[gentoo-user] app-text/poppler-0.24.3 fails to build

2013-11-05 Thread Norman Rieß
Hello, poppler fails to build for me and i don't know why. Does someone got an idea about this? [ 97%] Building CXX object qt4/src/CMakeFiles/poppler-qt4.dir/ArthurOutputDev.cc.o cd /var/tmp/portage/app-text/poppler-0.24.3/work/poppler-0.24.3_build/qt4/src /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail System with virtuell User

2013-09-12 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 12.09.2013 02:12, schrieb Silvio Siefke: Hello, has someone run a Mailserver (Postfix) with virtuell User which not use Mysql/Postgresql Database Backen? I has read the Dovecot / Postfix Websites which has Howtos for No Database but so really want not run. The most Howto i found

[gentoo-user] Disable Screen Blanking

2013-07-08 Thread Norman Rieß
Hi, i am trying to disable Screen Blanking but have been unsuccessful so far. I used various methods: * installed gnome-power-manager and disabled screen power saving * setterm -blank 0 * echoing setterm -blank 0 to the dev/ttyXs * xset s off * Kernel parameter in Grub consoleblank=0 A

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable Screen Blanking

2013-07-08 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08.07.2013 14:43, schrieb Randolph Maaßen: 2013/7/8 Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org mailto:nor...@smash-net.org Hi, i am trying to disable Screen Blanking but have been unsuccessful so far. I used various methods: * installed gnome-power-manager and disabled

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-16 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 16.06.2013 02:25, schrieb Nick Khamis: Hello Norman, Sorry for the delayed response What do you mean by replication? Oh I was referring to the replication of the entire NFS server with virtual drive images etc.. to other machines for fail over, maybe load balancing. Kind Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-13 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 13.06.2013 14:31, schrieb Nick Khamis: Hello Norman, Thank you so much for your response, and that is an interesting setup. we open up pools of up to 20 hosts which all mount the same NFS share which holds sparse file images as virtual hdds of the VM. How are these sprase file

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-12 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 12.06.2013 08:33, schrieb Dan Johansson: On 12.06.2013 06:57, Norman Rieß wrote: Am 11.06.2013 16:19, schrieb Nick Khamis: Hello Everyone, Was wondering what people are running these days, and how do they compare to the 10,000 dollar SAN boxes. We are looking to build a fiber san using

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-12 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 12.06.2013 16:20, schrieb Nick Khamis: Hello Nick, the question is, what are you doing with it and why do you think you need a fibre channel SAN. Our goal indeed is to get rid of the SAN infrastructure as it is delicately to all kinds of failure with nearly zero fault

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Fiber SAN

2013-06-11 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 11.06.2013 16:19, schrieb Nick Khamis: Hello Everyone, Was wondering what people are running these days, and how do they compare to the 10,000 dollar SAN boxes. We are looking to build a fiber san using IET and glusterFS, and was wondering what kind of luck people where having using this

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-31 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 31.03.2013 04:08, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org wrote: Hello, i am using pdns recursor to provide a dns server which should be usable for everybody.The problem is, that the server seems to be used in dns amplification attacks. I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-30 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 29.03.2013 um 23:34 schrieb Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Thursday 28 March 2013 20:53:49 Paul Hartman wrote: In my case, my ISP's DNS servers are slow (several seconds to reply), fail

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-30 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 30.03.2013 16:11, schrieb Kevin Chadwick: On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:06:16 +0100 Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org wrote: As we all know everything works better and cheaper when things are privatized Actually No it's not so simple at all. You get incompetence in private and public

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-29 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 29.03.2013 01:49, schrieb Peter Humphrey: On Thursday 28 March 2013 20:53:49 Paul Hartman wrote: In my case, my ISP's DNS servers are slow (several seconds to reply), fail randomly when they should resolve, return an IP (which goes to their ad-laden helper website if you are

[gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-28 Thread Norman Rieß
Hello, i am using pdns recursor to provide a dns server which should be usable for everybody.The problem is, that the server seems to be used in dns amplification attacks. I googled around on how to prevent this but did not really find something usefull. Does anyone got an idea about this?

