Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel build error
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:29:09 +0100, KH wrote: > > >> you did run oldconfig >> . Somewhere you said n where a number should be. >> Search for: >> External Firmware blobs to build into kernel binary (EXTRA_FIRMWARE) >> > > Or copy over the previous config file and run make oldconfig again, > paying a little more attention this time :P > > > OK. I got it now. I redone the oldconfig and let the FIRMWARE stuff go to default. It built fine this time. May not boot but it built it. o_O Thanks !! Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] problem with webcam
I already do video for linux in the kernel. Install SDL & SPCAVIEW have no error. But when i use it, error said cant find driver. In website:mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html I can found my webcam is : Wasam 107 0x0ac8 0x301b Wasam Wa350R Zc0301P Pb0330 Yes jpeg spca5xx/LE gspca v4l1/v4l2 Driver is belong to Zc0301P,by the way is gspca_zc3xx module. The spcaserv said : Not an Spca5xx Camera !! Plz give me some idea,thx. linyin ~ # uname -a Linux linyin 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 #6 Thu Jan 29 17:27:13 CST 2009 i686 VIA Samuel 2 CentaurHauls GNU/Linux linyin ~ # lsusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0ac8:301b Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. ZC0301 WebCam Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 linyin ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by gspca_zc3xx 45088 0 gspca_main 17344 1 gspca_zc3xx videodev 27904 1 gspca_main v4l1_compat 12132 1 videodev linyin ~ # spcaserv -s 320x240 -w 192.168.1.6:7070 size width: 320 height: 240 Port should be between 1024 to 65536 set default 7070 !. Spcaview version: 1.1.8 date: 25:12:2007 (C) mxha...@magic.fr video /dev/video0 Camera found: PC Camera VIDIOCGPICT brightnes=32896 hue=0 color=0 contrast=32768 whiteness=39321depth=8 palette=0 Bridge found: zc3xx Not an Spca5xx Camera !! wrong spca5xx device StreamId: -1 Camera try palette 21 depth 8 Damned second try fail try palette 15 depth 12 Damned second try fail try palette 4 depth 24 Damned second try fail try palette 3 depth 16 Damned second try fail try palette 5 depth 32 Damned second try fail probe size in Available Resolutions width 640 heigth 480 Available Resolutions width 384 heigth 288 Available Resolutions width 352 heigth 288 Available Resolutions width 320 heigth 240 Available Resolutions width 192 heigth 144 Available Resolutions width 176 heigth 144 Available Resolutions width 160 heigth 120 Invalid palette in check palette fatal !! Format asked 15 check -1 VIDIOCSPICT brightnes=32896 hue=0 color=0 contrast=32768 whiteness=39321depth=12 palette=15 VIDIOCGPICT brightnes=32896 hue=0 color=0 contrast=32768 whiteness=39321depth=8 palette=0 could't set video palette Abort ! -- Regards Linyin SooChow China http://linyin.8800.org
Re: [gentoo-user] homemade nas setup
Harry Putnam wrote: I've been looking into setting up or getting somekind of nas storage/backup capability lately so thought I'd ask about it here since I'm sure some of you will be using something or will have built your own. After looking at a few on google .. I'm a little surprised at the high end pricetags and even the midranges for a factory made setup. Makes me wonder what if anything I'd be missing, functionality wise, if I were to build it up myself. I see these storebought things are mostly running a small embedded linux os. The lowend stuff like WD `mybook 1tb world Edition II' advertises gigabit throughput but I see many reviews that report way less in practice. In fact it started to look like that particular one is way below its advertised capability. I ran across many complaints about dreadfully low write speads. Also apparently has some sorry thing called Mionet for (secure) remote access. I'm thinking of doing something like a semi-minimal regular (not embedded) install on a P4 I have with asus P4C800 mobo and some 2 gigs ram. Maybe add an extra sata controller (the mobo has one) so I can put up to 6 or so sata disks on it along with one small IDE disk for the OS (just to head of any problems related to installing on sata) Maybe start with 2 500 sata disks and build up as I need it. Or more likely `if I need it'... I kind of doubt I'd need more than 4 anytime soon so maybe wait on the controller part too. I guess I'd connect to it mostly thru samba/cifs for windows XP machines that have lots of biggish graphics and video type stuff to backup/store. And nfs for my main gentoo desktop. I wondered what the downsides are compared to a medium range storebought rig? 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 considerations.. or whatever, wodld be welcome. I know its a little OT, but I have to mention ZFS. It'll mean running Solaris or FreeBSD in order to get the best out of it, but it's worth it. I changed my fileserver from a gentoo box with software raid and lvm over to ZFS on OpenSolaris and I haven't looked back. Gentoo is still my main OS but I think you just can't beat ZFS for a filer. Just check it out and see what you think. -- Matt Harrison A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
[gentoo-user] No RTC kernel support needed?
One of my systems needed Real Time Clock -> PC-style 'CMOS' enabled in the kernel to prevent a Hardware Clock error at startup and to make the 'hwclock' command work. Another of my systems doesn't have Real Time Clock kernel support enabled at all, and yet 'hwclock' works fine. Does anyone know how that works? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right
Willie Wong wrote: > The page you list is encoding in GB2312, Simplified Chinese. > > Your problem, however, is that you don't have the right fonts. Deja-Vu > fonts do not support east asian scripts. (See their website for more > detail.) > > I suggest media-fonts/unifont, which has all Unicode characters, or > media-fonts/wqy-bitmapfonts or media-fonts/arphicfonts which supports > Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ideographs. > > Hope this helps, > > W SOLVED! Thanks. I actually had everything already setup the same way everyone else said except you. I added those fonts, added them to my xorg.conf fonthpaths and restarted X and it works. - Ian
[gentoo-user] homemade nas setup
I've been looking into setting up or getting somekind of nas storage/backup capability lately so thought I'd ask about it here since I'm sure some of you will be using something or will have built your own. After looking at a few on google .. I'm a little surprised at the high end pricetags and even the midranges for a factory made setup. Makes me wonder what if anything I'd be missing, functionality wise, if I were to build it up myself. I see these storebought things are mostly running a small embedded linux os. The lowend stuff like WD `mybook 1tb world Edition II' advertises gigabit throughput but I see many reviews that report way less in practice. In fact it started to look like that particular one is way below its advertised capability. I ran across many complaints about dreadfully low write speads. Also apparently has some sorry thing called Mionet for (secure) remote access. I'm thinking of doing something like a semi-minimal regular (not embedded) install on a P4 I have with asus P4C800 mobo and some 2 gigs ram. Maybe add an extra sata controller (the mobo has one) so I can put up to 6 or so sata disks on it along with one small IDE disk for the OS (just to head of any problems related to installing on sata) Maybe start with 2 500 sata disks and build up as I need it. Or more likely `if I need it'... I kind of doubt I'd need more than 4 anytime soon so maybe wait on the controller part too. I guess I'd connect to it mostly thru samba/cifs for windows XP machines that have lots of biggish graphics and video type stuff to backup/store. And nfs for my main gentoo desktop. I wondered what the downsides are compared to a medium range storebought rig? 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 considerations.. or whatever, would be welcome.
Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 02:03:50PM -0800, Penguin Lover smallnow squawked: > http://www.openmobilefree.net/index.php?entry=entry090125-211840 > > This page works fine on default fonts of other distros. For me, its got blocks > for all the asian characters. > > I've been through the gentoo documentation utf guide. I'm using deja-vu font > in > firefox, although it seems to be the same on some other random fonts i've > tried. > > The utf-8 guide says to enable cjk use flag but that seems to be deprecated > since equery says its only used by 4 packages, none of which I have installed. > > Why does gentoo not default to utf-8 support? The page you list is encoding in GB2312, Simplified Chinese. Your problem, however, is that you don't have the right fonts. Deja-Vu fonts do not support east asian scripts. (See their website for more detail.) I suggest media-fonts/unifont, which has all Unicode characters, or media-fonts/wqy-bitmapfonts or media-fonts/arphicfonts which supports Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ideographs. Hope this helps, W -- ...for God's sake look at some real data. That's how Maria Meyer was able to solve this question that eluded Heisenberg and them all, who thought they were all so smart. Thank God the German had him as the head of the nuclear program. Had they actually have someone competent, they might have built the bomb. ~Prof. Will Happer shelling out some Heisenberg dissing. 11-26-02 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 783 days, 22:10
Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > 090129 Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM, smallnow wrote: >>> http://www.openmobilefree.net/index.php?entry=entry090125-211840 >>> This page works fine on default fonts of other distros. >>> For me, its got blocks for all the asian characters. >>> I'm using deja-vu font in firefox, > > My default font is New Century Schoolbook. > >>> The utf-8 guide says to enable cjk use flag > > Not enabled here. In /etc/make.conf , I have > > USE="-* apm bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr crypt cups dbus dri foomaticdb > gcj gdbm gif gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib > java javascript jpeg kde lcms libwww lm_sensors mime motif mpeg > multilib ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia opengl > pcre pdf perl plotutils png pop python qt3 readline > scanner session slang ssl > threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts > unicode usb win32codecs X xml xorg xv zlib" > > In /etc/locale.gen , I have > > en_US ISO-8859-1 > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 > >> what is your character encoding set to (View -> Character Encoding) ? >> it comes up as GB2312 on mine and everything looks good to me. > > Same here. I'm using Firefox 3.0.5 . I'm using generic font families in Firefox instead of specific fonts for Simplified Chinese. Proportional font: Sans-serif Serif: Serif Sans-serif: Sans-serif Monospace: monospace
Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right
090129 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM, smallnow wrote: >> http://www.openmobilefree.net/index.php?entry=entry090125-211840 >> This page works fine on default fonts of other distros. >> For me, its got blocks for all the asian characters. >> I'm using deja-vu font in firefox, My default font is New Century Schoolbook. >> The utf-8 guide says to enable cjk use flag Not enabled here. In /etc/make.conf , I have USE="-* apm bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr crypt cups dbus dri foomaticdb gcj gdbm gif gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib java javascript jpeg kde lcms libwww lm_sensors mime motif mpeg multilib ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia opengl pcre pdf perl plotutils png pop python qt3 readline scanner session slang ssl threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb win32codecs X xml xorg xv zlib" In /etc/locale.gen , I have en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 > what is your character encoding set to (View -> Character Encoding) ? > it comes up as GB2312 on mine and everything looks good to me. Same here. I'm using Firefox 3.0.5 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel build error
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:29:09 +0100, KH wrote: > you did run oldconfig > . Somewhere you said n where a number should be. > Search for: > External Firmware blobs to build into kernel binary (EXTRA_FIRMWARE) Or copy over the previous config file and run make oldconfig again, paying a little more attention this time :P -- Neil Bothwick Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM, smallnow wrote: > http://www.openmobilefree.net/index.php?entry=entry090125-211840 > > This page works fine on default fonts of other distros. For me, its got blocks > for all the asian characters. > > I've been through the gentoo documentation utf guide. I'm using deja-vu font > in > firefox, although it seems to be the same on some other random fonts i've > tried. > > The utf-8 guide says to enable cjk use flag but that seems to be deprecated > since equery says its only used by 4 packages, none of which I have installed. > > Why does gentoo not default to utf-8 support? > > - Ian Works for me... what is your character encoding set to in firefox? (View -> Character Encoding)... it comes up as GB2312 on mine and everything looks good to me.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Grant wrote: > >> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into > >> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley > >> > on my network in wireshark? > >> > >> ifconfig eth1 promisc > >> > >> But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode > >> automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same. > >> > >> > > > > Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package: > > > > airmon-ng start wlan0 > > I can't get that to work. I get: > > # airmon-ng start wlan0 > Interface Chipset Driver > wlan3 ath5k_pci - [phy0] > wlan0 Ralink 2573 USB rt73usb - [phy1]/usr/sbin/airmon-ng: line > 338: > /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface: No such file or directory > mon0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device > (monitor mode enabled on mon0) > > It looks like I'm supposed to have /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface > which isn't there. I've tried with net.wlan0 started and stopped. > > - Grant Your driver has to support monitor-mode. I am using an Atheros-based internal WiFi-card and an Alpha-USB-WiFi-device with Realtek-Chip. The drivers I used a while ago needed a patch to work with monitor-mode, but the recent drivers don't. Take a look at the driver-section on the aircrack-ng homepage. Maybe your driver needs to be patched. >>> >>> After updating to ~amd64 aircrack-ng, it's working like this: >>> >>> # airmon-ng start wlan0 >>> # airodump-ng wlan0 >>> >>> Injection is also reported to work. The only problem is I don't get >>> any results from airodump-ng unless net.wlan0 is started. 'ifconfig >>> wlan0 up' doesn't seem to help. Can I monitor without associating >>> net.wlan0? >> >> I use madwifi-ng not ath5k, so I'm not sure if the process is the same... >> >> Basically the way it works for me is I have wlan0 and ath0, and I have >> to destroy ath0 to be able to re-do wlan0 in the proper mode. The >> usual programs (kismet, aircrack) can usually set it up themselves, >> but you have to destroy it first. In my case I use this command: >> >> wlanconfig ath0 destroy >> >> and then i can manually set it up for monitor mode like: >> >> wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode monitor > > Do you know if there is an equivalent destroy command for ifconfig or > iwconfig since wlanconfig is a madwifi tool? 'ifconfig wlan0 destroy' > doesn't work and I tried 'ifconfig wlan0 down'. 'airmon-ng start > wlan0' does put wlan0 into monitor mode (as verified by 'ifconfig') > but I don't get any airodump-ng results unless net.wlan0 is started. Does madwifi-tools not work with ath5k? I thought it was compatible... The previously mentioned "iw" package might be able to do it, too. Paul
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel build error
Dale schrieb: > Saphirus Sage wrote: > >> Dale wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to upgrade my kernel but I got this. >>> >>> r...@smoker /usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8 # make all && make >>> modules_install >>> CHK include/linux/version.h >>> CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h >>> CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh >>> CHK include/linux/compile.h >>> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `n/n', needed by >>> `firmware/n.gen.o'. Stop. >>> make: *** [firmware] Error 2 >>> r...@smoker /usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8 # >>> >>> I have always used that command but it doesn't usually end like this. I >>> think that is right. What is target 'n/n'? Am I missing something? >>> Kernel version is in the prompt up there too. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Dale >>> >>> :-) :-) >>> >>> >>> >>> >> What firmware drivers had you enabled when you configured the kernel? >> >> >> >> > > Well, I copied .config from my old kernel, ran oldconfig then menuconfig > to check on a couple things. Everything looked normal enough for me > system. I did say no to the new stuff tho. My old kernel works fine so > I am really only updating the kernel. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "firmware drivers"? I don't use modules > but it does have a couple that are default and can't get rid of. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > Hi, if you don't want to have this driver atall there should be nothing in there. Best thing ist to run make menuconfig to search for the mentioned line. Sorry for my tiping but I am really sleepy :-) kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel build error
Dale schrieb: > Hi, > > I'm trying to upgrade my kernel but I got this. > > r...@smoker /usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8 # make all && make > modules_install > CHK include/linux/version.h > CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h > CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh > CHK include/linux/compile.h > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `n/n', needed by > `firmware/n.gen.o'. Stop. > make: *** [firmware] Error 2 > r...@smoker /usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8 # > > I have always used that command but it doesn't usually end like this. I > think that is right. What is target 'n/n'? Am I missing something? > Kernel version is in the prompt up there too. > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > Hi, you did run oldconfig . Somewhere you said n where a number should be. Search for: External Firmware blobs to build into kernel binary (EXTRA_FIRMWARE) kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel build error
Saphirus Sage wrote: > Dale wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to upgrade my kernel but I got this. >> >> r...@smoker /usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8 # make all && make >> modules_install >> CHK include/linux/version.h >> CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h >> CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh >> CHK include/linux/compile.h >> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `n/n', needed by >> `firmware/n.gen.o'. Stop. >> make: *** [firmware] Error 2 >> r...@smoker /usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8 # >> >> I have always used that command but it doesn't usually end like this. I >> think that is right. What is target 'n/n'? Am I missing something? >> Kernel version is in the prompt up there too. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> >> >> > What firmware drivers had you enabled when you configured the kernel? > > > Well, I copied .config from my old kernel, ran oldconfig then menuconfig to check on a couple things. Everything looked normal enough for me system. I did say no to the new stuff tho. My old kernel works fine so I am really only updating the kernel. I'm not sure what you mean by "firmware drivers"? I don't use modules but it does have a couple that are default and can't get rid of. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network
