Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone

2010-01-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 January 2010 03:53:21 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I used to have a vol_id command to discover the UUIDs of my partitions. I just connected some new SATA drives and I cannot find that utility. Did I just imagine it, or has something else happened? Hmm, perhaps udev-tools or

Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone

2010-01-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 24 January 2010 03:53:21 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I used to have a vol_id command to discover the UUIDs of my partitions. I just connected some new SATA drives and I cannot find that utility. Did I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone

2010-01-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 Jan 2010, at 03:53, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I used to have a vol_id command to discover the UUIDs of my partitions. I just connected some new SATA drives and I cannot find that utility. Did I just imagine it, or has something else happened? Sorry if this is a dumb response, but

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-24 Thread Grant
I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA.  I've flashed the BIOS in other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it?  I tried running the utility via wine with no

Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone

2010-01-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 January 2010 14:31:40 Stroller wrote: ls -lG /dev/disk/by-uuid/ Yes, this works fine if all you want is the UUIDs, but the blkid command shows other useful stuff too, like mount points, fs type, label names, etc. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

[gentoo-user] Which IPSEC to go?

2010-01-24 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, since I am a while out of the game of doing ipsec with Linux: What's the way to go? Strongswan/Openswan or ipsec-tools for kame/racoon. Emerge -p gave me some ~ for ipsec-tools while openswan goes without. Any input welcome. I need this for a road warrior setup. Regards, Konstantin --

Re: [gentoo-user] Which IPSEC to go?

2010-01-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 January 2010 21:38:23 Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, since I am a while out of the game of doing ipsec with Linux: What's the way to go? Strongswan/Openswan or ipsec-tools for kame/racoon. Openswan is simpler to configure, although I have not tried it yet. I have however

Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 13:11 +0100, YoYo siska wrote: maybe it is even enough to run the --probe-dpys according to what you say about selecting detect displays in the gui... Thanks! This is the closest I've got so far, but it still isn't quite right. I can run `./nv-control-dpy --probe-dpys`

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel 4965 doesn't work with 2.6.32?

2010-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 11:54 +, Mick wrote: On Monday 18 January 2010 05:51:50 Iain Buchanan wrote: Are you sure that the driver recognises the wireless NIC as wlan0? Does ifconfig -a show it as wlan0? If yes then this looks like a driver problem. not sure if I posted it here or

[gentoo-user] Bluetooth is impossible

2010-01-24 Thread Grant
I have a TRENDnet TBW-105UB USB bluetooth adapter and Motorola H560 bluetooth headset, and I'm trying to use them with twinkle VOIP software. I've spent at least 8 hours today following up with every single lead and I can't figure out how this is supposed to work. I think I don't have the 2

Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:07 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: The only way I got nv-control-dpy to do anything was to use --dynamic-twinview and then xrandr to try and change to the new mode, however it didn't quite work, leaving one screen black (except for the cursor). In the end I still had to

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth is impossible

2010-01-24 Thread Stroller
On 25 Jan 2010, at 01:33, Grant wrote: I have a TRENDnet TBW-105UB USB bluetooth adapter and Motorola H560 bluetooth headset, and I'm trying to use them with twinkle VOIP software. I've spent at least 8 hours today following up with every single lead and I can't figure out how this is