Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption

2006-11-12 Thread Mick
On Sunday 12 November 2006 01:33, Ryan Tandy wrote: Peter Kelly wrote: I emerge'd ipw3945, but can't get it to work. is ipw3945d running? /etc/init.d/ipw3945d start Also, make sure that you have pressed the WiFi button to switch on the hardware on that laptop, or have switched it on in

[gentoo-user] What's the use of mozilla-launcher?

2006-11-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! A while back, I discovered that mozilla-launcher is causing problems, when the URL contains a , (comma); eg. http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,447923,00.html In Knode/KDE, I configured, that firefox is to be used as the browser, so that when I click on a URL, it's loaded in

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody got OS/2 working under linux?

2006-11-12 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, On Sunday 12 November 2006 07:03, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 09:00:09AM +0100, Petric Frank wrote I made a test install on a VMware Server installation (Host: AMD64 + Gentoo 2006.1). I created a VM (OS type other). Then i exit the console, changed in the *.vmx file

[gentoo-user] Re: Basic Vmware setup

2006-11-12 Thread reader
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: server: Can create or edit existing configurations. Can leave a virtual machine running in the background if you close the console Is there a catch somewhere with `server'. Buy the description it appears to do everthing the `workstation' does, yet is

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption

2006-11-12 Thread Peter Kelly
On Sunday 12 November 2006 02:00, Mick wrote: On Sunday 12 November 2006 01:33, Ryan Tandy wrote: Peter Kelly wrote: I emerge'd ipw3945, but can't get it to work. is ipw3945d running? /etc/init.d/ipw3945d start Also, make sure that you have pressed the WiFi button to switch on the

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] VMware legal question

2006-11-12 Thread reader
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That might be legal, but why don't you go the absolutely legal way and use vmware-server instead of vmware-workstation? Sorry about butting in here: I hope I'm not just blind but: Alexander, I didn't see a word of documentation in the server package

[gentoo-user] Re: SCSI/libata based PATA support

2006-11-12 Thread Sven Köhler
do you know, what's going on at present in kernel development? We had libata based SATA drivers for a few kernel-versions now. Since 2.6.19, we seem to be offered libata based PATA drivers too! Why are they doing it? Does this make any sense to you? The new drivers don't replace the old

[gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-12 Thread Brian Davis
Hey folks, I will be running my apache2 server in a chroot. Most of my data for the server (e.g. pictures, user webpages) are on another partition from my chroot. I don't want to move all that data into the apache chroot if I don't have to. Therefore I would have soft symlinks from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] VMware legal question

2006-11-12 Thread Daniel Iliev
Alexander Skwar wrote: · Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it legal to do the following: 1) emerge vmware-workstation 2) build some images (within the 30 day trial period) 3) emerge -C vmware-workstation (within the 30 day trial period) 4) emerge vmware-player and use it to play the

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-12 Thread Daniel Iliev
Brian Davis wrote: Hey folks, I will be running my apache2 server in a chroot. Most of my data for the server (e.g. pictures, user webpages) are on another partition from my chroot. I don't want to move all that data into the apache chroot if I don't have to. Therefore I would have soft

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-12 Thread Shawn Haggett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Davis wrote: Hey folks, I will be running my apache2 server in a chroot. Most of my data for the server (e.g. pictures, user webpages) are on another partition from my chroot. I don't want to move all that data into the apache chroot if I

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 12 November 2006 08:56, Brian Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot': I will be running my apache2 server in a chroot. Most of my data for the server (e.g. pictures, user webpages) are on another partition from my chroot. I don't want to move

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Basic Vmware setup

2006-11-12 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Workstation allows you to create snapshots of a setup and then create clones from it so you can make a base system, then do branches off of it as you add to it. For example, you can create a base Gentoo install and snapshot it. Then you can clone it and install some software - say to make a

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:56:31 -0500 Brian Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be running my apache2 server in a chroot. Most of my data for the server (e.g. pictures, user webpages) are on another partition from my chroot. I don't want to move all that data into the apache chroot if I

RE: [gentoo-user] My Snort server -- I Don't know whats wrong -- It seems to go to sleep

2006-11-12 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
-Original Message- From: Hans-Werner Hilse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:27 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My Snort server -- I Don't know whats wrong -- It seems to go to sleep Hi, On Fri, 10 Nov 2006

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice help files

2006-11-12 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi Chris, Am Freitag, 03. Nov 2006, 23:15:16 -0500 schrieb Chris Atkinson: On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:44:13 +0100 Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in OpenOffice, when hitting F1, I only get a dialog saying: The help file for this topic is not installed. Is it possible you don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice help files

2006-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:15:46 +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: I did something like emerge openoffice halt and left the computer alone for a night. So I couldn't see that output. genlop -i openoffice will show you the USE flags used to emerge it. -- Neil Bothwick Few women admit their age.

