind/nameserver with dig/nslookup, but I think I screwed up its configuration somehow, because I'm not getting expected answers. So I tried to search logs, but to my surprise, it seems to me that bind does not make any logs. Or at least I can not find

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-6.8 -- xorg-7.0 -- 6.8 -- 7.0 impossible?

2006-07-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Grant wrote: I had some trouble upgrading to xorg-x11-7.0 due to a mouse issue so I downgraded back to xorg-x11-6.8 via the -K emerge option. Now I'm trying to get back to 7.0 to test the fix and I can't seem to do it. After unmerging 6.8, 7.0 emerges just fine without or without the -K

Re: [gentoo-user] bind: no logging...?

2006-07-06 Thread Jarry
kashani wrote: Does bind write logs about its activities somewhere? Should it be in /var/log, or /chroot/dns/var/log? Bind is like Apache in that it does its own logging. Here's my config with all named logs split out into their own files. Just change the paths to something local in your

Re: [gentoo-user] bind: no logging...?

2006-07-06 Thread kashani
Jarry wrote: kashani wrote: Does bind write logs about its activities somewhere? Should it be in /var/log, or /chroot/dns/var/log? Bind is like Apache in that it does its own logging. Here's my config with all named logs split out into their own files. Just change the paths to something

Re: [gentoo-user] making sense of emerge --sync

2006-07-06 Thread maxim wexler
--- Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/5/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2006 which contains the following: move net-wireless/madwifi-tools net-wireless/madwifi-ng-tools move net-wireless/madwifi-driver net-wireless/madwifi-ng

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel output to ttyS1

2006-07-06 Thread Jure Varlec
On Thursday 06 July 2006 20:20, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi, I'm migrating my router to Gentoo. Therefore I have to boot the old system from time to time. This I'm doing through a serial connection. Grub und the getty communicate to Minicom without complaint. However, the kernel messages

Re: [gentoo-user] making sense of emerge --sync

2006-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/6/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But your reply leads to other questions: IIRC portage didn't say applying updates, it just mentioned the file at the end of the sync. Don't I have to run update to actually apply the updates? No, portage will do this update automatically when

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Luigi Pinna wrote: (**) Option XkbModel pc105 (**) Keyboard1: XkbModel: pc105 (**) Option XkbLayout de (**) Keyboard1: XkbLayout: de Okay. Just in case, what say 'grep ^(EE) /var/log/Xorg.0.log' and 'grep ^(WW) /var/log/Xorg.0.log'. And better not snip things that may seem irrelevant.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging kdebase

2006-07-06 Thread David Corbin
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 20:36, Richard Fish wrote: On 7/4/06, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking closer, my original copy of the error wasn't very complete. There are screenfuls of undefined references to various std:: symbols. Clearly my C++ library is messed up. How do I fix

Re: [gentoo-user] direct rendering only works with root???

2006-07-06 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 03 juillet 2006 à 09:44 -0400, John J. Foster a écrit : On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:17:18PM +0200, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: I installed ati-drivers and partially works correctly: As user nothing works: --- [...] direct rendering: No --- with root: --- [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging kdebase

2006-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/6/06, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: warning: libstdc++.so.5, needed by /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so, may conflict with libstdc++.so.6 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:

Re: [gentoo-user] direct rendering only works with root???

2006-07-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 01:43 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le lundi 03 juillet 2006 à 09:44 -0400, John J. Foster a écrit : Check your xorg.conf for the following: Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection but this line is already in my xorg.conf. Furthermore, it only happens in

[gentoo-user] linux router setup - howto?

2006-07-06 Thread Mike Markowski
Can anyone point me to a howto or advice for the following? On my gentoo box I have: - ppp dialup link to the internet (rural living is not very broadband friendly yet) - wireless access point on the ethernet interface I'd like to use this box as a router so that any wireless

Re: [gentoo-user] linux router setup - howto?

2006-07-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 20:09 -0400, Mike Markowski wrote: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward What more needs doing? Search through either gentoo-wiki or gentoo.org. IIRC there are step by step instructions on doing this. -- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Guidance requested for setting up ndiswrapper wireless under Gentoo

2006-07-06 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, HelpI cannot seem to find any good instructions for setting up a wireless NIC using ndiswrapper on Gentoo. Can someone point me in the right direction? The main Gentoo doc I found: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4chap=4 doesn't mention ndiswrapper.

