Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a non-ndiswrapper USB NIC

2006-09-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:17:08 -0700, David Grant wrote: Can anyone recommend a good non-ndiswrapper USB wireless 802.11g NIC? http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=369495 I used one with my iBook for around 9 months. It worked well with the zd1211 drivers, which are now in

[gentoo-user] ASTERISK

2006-09-28 Thread Suranga Kasthuriarachchi
Dear all,Please anyone have experience about asterisk setup. and I'm very new to asterisk. so please help me to configure my asterisk server.i need to know like what are the basic requirement for to setup asterisk.. Thanking you,Suranga

Re: [gentoo-user] ASTERISK

2006-09-28 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Suranga Kasthuriarachchi: i need to know like what are the basic requirement for to setup asterisk.. http://chayden.net/Asterisk/SeUpAsteriskAtHome.htm http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk%40home+Handbook+Wiki http://nerdvittles.com/index.php?p=61

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-09-28 Thread Oliver M A Wilson
On 21:19 Wed 27 Sep , Grant wrote: I have a Gentoo router with eth0 connected to the WAN (DSL modem/router) and ath0 connected to the LAN. It works perfectly. I've added two ethernet cards and I'm trying to connect from another machine to one of the new cards (eth1 and eth2). ifconfig

Re: [gentoo-user] another mistakenly deleted partition to recover :(

2006-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Illmeyer
Hi, Have a look at sys-block/gpart, it can probably help you. In your other thread you mentioned you had no space for backing up a partition. Too bad I didn't have the idea earlier, but you could create a copy on write partiton, for example with network block devices (needs kernel support and

[gentoo-user] htaccess with userdir not working

2006-09-28 Thread Henti Smith
Hi all, I've setup a user Apache setup but for some reason I cannot htaccess the cgi-bin in the one folder. here is the details : .htaccess in /home/user/public_html/cgi-bin AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/htpasswd/user AuthName user require valid-user satisfy any httpd.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] ASTERISK

2006-09-28 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 28 September 2006 09:44, Suranga Kasthuriarachchi wrote: Please anyone have experience about asterisk setup. and I'm very new to asterisk. so please help me to configure my asterisk server. i need to know like what are the basic requirement for to setup asterisk..

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo in /etc/group

2006-09-28 Thread James
Rumen Yotov rumen at qrypto.org writes: A couple of week ago, I installed a system using 2006.1 Livecd To day, I took a look at the /etc/group file and found 'gentoo' listed in several groups, including wheel (wheel audio cdrom usb users games) to be specific. I'm thinking this must

[gentoo-user] Re: Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-09-28 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: I've added two ethernet cards and I'm trying to connect from another machine to one of the new cards (eth1 and eth2). Hello Grant, If you look at /etc/conf.d/net.example, you'll get some ideas. I have a machine with (4) interfaces and here is what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-09-28 Thread Grant
I have a Gentoo router with eth0 connected to the WAN (DSL modem/router) and ath0 connected to the LAN. It works perfectly. I've added two ethernet cards and I'm trying to connect from another machine to one of the new cards (eth1 and eth2). ifconfig shows the cards are detected just

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-09-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:12:47 -0700, Grant wrote: config_eth0=192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 config_ath0=192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask config_eth1=192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask config_eth2=192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask Do the rest of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-09-28 Thread Oliver M A Wilson
On 07:12 Thu 28 Sep , Grant wrote: I have a Gentoo router with eth0 connected to the WAN (DSL modem/router) and ath0 connected to the LAN. It works perfectly. I've added two ethernet cards and I'm trying to connect from another machine to one of the new cards (eth1 and eth2).

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-09-28 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 28 September 2006 05:19, Grant wrote: I have a Gentoo router with eth0 connected to the WAN (DSL modem/router) and ath0 connected to the LAN. It works perfectly. I've added two ethernet cards and I'm trying to connect from another machine to one of the new cards (eth1 and eth2).

[gentoo-user] many corrupt links

2006-09-28 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I don't even know if this is a problem because my unit is a 686 but these all display in flashing white on red: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /usr/i386*/bin total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 57 Dec 20 2005 addr2line - /usr/i386-pc-linux-gnu/binutils-bin/2.15.92.0.2/addr2line lrwxrwxrwx 1

[gentoo-user] date-specific cp/mv

2006-09-28 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I'd like to be able to cp or mv certain files from a dir according to their timestamp. man cp mentions the '--preserve' option but I don't think that's what I need. Does somebody know of some sort of script or perl or python pass that'll do it? -Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] date-specific cp/mv

2006-09-28 Thread darren kirby
quoth the maxim wexler: Hi group, I'd like to be able to cp or mv certain files from a dir according to their timestamp. Have a look at find. You can whip up a one-liner using the -atime, -mtime or -ctime tests (depending on your intent) and use -exec to do the cp or mv... -Maxim -d --

Re: [gentoo-user] date-specific cp/mv

2006-09-28 Thread Trey Gruel
On 9/28/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to be able to cp or mv certain files from a dir according to their timestamp. man cp mentions the '--preserve' option but I don't think that's what I need. Does somebody know of some sort of script or perl or python pass that'll do it?

Re: [gentoo-user] date-specific cp/mv

2006-09-28 Thread Dave V
I used to use this for moving old mail to an archive folder. Just change the directories, and you should be golden. alias archive='find ~/.maildir/inbox/cur -mtime +30 -exec mv {} ~/.maildir/inbox/archive/cur/. \;' Dave On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:24:25 -0700 darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] date-specific cp/mv

2006-09-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 September 2006 18:16, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I'd like to be able to cp or mv certain files from a dir according to their timestamp. man cp mentions the '--preserve' option but I don't think that's what I need. Does somebody know of some sort of script or perl or

Re: [gentoo-user] many corrupt links

2006-09-28 Thread Ryan Tandy
maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I don't even know if this is a problem because my unit is a 686 but these all display in flashing white on red: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /usr/i386*/bin total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 57 Dec 20 2005 addr2line -

[gentoo-user] need help tuning distcc

2006-09-28 Thread John Blinka
Hi, all, I run Gentoo on a very old 150 mhz pentium laptop. As you can imagine, it's painful to update Gentoo packages on it. I've been attempting to use distcc and crossdev so that the more more modern i686 machines on my local network can do most of the compiling for this i586 box. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-09-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/27/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Gentoo router with eth0 connected to the WAN (DSL modem/router) and ath0 connected to the LAN. It works perfectly. I've added two ethernet cards and I'm trying to connect from another machine to one of the new cards (eth1 and eth2). ifconfig

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt xD card with photos

2006-09-28 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Mick, on Monday, 2006-09-25 at 22:54:49, you wrote: I must be doing something wrong: $ ./recoverpics ./recoverpics: line 1: /bin: is a directory ./recoverpics: line 2: /bin: is a directory ./recoverpics: line 3: syntax error near unexpected

[gentoo-user] xorg is unable to detect mouse

2006-09-28 Thread Thierry de Coulon
Now I love Gentoo as a distribution, but the way to setup X *must* be improved! I have just finished installing on an older Athlon with a Nvidia 2mx graphic card. Xorg -configure just fails: it says it can't detect my mouse (it's an IBM ps/2 trackpoint). xorgconfig gives an unusable config.

RE: [gentoo-user] Need help with bootsplash not showing [solved]

2006-09-28 Thread Daevid Vincent
Okay, I figured out why this wasn't working basicially. For whatever reason my menu.1st file was no longer a symlink to grub.conf. therefore no matter what changes I was making to grub.conf were not being read (duh). It was just coincidence that all my kernels were working since they all pointed

Re: [gentoo-user] another mistakenly deleted partition to recover :(

2006-09-28 Thread Robert Persson
On Thu, 2006-28-09 at 11:14 +0200, Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote: Hi, Have a look at sys-block/gpart, it can probably help you. Yes, I discovered gpart last night. It can be a useful tool for partition problems, although in this case it has turned out that testdisk was what I needed. gpart doesn't

[gentoo-user] Re: need help tuning distcc

2006-09-28 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, Is FEATURES properly set in /etc/make.conf. I think you should use distcc-config --set-hosts to set the compiling farm hosts and localhost is not necessary. Did you check if /etc/conf.d/distcc is correctly configured on all the boxes like on which interface they listen on

[gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Daevid Vincent
Something has changed recently with 'emerge'. Whenever I use the -D option, which I am pretty much in the habbit of typing 'emerge -Dav' or 'emerge -Davu world/system', I notice it pulling in more stuff than it should. It never acted like this before. It's only been within the past few weeks. On

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 28 September 2006 23:15, Daevid Vincent wrote: Something has changed recently with 'emerge'. Whenever I use the -D option, which I am pretty much in the habbit of typing 'emerge -Dav' or 'emerge -Davu world/system', I notice it pulling in more stuff than it should. It never acted

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV 0.20 ebuild

2006-09-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 28 September 2006 00:09, Bryce Verdier wrote: I've had it up for a couple of days. Nothing seriously wrong yet. Although, watching live TV on my box is a little choppier now... for some reason. The chmod +s mythfrontend did help, but its still not fluid on the live tv playback (i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Illmeyer
Am Donnerstag, 28. September 2006 23:15 schrieb Daevid Vincent: Something has changed recently with 'emerge'. Whenever I use the -D option, which I am pretty much in the habbit of typing 'emerge -Dav' or 'emerge -Davu world/system', I notice it pulling in more stuff than it should. It never

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: need help tuning distcc

2006-09-28 Thread John Blinka
Catalin Trifu wrote: Hi, Is FEATURES properly set in /etc/make.conf. Yes, FEATURES=distcc I think you should use distcc-config --set-hosts to set the compiling farm hosts and localhost is not necessary. I've used distcc-config. All it does is write to /etc/distcc/hosts

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 28 September 2006 17:53, Wolfgang Illmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!': If I remember correctly, -D usually meant do not downgrade. That was -U (--upgrade-only), which is no longer documented. -- If

[gentoo-user] -u system corrupts many links

2006-09-28 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I notice that after emerge -u system all the links of the form /usr/bin/i386-pc-linux-gnu/*, /usr/i386-pc-linux-gnu/bin/* and /usr/i386-pc-linux-gnu/lib/* point nowhere(flashing white on red). Since this is a 686, should I worry? Is it safe to just delete them or should they be fixed,

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Daevid Vincent
Yes. 'deep' is exactly what I expect -D to do. My incancation is the same as it's been for years, its' that -D acts more like a -u now. DÆVID -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Illmeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:53 PM To:

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- Portage is developing quite fast at the moment so it is quite possible that you have discovered some change in behaviour (either due to a bug or due to permanent changes) but I don't see anything wrong in this mail... What makes you think it pulls in more

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg is unable to detect mouse

2006-09-28 Thread Nico
you think bad :)

Re: [gentoo-user] need help tuning distcc

2006-09-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 14:05 -0400, John Blinka wrote: Hi, all, I run Gentoo on a very old 150 mhz pentium laptop. As you can imagine, it's painful to update Gentoo packages on it. I've been attempting to use distcc and crossdev so that the more more modern i686 machines on my local

Re: [gentoo-user] need help tuning distcc

2006-09-28 Thread Daniel Iliev
John Blinka wrote: Hi, all, I run Gentoo on a very old 150 mhz pentium laptop. As you can imagine, it's painful to update Gentoo packages on it. I've been attempting to use distcc and crossdev so that the more more modern i686 machines on my local network can do most of the compiling for

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg is unable to detect mouse

2006-09-28 Thread Daniel Iliev
Nico wrote: you think bad :) Nope! I agree with the OP. My plain 2 buttons + scroller mouse wasn't detected too. So I copied my old xorg.conf. I really think xorg configuration should be more user friendly. Woking X is crucial for not getting newbies scared. ;-) -- Best regards, Daniel --