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-28 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 28.03.2013 16:38, schrieb Michael Mol: On 03/28/2013 04:51 AM, Norman Rieß wrote: Hello, i am using pdns recursor to provide a dns server which should be usable for everybody.The problem is, that the server seems to be used in dns amplification attacks. I googled around on how to prevent

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-28 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 28.03.2013 10:07, schrieb Adam Carter: Why are you making your server available to everyone? For the lulz mostly.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.6: No external Monitor

2012-11-21 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 20.11.2012 23:24, schrieb Florian Philipp: Am 20.11.2012 21:35, schrieb Norman Rieß: Am 20.11.2012 20:08, schrieb Damien Levac: On 11/20/12 13:33, Norman Rieß wrote: Am 20.11.2012 19:02, schrieb Florian Philipp: Am 20.11.2012 14:52, schrieb Norman Rieß: Am 20.11.2012 13:51, schrieb Bruce

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.6: No external Monitor

2012-11-20 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 20.11.2012 13:51, schrieb Bruce Hill: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 08:44:08AM +0100, Norman Rieß wrote: Hello, i am using a Thinkpad X301 with a DVI Monitor connected to the mini displayport. That worked perfectly for years, but with Kernel 3.6 (and 3.7rc) the DVI Monitor stays black on boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.6: No external Monitor

2012-11-20 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 20.11.2012 19:02, schrieb Florian Philipp: Am 20.11.2012 14:52, schrieb Norman Rieß: Am 20.11.2012 13:51, schrieb Bruce Hill: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 08:44:08AM +0100, Norman Rieß wrote: Hello, i am using a Thinkpad X301 with a DVI Monitor connected to the mini displayport. That worked

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.6: No external Monitor

2012-11-20 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 20.11.2012 20:08, schrieb Damien Levac: On 11/20/12 13:33, Norman Rieß wrote: Am 20.11.2012 19:02, schrieb Florian Philipp: Am 20.11.2012 14:52, schrieb Norman Rieß: Am 20.11.2012 13:51, schrieb Bruce Hill: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 08:44:08AM +0100, Norman Rieß wrote: Hello, i am using

[gentoo-user] Kernel 3.6: No external Monitor

2012-11-19 Thread Norman Rieß
Hello, i am using a Thinkpad X301 with a DVI Monitor connected to the mini displayport. That worked perfectly for years, but with Kernel 3.6 (and 3.7rc) the DVI Monitor stays black on boot and it is not visible in xrandr. As if it wasn't connected at all. Rebooting with 3.5 brings back the

Re: [gentoo-user] Users hi!

2012-11-15 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 15.11.2012 um 16:46 schrieb BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Joshua Murphy wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: BRM wrote: snip spam Hey, Check this out: List-Unsubscribe:

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-09 Thread Norman Rieß
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 09.08.2012 10:04, schrieb Raffaele BELARDI: On 08/09/2012 07:24 AM, Norman Rieß wrote: Am 08.08.2012 14:14, schrieb Raffaele BELARDI: I have a problem compiling binutils. Full build log can be found here http://smash-net.org/temp/build_log.txt

[gentoo-user] Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-08 Thread Norman Rieß
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, i am running Gentoo on an ARM device and ran into a problem building binutils. I thought to asked about that on an gentoo-arm mailing list, but found, that this list ist listed as closed. So is there an apropriate list or ressource dedicated

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-08 Thread Norman Rieß
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 08.08.2012 14:14, schrieb Raffaele BELARDI: On 08/08/2012 02:03 PM, Norman Rieß wrote: i am running Gentoo on an ARM device and ran into a problem building binutils. What problem? I have no experience on Gentoo/ARM but some on buildroot

[gentoo-user] Nginx dav-ext webdav the gentoo way

2012-04-22 Thread Norman Rieß
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, i am running an OwnCloud instance on my nginx webserver. The problem is, nginx seems not to implement the OPTIONS and PROPFIND methods of webdav. But these methods are needed to run OwnCloud webdav. There is a nginx-ext-dav module, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Nginx dav-ext webdav the gentoo way

2012-04-22 Thread Norman Rieß
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 22.04.2012 17:36, schrieb Mick: On Sunday 22 Apr 2012 15:18:46 Norman Rieß wrote: Hello, i am running an OwnCloud instance on my nginx webserver. The problem is, nginx seems not to implement the OPTIONS and PROPFIND methods of webdav

Re: [gentoo-user] Jabber server recommendation

2011-12-21 Thread Norman Rieß
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/22/11 05:39, Mike Diehl wrote: At the risk of starting a religious war, I'd like to ask for a recommendation for a Jabber server. I just tried to install ejabberd, only to find out that it's written in erklang and that seems to crash on my

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] embedded gentoo?