My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? Does WPA2 require hardware support? >>> >>> I don't think so. It should just be a driver/firmware update if you've >>> got some device that supports WPA and not WPA2. The AES encryption of >>> WPA2 requires a little more hardware power than WEP or WPA normally >>> uses, but I don't think it needs any special chip or anything like >>> that. >>> >>> You can also do VPN over your wifi connection, and require it for >>> access to the rest of your network or the internet. At least then if >>> someone hacks your wireless key, they still can't do anything without >>> having your VPN certificate. >> >> Actually, VPN would rule out my wifi cell phone I bet. > > Maybe not -- I don't know what kind of phone you've got. I have a > Nokia N95 which runs Symbian OS 9 and there are 3 VPN clients that I > know of (and the first one is free): > > http://www.businesssoftware.nokia.com/mobile_vpn_downloads.php > http://www.ncp-e.com/en/vpn-szenarien-produkte/vpn-produkte/secure-entry-client.html > http://www.symvpn.com/Products/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductId=17 > > I believe Windows Mobile devices have VPN support built in, but I've > never tried it. For iPhone or other phone OS i have no idea as I've > never actually used them. > > Paul Thanks Paul, mine is a Nokia N82 and I'm checking into that now. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right
smallnow wrote: > http://www.openmobilefree.net/index.php?entry=entry090125-211840 > > This page works fine on default fonts of other distros. For me, its got blocks > for all the asian characters. > > I've been through the gentoo documentation utf guide. I'm using deja-vu font > in > firefox, although it seems to be the same on some other random fonts i've > tried. > > The utf-8 guide says to enable cjk use flag but that seems to be deprecated > since equery says its only used by 4 packages, none of which I have installed. > > Why does gentoo not default to utf-8 support? > > - Ian > > > Have a look into /etc/locale.gen and uncomment the language support you need.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode
>> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into >> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley >> > on my network in wireshark? >> >> ifconfig eth1 promisc >> >> But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode >> automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same. >> >> > > Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package: > > airmon-ng start wlan0 I can't get that to work. I get: # airmon-ng start wlan0 Interface Chipset Driver wlan3 ath5k_pci - [phy0] wlan0 Ralink 2573 USB rt73usb - [phy1]/usr/sbin/airmon-ng: line 338: /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface: No such file or directory mon0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device (monitor mode enabled on mon0) It looks like I'm supposed to have /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface which isn't there. I've tried with net.wlan0 started and stopped. - Grant >>> >>> Your driver has to support monitor-mode. >>> I am using an Atheros-based internal WiFi-card and an Alpha-USB-WiFi-device >>> with Realtek-Chip. The drivers I used a while ago needed a patch to work >>> with >>> monitor-mode, but the recent drivers don't. Take a look at the >>> driver-section >>> on the aircrack-ng homepage. Maybe your driver needs to be patched. >> >> After updating to ~amd64 aircrack-ng, it's working like this: >> >> # airmon-ng start wlan0 >> # airodump-ng wlan0 >> >> Injection is also reported to work. The only problem is I don't get >> any results from airodump-ng unless net.wlan0 is started. 'ifconfig >> wlan0 up' doesn't seem to help. Can I monitor without associating >> net.wlan0? > > I use madwifi-ng not ath5k, so I'm not sure if the process is the same... > > Basically the way it works for me is I have wlan0 and ath0, and I have > to destroy ath0 to be able to re-do wlan0 in the proper mode. The > usual programs (kismet, aircrack) can usually set it up themselves, > but you have to destroy it first. In my case I use this command: > > wlanconfig ath0 destroy > > and then i can manually set it up for monitor mode like: > > wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode monitor Do you know if there is an equivalent destroy command for ifconfig or iwconfig since wlanconfig is a madwifi tool? 'ifconfig wlan0 destroy' doesn't work and I tried 'ifconfig wlan0 down'. 'airmon-ng start wlan0' does put wlan0 into monitor mode (as verified by 'ifconfig') but I don't get any airodump-ng results unless net.wlan0 is started. - Grant > Or if I want to run kismet, I destroy ath0, and in the kismet.conf i > set up the source like: > > source=madwifi_g,wifi0,blah > > and kismet does its thing. After quitting kismet, I have to destroy > ath0 again if I want to use a different program (or configure it > manually again). Similarly, if I want to run airmon-ng I just destroy > the ath0 and airmon-ng sets it up on its own. I guess airsnort might > work the same way, though I've never tried it. > > Good luck :)
[gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right
http://www.openmobilefree.net/index.php?entry=entry090125-211840 This page works fine on default fonts of other distros. For me, its got blocks for all the asian characters. I've been through the gentoo documentation utf guide. I'm using deja-vu font in firefox, although it seems to be the same on some other random fonts i've tried. The utf-8 guide says to enable cjk use flag but that seems to be deprecated since equery says its only used by 4 packages, none of which I have installed. Why does gentoo not default to utf-8 support? - Ian
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel build error
Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to upgrade my kernel but I got this. > > r...@smoker /usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8 # make all && make > modules_install > CHK include/linux/version.h > CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h > CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh > CHK include/linux/compile.h > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `n/n', needed by > `firmware/n.gen.o'. Stop. > make: *** [firmware] Error 2 > r...@smoker /usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8 # > > I have always used that command but it doesn't usually end like this. I > think that is right. What is target 'n/n'? Am I missing something? > Kernel version is in the prompt up there too. > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > What firmware drivers had you enabled when you configured the kernel?
[gentoo-user] Kernel build error
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my kernel but I got this. r...@smoker /usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8 # make all && make modules_install CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/linux/compile.h make[1]: *** No rule to make target `n/n', needed by `firmware/n.gen.o'. Stop. make: *** [firmware] Error 2 r...@smoker /usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8 # I have always used that command but it doesn't usually end like this. I think that is right. What is target 'n/n'? Am I missing something? Kernel version is in the prompt up there too. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Grant wrote: > My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? Does WPA2 require hardware support? >>> I don't think so. It should just be a driver/firmware update if you've >>> got some device that supports WPA and not WPA2. The AES encryption of >>> WPA2 requires a little more hardware power than WEP or WPA normally >>> uses, but I don't think it needs any special chip or anything like >>> that. >>> >>> You can also do VPN over your wifi connection, and require it for >>> access to the rest of your network or the internet. At least then if >>> someone hacks your wireless key, they still can't do anything without >>> having your VPN certificate. >>> >> Actually, VPN would rule out my wifi cell phone I bet. >> > > Maybe not -- I don't know what kind of phone you've got. I have a > Nokia N95 which runs Symbian OS 9 and there are 3 VPN clients that I > know of (and the first one is free): > > http://www.businesssoftware.nokia.com/mobile_vpn_downloads.php > http://www.ncp-e.com/en/vpn-szenarien-produkte/vpn-produkte/secure-entry-client.html > http://www.symvpn.com/Products/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductId=17 > > I believe Windows Mobile devices have VPN support built in, but I've > never tried it. For iPhone or other phone OS i have no idea as I've > never actually used them. > > Paul > > The iPhone has support for L2TP, PPTP and minor support for IPSec (if ti's through cisco), all standard in the firmware releases.
Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Grant wrote: >>> My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't >>> DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets >>> hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? >>> >>> Does WPA2 require hardware support? >> >> I don't think so. It should just be a driver/firmware update if you've >> got some device that supports WPA and not WPA2. The AES encryption of >> WPA2 requires a little more hardware power than WEP or WPA normally >> uses, but I don't think it needs any special chip or anything like >> that. >> >> You can also do VPN over your wifi connection, and require it for >> access to the rest of your network or the internet. At least then if >> someone hacks your wireless key, they still can't do anything without >> having your VPN certificate. > > Actually, VPN would rule out my wifi cell phone I bet. Maybe not -- I don't know what kind of phone you've got. I have a Nokia N95 which runs Symbian OS 9 and there are 3 VPN clients that I know of (and the first one is free): http://www.businesssoftware.nokia.com/mobile_vpn_downloads.php http://www.ncp-e.com/en/vpn-szenarien-produkte/vpn-produkte/secure-entry-client.html http://www.symvpn.com/Products/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductId=17 I believe Windows Mobile devices have VPN support built in, but I've never tried it. For iPhone or other phone OS i have no idea as I've never actually used them. Paul
Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network
Grant wrote: >>> My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't >>> DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets >>> hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? >>> >>> Does WPA2 require hardware support? >>> >> I don't think so. It should just be a driver/firmware update if you've >> got some device that supports WPA and not WPA2. The AES encryption of >> WPA2 requires a little more hardware power than WEP or WPA normally >> uses, but I don't think it needs any special chip or anything like >> that. >> >> You can also do VPN over your wifi connection, and require it for >> access to the rest of your network or the internet. At least then if >> someone hacks your wireless key, they still can't do anything without >> having your VPN certificate. >> > > Actually, VPN would rule out my wifi cell phone I bet. > > - Grant > > Yeah, it probably would. If you want to keep using the wifi mobile, you may be stuck with whatever layer 2 security options it supports; most likely WPA2 then.
Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network
Grant wrote: >>> My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't >>> DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets >>> hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? >>> >>> Does WPA2 require hardware support? >>> >> I don't think so. It should just be a driver/firmware update if you've >> got some device that supports WPA and not WPA2. The AES encryption of >> WPA2 requires a little more hardware power than WEP or WPA normally >> uses, but I don't think it needs any special chip or anything like >> that. >> >> You can also do VPN over your wifi connection, and require it for >> access to the rest of your network or the internet. At least then if >> someone hacks your wireless key, they still can't do anything without >> having your VPN certificate. >> > > It sounds like VPN may be the strongest thing going. Could I turn off > WPA and keep everything hidden within the VPN? Could I use a password > instead of a certificate for access? Is the only downside that the > client needs to have VPN software installed? > > - Grant > > That's not much of a downside, VPN encryption (IPsec, SSL, L2TP, and maybe PPTP) is usually more secure than that datalink-layer WPA or WPA2 anyway. As for if you can set it up without a certificate, I believe that PPTP and L2TP can operate with nothing more than a "shared secret". But, a certificate just makes it all the more secure. And yes, your transmitted data will still be encrypted in a VPN even if you're using an open wireless hotspot.
Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network
>> My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't >> DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets >> hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? >> >> Does WPA2 require hardware support? > > I don't think so. It should just be a driver/firmware update if you've > got some device that supports WPA and not WPA2. The AES encryption of > WPA2 requires a little more hardware power than WEP or WPA normally > uses, but I don't think it needs any special chip or anything like > that. > > You can also do VPN over your wifi connection, and require it for > access to the rest of your network or the internet. At least then if > someone hacks your wireless key, they still can't do anything without > having your VPN certificate. Actually, VPN would rule out my wifi cell phone I bet. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network
>> My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't >> DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets >> hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? >> >> Does WPA2 require hardware support? > > I don't think so. It should just be a driver/firmware update if you've > got some device that supports WPA and not WPA2. The AES encryption of > WPA2 requires a little more hardware power than WEP or WPA normally > uses, but I don't think it needs any special chip or anything like > that. > > You can also do VPN over your wifi connection, and require it for > access to the rest of your network or the internet. At least then if > someone hacks your wireless key, they still can't do anything without > having your VPN certificate. It sounds like VPN may be the strongest thing going. Could I turn off WPA and keep everything hidden within the VPN? Could I use a password instead of a certificate for access? Is the only downside that the client needs to have VPN software installed? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Grant wrote: >>> >> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into >>> >> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley >>> >> > on my network in wireshark? >>> >> >>> >> ifconfig eth1 promisc >>> >> >>> >> But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode >>> >> automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same. >>> >> >>> >> >>> > >>> > Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package: >>> > >>> > airmon-ng start wlan0 >>> >>> I can't get that to work. I get: >>> >>> # airmon-ng start wlan0 >>> Interface Chipset Driver >>> wlan3 ath5k_pci - [phy0] >>> wlan0 Ralink 2573 USB rt73usb - [phy1]/usr/sbin/airmon-ng: line 338: >>> /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface: No such file or directory >>> mon0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device >>> (monitor mode enabled on mon0) >>> >>> It looks like I'm supposed to have /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface >>> which isn't there. I've tried with net.wlan0 started and stopped. >>> >>> - Grant >> >> Your driver has to support monitor-mode. >> I am using an Atheros-based internal WiFi-card and an Alpha-USB-WiFi-device >> with Realtek-Chip. The drivers I used a while ago needed a patch to work with >> monitor-mode, but the recent drivers don't. Take a look at the driver-section >> on the aircrack-ng homepage. Maybe your driver needs to be patched. > > After updating to ~amd64 aircrack-ng, it's working like this: > > # airmon-ng start wlan0 > # airodump-ng wlan0 > > Injection is also reported to work. The only problem is I don't get > any results from airodump-ng unless net.wlan0 is started. 'ifconfig > wlan0 up' doesn't seem to help. Can I monitor without associating > net.wlan0? I use madwifi-ng not ath5k, so I'm not sure if the process is the same... Basically the way it works for me is I have wlan0 and ath0, and I have to destroy ath0 to be able to re-do wlan0 in the proper mode. The usual programs (kismet, aircrack) can usually set it up themselves, but you have to destroy it first. In my case I use this command: wlanconfig ath0 destroy and then i can manually set it up for monitor mode like: wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode monitor Or if I want to run kismet, I destroy ath0, and in the kismet.conf i set up the source like: source=madwifi_g,wifi0,blah and kismet does its thing. After quitting kismet, I have to destroy ath0 again if I want to use a different program (or configure it manually again). Similarly, if I want to run airmon-ng I just destroy the ath0 and airmon-ng sets it up on its own. I guess airsnort might work the same way, though I've never tried it. Good luck :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Grant wrote: >> My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't >> DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets >> hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? >> >> Does WPA2 require hardware support? >> >> - Grant > > My LinkSys wireless router supports MAC address filtering. I can add a > MAC address to the allowed list and disallow everything else. It works > for us so far, until someone manages to somehow find out an allowed > MAC address and pretends to be that address. I'll deal with that > should it ever happen. Unlikely I think... > > It is a little extra work adding a new device in as I have to discover > its address but that's OK with me. > > I don't think is typically done in hardware as the specs change and > hardware designers are reluctant to put the gates in. More likely it's > done in firmware on a router like mine, or software if you're using > some Gentoo box to do a job like this. Well, using kismet to sniff out active MAC addresses of clients and access points is dead simple, and MAC spoofing is even easier (emerge net-analyzer/macchanger). Obviously trying to use a MAC that's already active could result in collisions/IP conflict so the drive-by wifi hijackers probably won't get much use of it, but if someone is doing an attack on you they can wait for your laptop to be turned off or wireless traffic idle, and then hop on that MAC and get in your network. Even that should not be a problem if you've got eveything else secured (like, if you allow passwordless entry to samba shares from local address, and someone gets on your wireless, that could be bad unless you put wifi in a different vlan or whatever). I don't have mine set up that sophisticated, I am putting my faith in WPA2 being strong enough to keep out intruders. I know I should probably be more careful but I'm trusting and lazy. :) My internal devices are not necessarily protected from each other. I don't use MAC filtering, but I have the DHCP leases tied to MAC addresses; I don't restrict it only to those addresses though. I have a range (192.168.0.101-109) for reserved IP addresses, and dynamic from 110+. My main desktop has 2 NICs and Wifi, second desktop has 2 NICs, Laptop has NIC & Wifi, cell phone has Wifi, land phone is Voip, I have a second wireless router set up as a wireless bridge to which my Xbox, Xbox 360 & Slingbox are attached, as well as any visitors who happen to need to plug in a laptop in my living room. :) I let some of my devices get dynamic IPs just because it doesn't matter (vonage, slingbox, xbox 360) but the PCs I like to have well-defined addresses.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode
>> Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into >> promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley >> on my network in wireshark? >> > ifconfig eth1 promisc > > But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode > automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same. > > > Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package: airmon-ng start wlan0 >>> I can't get that to work. I get: >>> >>> # airmon-ng start wlan0 >>> InterfaceChipset Driver >>> wlan3ath5k_pci - [phy0] >>> wlan0Ralink 2573 USB rt73usb - [phy1]/usr/sbin/airmon-ng: >>> line 338: >>> /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface: No such file or directory >>> mon0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device >>> (monitor mode enabled on mon0) >>> >>> It looks like I'm supposed to have /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface >>> which isn't there. I've tried with net.wlan0 started and stopped. >>> >>> - Grant >>> >> >> Your driver has to support monitor-mode. >> I am using an Atheros-based internal WiFi-card and an Alpha-USB-WiFi-device >> with Realtek-Chip. The drivers I used a while ago needed a patch to work with >> monitor-mode, but the recent drivers don't. Take a look at the driver-section >> on the aircrack-ng homepage. Maybe your driver needs to be patched. >> >> >> > I'm using the same chipset with the same driver (ath5_pci with phy0), > and my card can go into monitor mode. I'm wondering if you are using the > driver compiled into the kernel or madwifi-ng drivers. Are you using AR2425? dmesg tells me: ath5k_pci :04:00.0: enabling device ( -> 0002) ath5k_pci :04:00.0: registered as 'phy0' ath5k phy0: Support for RF2425 is under development. ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70) but I can't get it to work yet. Not sure what's happening after "Backgrounding". - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode
>> >> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into >> >> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley >> >> > on my network in wireshark? >> >> >> >> ifconfig eth1 promisc >> >> >> >> But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode >> >> automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same. >> >> >> >> >> > >> > Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package: >> > >> > airmon-ng start wlan0 >> >> I can't get that to work. I get: >> >> # airmon-ng start wlan0 >> Interface Chipset Driver >> wlan3 ath5k_pci - [phy0] >> wlan0 Ralink 2573 USB rt73usb - [phy1]/usr/sbin/airmon-ng: line 338: >> /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface: No such file or directory >> mon0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device >> (monitor mode enabled on mon0) >> >> It looks like I'm supposed to have /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface >> which isn't there. I've tried with net.wlan0 started and stopped. >> >> - Grant > > Your driver has to support monitor-mode. > I am using an Atheros-based internal WiFi-card and an Alpha-USB-WiFi-device > with Realtek-Chip. The drivers I used a while ago needed a patch to work with > monitor-mode, but the recent drivers don't. Take a look at the driver-section > on the aircrack-ng homepage. Maybe your driver needs to be patched. After updating to ~amd64 aircrack-ng, it's working like this: # airmon-ng start wlan0 # airodump-ng wlan0 Injection is also reported to work. The only problem is I don't get any results from airodump-ng unless net.wlan0 is started. 'ifconfig wlan0 up' doesn't seem to help. Can I monitor without associating net.wlan0? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Grant wrote: > My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't > DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets > hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? > > Does WPA2 require hardware support? > > - Grant My LinkSys wireless router supports MAC address filtering. I can add a MAC address to the allowed list and disallow everything else. It works for us so far, until someone manages to somehow find out an allowed MAC address and pretends to be that address. I'll deal with that should it ever happen. Unlikely I think... It is a little extra work adding a new device in as I have to discover its address but that's OK with me. I don't think is typically done in hardware as the specs change and hardware designers are reluctant to put the gates in. More likely it's done in firmware on a router like mine, or software if you're using some Gentoo box to do a job like this. - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Grant wrote: > My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't > DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets > hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? > > Does WPA2 require hardware support? I don't think so. It should just be a driver/firmware update if you've got some device that supports WPA and not WPA2. The AES encryption of WPA2 requires a little more hardware power than WEP or WPA normally uses, but I don't think it needs any special chip or anything like that. You can also do VPN over your wifi connection, and require it for access to the rest of your network or the internet. At least then if someone hacks your wireless key, they still can't do anything without having your VPN certificate.
Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network
On 1/29/09, Grant wrote: > My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't > DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets > hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? > > Does WPA2 require hardware support? > > > - Grant > > What you're looking for is called 'MAC address filtering' and I imagine it is very doable. Having never done it before myself (with a Gentoo router) the best I can do is point you at Google and wish you the best of luck. It's been a little while since I worried about my WPA2 wireless getting hacked. Apparently, a vulnerability in TKIP was recently discovered that made WPA2 networks using that encryption less secure. It would still take a lot of doing on the attacking party's end to do it though. Have you considered setting up WPA2 Enterprise, with the RADIUS server and whatnot? D
[gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network
My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? Does WPA2 require hardware support? - Grant
[gentoo-user] {OT} SIP & Skype ports for packet shaping
I'm having great success with packet shaping via shorewall but I'm not sure I have my ports prioritized correctly for SIP and skype. twinkle is set to use 5060 and 8000 and skype is set to use 23399 for inbound connections. Should I prioritize 5060, 8000, and 23399 for both SRC and DEST? I'm not really sure how SIP and skype work through a network. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode
Grant wrote: Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley on my network in wireshark? >>> ifconfig eth1 promisc >>> >>> But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode >>> automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same. >>> >>> >>> >> Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package: >> >> airmon-ng start wlan0 >> > Thanks everyone. I didn't realize it but monitor mode is what I'm > after. aircrack-ng looks interesting too. Is there something similar > with a GUI? airsnort seems to be discontinued. What is iw for? > iw - show / manipulate wireless devices and their configuration Usage: iw [options] command Options: --debug enable netlink debugging --version show version Commands: help event list phy info dev set channel [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] phy set channel [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] dev set freq [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] phy set freq [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] phy set name dev set meshid dev set monitor [...] dev info dev del dev interface add type [mesh_id ] [flags ...] phy interface add type [mesh_id ] [flags ...] dev station dump dev station set plink_action dev station del dev station get dev mpath dump dev mpath set next_hop dev mpath new next_hop dev mpath del dev mpath get reg set dev get mesh_param dev set mesh_param >>> Are we talking about the same thing? >>> >>> iw: "nl80211 userspace tool for use with aircrack-ng" >>> >>> - Grant >>> >> Yes, it was installed as a dep of aircrack-ng. >> >> Paul >> > > I've got aircrack-ng installed and I get: > > # emerge -pv iw > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > Calculating dependencies... done! > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "net-wireless/iw" have been masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: > - net-wireless/iw-0.9.7 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) > - net-wireless/iw-0_p20080605 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) > > - Grant > > Just unmask it in /usr/portage/profiles/pakage.unmask. Add the line "net-wireless/iw ~amd64"
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode
> Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley > on my network in wireshark? ifconfig eth1 promisc But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same. >>> >>> Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package: >>> >>> airmon-ng start wlan0 >> >> Thanks everyone. I didn't realize it but monitor mode is what I'm >> after. aircrack-ng looks interesting too. Is there something similar >> with a GUI? airsnort seems to be discontinued. What is iw for? > > iw - show / manipulate wireless devices and their configuration > > Usage: iw [options] command > Options: >--debug enable netlink debugging >--version show version > Commands: >help >event >list >phy info >dev set channel [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] >phy set channel [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] >dev set freq [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] >phy set freq [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] >phy set name >dev set meshid >dev set monitor [...] >dev info >dev del >dev interface add type [mesh_id > ] [flags ...] >phy interface add type [mesh_id > ] [flags ...] >dev station dump >dev station set plink_action >dev station del >dev station get >dev mpath dump >dev mpath set next_hop > >dev mpath new next_hop > >dev mpath del >dev mpath get >reg set >dev get mesh_param >dev set mesh_param Are we talking about the same thing? iw: "nl80211 userspace tool for use with aircrack-ng" - Grant >>> >>> Yes, it was installed as a dep of aircrack-ng. >>> >>> Paul >> >> I've got aircrack-ng installed and I get: >> >> # emerge -pv iw >> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: >> Calculating dependencies... done! >> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "net-wireless/iw" have been masked. >> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your >> request: >> - net-wireless/iw-0.9.7 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) >> - net-wireless/iw-0_p20080605 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) >> >> - Grant > > I'm using ~amd64 and emerged net-wireless/aircrack-ng-1.0_rc1 which > pulled in net-wireless/iw-0.9.7 as a dependency. Actually the > aircrack-ng fails to build but that's irrelevant :) Got it, thank you. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Patching of ebuilds
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, >I've had a look on the web but can't seem to find any instructions on > how to do the patching of ebuilds. I have the situation where I've tried to > install the media centre app MMSV2. I've done the emerge, a lot of dependent > functionality was compiled and now it's up to compiling the actual MMSV2. > When compiling, an error happens. I had a look in bugs.gentoo.org and there > is a bug in there that covers, I think, the failure. > >Attached to the bug is a patch that someone has developed. I now want > to use this patch to patch the ebuild and see if it really does fix the > problem. My problem is that I don't know the actual steps needed to do the > patching. I know about the patch utility but I don't know where the actual > files are, and how I should do the patching so that Portage does not view > the patched files as corrupt and therefore won't do the emerge. > >If someone can tell me how, or point me to a webpage that tells me > how, to do the patching it would be greatly appreciated. > >Regards, >Andrew You can usually use the "ebuild" command to do the portage steps separately, so after unpacking you can change to the portage tmpdir and apply the patch from bugzilla. Then proceed with the making and installing steps with "ebuild".
