Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Norman Rieß wrote: Jorge Almeida schrieb: Anybody managed to get shorewall working with gentoo-sources 2.6.22-r5? I upgraded from 2.6.20, and there went the firewall. I used oldconfig I had similar problems. I solved them with the kernelsettings here:

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-26 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the problem is with accounting, and in kernel 2.6.20 I had an entry with that name selected. But with 2.6.22 that entry is no longer selectable (it has --), so I assume its functionallity went somewhere else... -- means you can't deselect (because its

[gentoo-user] The big clean up

2007-08-26 Thread Noud Aldenhoven
Hello, I have gentoo running on this laptop for over a year now and I'm quite happy with it. But I have the feeling I emerged to many programs, made to many logs, have sources everywere... to sum it up: it's a small mess. I'd really like to clean things up, order most of the files and remove

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: -- means you can't deselect (because its pulled by something else...) Yes. But it was not so before, with 2.6.20. Have you recompiled iptables? I recompiled iptables once after emerging 2.6.22. Should I do it every time I make some changes to the

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-26 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have you recompiled iptables? I recompiled iptables once after emerging 2.6.22. Should I do it every time I make some changes to the kernel configuration, or when I make modules? Usually it isn't needed but it won't hurt. Actually, I was out of

Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up

2007-08-26 Thread Mick
On Sunday 26 August 2007, Noud Aldenhoven wrote: Hello, I have gentoo running on this laptop for over a year now and I'm quite happy with it. But I have the feeling I emerged to many programs, made to many logs, have sources everywere... to sum it up: it's a small mess. I'd really like to

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: Try every netfilter option as module. If the problem continues, perhaps you'll Everything is already as module... like to ask on shorewall's mailing lists if there are know issues with 2.6.22. Will do. BTW: a quick Googling shows netfilter is

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-26 Thread Mick
On Sunday 26 August 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 06:37:52AM +0100, Mick wrote b)Plugging in an external keyboard, which is hopefully recognised. No, it's *NOT* a laptop. See http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/desktops_inspn?c=ca; cs=cadhs1l=ens=dhs

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-26 Thread b.n.
Walter Dnes ha scritto: On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 06:37:52AM +0100, Mick wrote One problem down and one to go. I can get a limited shell. It doesn't have lspci or fdisk. I want to see what shows up with lspci -v and fdisk -l. I have a floppy if that helps. Why a limited shell? The gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus-binding-tool: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0:

2007-08-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Statux, Explanation: If dbus-glib had a new stable version available when the big batch of updates came through this past week, then it would have been inserted into the order between the expat update and the next package which would call dbus-binding-tool during its build. This would

Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up

2007-08-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Noud Aldenhoven, I'd really like to clean things up, order most of the files and remove packages which aren't important anymore. But what would be the best stategy to do this? Of course, I could start somewhere and work down and down and down... until I have deleted most unused

[gentoo-user] Unstable wireless connection

2007-08-26 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I have a strange problem with my wireless connection. I can have a normal connection (I'm using it now) until that I try to download a big file, like a emerge --sync or a program in a world update. When I do it the connection drop down after a

Re: [gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

2007-08-26 Thread Danis Petkakis
(see the recent Rolling upgrades thread) ...excuse me but where can i find this thread to read about such automated procedures?? thanks in advance... On 24/08/07, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! The last expat update was an example of something that annoys me about gentoo. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-26 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 11:16:42AM +0200, b.n. wrote Why a limited shell? The gentoo livecd does not have those software? Or are you into a busybox or something? After the boot (which I presume is done via BIOS) the install program can't find any drives (CD or DVD or HD). So it can only

Re: [gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

2007-08-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Danis Petkakis,http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/ (see the recent Rolling upgrades thread) ...excuse me but where can i find this thread to read about such automated procedures?? http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/ -- Neil Bothwick Wow! That lightning sounds clo..it! NO

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-26 Thread purple
anyway, remerged a whole world, same again, no mounted devices after pluging in usb stick or cd.. verry unhappy.. -- purple..