2011-11-18 Thread Norman Rieß
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/11 09:49, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:18:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: That's nothing, someone once put NetBSD on a toaster. And someone else managed to install Linux on a dead badger, but I think that was a spoof.

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) TP-Link TL-MR3420 GPL?

2011-08-19 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08/19/11 09:35, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Just bought a TP-Link TL-MR3420 3G/3.75G Wireless N Router (the kind that accepts a 3G or EVDO USB modem), and the first thing that fell on my hand when I opened it... ... is a printed copy of GPL! I wonder what GPLicensed software this access

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08/18/11 09:11, schrieb Matthew Finkel: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org mailto:nor...@smash-net.org wrote: Am 08/17/11 13:44, schrieb Joost Roeleveld: On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 09:59:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 August

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08/18/11 09:50, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:45:14 +0200, Norman Rieß wrote: Concerning the Atom not fast enough for compiling-Problem. I compiled, run and update a Gentoo System on a AMD Geode LX, which is way less powerfull and it works just fine. That's just plain

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08/18/11 11:08, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:41:57 +0200, Norman Rieß wrote: Concerning the Atom not fast enough for compiling-Problem. I compiled, run and update a Gentoo System on a AMD Geode LX, which is way less powerfull and it works just fine. That's just plain

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08/18/11 12:08, schrieb James Broadhead: On 18 August 2011 09:23, Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org wrote: Am 08/18/11 09:11, schrieb Matthew Finkel: Just out of curiosity, how long does it take to compile gcc? - Matt Atom: genlop -t sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5 * sys-devel/gcc Sat Feb

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-17 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08/17/11 13:44, schrieb Joost Roeleveld: On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 09:59:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:48:30 Michael Mol wrote: How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08/16/11 03:48, schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Scripts not working... HELP!

2011-04-29 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 04/29/11 00:16, schrieb Walter Dnes: It appears that it's only python scripts that are not executing. By sheer chance, I wanted to use 2 scripts that involved python. My getcot script invokes getmail which is a python script. emerge is also a python script. Maybe it's just python

Re: [gentoo-user] Scripts not working... HELP!

2011-04-28 Thread Norman Rieß
Had similar symptoms as my default system python was not defined properly. Use eselect python list --python2 to see if that is the case. Set it with eselect python set --python2 number if necessary. Regards Norman Am 04/28/11 07:40, schrieb Walter Dnes: This message is coming from my 32-bit

Re: [gentoo-user] removing gtk+ as requested by --depclean

2011-04-28 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 04/28/11 14:28, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: (I confess to being a little over cautious after xcb.) After today's update word (just a few updates were specified/done). --depclean recommended These are the packages that would be unmerged: x11-libs/gtk+ selected: 3.0.9 protected:

Re: [gentoo-user] how to forbid dhcp for eth0

2011-01-14 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 01/14/11 06:33, schrieb doherty pete: when i start the kernel, it wait long time to dhcp for eth0: eth0:dhcped 4.0.15 starting eth0:waiting for carrier i want to forbid dhcp,how can i do? Hi, configure a static IP or bring up the interface without configuration with config_eth0=( null

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-08 Thread Norman Rieß
On 09/08/10 10:43, Al wrote: emails too. But you still get the 'new mails' indicator. Good, that you finally start to understand that mails have their disadvantages in producing noise. If you would go a step further you will be able to recognize, how this puts a cap on the potential

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread Norman Rieß
On 09/07/10 01:55, Al wrote: 2.) It is not on a public available gentoo server. I first would need access to alt.os.linux.gentoo. I think if you want so run an maintain such a server, it would be welcome. 3.) It is not synchronized with the mailing list. It is. At least it was when i used

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 32bit-64bit: How?

2010-09-06 Thread Norman Rieß
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 06.09.2010 19:27, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, My questions are: 1) Is there a performance gain, when migrating to 64bit if the target applications supports 64bit? 2) Is it possible - if( true ){ how(); } - to simply convert a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

2010-08-18 Thread Norman Rieß
On 08/17/10 18:59, Stéphane Guedon wrote: Is a SSD capable of supporting gentoo ? That's a good idea ! You may be a pionneer ! Let's try... Not really. Gentoo is running fine on SSD and why wouldn't it. A data storage device does not care what data it stores. Gentoo is even running fine on

Re: [gentoo-user] I've been hacked.

2010-05-11 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 05/11/10 08:54, schrieb Grant: I nmap'ed one of my remote Gentoo servers today and besides the expected open ports were these: 1080/tcp open socks 3128/tcp open squid-http 8080/tcp open http-proxy I'm not running any sort of proxy software that I know of and I should be the only person

Re: [gentoo-user] Checking sanity of system...

2010-04-04 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 04.04.2010 07:18, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, this is no security issue in sense of attacks...it is related to the consistency of the system. Simple question (and may be complicate to answer... ;) ) How can I check, that my Gentoo system is uptodate, consistent and sane? Best

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-18 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 03/18/10 12:20, schrieb Arnau Bria: Hi all, I'm trying to add some sub to a video with menconder (following a receipt). I run something like: mencoder mi_video.avi -oac pcm -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=xvid:mbd=2:trell:autoaspect -sub mis_subs.srt -subfont-text-scale 3 -o video_final.avi

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-18 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 03/18/10 13:14, schrieb Arnau Bria: On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:38:01 +0100 Norman Rieß wrote: Hello, Hi Norman, i allways had problems with lavc so i used xvid in mplayer directly: mencoder sourcefile -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=vbitrate -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: no kernel found?

2010-03-11 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 03/11/10 11:23, schrieb Arnau Bria: lx-arnau linux # ls /usr/src/linux arch crypto firmware include ipc lib Module.markers Module.symvers scripts sound usr vmlinux block drivers fsinit kernel mm modules.order net security System.map

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: no kernel found?

2010-03-11 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 03/11/10 11:55, schrieb Arnau Bria: On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:31:03 +0100 Norman Rieß wrote: [...] This listing is not a complete kernel set. For curiosity, what is missing? make oldconfing?¿ Did you do a emerge --depclean lately? yep. Reemerge you kernel ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on SSD

2010-02-16 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 02/16/10 10:28, schrieb alain.didierj...@free.fr: I'm thinking of re-installing Gentoo on an Intel 40 Megs SSD -- excluding the most often writen dirs like /var, /tmp, /home --. What do you think ? I'll be glad to hear about previous experiences. What about swap ? Is it safe to have it on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto generate a list of installed packages?

2009-12-28 Thread Norman Rieß
Alan E. Davis wrote: Season's Greetings to one and all. I would like to be able to generate a script or list of packages of some kind that would enable me to install Gentoo with an identical profile of installed packages. Since with Debian/Ubuntu one can run dpkg --get-selections file

[gentoo-user] Question about sfdisk

2009-06-25 Thread Norman Rieß
Hello, i am trying to change the partitionlayout of a disk with sfdisk in a script. Partitioning works fine. But now i want to leave a partition untouched. So how can i ignore a certain partition? With input like ,,, ,42000,7,* ,148000,7, or ; ,42000,7,* ,148000,7, the first line of course

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-12 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: Leave INTERFACES blank. As you keep the networks seperated, hostapd does not depend on any other devices. wlan0 is initialized by hostapd. So you are good to go. The accesspoint itself, so to say the wlan part does not have any IP adress, at it is merely a connectionpoint for

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-12 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: Leave INTERFACES blank. As you keep the networks seperated, hostapd does not depend on any other devices. wlan0 is initialized by hostapd. So you are good to go. The accesspoint itself, so to say the wlan part does not have any IP adress, at it is merely a connectionpoint for

