Re: [gentoo-user] Discover IP address of random Windows boxes on network?

2008-08-08 Thread Mick
On Friday 08 August 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Is there a simple way for me to discover the IP address of any random Windows machine that dropped by and hooked up to my network? Extra points if there's a way to discover if a machine has attached by wireless. What does your router tell you?

[gentoo-user] openrc modules args

2008-08-08 Thread gigli
Hi I upgraded to openrc on my gentoo system, i use it as a mythbackend + desktop. I need to pass an argument to the module dvb_usb_dib0700 to activate the low noise amplifier, but i can't get it to work. /etc/conf.d/modules looks like this # You can define a list modules for a specific

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1554 (82878-82927)

2008-08-08 Thread toefraz
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1554 (82878-82927)

2008-08-08 Thread Dale
toefraz wrote: unsubscribe http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml Dale :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-08 Thread Stroller
On 7 Aug 2008, at 23:04, Andrey Falko wrote: ... As far as I know, don't take my word for it, in order to use Active Directory on a GNU/Linux host, you need to setup LDAP and have it talk to AD. Unfortunately I don't know how to do this, perhaps this will help:

[gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-08-08 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Hello folks. I have an Asus EeePC 701 (4GB) and I'm having problems installing Gentoo on it, so I wrote this giant e-mail to help you understand what is going on and what I have done and can't do. I have been using Gentoo for a while, so I am pretty comfortable on installing it and configuring it.

Re: [gentoo-user] bridge configuration problem

2008-08-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 Aug 2008, at 03:17, Shaochun Wang wrote: ... I configure my network bridge as following: ... Does anyone know what's wrong with it? It looks quite different to mine: $ cat /etc/conf.d/net dns_domain=redacted.example.net dns_servers=192.168.1.43 192.168.1.1 212.104.130.9 212.104.130.65

Re: [gentoo-user] braille

2008-08-08 Thread Alastair Irving
mattias wrote: are braille supported with gentoo yet? There's an ebuild for brltty which should give you all the braille support you need. I'm not sure if its on the live cd though. However, you can use any live cd to install, for example GRML, which does include brltty. Alastair

[gentoo-user] Moonlight on Gentoo

2008-08-08 Thread Willie Wong
Hi group: I was rather excited at first about NBC streaming olympic events on the internet then I discovered that their media player is based on Silverlight. Do you have any experience installing/running Moonlight on Gentoo? Is there a ebuild available? Does it work with Firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Discover IP address of random Windows boxes on network?

2008-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Johann Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 net-analyzer/arpwatch is your friend :) Thanks Johann. I've installed and started it assuming the default settings in /etc/conf.d/arpwatch are sufficient. I'm getting MAC

Re: [gentoo-user] Discover IP address of random Windows boxes on network?

2008-08-08 Thread Johann Schmitz
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 05:45:57 -0700, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does seem I'm now seeing some new messages saying 'Unable to connect to mail port 25'. Is that arpwatch trying to email updates to me? If so, do I have to run a mail server to make that work? Yes, arpwatch sends a mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-08-08 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
By the way, this might help. I put some files online, that you might wanna check: http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/~saffi/eee/ * grub.conf * fstab * make.conf * Kernel config Best regards, Saffi -- Ricardo Saffi Marques http://www.rsaffi.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-08-08 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: By the way, this might help. I put some files online, that you might wanna check: http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/~saffi/eee/ * grub.conf * fstab * make.conf * Kernel config Cheers! Daniel Veiga had the same issue and contacted me with the solution. My kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Moonlight on Gentoo

2008-08-08 Thread Alexander Meinke
Hi Willie, I have had no experience with moonlight yet, but google brought me to this [1]. More useful would be this [2]. At [2] you can just download an firefox 2 plugin in .xpi format. It seems that there is no ebuild atm. Please report your experience to this thread. [1]

[gentoo-user] problem configuring wireless lan

2008-08-08 Thread Platoali
Hi, I've a problem configuring my wireless interface. I usually connect to two access points. One located at my home and another one at my work. The problem is that I should change my /etc/conf.d/net every time to connect the them. here is my config:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-08-08 Thread Eric Martin
Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: Hello folks. I have an Asus EeePC 701 (4GB) and I'm having problems installing Gentoo on it, so I wrote this giant e-mail to help you understand what is going on and what I have done and can't do. I have been using Gentoo for a while, so I am pretty comfortable on

Re: [gentoo-user] Moonlight on Gentoo

2008-08-08 Thread James Ausmus
On 8/8/08, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group: I was rather excited at first about NBC streaming olympic events on the internet then I discovered that their media player is based on Silverlight. Do you have any experience installing/running Moonlight on Gentoo? Is

[gentoo-user] Odd portage / eix behavior

2008-08-08 Thread Eric Martin
On one of my boxes, eix shows every package as (*) which is testing for my current arch but stable on some other. emerge --info reports x86 as my arch, so I don't know what the problem is. I don't think it's a huge problem as it's just an annoyance but I might be missing something. I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-08-08 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Eric Martin wrote: Please don't hijack threads. Please write a new email to the list if you wish to start a new thread. Here's a google search with lots of good resources on hijacking threads. You don't have to explain to me what thread hijacking means. I moderate a Brazilian e-group of 2900

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-08-08 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2008 August 08 Friday 03:08:17 PM -0300, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: You don't have to explain to me what thread hijacking means. I moderate a Brazilian e-group of 2900 people and am always saying that to members. Tell me what made you think I did that, because it sure ain't clear for

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-08-08 Thread Eric Martin
Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: Eric Martin wrote: Please don't hijack threads. Please write a new email to the list if you wish to start a new thread. Here's a google search with lots of good resources on hijacking threads. You don't have to explain to me what thread hijacking means. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-08-08 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Justin Findlay wrote: Your set of posts showed up as part of another thread in my client. Well, not in mine. I wrote that from scratch, I insist. Anyways, I won't discuss about that here on the list. I disencourage thread hijacking and never did that. Sorry for any inconvenience if something

[gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Eee 701 thread

2008-08-08 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Apologies for any misunderstanding and if I seemed angry. I wasn't. Just felt misjudged. Anyways, I was checking here and noticed that I've written and wanted to send a reply to that thread Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory Network which never arrived to the list (not here and

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-08-08 Thread Mick
On Friday 08 August 2008, Eric Martin wrote: Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: Eric Martin wrote: Please don't hijack threads. Please write a new email to the list if you wish to start a new thread. Here's a google search with lots of good resources on hijacking threads. You don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Eee 701 thread

2008-08-08 Thread Eric Martin
Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: Apologies for any misunderstanding and if I seemed angry. I wasn't. Just felt misjudged. Anyways, I was checking here and noticed that I've written and wanted to send a reply to that thread Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory Network which never

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc modules args

2008-08-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 08:35 +0200, gigli wrote: Hi I upgraded to openrc on my gentoo system, i use it as a mythbackend + desktop. I need to pass an argument to the module dvb_usb_dib0700 to activate the low noise amplifier, but i can't get it to work. /etc/conf.d/modules looks like this

[gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-08 Thread Grant
I'm struggling to come up with a plan for making backups that is both effective and economical. I have 4 Gentoo systems: 1. strong local desktop 2. weak local desktop 3. laptop 4. hosted remote server I'd like to backup the important system and data files from each of these systems, plus my

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-08 Thread Yoav Luft
Hi stroller, that was actually interesting, but it didn't help me much... I do not manage the network, neither do I have any knowledge of it's working. I asked the help desk guys to help out, but all they managed is to get me someone that knew, after a 2 hours work, to mount the directories I