[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo mail server
kashani badapple.net> writes: > I've been running a Gentoo mail server for either work or personal use > and usually both since 2001. No real problems, but you do have to watch > some updates especially sasl and courier. OK. > My current system is > Postfix-2.5 At minimum I'd use Postfix-2.2 which has the better syntax > for your virtual statements. > Postgrey for greylisting, had some issues with sqlgrey. > PostfixAdmin, because using phpmyadmin to manage your accounts and > domains is futile. I'm still on 2.1 and need to check out the newer > version. Requires PHP and a webserver. > courier-imap and cyrus-sasl. Thinking about moving to Dovecot since you > can use dovecot-sasl with Postfix under Gentoo. > Mysql5 > It's fully virtual, supports smtp and imap over ssl, sasl, skipped TLS, > and easy to manage. I do not recommend the Gentoo Virtual How-to, it's > ancient and silly. Is this the page your refer to? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml > I used to have a how-to on gentoo-wiki which I need to recreate. Maybe > this weekend. Very cool. > In regards to stability... don't update right away. When Postfix 2.6 > comes out, give it a month. Or play with it in a virtual server. Same > with Mysql 5.1. Or whatever. I've run three separate companies on Gentoo > and never had much of an issue though I always had a test/stage/qa > environment of some sort. Also keep an eye on the forums and this mail > list. That'll usually give you a heads up when an update isn't quite right. Well all of this is great news. I've pretty much decided to build a postgtres mail server, mostly like what you have outlined.. I'm likely to set up a second, duplicate machine for testing. Drop a line to the list, when you have your wiki page up and I'll follow it and make some notes on the process of settting up a postfix mail server on gentoo.Maybe you could fix up this wiki?(or build another?): http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Postfix Do you use a regular gentoo kernel, hardened setup, or what packages to keep the mail server tightly secure? excellent notes! James
[gentoo-user] Re: Patching of ebuilds
Andrew Lowe wht.com.au> writes: > If someone can tell me how, or point me to a webpage that tells me how, > to do the patching it would be greatly appreciated. Here are a few links for your perusal: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=0&chap=0 hth, James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Grant wrote: >>> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into >>> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley >>> > on my network in wireshark? >>> >>> ifconfig eth1 promisc >>> >>> But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode >>> automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same. >>> >>> >> >> Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package: >> >> airmon-ng start wlan0 > > Thanks everyone. I didn't realize it but monitor mode is what I'm > after. aircrack-ng looks interesting too. Is there something similar > with a GUI? airsnort seems to be discontinued. What is iw for? iw - show / manipulate wireless devices and their configuration Usage: iw [options] command Options: --debug enable netlink debugging --version show version Commands: help event list phy info dev set channel [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] phy set channel [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] dev set freq [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] phy set freq [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] phy set name dev set meshid dev set monitor [...] dev info dev del dev interface add type [mesh_id ] [flags ...] phy interface add type [mesh_id ] [flags ...] dev station dump dev station set plink_action dev station del dev station get dev mpath dump dev mpath set next_hop dev mpath new next_hop dev mpath del dev mpath get reg set dev get mesh_param dev set mesh_param >>> >>> Are we talking about the same thing? >>> >>> iw: "nl80211 userspace tool for use with aircrack-ng" >>> >>> - Grant >> >> Yes, it was installed as a dep of aircrack-ng. >> >> Paul > > I've got aircrack-ng installed and I get: > > # emerge -pv iw > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > Calculating dependencies... done! > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "net-wireless/iw" have been masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: > - net-wireless/iw-0.9.7 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) > - net-wireless/iw-0_p20080605 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) > > - Grant I'm using ~amd64 and emerged net-wireless/aircrack-ng-1.0_rc1 which pulled in net-wireless/iw-0.9.7 as a dependency. Actually the aircrack-ng fails to build but that's irrelevant :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode
>> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into >> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley >> > on my network in wireshark? >> >> ifconfig eth1 promisc >> >> But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode >> automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same. >> >> > > Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package: > > airmon-ng start wlan0 Thanks everyone. I didn't realize it but monitor mode is what I'm after. aircrack-ng looks interesting too. Is there something similar with a GUI? airsnort seems to be discontinued. What is iw for? >>> >>> iw - show / manipulate wireless devices and their configuration >>> >>> Usage: iw [options] command >>> Options: >>>--debug enable netlink debugging >>>--version show version >>> Commands: >>>help >>>event >>>list >>>phy info >>>dev set channel [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] >>>phy set channel [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] >>>dev set freq [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] >>>phy set freq [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] >>>phy set name >>>dev set meshid >>>dev set monitor [...] >>>dev info >>>dev del >>>dev interface add type [mesh_id >>> ] [flags ...] >>>phy interface add type [mesh_id >>> ] [flags ...] >>>dev station dump >>>dev station set plink_action >>>dev station del >>>dev station get >>>dev mpath dump >>>dev mpath set next_hop >>> >>>dev mpath new next_hop >>> >>>dev mpath del >>>dev mpath get >>>reg set >>>dev get mesh_param >>>dev set mesh_param >> >> Are we talking about the same thing? >> >> iw: "nl80211 userspace tool for use with aircrack-ng" >> >> - Grant > > Yes, it was installed as a dep of aircrack-ng. > > Paul I've got aircrack-ng installed and I get: # emerge -pv iw These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "net-wireless/iw" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - net-wireless/iw-0.9.7 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) - net-wireless/iw-0_p20080605 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) - Grant
[gentoo-user] Re: [urgent] X11 fails after reboot (using a new X11)
Helmut Jarausch igpm.rwth-aachen.de> writes: > Thanks for all your help, > I'm trying to find the source of the problem, Depending on your video setup, you may need to recompile the video driver (nvidia-drivers or ati-drivers). I'm not sure what all change on your last update Also look at the X log files to see what's going on: /var/log/Xorg.0.log your xorg.conf file may have been altered? I always save a spare copy, with an appended dated, particulary if I read about something and noodle with with xorg.conf. just a few ideas, James
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...
Just following up - for anyone searching the archives - the bug report mentioned below did solve the problem. When I had added the acpid to the default run-level, I had not restarted hald before starting it, thus the script didn't get called. Any how...it now works excellently. I use radeontool to turn off the screen, and it works without having to know about X. I also send out a message via D-Bus to the KDE Desktop to initiate the screen saver on close, and turn it off on open. (I ignore the password side of the screen saver, but you can honor that too if you like). Thanks for the help all! Ben - Original Message From: BRM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 12:59:55 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close... Cool. Thanks. That looks like it should solve the issue. Ben - Original Message From: Gregory SACRE To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 11:32:32 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close... I've googled a bit and found these two things: [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/175464 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/51591 They both refer to problems with hald and acpid entering in conflict. Check if you are using hald. If you are, try stopping it and starting acpid to see if it still gives you the problem. Concerning the fact that the script isn't called, you have to check in your /etc/acpi/event/default. Make sure that you have lines such as: event=.* action=/etc/acpi/default.sh %e Basically, it says that for any event handled by acpi, launch /etc/acpi/default.sh. And in /etc/acpi/default.sh, check for the "lid" event. It should look like this: [...] case "$group" in [...] lid) /etc/acpi/screen_off.sh > /tmp/screen_off 2>&1 [...] where screen_off.sh is the script I sent you in my previous mail. HTH, Greg On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:58 AM, BRM wrote: > For some reason, the script is not getting called when I press the button. > > That is not to say that the system doesn't recognize it - if I set KDE to put > the system in stand-by when the lid is closed, it very well will. But as I > said earlier, that's not what I want - I just want to turn on/off the monitor. > > I know kacpid is running...but I don't think acpid is...at least, when I > tried /etc/init.d/acpid start it complained: > > * Starting acpid ... > acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy > > Ben > > > > - Original Message > From: Gregory SACRE > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 2:57:31 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close... > > This is the script I am using. It is spawned by the default.sh from /etc/acpi: > > -- SCRIPT START -- > # default display on current host > export XAUTHORITY="/home//.Xauthority" > DISPLAY=:0.0 > > # find out if monitor is on > STATUS=`cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state` > logger "monitor: $STATUS" > > # find out if DPMS is enabled > DPMS=`xset -display $DISPLAY -q | grep -e 'DPMS is'` > logger "dpms: $DPMS" > > # enable DPMS if disabled > if [ "$DPMS" == " DPMS is Disabled" ] > then >logger "Enabling DPMS ..." >xset -display $DISPLAY +dpms > fi > > if [ `echo $STATUS | grep -i closed | wc -l` -eq 1 ] > then >logger "[`date`] Turning display OFF" >xset -display $DISPLAY dpms force off > else >logger "[`date`] Turning display ON" # shows up in log >xset -display $DISPLAY dpms force on# turn monitor on >xset -display $DISPLAY s activate # un-blank monitor > fi > > #clean up > unset STATUS > unset DPMS > > # comment this line out if you're manually running this script from a > shell (put a # in front of it) > unset DISPLAY > > exit 0 > -- SCRIPT STOP -- > > Change the variable. > I had also to set xscreensaver to switch off my monitor instead of > blanking it, because I think (not sure) that xscreensaver was > switching on my monitor when it was supposed to start the screensaver > (as after a while, my monitor was switched back on, and as I didn't > see that happening since my xscreensaver modification, I can only > assume that was the problem). > > > HTH, > > Greg > > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Joshua Murphy wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:24 PM, BRM wrote: >>> I'm running a Dell D600, and I've located a number of tools for it but I am >>> not seeing anything related to when I close the lid. Since I got Gentoo >>> running on it, the Monitor continues running when I close the lid. >>> >>> I've found several sources for doing something as an ACPI event, which >>> seems to be the right method. I can toggle the button with the lid open and >>> cat /etc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state and see it change between 'open' and >>> 'closed'; and I know I could write myself a little script do something lik