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-12 Thread Norman Rieß
Stroller schrieb: On 12 Jun 2009, at 16:38, Grant wrote: ... OK, thank you Norman. The reason I'm trying to switch (this is my third serious attempt) is some kind of a bug that crashes the system when SMP is enabled and the madwifi driver is in master mode. I've been running without SMP, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-11 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: Thanks for the clarification Norman :-) ok, I removed net.wlan0 so it doesn't start up anymore. My computer booted up and all the services are working the way they should, however I am having a problem getting hostapd to start. Here is the error I get when I tried to start up

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-11 Thread Norman Rieß
What do you want to do with your accesspoint. You will need a bridge to a wired network if you want your ap attached to that wired network. This is quite usual though... Without a bridge to a wired network, only the wlan systems are connected and can not connect to your wired systems.

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-10 Thread Norman Rieß
Jason Carson schrieb: Thanks for the clarification Norman :-) ok, I removed net.wlan0 so it doesn't start up anymore. My computer booted up and all the services are working the way they should, however I am having a problem getting hostapd to start. Here is the error I get when I tried to start

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-10 Thread Norman Rieß
Jason Carson schrieb: Jason Carson schrieb: Thanks for the clarification Norman :-) ok, I removed net.wlan0 so it doesn't start up anymore. My computer booted up and all the services are working the way they should, however I am having a problem getting hostapd to start. Here is the error

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-10 Thread Norman Rieß
Jason Carson schrieb: Alright, I have done everything you have suggested but when hostapd tries to start I am getting this error... penguin ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd start * Starting hostapd... Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Failed to set interface wlan0 to master mode. nl80211

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-10 Thread Norman Rieß
Jason Carson schrieb: Jason Carson schrieb: Alright, I have done everything you have suggested but when hostapd tries to start I am getting this error... penguin ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd start * Starting hostapd... Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Failed to set interface wlan0

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-09 Thread Norman Rieß
Jason Carson schrieb: Greetings, I am trying to setup a wireless access point using the atheros kernel driver (Built into the kernel, not as a module). I am using Vanilla-Sources 2.6.29.4. I need my wireless network card to start up in master mode but for some reason it is starting up in

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-09 Thread Norman Rieß
Jason Carson schrieb: Hey Norman, I tried changing my /etc/conf.d/net to what you suggested but it resulted in the following errors... *Bringing up interface wlan0 * Configuring wireless network for wlan0 * Scanning for access points *no access points found * Failed to

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-04 Thread Norman Rieß
I am annoyed by a little more generous thing lately, which i am afraid isn't fixable by a summer of code. But you wanted to know what annoys me, so here it is. There was a lib update, that broke sancho a while ago. A new version of sancho fixed this. But i had to use this new version from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Madwifi contradict each other

2009-02-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: The madwifi/ath5k guys say it should work in 2.6.28 which I'm on. The latest is I'm getting this directly from hostapd: Failed to set interface ath0 to master mode. nl80211 driver initialization failed. rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory ELOOP: remaining

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Madwifi contradict each other

2009-02-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: Hi, i have been, through that lately an it is not that out of the box. Here is what i put together from linux-wireless mailinglist and trial and error: 1. Master mode on ath5k is there, but not activated and not in 2.6.28. Mainly from this thread i got the kernel stuff and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Madwifi contradict each other

2009-02-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: Removing wlan0 from /etc/conf.d/hostapd is not what you would want, as you wish hostapd to use wlan0. The init scripts are not able to set up master mode correctly and bring up an error or set up wlan0 interface in a false mode so hostapd can not set it up any more. So i set

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Madwifi contradict each other

2009-02-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: Still no luck for me with master mode, even after editing wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c. 2.6.28 is supposed to work but I'm wondering if it's not in 2.6.28-hardened or something. I still get Failed to set interface ath0 to master mode from hostapd. -

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Madwifi contradict each other

2009-02-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: I'm a step closer in 2.6.28 after applying this patch: --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/cfg.c 2008-10-28 10:32:35.0 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/cfg.c 2008-10-28 10:32:40.0 +0200 @@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH case

