Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo cannot find my HD

2009-09-11 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i have attached my dmesg output, please help me review. i have tried the kmuto.jp site, and i think i have all the modules installed and loaded, but i still cannot see my HD on my laptop On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: of course i am using

Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

2009-09-11 Thread Mick
On Friday 11 September 2009, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: However, when I put the -d, it didn't tell me anything except that dhcpcd sent several discover packets and then said timeout, so my original question still remains -- why a timeout with 5.1 with the same dhcpcd.conf and no timeout

[gentoo-user] wireless does not work on thinkpad t61

2009-09-11 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my laptop is thinkpad t61, and wireless card is intel pro/wireless 3945abg (according to the lspci output). i have configured my kernel as instructed by the handbook, and after compiling and reboot, i can see my wlan interface by iwconfig -a, and i modprobe iwl3945. but when i try iwspy

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless does not work on thinkpad t61

2009-09-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 20:20 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: my laptop is thinkpad t61, and wireless card is intel pro/wireless 3945abg (according to the lspci output). i have configured my kernel as instructed by the handbook, and after compiling and reboot, i can see my wlan interface by iwconfig -a,

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless does not work on thinkpad t61

2009-09-11 Thread Xi Shen
i solved it. thanks ;) On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 20:20 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: my laptop is thinkpad t61, and wireless card is intel pro/wireless 3945abg (according to the lspci output). i have configured my kernel as

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo cannot find my HD

2009-09-11 Thread Xi Shen
ok, i have find all my HD now. bug```i just noticed that i cannot find my cdrom. it is a dvd+rw On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: hi, i have attached my dmesg output, please help me review. i have tried the kmuto.jp site, and i think i have all the

[gentoo-user] Re: sSMTP write error...?

2009-09-11 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 09:22:46PM +0200, Jarry wrote: I think these two events are somehow tied together. Any more ideas? No, sorry. I think that the last step is to do a bug report at gentoo. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

2009-09-11 Thread covici
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 11 September 2009, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: However, when I put the -d, it didn't tell me anything except that dhcpcd sent several discover packets and then said timeout, so my original question still remains -- why a timeout with 5.1

Re: [gentoo-user] screen, mc, htop

2009-09-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando sayusi.a...@sayusi.hu wrote: Hi all! I'm here again. So, the problem points is I can't decide what is the real problem. But I can describe the symptomes. I use screen lot of and I like it veery much. Few weeks ago - when I

[gentoo-user] Error emergin mkinitrd

2009-09-11 Thread Massimiliano Ziccardi
Hi all. I've a problem trying to emerge mkinitrd. Everytime I try, I get: * ERROR: sys-apps/mkinitrd-3.5.7-r3 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2212: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake ||

Re: [gentoo-user] screen, mc, htop

2009-09-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando sayusi.a...@sayusi.hu wrote: I use screen lot of and I like it veery much. Few weeks ago - when I reinstall gentoo, started this weird thing. If I start mc in the

[gentoo-user] Re: screen, mc, htop

2009-09-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/11/2009 07:04 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando sayusi.a...@sayusi.hu wrote: I use screen lot of and I like it veery much. Few weeks ago - when I reinstall gentoo, started

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: screen, mc, htop

2009-09-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 09/11/2009 07:04 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando sayusi.a...@sayusi.hu wrote: I use screen lot

[gentoo-user] Re: screen, mc, htop

2009-09-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/11/2009 08:08 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 09/11/2009 07:04 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando

[gentoo-user] port bandwidth discovery

2009-09-11 Thread James
Hello, Currently, I manage gentoo system that have a variety of 10 and 100 MB/s ethernet cards. I use lshw to distinguish the max ethernet port speed: For example: network:0 DISABLED description: Ethernet interface

Re: [gentoo-user] port bandwidth discovery

2009-09-11 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
James wrote: Hello, Currently, I manage gentoo system that have a variety of 10 and 100 MB/s ethernet cards. I use lshw to distinguish the max ethernet port speed: snip Is this reliable? What if a 10/100 card is plugged into a 10MB/s hub? Have you tried mii-tool? quasar ~ # mii-tool -v

Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

2009-09-11 Thread Stroller
On 11 Sep 2009, at 16:29, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: ... I am using unstable generally, so it just came in the update. I have no router, this is FIOS from Verizon. Sorry if this is a dumb question, but presumably the interface is an ethernet card, right? What's it connected to? FISO

Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

2009-09-11 Thread covici
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 11 Sep 2009, at 16:29, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: ... I am using unstable generally, so it just came in the update. I have no router, this is FIOS from Verizon. Sorry if this is a dumb question, but presumably the interface is an

[gentoo-user] Re: Error emergin mkinitrd

2009-09-11 Thread walt
On 09/11/2009 08:58 AM, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Hi all. I've a problem trying to emerge mkinitrd. Everytime I try, I get: * ERROR: sys-apps/mkinitrd-3.5.7-r3 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2212:

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
I have $PORTAGE_TMPDIR on the SD card, which is cheap enough to replace if too many OOo compiles toast it. And I took your advice 2. It's sloow I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly some compiles completed. Not as fast as my desktop of course, but faster than was expecting,

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
2. Don't change a winning team! If your kernel run's smoothly with no weird glutches in drivers, leave it be. Only update if you want new features. Just my 2p's worth Greetz, Mark Works for my desktop. I haven't updated it for years. Just poked along fixing this and that; if something stops

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Dale
Maxim Wexler wrote: Negatory. My dialup is attenuated by 8 miles of analog telephone line. When I'm mobile it's a different story. mw I was on a really crappy dial-up until recently. You have my deepest sympathies. Dial-up, of any kind, truly sucks. :-@ Funny thing is, our old

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
As mentioned yesterday, I now do all emerges in a chroot on my desktop to build binary packages, then emerge -k on the Eee, so Ooo only takes 90 minutes now. The only compiling I do on the Eee is kernel changes. This suggests using the fetchonly switch, write the files to USB key while mobile

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
Funny thing is, our old phone lines were about that far too. Most of the time I got about 3KB/s of throughput. I hope yours is better than that. That's about the top speed here.

[gentoo-user] qmail problem

2009-09-11 Thread salvatore monaco
Hello I'm try to install on my gentoo server qmail whit vpopmail for virtualhosting when I'm try to connect on mailbox the log in qmail-smtpd are @40004aaacf981c82d5f4 /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw: error while loading shared libraries: libnsl.so.1: failed to map segment from shared object:

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:32:00 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: This suggests using the fetchonly switch, write the files to USB key while mobile and compile them later on the desktop. But when I do % emerge -pfuvND world I just get page after page of the mirrors list from make.conf. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 11 September 2009 22:32:00 Maxim Wexler wrote: As mentioned yesterday, I now do all emerges in a chroot on my desktop to build binary packages, then emerge -k on the Eee, so Ooo only takes 90 minutes now. The only compiling I do on the Eee is kernel changes. This suggests using

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: I used to do this. Trust me, it's more trouble than it's worth. A 4G memory card just for distfiles will solve the problem nicely. This includes the tree, distfiles and all the buildpkges on a fully loaded KDE desktop. r...@smoker / # du -shc /usr/portage/ 4.4G

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error emergin mkinitrd

2009-09-11 Thread Jacob Todd
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:23:23PM -0700, walt wrote: On 09/11/2009 08:58 AM, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Hi all. I've a problem trying to emerge mkinitrd. Everytime I try, I get: * ERROR: sys-apps/mkinitrd-3.5.7-r3 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line

Re: [gentoo-user] qmail problem

2009-09-11 Thread Aiko Barz
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:40:16PM +0200, salvatore monaco wrote: Hello I'm try to install on my gentoo server qmail whit vpopmail for virtualhosting when I'm try to connect on mailbox the log in qmail-smtpd are @40004aaacf981c82d5f4 /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw: error while loading

[gentoo-user] How would I disable Flash (oand other things) for a single account?

2009-09-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Is it possible to shut off all multimedia stuff for a single account? It's doesn't have to be securely off, just off, so if it cannot be done by meddling with group membership then doing something in a root owned bash file that executes when the user logs in even that's fine with me. (Uh - even I