[gentoo-user] Q on keywording java and xorg

2006-07-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
Part of the process for upgrading to the new java system, and using modular X (before it became stable) requires keywording via /etc/portage/package.keywords. What happens when the keywording is no longer necessary? It appears that you slowly collect an ~x86 system as the keywords grow! - along

Re: [gentoo-user] linux router setup - howto?

2006-07-06 Thread Andrew Frink
Mike,in case you are lazy, or haven't had the time too look, this is the guide i followed to set this up for my house, http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_setup_a_home-server cynyrOn 7/6/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 20:09 -0400, Mike Markowski wrote:echo 1

[gentoo-user] question about slotting

2006-07-06 Thread Ryan Sims
Recently finished getting CJK support for KDE done, via a howto in the wiki. One of the requirements was to compile qt with the immqt-bc useflag enabled. I discovered that I have two versions of qt installed, one in slot 3 and one in slot 4, all well and good. Version 3.3.6 of qt uses the immqt

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: get process name in c++

2006-07-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 10:17 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 16:01 +0200, Petr Uzel wrote: file /proc/self/status is a link pointing to the directory /proc/pid_of_process. And by parsing status file in this directory you should get all the informations you want.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: get process name in c++

2006-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/6/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone mentioned that /proc is deprecated for 2.6? is this correct? Is there a /sys alternative to /proc/self/status? Again, I *highly* suggest doing the standard, cross-platform, and most-efficient thing, which is to just store off the

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on keywording java and xorg

2006-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/6/06, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to easily stop the system upgrading until the stable packages catch up? - without breakages? Use version masks in your keywords file. So rather than x11-base/xorg-x11 ~x86 Use x11-base/xorg-x11-7.1 This will allow ~x86

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on keywording java and xorg

2006-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/6/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use x11-base/xorg-x11-7.1 This will allow ~x86 versions of xorg 7.0, but wait until 7.1 goes stable before upgrading to that. Actually, I should have written: =x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0.99 The first case might give you ~x86 -rc releases of

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg loses 4 characters

2006-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/6/06, Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes they do. I map the missing characters to AltGr+y, AltGr+[, AltGr+] and Shift+AltGr+[ ... which produces: ←↑→↓ I thought of fonts too, but I already have most of the fonts in portage - more than I had in xorg-6.8 (when it worked).

[gentoo-user] Re: Guidance requested for setting up ndiswrapper wireless under Gentoo

2006-07-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/6/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, HelpI cannot seem to find any good instructions for setting up a wireless NIC using ndiswrapper on Gentoo. Can someone point me in the right direction? The main Gentoo doc I found:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Guidance requested for setting up ndiswrapper wireless under Gentoo

2006-07-06 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/7/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/6/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, HelpI cannot seem to find any good instructions for setting up a wireless NIC using ndiswrapper on Gentoo. Can someone point me in the right direction? The main Gentoo doc I

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Help

2006-07-06 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 7/5/06, A. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my question is, once I install ndiswrapper and the driver, do I then follow the wiki for either wireless-tools or (preferred) wpa-supplicant?Is there anything else I have to do or install? Regards, ColleenHello,May I suggest that you try first with

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Help

2006-07-06 Thread Michael Crute
On 7/7/06, Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/5/06, A. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my question is, once I install ndiswrapper and the driver, do I then follow the wiki for either wireless-tools or (preferred) wpa-supplicant? Is there anything else I have to do or install?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: get process name in c++

2006-07-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 19:55 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 7/6/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone mentioned that /proc is deprecated for 2.6? is this correct? Is there a /sys alternative to /proc/self/status? Again, I *highly* suggest doing the standard, cross-platform, and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: get process name in c++

2006-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/6/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes I would, except that I'm editing a class which is inherited by a multitude of programs, so the /proc way I only have to change one file, whereas the argv[0] way I have to change every source file... No, that's the point of a global.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: get process name in c++

2006-07-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 21:48 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 7/6/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes I would, except that I'm editing a class which is inherited by a multitude of programs, so the /proc way I only have to change one file, whereas the argv[0] way I have to change