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: Emerge of ksysguard and ksmserver failed
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 29 Januar 2009, Tomas Linhart wrote: > > >> Before I start again - what is "the right order" for emerging the qt >> packages? >> > > I am not sure anymore - if you look into the ebuilds you should be able to > see > it. > > > I would --oneshot with them all on one line and let portage figure out the order of things. emerge -1va qt-* kdelibs etc etc and then let portage decide which should be emerged first. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Grant wrote: > > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into > > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley > > on my network in wireshark? > > ifconfig eth1 promisc > > But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode > automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same. > > Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package: airmon-ng start wlan0 >>> >>> Thanks everyone. I didn't realize it but monitor mode is what I'm >>> after. aircrack-ng looks interesting too. Is there something similar >>> with a GUI? airsnort seems to be discontinued. What is iw for? >> >> iw - show / manipulate wireless devices and their configuration >> >> Usage: iw [options] command >> Options: >>--debug enable netlink debugging >>--version show version >> Commands: >>help >>event >>list >>phy info >>dev set channel [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] >>phy set channel [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] >>dev set freq [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] >>phy set freq [HT20|HT40+|HT40-] >>phy set name >>dev set meshid >>dev set monitor [...] >>dev info >>dev del >>dev interface add type [mesh_id >> ] [flags ...] >>phy interface add type [mesh_id >> ] [flags ...] >>dev station dump >>dev station set plink_action >>dev station del >>dev station get >>dev mpath dump >>dev mpath set next_hop >> >>dev mpath new next_hop >> >>dev mpath del >>dev mpath get >>reg set >>dev get mesh_param >>dev set mesh_param > > Are we talking about the same thing? > > iw: "nl80211 userspace tool for use with aircrack-ng" > > - Grant Yes, it was installed as a dep of aircrack-ng. Paul
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: Emerge of ksysguard and ksmserver failed
Everything is going fine now. The problem was that /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtWebKit.so.4 was symlinked to QtWebkit 4.5 library and that was the reason why some symbols could not be found. After correcting the symlink the problem disappeared. However, it seems strange to me, because I have tried and later uninstalled qt 4.5 more than 14 days before and I have not found any other files that belong to qt 4.5 on my system, only /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtWebKit.so.4.5 was there. Thanks everyone who helped me. Tomas
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: Emerge of ksysguard and ksmserver failed
On Donnerstag 29 Januar 2009, Tomas Linhart wrote: > Before I start again - what is "the right order" for emerging the qt > packages? I am not sure anymore - if you look into the ebuilds you should be able to see it.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: Emerge of ksysguard and ksmserver failed
On Donnerstag 29 Januar 2009, Tomas Linhart wrote: > Before I start again - what is "the right order" for emerging the qt > packages? I am not sure anymore - if you look into the ebuilds you should be able to see it.
Re: [gentoo-user] Disable xterm scroll-to-bottom and auto scrolling
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 20:50:16 David Sveningsson wrote: > Hi, I disabled xterm scroll-to-bottom using -si but it is pretty much > useless since the output keeps scrolling anyway. I would like to be able > to scroll freely in the terminal output without any interfering > automatic scrolling. Like Terminal.app in Mac OSX. I've tried reading > the manual and googled a bit but I couldn't find anything. Is it > possible? In KDE, if you use the mouse to scroll up the Konsole display while a program is still updating it. the text gets added to the bit of the display you can't see; the only visible effect is the thumb moving up the scroll bar. At least, my box does that; it may depend on telling Konsole to allow flow control with -Q and -S, which I like to have as well. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Network access to mysql
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 16:25:16 AllenJB wrote: > Check the bind-address setting in /etc/my.cnf - if this is 127.0.0.1 > then no other machines will be able to connect to the mysql server. To > listen on all available interfaces, this setting should be "0.0.0.0" or > unset. That was it - thanks. I'll raise a document bug to have this added to the MySQL startup guide, which talks gaily of connecting to various hosts, but not how to make that possible. > Also check that skip-networking is not enabled. It's disabled by default, and I knew I didn't want to enable it. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:19:45 +0100, Sebastian Günther wrote: > doesn't > > emerge --skipfirst > > ring any bell? Or even emerge --keep-going if you want to take that route. -- Neil Bothwick CPU: (n.) acronym for Central Purging Unit. A device which discards or distorts data sent to it, sometimes returning more data and sometimes merely over-heating. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?
* Miernik (pub...@public.miernik.name) [29.01.09 11:09]: > > Well, it could take days, weeks, or more before the bug report is taken > care of, and I don't want to wait with my upgrade of the rest of the > system. > doesn't emerge --skipfirst ring any bell? HTH Sebastian -- " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " Karl Marx s...@sti@N GÜNTHER mailto:sam...@guenther-roetgen.de pgpeCFH1Jyqrl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode
Dominic Kexel wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:23:12 -0800 > Grant wrote: > > > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley > on my network in wireshark? > ifconfig eth1 promisc But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same. >>> Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package: >>> >>> airmon-ng start wlan0 >>> >> I can't get that to work. I get: >> >> # airmon-ng start wlan0 >> InterfaceChipset Driver >> wlan3ath5k_pci - [phy0] >> wlan0Ralink 2573 USB rt73usb - [phy1]/usr/sbin/airmon-ng: >> line 338: >> /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface: No such file or directory >> mon0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device >> (monitor mode enabled on mon0) >> >> It looks like I'm supposed to have /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface >> which isn't there. I've tried with net.wlan0 started and stopped. >> >> - Grant >> > > Your driver has to support monitor-mode. > I am using an Atheros-based internal WiFi-card and an Alpha-USB-WiFi-device > with Realtek-Chip. The drivers I used a while ago needed a patch to work with > monitor-mode, but the recent drivers don't. Take a look at the driver-section > on the aircrack-ng homepage. Maybe your driver needs to be patched. > > > I'm using the same chipset with the same driver (ath5_pci with phy0), and my card can go into monitor mode. I'm wondering if you are using the driver compiled into the kernel or madwifi-ng drivers.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:23:12 -0800 Grant wrote: > >> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into > >> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley > >> > on my network in wireshark? > >> > >> ifconfig eth1 promisc > >> > >> But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode > >> automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same. > >> > >> > > > > Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package: > > > > airmon-ng start wlan0 > > I can't get that to work. I get: > > # airmon-ng start wlan0 > Interface Chipset Driver > wlan3 ath5k_pci - [phy0] > wlan0 Ralink 2573 USB rt73usb - [phy1]/usr/sbin/airmon-ng: line 338: > /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface: No such file or directory > mon0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device > (monitor mode enabled on mon0) > > It looks like I'm supposed to have /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface > which isn't there. I've tried with net.wlan0 started and stopped. > > - Grant Your driver has to support monitor-mode. I am using an Atheros-based internal WiFi-card and an Alpha-USB-WiFi-device with Realtek-Chip. The drivers I used a while ago needed a patch to work with monitor-mode, but the recent drivers don't. Take a look at the driver-section on the aircrack-ng homepage. Maybe your driver needs to be patched. -- Dominic Kexel
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode
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Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] X11 fails after reboot (using a new X11)
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:41:37 -0600, Dale wrote: > Another option, put FEATURES="buildpkg" in make.conf so it does it > automatically. No need, it's an 8 core machine. Recompiling the old version takes less time than asking fr help :) -- Neil Bothwick To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] X11 fails after reboot (using a new X11)
Justin wrote: > Neil Bothwick schrieb: > >> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:01:18 +0100, Justin wrote: >> >> >>> Never test packages if it is urgent to recover a working state, ;)! >>> >> Or, at the very least, use quickpkg on the working version first. >> >> >> > > Yeah , let's put our fingers together in his wounds!! :=) > > Another option, put FEATURES="buildpkg" in make.conf so it does it automatically. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] X11 fails after reboot (using a new X11)
On 29 Jan, Justin wrote: > Neil Bothwick schrieb: >> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:01:18 +0100, Justin wrote: >> >>> Never test packages if it is urgent to recover a working state, ;)! >> >> Or, at the very least, use quickpkg on the working version first. >> >> > > Yeah , let's put our fingers together in his wounds!! :=) > Why is GenToo so good that it works MOST of the time? The snag here is that the change became visible pnly after rebooting or restarting X11, at least. But there were some long running applications on this 8-core machine, so I couldn't try. Thanks for all your help, I'm trying to find the source of the problem, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] X11 fails after reboot (using a new X11)
Neil Bothwick schrieb: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:01:18 +0100, Justin wrote: > >> Never test packages if it is urgent to recover a working state, ;)! > > Or, at the very least, use quickpkg on the working version first. > > Yeah , let's put our fingers together in his wounds!! :=) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] X11 fails after reboot (using a new X11)
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[gentoo-user] Re: how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?