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-31 Thread Norman Rieß
Harry Putnam schrieb: Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org writes: Is it connected into 10/100 or 1000 (gigabit) setup? It is a gigabit setup. NFS read is about 30-34MB/s, writing is considerably slower with 15MB/s. So writing is a bit slow. But as i do not need fast storage i did

Re: [gentoo-user] homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Norman Rieß
Harry Putnam schrieb: A few I can think of are space and noise.. but having never been around our run a nas setup... I'm not sure if that is really true. Anyway, a few thoughts on what I might be running into doing it myself, or missing compared to storebought. Maybe maintenance

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Norman Rieß
Harry Putnam schrieb: Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org writes: The system only runs nfs, samba and a cups server. I do not use some fancy guis or anything like that. So settings have to be made in the config files manualy, except the cupsd which brings a web gui. Maybe that is something

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2009-01-13 Thread Norman Rieß
Peter Humphrey schrieb: On Monday 12 January 2009 20:12:16 Norman Rieß wrote: So here is the screenshot. http://www.smash-net.org/bilder/cups.png Notice: loki is the client and asgard is the server connected to the printer. The upper left shell shows the configuration cupsd.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2009-01-13 Thread Norman Rieß
Peter Humphrey schrieb: Why two statements, with duplicate elements? The first line are the useflags from make.conf. Second are the userflags from emerge --info, so make.conf + profileflags. package.use net-print/cups jpeg nls pam png ppds ssl tiff X So you do have ldap

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2009-01-12 Thread Norman Rieß
Peter Humphrey schrieb: Are you telling me that the printers the server knows of should appear in the client's cups web page automatically? That certainly doesn't happen, which is why I've been trying to tell the client where to find its printers. No the webpage only runs on the server

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2009-01-12 Thread Norman Rieß
Norman Rieß schrieb: When i am home from work i will be able to provide some screenshots to make things clearer. Regards Norman So here is the screenshot. http://www.smash-net.org/bilder/cups.png Notice: loki is the client and asgard is the server connected to the printer. The upper

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2009-01-10 Thread Norman Rieß
Peter Humphrey schrieb: Of course it should. It does not. I simply cannot find the necessary invocations and USE flags etc. No matter what I try I cannot get printing to work over the network. I always get a succession of success messages from cups, followed by printer does not exist when

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? - Grant Well the experience of a desktop or an application

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Florian Philipp schrieb: On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 10:07 -0700, Grant wrote: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? -

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? - Grant Well the experience of a desktop or

Re: [gentoo-user] vesa-tng not working with kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread Norman Rieß
John covici schrieb: Hi. I compiled gentoo-sources 2.6.24-r2 -- however the vesa-tng seemed to disappear -- its in the .config, but for some reason I am getting a console of 25x80. Now I have the default mode set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which works fine with the 2.6.21 kernel, but not the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-13 Thread Norman Rieß
Michael Schmarck schrieb: · Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michael Schmarck schrieb: · Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Right, basicly telling people You have to depend on / use other distros to install our OS, cause we are not able to / don´t have time to provide

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-13 Thread Norman Rieß
Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Saturday 12 January 2008, Qian Qiao wrote: I can understand why you guys think we are so compelled to have a Gentoo LiveCD, because every other OS does, and to be honest, that is exactly the reason that stops you guys thinking out of the box, in what way is being

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-13 Thread Norman Rieß
b.n. schrieb: Norman Rieß ha scritto: I have installed Gentoo in many ways, the old UniversalCD, the LiveCD, others Distros LiveCD's, from a working Gentooinstallation to a usb-connected drive which was transferred to boot in a old laptop and so on. But i still think a Gentoo-Install-CD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-13 Thread Norman Rieß
Michael Schmarck schrieb: · Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Still no complaints about your opinion from my side ;-). *G* In short. An outdated InstallCD is bad and no InstallCD at all is bad, too. I agree that an outdated Install CD is bad. But I disagree

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-13 Thread Norman Rieß
Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Sunday 13 January 2008, Norman Rieß wrote: I have installed Gentoo in many ways, the old UniversalCD, the LiveCD, others Distros LiveCD's, from a working Gentooinstallation to a usb-connected drive which was transferred to boot in a old laptop and so on. But i

Re: [gentoo-user] Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Norman Rieß
Galevsky schrieb: On Jan 11, 2008 10:38 AM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Shaochun Wang: Currently, Gentoo has not updated its installation CD for a long time! They don't need to. One week ago I used a GRML cd to install a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Norman Rieß
Michael Schmarck schrieb: · Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Right, basicly telling people You have to depend on / use other distros to install our OS, cause we are not able to / don´t have time to provide this sounds a little fishy. It makes Gentoo look incomplete. Well

[gentoo-user] Silicon Image 3112 Raid Controller on Kernel 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 not working.

2007-12-08 Thread Norman Rieß
Hi, i am using a Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) in a non-RAID configuration. Simply an an SATA-Controller so to speak. This worked fine ever since. But with the release of kernel 2.6.22 the controller stopped working. Here is a picture of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Silicon Image 3112 Raid Controller on Kernel 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 not working.

2007-12-08 Thread Norman Rieß
David Relson schrieb: Hello Norman, I, too, have one of their controllers (identified by lspci as RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Controller (rev 02). It works ... kind of ... I bought it because my new AMD64 mobo has 1 ATA connector and I have 2 ATA

Re: [gentoo-user] Silicon Image 3112 Raid Controller on Kernel 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 not working.

2007-12-08 Thread Norman Rieß
Mark Shields schrieb: I have this same chipset and run two SATA drives in a RAID 1 (mirrored) config, but I'm running hardened-2.6.20-r6. I will note I have had no problems using the kernel drivers and have been using the hardened kernel since 2.6.14; before that this was just a system using

Re: [gentoo-user] insatiable revdev-rebuild SOLVED

2007-10-04 Thread Norman Rieß
Allan Gottlieb schrieb: At Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:31:57 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 October 2007 05:37:19 Allan Gottlieb wrote: An emerge (of openssl, I believe, but am not sure) a few days ago triggered a request for me to run # revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] freenx / nxclient / nxserver etc.. [experiences]

2007-09-27 Thread Norman Rieß
I couldn´ t get freenx to work either. After trying freenx for a day or two without any progress, i installed nxserver-freeedition, which worked from the start. This mail is living proof ;-). Bye Norman Ow Mun Heng schrieb: I just tried to installed freenx(0.7) nx(3.0) and it's a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-25 Thread Norman Rieß
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 just to see what's new, then make clean, then make menuconfig (starting with the saved config file from kernel 2.6.20). Shorewall

Re: [gentoo-user] #Gentoo

2007-08-18 Thread Norman Rieß
Steen Eugen Poulsen schrieb: Steen Eugen Poulsen skrev: Every day for around a hour the same op comes around and their is always trouble for some reason in that short period. The channel works perfectly the other 23 hours a day... So one has to wonder if the op is creating the problems...

Re: [gentoo-user] couple of newbie questions about emerge

2007-01-07 Thread Norman Rieß
Daniel Iliev schrieb: 2) yes, emerge -uD world keeps your system up-todate emerge -uDN world also takes care of newly added or removed USE-flags. Norman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Has Linux jumped the Shark?

2006-12-20 Thread Norman Rieß
Jeff Rollin schrieb: Their argument seemed to be that because GNOME is running into problems and because KDE is behind schedule, the Linux desktop is dead. How true is this? Jeff Like uh, we cannot finish this tiny feature here in 3 days as planned, so let us give up the whole project? :-)

[gentoo-user] Gnome Power Manager Message (a little OT)

2006-12-14 Thread Norman Rieß
Guys guess what. As i have updated my Gnome to 2.16 now, the new shiny Power Manager tells me, that my laptop runs on battery after i pull the plug... Can you believe that?? If i pull the plug on my computer... it runs on battery. incredible!! And it tells me EVERY time i pull the plug,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Power Manager Message (a little OT)

2006-12-14 Thread Norman Rieß
Allan Gottlieb schrieb: At Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:49:14 +0100 Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys guess what. As i have updated my Gnome to 2.16 now, the new shiny Power Manager tells me, that my laptop runs on battery after i pull the plug... Can you believe that?? If i pull

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