[gentoo-user] vmware-player installation

2006-11-12 Thread Michael George
I am trying to install vmware-player, but things don't seem to be working right. Aftere doing the emerge, and starting /etc/init.d/vmware, I was told that cupsd had to be started after vmware but that some of the vmware dependencies required cupsd. Since I don't need to pring from the VM, I blew

[gentoo-user] Wierd ALSA sound problem

2006-11-12 Thread jeff
I'm having trouble getting ALSA working reliably. The card is an nvidia MCP51 HD sound card, using the driver snd-hda-intel. I have sound support built into the kernel. When I initially configure it, using alsaconf, everything works fine. As soon as I attempt to change the mixer settings, sound

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the use of mozilla-launcher?

2006-11-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/12/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Knode/KDE, I configured, that firefox is to be used as the browser, so that when I click on a URL, it's loaded in firefox. I did this by modifying .kde/share/config/kdeglobals and adding/changing: [General]

[gentoo-user] Remove prelink and purge prelinked exec

2006-11-12 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i would like to remove prelink and put the system to the state it has before the prelink procedure. I've read that a # prelink -ua can do the job but i would have some suggestions from you all. It is enough to behave like this? Regards, mc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption

2006-11-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/12/06, Peter Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the daemon is running. It starts when you modprobe ipw3945. There isn't a wifi switch that I've found. There is an LED that blinks slowly. The card appears to be on. I just can't get it configured. Well I can attest that the wep will

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-player installation

2006-11-12 Thread Michael George
I figured it out... along with the vmmon module being built for the wrong kernel was the vmnet module. Once I built it for the right kernel, put it into place and ran /etc/init.d/vmware start, it runs without error. Sorry for the intrusion. :) On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 02:21:08PM -0500, Michael

Re: [gentoo-user] mounttool

2006-11-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/11/06, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, some distros come with a little utility called mounttool. I can loop mount images of encrypted filesystems (cryptsetup but for loop mounting). I can't seem to find it in gentoo. Does it hide somewhere? Or can someone recommend a similar

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove prelink and purge prelinked exec

2006-11-12 Thread Jesús Guerrero
El Domingo, 12 de Noviembre de 2006 20:58, Marco Calviani escribió: Hi list, i would like to remove prelink and put the system to the state it has before the prelink procedure. I've read that a # prelink -ua can do the job but i would have some suggestions from you all. It is enough to

[gentoo-user] bzflag runs then crashes

2006-11-12 Thread James
Hello, I have bzflag running quite nicely on a portable (intel 3GHz p4) with gentoo. I'm trying to get bzflag [Installed: 2.0.8] running an [AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+) with 1.5 M or ram. Both the 2.0.8 and the 2.0.4 versions crash with the same symptoms, so it seems like the problem is not with

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mass storage - WD My Book

2006-11-12 Thread David Relson
You might also consider upgrading your kernel to 2.6.18. I use BackupPC with an external USB HD. With the 2.6.17 the usb subsystem would choke before a full backup would complete. By choke I mean that 'ps' would show a 'D' state for all USB related processes. Once the USB subsystem had choked,

[gentoo-user] skypemate

2006-11-12 Thread Thufir
I'm looking at: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/usbb2k-api/. Does anyone have this working with http://support.a-link.com/phonemate/IPU1.htm? How about the skypemate software? (Yes, I want to use closed source software, skypemate, for a proprietary VoIP network on linux--the irony is

[gentoo-user] LDAP + Samba as PDC

2006-11-12 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Hi everyone, I've been trying to set up an authentication server for a mixed LAN (Windows and Linux clientes ) and I'm having problems with Samba. The way it is today, the Windows clients can access the Samba server and each user can access it's home, by double-clicking on the server icon

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting a file containing confidential info

2006-11-12 Thread Javier
I'm using this : http://dev.gentoo.org/~agriffis/userpass/ I'm using KeePassX [1] to store my passwords and my private keys. This is a gpl application with a windows version to use at work =) I think keepassx is by far the best application to store passwords and personal files I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove prelink and purge prelinked exec

2006-11-12 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, emerge -euD world but: is this going to recompile everything (e option) or only those that needs upgrade? Regards, mc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mounttool

2006-11-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 November 2006 22:35, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/11/06, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, some distros come with a little utility called mounttool. I can loop mount images of encrypted filesystems (cryptsetup but for loop mounting). I can't seem to find it in gentoo. Does

[gentoo-user] Re: What's the use of mozilla-launcher?

2006-11-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/12/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Knode/KDE, I configured, that firefox is to be used as the browser, so that when I click on a URL, it's loaded in firefox. I did this by modifying .kde/share/config/kdeglobals and adding/changing:

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove prelink and purge prelinked exec

2006-11-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 November 2006 22:40, Jesús Guerrero wrote: I never trusted prelink. So, I dont trust it to un-prelink either. Just out of curiosity: Why? As in it doesn't do its job or as in it makes the system unstable? My whole system is prelinked and it is very stable. Startup times of C++

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: [OT] VMware legal question

2006-11-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexander Skwar wrote: · Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it legal to do the following: 1) emerge vmware-workstation 2) build some images (within the 30 day trial period) 3) emerge -C vmware-workstation (within the 30 day trial period) 4) emerge