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg is unable to detect mouse

2006-09-28 Thread Nico
Well, seeing like this..you're right :p

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 29 September 2006 01:32, Daevid Vincent wrote: Portage is developing quite fast at the moment so it is quite possible that you have discovered some change in behaviour (either due to a bug or due to permanent changes) but I don't see anything wrong in this mail... What makes you

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Harm Geerts
On Friday 29 September 2006 01:20, Daevid Vincent wrote: Yes. 'deep' is exactly what I expect -D to do. My incancation is the same as it's been for years, its' that -D acts more like a -u now. --deep and -D are the same thing -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/28/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But when I do emerge -Dav sys-apps/baselayout It pulls in baselayout, python, perl, openssl (clearly the last two are not needed or related to baselayout) Not true at all. With the right USE flags, baselayout depends on coreutils, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-09-28 Thread Grant
I have a Gentoo router with eth0 connected to the WAN (DSL modem/router) and ath0 connected to the LAN. It works perfectly. I've added two ethernet cards and I'm trying to connect from another machine to one of the new cards (eth1 and eth2). ifconfig shows the cards are detected just

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Alan
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 02:15:04PM -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: Something has changed recently with 'emerge'. Whenever I use the -D option, which I am pretty much in the habbit of typing 'emerge -Dav' or 'emerge -Davu world/system', I notice it pulling in more stuff than it should. It never

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-09-28 Thread Grant
Grant, I have never made a cross over cable before, probs best to look on google, there is bound to be a guide somewhere. As for you settings, I can't see anything wrong with them. My buddy just told me that most modern NICs do autosensing so they don't require a crossover cable. Is that

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-09-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/28/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eth0 is connected to the WAN (DSL modem/router), and ath0, eth1, and eth2 are all meant to allow other systems to connect to the LAN via DHCP. Should I be configuring eth1 and eth2 as 192.168.0.1? No. Consider the case where your system needs to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 29 September 2006 01:04, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 28 September 2006 17:53, Wolfgang Illmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!': If I remember correctly, -D usually meant do not downgrade.

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-09-28 Thread Grant
eth0 is connected to the WAN (DSL modem/router), and ath0, eth1, and eth2 are all meant to allow other systems to connect to the LAN via DHCP. Should I be configuring eth1 and eth2 as 192.168.0.1? No. Consider the case where your system needs to send an IP packet to 192.168.0.100. How will

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 28 September 2006 21:18, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem': My buddy just told me that most modern NICs do autosensing so they don't require a crossover cable. Is that right? Yes, all GigE cards are required to do this

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 28 September 2006 21:43, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem': I'm pretty confused. I'm trying to get the system in question to behave like a solid-state router that you can plug an ethernet jack into and be on the

Re: [gentoo-user] date-specific cp/mv

2006-09-28 Thread Daniel Iliev
maxim wexler wrote: find has many options related to searching by time (hours, minutes, etc) and you can select by atime, ctime or mtime. It's all in the man page I can't get it to work. I used -ctime, -mtime, -mmin. The files were created on the 26th of this month using abcde.

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Should we NEVER do an ``emerge -u world''?

2006-09-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not in the way that causes the problems, of -5ing everything. When i used etc-update, I wuld go through the list, accepting some changes and rejecting others, then -5 the remainder, which were often example configs. That's what I do as well. That's not the

[gentoo-user] Re: date-specific cp/mv

2006-09-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
· maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I can't get it to work. I used -ctime, -mtime, -mmin. How did you use it? Alexander Skwar -- Cold, adj.: When the politicians walk around with their hands in their own pockets. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: date-specific cp/mv

2006-09-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
· maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd like to be able to cp or mv certain files from a dir according to their timestamp. Use find and xargs. Alexander Skwar -- Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. -- Rich Kulawiec -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org