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-26 Thread Mick
On Sunday 26 August 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 11:16:42AM +0200, b.n. wrote Why a limited shell? The gentoo livecd does not have those software? Or are you into a busybox or something? After the boot (which I presume is done via BIOS) the install program can't find

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-26 Thread Michael Gisbers
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Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-26 Thread Florian Philipp
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Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-26 Thread maxim wexler
pardon me if you've already tried this: does the LiveCD/InstallCD boot? And can you mount the usb stick then? Then you can probe the hardware using the LiveCD/InstallCD tools, cat /proc/..., lsusb, dmesg etc to get some clues. Leastwise you'll know that it's not a hardware problem. Maxim ---

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-26 Thread Philip Webb
070826 purple wrote: remerged a whole world, same again, no mounted devices after plugging in usb stick or cd. verry unhappy.. Sorry if I'm repeating previous advice (I didn't follow the thread), but can you mount the USB by hand ? First, you need to enable 'USB MASS STORAGE' in your kernel,

Re: [gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

2007-08-26 Thread b.n.
Alex Schuster ha scritto: Hi there! The last expat update was an example of something that annoys me about gentoo. By the way, eix tells me that expat 2.0.1 is stable, but emerge -pv world doesn't ask me to update expat. Is it ok (does it mean no package actually needs 2.0.1 ?) ? m. --

Re: [gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

2007-08-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello b.n., By the way, eix tells me that expat 2.0.1 is stable, but emerge -pv world doesn't ask me to update expat. Is it ok (does it mean no package actually needs 2.0.1 ?) ? Probably, adding --deep should cause the upgrade. -- Neil Bothwick If you shoot a mime, should you use a

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-26 Thread purple
yeah, everything is ok: kernel, fstab, permissions, mounting by hand..everything is ok and device is recognized nicely in dmesg when pluged in..the problem is only that it wont automount on point already defined in fstab.. neither ivman works with its automounting feature, im desperate :| --

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-26 Thread purple
heh, look guys, mounting by hand works but thats not the thing i want at the moment.. i need every single usb stick or cd automounted on they mount points, that simple.. -- purple..

Re: [gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

2007-08-26 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 26 August 2007 23:25:48 b.n. wrote: By the way, eix tells me that expat 2.0.1 is stable, but emerge -pv world doesn't ask me to update expat. Is it ok (does it mean no package actually needs 2.0.1 ?) ? 1) Nothing does depend on expat-2.0.1. A lot of packages do, however, depend on

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello purple, heh, look guys, mounting by hand works but thats not the thing i want at the moment.. Please quote some of the email you are responding to, to give context. I had to look through the headers to see whether this was a response to my question, as I haven't received a copy of that

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-26 Thread Mick
On Sunday 26 August 2007, purple wrote: yeah, everything is ok: kernel, fstab, permissions, mounting by hand..everything is ok and device is recognized nicely in dmesg when pluged in..the problem is only that it wont automount on point already defined in fstab.. neither ivman works with its

Re: [gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

2007-08-26 Thread b.n.
Bo Ørsted Andresen ha scritto: On Sunday 26 August 2007 23:25:48 b.n. wrote: By the way, eix tells me that expat 2.0.1 is stable, but emerge -pv world doesn't ask me to update expat. Is it ok (does it mean no package actually needs 2.0.1 ?) ? 1) Nothing does depend on expat-2.0.1. A lot of

[gentoo-user] Re: AutoCad2000 on wine

2007-08-26 Thread jAMES
oahong samigarus at gmail.com writes: I do remember some (google) noise about fonts (mostlikely missing MS fonts, so does anyone know where I van find these fonts, or or how to extract them from win98,2k,2000 or XP? Take a look at media-fonts/corefonts Hi, I'm a .signature virus!

