On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 19:31, Stroller wrote: > On Nov 16, 2003, at 8:03 pm, Luke Scharf wrote: > > > ... So, now, > > I've replaced RedHat with Gentoo on my main personal machine... > > Well done, congrats & welcome.
So far, it's a really good -- especially for something that appears at first glance to be bleeding edge. One of the reasons I'm running it on my personal machine is to find out how often the packages get broken. That way, I can decide if it makes sense to run it at work. > > 3. How does the hotplugger know to start > > /etc/init.d/net.eth1 when > > I insert my PCMCIA wireless card? I didn't set up any sort of > > relation between eth1 and the orinoco module, nor do I know > > where this might be set up by default. > > Have you emerge'd sys-apps/pcmcia-cs..? I haven't really used PCMCIA, > tho' so hopefully someone else can help more. Yes -- my wireless card works, it's just that I'm not sure I have it set up in a way that other people would understand. I have to go through some strange dance with eth0 to bring it up, though. I think I solved this kind of problem using the /etc/modules.conf file on my Debian Stable systems, but a lot of things are different on Gentoo, so I figured I'm trying to find the "normal" way to do it. I could rewrite all of the scripts and make it work, but in my experience doing that just makes work for myself in the long run. :-) > > 4. Emerge -- does unmerge remove the files from the system? > > I always use `emerge -C some-package`, but someone else will be along > shortly with a safer option. According to the man page, that's the official way to do it! "emerge unmerge " == "emerge -C " -Luke -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