Man Shankar wrote: > On 20:41 Wed 28 Jan , momesso.and...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I think that if emerge =x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 fails, you should file a >> bug before masking it. Well, it could take days, weeks, or more before the bug report is taken care of, and I don't want to wait with my upgrade of the rest of the system. > +1 > > FWIW, have been using that version for about 10 days. Works great here. > What is the error you get? I did, read here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256641 Thanks for anwsers, masking worked.
Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] X11 fails after reboot (using a new X11)
Helmut Jarausch schrieb:
> On 29 Jan, Justin wrote:
>> Helmut Jarausch schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> after reboot X11 fails with
>>> (II) Initializing extension GLX
>>> (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null))
>>>
>>> I have
>>> x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4
>>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r1
>>> installed on a x86-64 machine.
>>>
>>> Has anybody an idea what's going on?
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your help,
>>> Helmut.
>>>
>> Can give some more infos please, USE etc?
>>
> Installed versions: 1.5.3-r1(09:46:41 01/29/09)(hal input_devices_evdev
> input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 nptl sdl video_cards_nv xorg
> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.22
>
if you are using the closed source drivers, you should add nvidia
instead of nv to your ${VIDEO_CARDS} in the make.conf
> I vaguely remember having removed the 'hal' use flag for some time.
> Now, I have reinstalled x11-base/xorg-server after adding 'hal' to my
> /etc/make.conf
be sure the hald is running before starting the X.
> But probably there are further x11 packages which need to be reemerged.
>
> But on an another machine I'm running these x11 versions without 'hal'.
> So, there must be a different cause of the problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Helmut.
>
>
Never test packages if it is urgent to recover a working state, ;)!
P.s. past your xorg.conf, just to be sure that there is now problem
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Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] X11 fails after reboot (using a new X11)
Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 29 Jan, Justin wrote: > >> Helmut Jarausch schrieb: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> after reboot X11 fails with >>> (II) Initializing extension GLX >>> (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null)) >>> >>> I have >>> x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4 >>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r1 >>> installed on a x86-64 machine. >>> >>> Has anybody an idea what's going on? >>> >>> Many thanks for your help, >>> Helmut. >>> >>> >> Can give some more infos please, USE etc? >> >> > Installed versions: 1.5.3-r1(09:46:41 01/29/09)(hal input_devices_evdev > input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 nptl sdl video_cards_nv xorg > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.22 > > I vaguely remember having removed the 'hal' use flag for some time. > Now, I have reinstalled x11-base/xorg-server after adding 'hal' to my > /etc/make.conf > But probably there are further x11 packages which need to be reemerged. > > But on an another machine I'm running these x11 versions without 'hal'. > So, there must be a different cause of the problem. > > Thanks, > Helmut. > > > Maybe try emerge -uvDNp world and see if the USE flags are changed. If they have, remove the p and let it rebuild. The -N is the big part here. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Patching of ebuilds
Also check the page where you found the patch carefully. Sometimes you can find an updated ebuild that works with that patch in the same page, so you don't have to patch it yourself. You need to examine the patch and clear up whether it's a patch for the app or for the ebuild itself. If it's a patch for the ebuild you just need to copy the ebuild into an overlay and patch it. But if it's a patch for the app you need to modify the ebuild so it applies the patch to the app after unpacking it and before compiling. This is the official documentation about how to correctly alter the portage tree so you don't mess up anything. Either way you need to create an overlay. That's for sure. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=5 -- Jesús Guerrero
Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] X11 fails after reboot (using a new X11)
On 29 Jan, Justin wrote: > Helmut Jarausch schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> after reboot X11 fails with >> (II) Initializing extension GLX >> (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null)) >> >> I have >> x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4 >> x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r1 >> installed on a x86-64 machine. >> >> Has anybody an idea what's going on? >> >> Many thanks for your help, >> Helmut. >> > Can give some more infos please, USE etc? > Installed versions: 1.5.3-r1(09:46:41 01/29/09)(hal input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 nptl sdl video_cards_nv xorg x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.22 I vaguely remember having removed the 'hal' use flag for some time. Now, I have reinstalled x11-base/xorg-server after adding 'hal' to my /etc/make.conf But probably there are further x11 packages which need to be reemerged. But on an another machine I'm running these x11 versions without 'hal'. So, there must be a different cause of the problem. Thanks, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] X11 fails after reboot (using a new X11)
Helmut Jarausch schrieb: > Hi, > > after reboot X11 fails with > (II) Initializing extension GLX > (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null)) > > I have > x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4 > x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r1 > installed on a x86-64 machine. > > Has anybody an idea what's going on? > > Many thanks for your help, > Helmut. > Can give some more infos please, USE etc? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] [urgent] X11 fails after reboot (using a new X11)
Hi, after reboot X11 fails with (II) Initializing extension GLX (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null)) I have x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4 x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r1 installed on a x86-64 machine. Has anybody an idea what's going on? Many thanks for your help, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] Patching of ebuilds
Andrew Lowe schrieb: > Hi all, > I've had a look on the web but can't seem to find any instructions > on how to do the patching of ebuilds. I have the situation where I've > tried to install the media centre app MMSV2. I've done the emerge, a lot > of dependent functionality was compiled and now it's up to compiling the > actual MMSV2. When compiling, an error happens. I had a look in > bugs.gentoo.org and there is a bug in there that covers, I think, the > failure. > > Attached to the bug is a patch that someone has developed. I now > want to use this patch to patch the ebuild and see if it really does fix > the problem. My problem is that I don't know the actual steps needed to > do the patching. I know about the patch utility but I don't know where > the actual files are, and how I should do the patching so that Portage > does not view the patched files as corrupt and therefore won't do the > emerge. > > If someone can tell me how, or point me to a webpage that tells me > how, to do the patching it would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > Andrew > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Creating_an_Updated_Ebuild signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Patching of ebuilds
Hi all, I've had a look on the web but can't seem to find any instructions on how to do the patching of ebuilds. I have the situation where I've tried to install the media centre app MMSV2. I've done the emerge, a lot of dependent functionality was compiled and now it's up to compiling the actual MMSV2. When compiling, an error happens. I had a look in bugs.gentoo.org and there is a bug in there that covers, I think, the failure. Attached to the bug is a patch that someone has developed. I now want to use this patch to patch the ebuild and see if it really does fix the problem. My problem is that I don't know the actual steps needed to do the patching. I know about the patch utility but I don't know where the actual files are, and how I should do the patching so that Portage does not view the patched files as corrupt and therefore won't do the emerge. If someone can tell me how, or point me to a webpage that tells me how, to do the patching it would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Andrew
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: Emerge of ksysguard and ksmserver failed
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Tomas Linhart wrote: > 2009/1/29 Volker Armin Hemmann : >> >> re-emerge the qt packages in the right order. >> then emerge kdelibs again, then the rest. Stuff like this happens when qt is >> updated after kdelibs is built against it. >> > > Thanks for your answer. > > I not at my box just now so I will try that later today. But I have > re-emerge all qt packages and also kdelibs yesterday but I am not sure > in which order... > Before I start again - what is "the right order" for emerging the qt packages? > > Tomas I would assume that "the right order" is to emerge all the qt libraries, and then kdelibs? Regards Dirk
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: Emerge of ksysguard and ksmserver failed
2009/1/29 Volker Armin Hemmann : >> >> I tried to re-emerge qt-* packages but the error remains the same. >> >> Does somebody have a idea what could be wrong? > > re-emerge the qt packages in the right order. > then emerge kdelibs again, then the rest. Stuff like this happens when qt is > updated after kdelibs is built against it. > Thanks for your answer. I not at my box just now so I will try that later today. But I have re-emerge all qt packages and also kdelibs yesterday but I am not sure in which order... Before I start again - what is "the right order" for emerging the qt packages? Tomas
