RE: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-19 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Iain Buchanan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:26 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else, but what I _don't_ like is when

Re: [gentoo-user] ADSL network

2007-07-19 Thread Abraham Marín Pérez
sain yan escribió: Hi My box can`t link to internet , I using rp-pppoe I think it work fine, when run pppoe-start I get internet IP and the right DNS informention in /etc/resolv.conf ,but ping google.com http://google.com , unknewn name, ping IP is rest why?? --

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 19 July 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??': -Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't like the GPLv3, you probably didn't *really* like the GPLv2 and might be more interested in licensing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 19 July 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader': I have seen many of them that the man page and the info page were identicle. More often though it looked like they made a decent man page, and coppied it to info. info automatically pulls man

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs error: permission denied when executing a command

2007-07-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi, i have a problem with NFS. A partition mounted on machine gentoo1 is correctly exported and mounted in gentoo2 (that is, it is possible to read and write on it). However whenever i try to execute a program from gentoo2 that it is stored

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Stroller wrote: It's enough to make the average person's head spin (and does) - it can easily take two hours for me to get a class full of reasonably bright Windows techies to grasp ... You clearly have more experience than I do with teaching novices   about

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs error: permission denied when executing a command

2007-07-19 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi James and the others, thank you very much, this option made the trick. Regards, marco On 7/19/07, James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man mount /user gets you (*'s added by me for easy find): user Allow an ordinary user to mount the file system. The name of the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] English sucks (was: Re: Installation problems)

2007-07-19 Thread Kent Fredric
On 7/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:35 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] English sucks (was: Re: Installation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:58 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else, but what I _don't_ like is when you have both man and info, and one of them is very deficient (in grub's case, man). The description is different, less

[gentoo-user] IPv6 troubles

2007-07-19 Thread Mike Williams
Hey all, I was hoping we've got some IPv6 experts around, as I've got some issues I've been banging my head against for 2 days. Very briefly our network is a gentoo firewall box with 5 interfaces, 1 to the internet, and 4 to private networks (192.168.xxx.0/24). What I would like to do is assign

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 troubles

2007-07-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 19 July 2007 13:45, Mike Williams wrote: I can add dead:beef:2::11/64 (yes, /64) to the internet side of router/firewall, a default route via dead:beef:2::1 and then happily ping ipv6 things on the internet. Ok, so your ipv6 link to your provider (and to the ipv6 Internet) is

RE: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-19 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 3:00 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3?? I totally agree here. (Of course, I think the Free Software vs. Proprietary Software war is just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 13:36 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:58 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else, but what I _don't_ like is when you have both man and info, and one of them is very

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 troubles

2007-07-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 19 July 2007 14:56, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: IIUC, icmpv6 echo request packets enter the router/firewall from the bond2 interface, and leave the box using the bond0 interface (confirming that forwarding works). But, the router/firewall is trying to get the link-layer address of the

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 troubles

2007-07-19 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 19 July 2007 13:56:23 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Ok, just some shots in the dark: - Do the hosts also get the default router, along with the ipv6 address? You can check with ip -6 route. You should get, among the others, a default route pointing to the ipv6 link local (fe80:) address of

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 troubles

2007-07-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 19 July 2007 17:02, Mike Williams wrote: I hadn't configured the subnet router anycast address, but I can still ping it. Again makes no difference if it's specified or not. Ok, then probably the linux implementation recognizes it anyway. But it seems this is not the issue here.

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 troubles

2007-07-19 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 19 July 2007 16:12:18 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: More precisely, it seems that these neighbor solicitation messages come from the far end router, like it somehow believes that your internal host is on its same subnet, and is trying to resolve its ipv6 address to its link layer address

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 troubles

2007-07-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 19 July 2007 18:00, Mike Williams wrote: fe80::214:f600:b67e:b4db is the link local address of the upstream router, which is also configured as dead:beef:2::1/48. Strictly speaking, if it's taken from the same block, it should be at least /49; otherwise, they would uncorrectly

[gentoo-user] enable musicbrainz on amarok?

2007-07-19 Thread b.n.
Hi, I recently recompiled amarok with the musicbrainz USE flag enabled, to allow tagging of mp3 files with musicbrainz. However, when I try to Edit tag information... the Fill-in tags using MusicBrainz button is always disabled. It tells me to install Musicbrainz, but it's installed. What

[gentoo-user] Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread James
Hello, I seem to have an adventure every time I set up a dual boot laptop with Windows and Gentoo. The last time I found out that HP will ship you an OEM install CD so after formatting the hard drive (deleting the windows hidden partition) you can put windows on any partition you want and not

Re: [gentoo-user] Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Julian Simioni
On 7/19/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I seem to have an adventure every time I set up a dual boot laptop with Windows and Gentoo. The last time I found out that HP will ship you an OEM install CD so after formatting the hard drive (deleting the windows hidden partition) you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
Last year I bought a Dell Inspiron that did not come with any software cd. The drive, came with XP pre-installed as well as a recovery partition that you could use to restore the XP partition to factory. Of course it runs Gentoo. What I did was: 1. Boot with a live cd (or better yet

[gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread James
Julian Simioni spectre256 at gmail.com writes: Depending on what software you need to run, running Windows in VMware can work quite well. VMware is not an option. We use the laptops for embedded systems development. Most Semiconductor companies still require you use Windows for their

[gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread James
Albert Hopkins marduk at gentoo.org writes: 1. Boot with a live cd (or better yet RIPLinux on a USB stick). RIP Linux looks very cool. No experience with this but, hey I'm going to try and use this... I'm not sure if Vista versus XP make any difference. In a recent post on this list

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 troubles

2007-07-19 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 19 July 2007 17:51:32 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Thursday 19 July 2007 18:00, Mike Williams wrote: Etaoin, thanks for you time. I fear I would fail basic routing, which is surprising, seeing how I do similar things with IPv4 networks! These addresses are all supposed to be properly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:58 +, James wrote: Albert Hopkins marduk at gentoo.org writes: [...] I'm not sure if Vista versus XP make any difference. In a recent post on this list about grub one reader posted about the fact that with Vista the boot.ini file is gone. I'm not sure that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 19 Juli 2007 21:01 schrieb Albert Hopkins: On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:58 +, James wrote: Albert Hopkins marduk at gentoo.org writes: [...] I'm not sure if Vista versus XP make any difference. In a recent post on this list about grub one reader posted about the fact that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:29 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Well, actually we are using both (chainloading ntldr by grub) and if you are changing the partition scheme, you might need to work with it. Sorry I was confused. [...] Sorry when I said boot via liveCD I wasn't specifically

Re: [gentoo-user] OT ( was : Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4)

2007-07-19 Thread Billy McCann
On 7/17/07, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 14:24 -0500, Billy Wayne McCann wrote: My purpose for pasting this into this discussion is three-fold: to show why I said what I did, to hopefully dispel the notion that I merely made this all up, and to discuss the

[gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread James
Albert Hopkins marduk at gentoo.org writes: I've been using RIPLinux for 3 years and haven't had any issues with it. Ok Albert, I'm convinced. I'm going to give your suggestions a whirl. One cautious step I'm adding as suggested, is to back up the virgin drive with DD. I'm looking for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:45 +, James wrote: Ok Albert, I'm convinced. I'm going to give your suggestions a whirl. One cautious step I'm adding as suggested, is to back up the virgin drive with DD. I'm looking for a cable so that I can copy the sony drive onto a gentoo partition of

Re: [gentoo-user] enable musicbrainz on amarok?

2007-07-19 Thread Ryan Sims
On 7/19/07, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently recompiled amarok with the musicbrainz USE flag enabled, to allow tagging of mp3 files with musicbrainz. However, when I try to Edit tag information... the Fill-in tags using MusicBrainz button is always disabled. It tells me to install

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 Jul 2007, at 23:22, Albert Hopkins wrote: ... I'm looking for a cable so that I can copy the sony drive onto a gentoo partition of another system via a usb 2.0 to ata/eide cable. It was suggested this cable: ttp://tinyurl.com/ynhszy [sic] But being in Florida... These are really easy

Re: [gentoo-user] XSESSION=Xsession doesn't work!

2007-07-19 Thread Stroller
Thanks very much indeed for your help, James. On 19 Jul 2007, at 00:47, James Ausmus wrote: snip If anyone has time to change XSESSION=Xsession and log on to their machine as a new user I would be grateful to hear what results they get. I can't help wondering if this is a little-tested

[gentoo-user] autoloading ipw3945

2007-07-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
My laptop (inspiron 6400) has an intel 3945 wireless chip and hence I use net-wireless/ipw3945{,d,-ucode}. If I include ipw3945 in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, I get an error msg during boot Failed to load ipw3945 However, everything works fine. Specifically, ifconfig shows that the

Re: [gentoo-user] autoloading ipw3945

2007-07-19 Thread Novensiles divi Flamen
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:57:01 Allan Gottlieb wrote: What is the clean way to do this? Currently I am using the first method above and averting my eyes when the yellow star is to appear. I have exactly the same laptop, with the wireless assigned to eth1. net.eth1 is not run in any runlevel,

Re: [gentoo-user] autoloading ipw3945

2007-07-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:05:27 +0930 Novensiles divi Flamen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have exactly the same laptop, with the wireless assigned to eth1. net.eth1 is not run in any runlevel, but is launched from udev. Sounds good. I assume you do *not* have ipw3945 in

Re: [gentoo-user] autoloading ipw3945

2007-07-19 Thread Novensiles divi Flamen
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:38:12 Allan Gottlieb wrote: Sounds good. I assume you do *not* have ipw3945 in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. If my guess is wrong, do you get the boot-time error message I mentioned (Failed to load ipw3945). Your guess is correct, it is not in there. My

Re: [gentoo-user] autoloading ipw3945

2007-07-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:19:55 +0930 Novensiles divi Flamen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to have the modules load , which initiated the ipw3945d with an error that it can't start until runlevel three, then it worked perfectly once that runlevel was reached. Now it loads the module but