Re: [gentoo-user] About vbox vm kernel config

2014-10-02 Thread Ivan Viso Altamirano
You could do make allmodconfig . Have you try localmodconfig or localyesconfig ? El 02/10/2014 05:16, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com escribió: I want to install gentoo as guest with VirtualBox. Host is windows 7. In the past I've lost lots of time doing this: Getting the right drivers into

[gentoo-user] [OT] Making a bootable USB flash drive from ISO image

2014-10-02 Thread Grant Edwards
In order to test some stuff, I needed to install Xubuntu in one of the hard drive partitions on a 5-6 year old generic tower machine. I downloaded the Xubuntu 14.04.1 AMD64 ISO, which at 935MB no longer fits on a single CD. So I burned a DVD+R. It failed to boot. The drive in which I burned it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Making a bootable USB flash drive from ISO image

2014-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 21:11:03 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: What I'm wondering is why all the blog posts, wiki pages, and HOWTOs showing either the complicated command-line procedures or dependency-heavy USB creator apps? (Many of them quite recent.) There is no need for them. Did this

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Making a bootable USB flash drive from ISO image

2014-10-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-10-02, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 21:11:03 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: What I'm wondering is why all the blog posts, wiki pages, and HOWTOs showing either the complicated command-line procedures or dependency-heavy USB creator apps? (Many of them

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Making a bootable USB flash drive from ISO image

2014-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 21:38:36 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: They did something, but it's not particularly special. All they did was run isohybrid (from syslinux) on the ISO image. It uses unused space at the start of the DVD ISO specification that is normally left blank to hold a

Re: [gentoo-user] About vbox vm kernel config

2014-10-02 Thread Stroller
On Thu, 2 October 2014, at 4:15 am, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: … In the past I've lost lots of time doing this: Getting the right drivers into the kernel build. ... I wondered if anyone can offer a `.config' for a very recent kernel or at least not ancient that they know will

[gentoo-user] Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-02 Thread walt
My ISP just forced me to upgrade to a new fiberoptic plan with very little advance notice. I can't complain too much because my download speed is three times faster than yesterday, but now I need to use a USB WiFi adapter if I want to use my main desktop machine anywhere other than my kitchen.

Re: [gentoo-user] Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-02 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 10/02/2014 10:05 PM, walt wrote: I did some googling and enabled the appropriate kernel drivers, then rebooted and now the output from ifconfig includes this interface: wlan0: flags=4099UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST mtu 1500 ether b8:a3:86:99:a8:d8 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)

Re: [gentoo-user] Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:24:51 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: On 10/02/2014 10:05 PM, walt wrote: I did some googling and enabled the appropriate kernel drivers, then rebooted and now the output from ifconfig includes this interface: wlan0: flags=4099UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST mtu 1500

Re: [gentoo-user] Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, October 02, 2014 07:05:51 PM walt wrote: My ISP just forced me to upgrade to a new fiberoptic plan with very little advance notice. I can't complain too much because my download speed is three times faster than yesterday, but now I need to use a USB WiFi adapter if I want to