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
No problems on multiple systems built using oldconfig and not rebuilding iptables. In the kernel I turn everything on by default and build it modular - this might be the cause for you? Billk On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 08:09 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Norman Rieß wrote:

[gentoo-user] Suggestion re: expat problems

2007-08-26 Thread Michael J. Barillier
Regarding the recent expat upgrade problem (I had a box hosed by a blind update and spent a while sorting it out): I suggest that packages have optional Portage release notes, and when an `emerge --sync' is performed, any release notes of the updated packages are cat'ed together and displayed to

Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up

2007-08-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
Also, try running prelink on the system - I found a number of old, orphaned binaries on a ~5yr plus gentoo yesterday that had broken years ago when I ran prelink this time! - it complains about missing dependencies. Some files did turn out to be from currently installed packages (curl, gnuplot,

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-26 Thread David Snider
W.Kenworthy wrote: No problems on multiple systems built using oldconfig and not rebuilding iptables. In the kernel I turn everything on by default and build it modular - this might be the cause for you? Billk On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 08:09 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, 26 Aug 2007,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 09:34 +0100, Mick wrote: On Sunday 26 August 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 06:37:52AM +0100, Mick wrote b)Plugging in an external keyboard, which is hopefully recognised. No, it's *NOT* a laptop. See

[gentoo-user] FQDN v. localhost

2007-08-26 Thread Thufir
I've registered the FQDN of arrakis.doesntexist.org through http:// www.dyndns.com/ as per http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/doc_en/README- FQDN.html. However, I want to still be able to go to http://localhost/ phpmyadmin/. The FQDN is strictly for leafnode. I'll also be installing

[gentoo-user] Re: Java Version

2007-08-26 Thread Thufir
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:41:49 +0200, Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: How do I get the plugin into Firefox? I have the USE flag in place, and a 32 and 64 bit plugin appears available, but still nothing shows for about:plugins. The fetch restriction appears when downloading its documentation, not

Re: [gentoo-user] building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-26 Thread Aaron Clark
On 20-Aug-07, at 3:06 PM, Philip Webb wrote: (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 integrated High-definition video processing with maximum resolution 2048 x 1536 bpp @ 75 Hz ; maximum shared memory 256 MB ; supports

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-26 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 05:21:14PM +0100, Mick wrote You may want to try the nodma kernel option to get your CDROM recognised. Didn't help Also, the latest Knoppix CD/DVD may have hardware drivers that fair better than the Gentoo LiveCD. In my travels I have found that going around the

Re: [gentoo-user] building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-26 Thread Philip Webb
070826 Aaron Clark wrote: On 20-Aug-07, at 3:06 PM, Philip Webb wrote: (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 integrated High-definition video processing with maximum resolution 2048 x 1536 bpp @ 75 Hz ; maximum shared

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 11:27 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: no need, just download the slax modules. Slax is great like this - especially if you install it on a cdrw, you can keep appending modules at later times until the cd fills up, no need to re-burn the whole lot! sorry, scrub that, I don't

[gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant+ndiswrapper, Dell E1505, Broadcom 4311 wireless problem

2007-08-26 Thread Lingyun Yang
Hi, I got some problems with my Broadcom 4311 wireless card. It's a DELL Inspiron E1505. I can't setup the wireless with WPA/TKIP Here are my config files and the output of wpa_supplicant with debug info. denver ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/net # This blank configuration will automatically use

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestion re: expat problems

2007-08-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 26 August 2007, Michael J. Barillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Suggestion re: expat problems': I suggest that packages have optional Portage release notes, and when an `emerge --sync' is performed, any release notes of the updated packages are cat'ed together and

[gentoo-user] Re: FQDN v. localhost

2007-08-26 Thread Thufir
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:07:34 -0400, Sean wrote: You seem to be confusing /etc/conf.d/hostname with /etc/hosts. If you want different content to be served from localhost as opposed to another fqdn, then just setup virtualhosts in apache. For leafnode, configure /etc/hosts and

Re: [gentoo-user] Server Network Configuration

2007-08-26 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
kashani wrote: Mark Shields wrote: eth0 gives you the default gw via DHCP, and you're trying to set a default gw for eth1, right? If so, you can't do that. There can only be one default gateway (hence the name). What are the functions of the NICs on the private networks (eth1/eth2)?

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-26 Thread Michael Gisbers
Am Sonntag 26 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Sonntag 26 August 2007 21:53:47 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Samstag 25 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Mittwoch 22 August 2007 17:31:33 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Mittwoch 22 August 2007 16:12:00 schrieb Michael Gisbers: