Re: [gentoo-user] Sun java from source?
On Saturday 22 December 2007, Yahya Mohammad wrote: Apparently there are some bits in sun-jdk licensed from 3rd parties that are proprietary. Openjdk project is to replace the proprietary pieces to get a fully buildable open source java. However, there's already a project called IcedTea that combines the open parts of Java with GNU classpath to get a useable jdk. I found a package of it for one of my boxes running ubuntu, and it works fine. Maybe we should have an ebuild for it too.. Ah thanks, I wasn't aware of idectea. Yes, it seems that having it in gentoo would be a good idea. Thanks! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...
Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2007 schrieb Benjamen R. Meyer: I don't like using NFS much...guess I'll have to change that as I would like to centralize my server as a one-stop shop for usernames and passwords for the few systems on my network - server, desktop, and a laptop at present, but there will also be a few others shortly too. The laptop runs Windows 2k, so it'll just auth against Samba...any how...to get back to this issue... Did you think about using OpenAFS? I haven't played with LVM yet. It's been something that's intrigued me, but I haven't ever researched it much to play with it. What you guys propose above and in this thread is quite interesting, so I'll follow up with this question: Right now I have the server configured per drives as follows: /dev/hda1 / 3.8 GB 4096.19 MB /dev/hda2 /home 15.0 GB 15356.60 MB /dev/hda3 SWAP 2.6 GB 2665.00 MB /dev/hda4 /usr/local 4.9 GB 5255.96 MB /dev/hdb1 EMPTY 66.3 GB 67875.02 MB /dev/hdb2 /var/tmp28.0 GB 30721.43 MB /dev/hdb3 /usr/portage47.0 GB 51202.37 MB /dev/hdb4 SWAP10.0 GB 10240.48 MB Having the output of df would help a lot, because it shows how much space is already occupied on each filesystem. What about /usr/portage? If you have a broadband internet connection you don't need to care about it. It's only got a 192 MB of RAM - a PII/233, so I'm giving it generous swap space. (My desktop is an AMD64 with a gig of RAM.) I seem to have a sizable partition free (hdb1), so this just might work - but how would you guys propose I transition from the above setup to an LVM setup? All partitions are currently ext3 (my preferred fs for linux). Hmm, looks like hdb1 has enough space for all of hda. So you could just boot into a rescue CD (my recommendation: GRML), copy the stuff over, eventually revise fstab on hdb1 and boot from this partition (to make sure everything still wortks as before), then boot back into GRML and repartition hda and create logical volumes (as per my first reply), copy the stuff back, together with the remaining stuff from hdb, then repartition hdb and add it to the volume group. If you want a more detailed description of the steps above, you can mail me directly. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys
Am Mittwoch 19 Dezember 2007 16:58:25 schrieb YoYo Siska: Sascha Hlusiak wrote: I have this too when using vmware and it seems that somehow just the keymap screws up. I run kcontrol, activate the keyboard layout switcher (with 2 languages in it) and once it's activated I can deactivate it again (or switch the language back and forth). Then it works again. What about a simple setxkbmap us? (or other layout you are using) Does that help? (You might need to emerge setxkbmap... ;) It helps too. Thanks, Sascha signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Paludis newbie questions [was: Excellent Paludis interview]
On Saturday 22 December 2007 02:50:54 David Relson wrote: I'm experimenting with paludis. Seems fine, though a bit verbose and cryptic. Running paludis -i world produces: Unhandled exception: * In program paludis -i world: * When making environment from specification '': * When loading paludis configuration: * When reading use file '/etc/paludis/use.conf': * When adding source '/etc/paludis/use.conf' as a use file: * When validating use flag name '': * Name '' is not a valid use flag name (paludis::UseFlagNameError) [...] Apparently you have a use.conf entry with no use flag (which makes that entry invalid). Paludis is stricter than Portage so it won't just ignore invalid input. What am I missing that produces the unhandled exception and migrate to Paludis configuration messages? We've received rather few reports from people testing the portage environment so it hasn't had much testing. It also disables some features that are available when using the paludis environment. Hence the warning. -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?
On Dec 21, 2007 7:10 PM, Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:25:40 -0700 Jonathan Haws [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a really stupid question I know, but I want some second opinions: Should the mmx global USE flag be enabled on a Pentium 4 machine and why or why not? Yes, it should. (Multimedia) programs that support it, e.g. mplayer or gimp, will use it. Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein) If I remember correctly, flags like this are not recommended to enable. GCC can already pass the appropriate flags, such as MMX and SSE, to programs when compiling; the fact that this ebuild has optional use flags for this setting is a red flag, in my opinion. I would recommend researching possible problems you may have before building any programs with the MMX use flag. -- - Mark Shields
Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup
Hi, On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:08:26 -0500 Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I'm getting closer now. I removed the driver from the kernel, and installed ndiswrapper. I got the inf driver from a guy from realtek, and used ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf to install it. Now, when I run iwlist wlan0 scanning, I can actually see my access point listed, plus lots of other local wireless networks. That's good. It actually receives. connecting to it is a different matter, however, as the connection always appears to time out. I'm using iwconfig to manually set the ESSID, wep key etc. at the moment, and have tried the trick of setting the speed manually to 5.5M to avoid timeouts. When I try to run dhcpcd wlan0 the first time, I get Error, wlan0: timed out The second time I try to run it, I get an error because dhcpcd is already running. Try the minimal approach first and configure it manually using ifconfig/route and ping some host on your network (or the AP if it does IP). If that does not work, there's something wrong with the driver, if it does, the culprit is dhcpcd (vram USE flag?). Start with WEP, if that works switch to WPA. -hwh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop
On Friday 21 December 2007, Stroller wrote: On 21 Dec 2007, at 02:43, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-12-20, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: ... Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced bread . . . especially for files greater than 500MB. Not sure I've got many of these. A TV episode might well be 700meg. An HD TV episode might well be 7000meg. Well, I was just giving an example, replying specifically to Mick - if he doesn't have many 500meg files lying around, then he certainly doesn't have any 5000meg video files on his computer. Well, OK, I think I do have larger than 500M files on my system; just two: == # find / -size +500M /usr/portage/distfiles/SSTIC04-5k.zip /proc/kcore find: `/proc/12204/task/12204/fd/5': No such file or directory find: `/proc/12204/task/12204/fdinfo/5': No such file or directory find: `/proc/12204/fd/5': No such file or directory find: `/proc/12204/fdinfo/5': No such file or directory == and /usr/portage on this box is on XFS anyway. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?
Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I remember correctly, flags like this are not recommended to enable. GCC can already pass the appropriate flags, such as MMX and SSE, to programs when compiling; the fact that this ebuild has optional use flags for this setting is a red flag, in my opinion. I would recommend researching possible problems you may have before building any programs with the MMX use flag. The mmx (and sse, sse2 etc) use flags do not normally have anything to do with the gcc -mmmx etc flags. Normally in a configure for a package they will cause a optimised assembler to be included for certain functions rather than using 'generic' C code for them. In ebuilds the mmx USE flag normally selects these configure options when building the package, so (unlike using CFLAGS=-mmmx) are quite safe in most cases. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare server + Win 98 = VGA only?
On Saturday 22 December 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I did nothing to install the tools. I could not find them. There's an ebuild for workstation tools, but not for player or server. I didn't see anything helpful on the download page, or in the results from a query for tools on the VMWare web site. Nevertheless, I'm sure that since you ask, there's a simple way to find them that I just missed. I'm not near my VMs at the moment, but if memory serves: from the VMware Server menu bar, choose VM --Install VMware Tools while the guest is running. HTH, --James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup
On Saturday 22 December 2007 10:30:45 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I think I'm getting closer now. I removed the driver from the kernel, and installed ndiswrapper. I got the inf driver from a guy from realtek, and used ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf to install it. Now, when I run iwlist wlan0 scanning, I can actually see my access point listed, plus lots of other local wireless networks. That's good. It actually receives. connecting to it is a different matter, however, as the connection always appears to time out. I'm using iwconfig to manually set the ESSID, wep key etc. at the moment, and have tried the trick of setting the speed manually to 5.5M to avoid timeouts. When I try to run dhcpcd wlan0 the first time, I get Error, wlan0: timed out The second time I try to run it, I get an error because dhcpcd is already running. Try the minimal approach first and configure it manually using ifconfig/route and ping some host on your network (or the AP if it does IP). If that does not work, there's something wrong with the driver, if it does, the culprit is dhcpcd (vram USE flag?). Just to clarify, how would I ping a host on my network? I only have one other PC connected to the router. If that is not possible, due to wireless router firewall stealthing (I have a rather crash-prone Belkin wireless router at the moment), the next attempt would presumably be to ping the AP. If I have an AP MAC address, 00:15:E9:19:73:F2 (for example), how would I ping this? I have checked the dhcpcd install, and the vram USE flag is presently unset. Does this flag need to be set? Start with WEP, if that works switch to WPA. I've given up on WPA for now. If I can get WEP to work, I'll be happy at this point, though WPA operation would be the ultimate goal. Is ndiswrapper meant to work with the 2.6.23 kernel? I don't want to have to step down to an earlier kernel, as that causes problems with changing Xorg configurations, but I could go through the pain of this if it were strictly necessary. Thanks Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Kernel File not found
I just finished a re-install of my laptop to get multilib working and grub apparently can't find the kernel this time. I've tried grub and grub-static. I get this: root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot /kernel-2.6.22-hardened-r8 root: /dev/sda3 Error 15: File not found I'm using all of the config files that were working perfectly on the previous install. The only things out of the ordinary are: 1. I forgot to copy the kernel into the boot partition the first time I rebooted and got this same error. I booted the LiveCD again and copied it over after mounting /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda1. I thought for sure that would fix it but no. I've verified that the correctly named kernel file is in /mnt/gentoo/boot when /dev/sda1 is mounted. grub.conf is from my previous install and references the kernel file correctly. 2. I used -fforce-addr in make.conf this time even though I don't know what it does because it was included in the default make.conf. Any ideas? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: SNIP Thanks, I'll browse through these. It makes me wonder if the drives are sensitive to something. This seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company as Maxtor I wonder? I have been getting these errors for some time now. They pass the tests tho. You can run that with this: smartctl -t long /dev/hdX The X should be replaced with the correct drive or you may have to use sdX if you have SATA drives. After it gets done, which may take a while, you can get the results like this: smartctl -l selftest /dev/hdX. Replace the X again. Hope you get a good report. Mine passed. All the tests that I have run so far seem to pass: === # smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offlineCompleted without error 00% 5912 - # 2 Extended offlineCompleted without error 00% 1030 - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 1029 - # 4 Short offline Completed without error 00%49 - # 5 Short offline Completed without error 00%28 - # 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 - === It's about time I made a back up of this machine anyway. Thanks for your help. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?
On Saturday 22 December 2007, Graham Murray wrote: Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I remember correctly, flags like this are not recommended to enable. GCC can already pass the appropriate flags, such as MMX and SSE, to programs when compiling; the fact that this ebuild has optional use flags for this setting is a red flag, in my opinion. I would recommend researching possible problems you may have before building any programs with the MMX use flag. The mmx (and sse, sse2 etc) use flags do not normally have anything to do with the gcc -mmmx etc flags. Normally in a configure for a package they will cause a optimised assembler to be included for certain functions rather than using 'generic' C code for them. In ebuilds the mmx USE flag normally selects these configure options when building the package, so (unlike using CFLAGS=-mmmx) are quite safe in most cases. Hmm, does this mean I should remove my mmmx CFLAGS? I must have been running this lot for at least 2.5 years now and cannot say that I have seen any problems with them: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -mmmx -pipe -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup
On Saturday 22 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 10:30:45 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I think I'm getting closer now. I removed the driver from the kernel, and installed ndiswrapper. I got the inf driver from a guy from realtek, and used ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf to install it. Now, when I run iwlist wlan0 scanning, I can actually see my access point listed, plus lots of other local wireless networks. That's good. It actually receives. Yep, you're half way there. The radio communication part of the equation seems to be working. connecting to it is a different matter, however, as the connection always appears to time out. I'm using iwconfig to manually set the ESSID, wep key etc. at the moment, and have tried the trick of setting the speed manually to 5.5M to avoid timeouts. When I try to run dhcpcd wlan0 the first time, I get Error, wlan0: timed out The second time I try to run it, I get an error because dhcpcd is already running. Try to kill it first (dhcpcd -k) and then re-run it. I would run with defaults (re. channel, speed, etc.) and perhaps only add a small delay in your /etc/conf.d/net to allow the device to come up: sleep_scan_wlan0=1 Try the minimal approach first and configure it manually using ifconfig/route and ping some host on your network (or the AP if it does IP). If that does not work, there's something wrong with the driver, if it does, the culprit is dhcpcd (vram USE flag?). Just to clarify, how would I ping a host on my network? I only have one other PC connected to the router. You use the LAN IP address of the router/host. I don't know what options Belkin gives you, can you turn on responses to pings (ICMP packet requests) both on the router and on the other PC? If that is not possible, due to wireless router firewall stealthing (I have a rather crash-prone Belkin wireless router at the moment), the next attempt would presumably be to ping the AP. If I have an AP MAC address, 00:15:E9:19:73:F2 (for example), how would I ping this? You could use arping (net-analyzer/arping) - but that assumes that the router accepts broadcast messages. I have checked the dhcpcd install, and the vram USE flag is presently unset. Does this flag need to be set? Well, it may need to be set depending on your router. Certain dhcpcd server implementations won't play nicely with the latest stable version of the dhcpcd client and you end up getting time outs and no IP address. Re-emerging with vram USE flag set solves this problem. Manually setting up an available/suitable static LAN IP address may also work (e.g. ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.2). Start with WEP, if that works switch to WPA. I've given up on WPA for now. If I can get WEP to work, I'll be happy at this point, though WPA operation would be the ultimate goal. Is ndiswrapper meant to work with the 2.6.23 kernel? I don't want to have to step down to an earlier kernel, as that causes problems with changing Xorg configurations, but I could go through the pain of this if it were strictly necessary. ndiswrapper works fine with this kernel. I would start with the dhcpcd vram flag to take this time out problem out of the equation and then I would edit the /etc/conf.d/net to set up all necessary parameters instead of having to enter everything via iwconfig at the command line. This will also minimise the chance of typos at the CLI. Following a process of elimination I would start with no encryption whatsoever at the router and if it works I would then gradually add WEP and finally WAP. PS. Assuming you get ndiswrapper going you can retry the in-kernel driver in future versions as it is likely that more and more devices will be added. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Paludis newbie questions [was: Excellent Paludis interview]
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:41:22 +0100 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 02:50:54 David Relson wrote: I'm experimenting with paludis. Seems fine, though a bit verbose and cryptic. Running paludis -i world produces: Unhandled exception: * In program paludis -i world: * When making environment from specification '': * When loading paludis configuration: * When reading use file '/etc/paludis/use.conf': * When adding source '/etc/paludis/use.conf' as a use file: * When validating use flag name '': * Name '' is not a valid use flag name (paludis::UseFlagNameError) [...] Apparently you have a use.conf entry with no use flag (which makes that entry invalid). Paludis is stricter than Portage so it won't just ignore invalid input. What am I missing that produces the unhandled exception and migrate to Paludis configuration messages? We've received rather few reports from people testing the portage environment so it hasn't had much testing. It also disables some features that are available when using the paludis environment. Hence the warning. Hi Bo, As I'm a paludis newbie and as it allows a multitude of settings, I used portage2paludis.bash to create /etc/paludis/use.conf. Whatever is missing from use.conf is a combination of my ignorance and the script. A copy of use.conf is attached. Regards, David use.conf Description: Binary data
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel File not found
Grant wrote: I just finished a re-install of my laptop to get multilib working and grub apparently can't find the kernel this time. I've tried grub and grub-static. I get this: root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot /kernel-2.6.22-hardened-r8 root: /dev/sda3 Error 15: File not found I'm using all of the config files that were working perfectly on the previous install. The only things out of the ordinary are: 1. I forgot to copy the kernel into the boot partition the first time I rebooted and got this same error. I booted the LiveCD again and copied it over after mounting /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda1. I thought for sure that would fix it but no. I've verified that the correctly named kernel file is in /mnt/gentoo/boot when /dev/sda1 is mounted. grub.conf is from my previous install and references the kernel file correctly. 2. I used -fforce-addr in make.conf this time even though I don't know what it does because it was included in the default make.conf. Any ideas? - Grant When the grub menu comes up, hit e twice and then try to use tab completion to find it and the arrow keys to navigate. That may help. Tab completion works like it does in a console. Sort of neat really. I hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages
Mick wrote: SNIP It's about time I made a back up of this machine anyway. Thanks for your help. LOL. I make a back-up of mine too. It never hurts to be safe. Dale :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel File not found
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:15:52 -0800, Grant wrote: Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot /kernel-2.6.22-hardened-r8 root: /dev/sda3 Error 15: File not found There should be no space between /boot and /kernel. -- Neil Bothwick Pepperami. Its a bit of an animal. What animal what bit? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:15:57 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, does this mean I should remove my mmmx CFLAGS? I must have been running this lot for at least 2.5 years now and cannot say that I have seen any problems with them: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -mmmx -pipe -march=pentium3 implies -msse and -mmmx, so removing them won't change anything. Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death
Be interested to hear from anyone else this has ever happened to. Maxim Do you mean the host PC shutsdown? And by sda1, do you mean you're installing to a NTFS partition and not to a virtual hard disk? Do I understand right that the installation of XP went OK but booting fails? Or are you trying to boot an installed XP from vmware? vmware hasn't even been merged yet. _Booting_ both OSes is OK. XP fails; gentoo does not. If I'm not mistaken XP has to at least work before vmware will. Anyway, my experience with such sudden failures were usually linked to either processor heat or Power Supply being not strong enough. But it was never linked to vmware. Thierry I'm guessing it's my video card, a Radeon 9250, not playing nice w/XP. As I said earlier the only thing installed was the video drivers. Both sets of XP drivers were tried, the ones that come with XP and the ATI ones that came on a CD with the card. When _no_ video drivers are installed the PC doesn't commit suicide. When either set of available XP drivers are tried the PC randomly dies. If it's the PS surely gentoo would fail as well since I run that(with the gentoo-ATI drivers BTW) for days on end without a problem running various players, merging software, moving files etc. Too much heat? Well, it was running hot as a matter of fact earlier before XP started to tank. The CPU was covered with thick brown dust but cleaning it out didn't help. To test my theory, today I ordered an nVidia Geforce vid card off eBay. I should know in a couple weeks how accurate the diagnosis ;) -mw Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] brltty
Can i install gentoo with braille support in the installation? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] brltty
Can i use braille support in gentoo installation? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup
-Original Message- From: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 22, 2007 2:01 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup On Saturday 22 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 10:30:45 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I think I'm getting closer now. I removed the driver from the kernel, and installed ndiswrapper. I got the inf driver from a guy from realtek, and used ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf to install it. Now, when I run iwlist wlan0 scanning, I can actually see my access point listed, plus lots of other local wireless networks. That's good. It actually receives. Yep, you're half way there. The radio communication part of the equation seems to be working. connecting to it is a different matter, however, as the connection always appears to time out. I'm using iwconfig to manually set the ESSID, wep key etc. at the moment, and have tried the trick of setting the speed manually to 5.5M to avoid timeouts. When I try to run dhcpcd wlan0 the first time, I get Error, wlan0: timed out The second time I try to run it, I get an error because dhcpcd is already running. Try to kill it first (dhcpcd -k) and then re-run it. I would run with defaults (re. channel, speed, etc.) and perhaps only add a small delay in your /etc/conf.d/net to allow the device to come up: sleep_scan_wlan0=1 Try the minimal approach first and configure it manually using ifconfig/route and ping some host on your network (or the AP if it does IP). If that does not work, there's something wrong with the driver, if it does, the culprit is dhcpcd (vram USE flag?). Just to clarify, how would I ping a host on my network? I only have one other PC connected to the router. You use the LAN IP address of the router/host. I don't know what options Belkin gives you, can you turn on responses to pings (ICMP packet requests) both on the router and on the other PC? If that is not possible, due to wireless router firewall stealthing (I have a rather crash-prone Belkin wireless router at the moment), the next attempt would presumably be to ping the AP. If I have an AP MAC address, 00:15:E9:19:73:F2 (for example), how would I ping this? You could use arping (net-analyzer/arping) - but that assumes that the router accepts broadcast messages. I have checked the dhcpcd install, and the vram USE flag is presently unset. Does this flag need to be set? Well, it may need to be set depending on your router. Certain dhcpcd server implementations won't play nicely with the latest stable version of the dhcpcd client and you end up getting time outs and no IP address. Re-emerging with vram USE flag set solves this problem. Manually setting up an available/suitable static LAN IP address may also work (e.g. ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.2). Start with WEP, if that works switch to WPA. I've given up on WPA for now. If I can get WEP to work, I'll be happy at this point, though WPA operation would be the ultimate goal. Is ndiswrapper meant to work with the 2.6.23 kernel? I don't want to have to step down to an earlier kernel, as that causes problems with changing Xorg configurations, but I could go through the pain of this if it were strictly necessary. ndiswrapper works fine with this kernel. I would start with the dhcpcd vram flag to take this time out problem out of the equation and then I would edit the /etc/conf.d/net to set up all necessary parameters instead of having to enter everything via iwconfig at the command line. This will also minimise the chance of typos at the CLI. Following a process of elimination I would start with no encryption whatsoever at the router and if it works I would then gradually add WEP and finally WAP. PS. Assuming you get ndiswrapper going you can retry the in-kernel driver in future versions as it is likely that more and more devices will be added. HTH. -- Regards, Mick I tried recompiling with the vram USE flag set in dhcpcd, but that didn't help. I then uninstalled ndiswrapper, and installed the modified rtl8187 driver from http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2007/09/26/no-more-vista. SUCCESS!! :-D Finally, I have a working wireless card. I've not tried WPA yet, but WEP definitely works. It isn't quite perfect, as knetworkmanager can't recognise the connection, and i haven't quite figured out how to implement the required startup script to run automatically, but it's up, and only requires a single root user command to execute. Jeff I think I'll give it a couple of kernels and see if the built-in RTL driver improves. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] brltty
I don't know if it's still the case, but I know a couple of years ago the LiveCDs supported speakup. I assume they still do; I got the impression at the time that this was considered quite cool. Stroller. On 22 Dec 2007, at 23:58, mattias wrote: Can i install gentoo with braille support in the installation? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare server + Win 98 = VGA only?
On 12/22/07, James R. Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I did nothing to install the tools. I could not find them. There's an ebuild for workstation tools, but not for player or server. I didn't see anything helpful on the download page, or in the results from a query for tools on the VMWare web site. Nevertheless, I'm sure that since you ask, there's a simple way to find them that I just missed. I'm not near my VMs at the moment, but if memory serves: from the VMware Server menu bar, choose VM --Install VMware Tools while the guest is running. Yep, that did it. Thanks. ++ kevin HTH, --James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
[gentoo-user] renaming of the 'gimli' SVN repo
This email probably isn't necessary, and most people won't care about this. However, sending it was one of robbat2's terms for renaming this SVN repo, so here it is :P The current repo name 'gimli' was the original name of the project a long time ago. The name of the project is now Scire, and we've gotten tired of looking at the old repo name. If you have this repo checked out, you can either check it out again, or use one of the following commands: svn switch --relocate svn+ssh://svn.gentoo.org/var/svnroot/gimli svn+ssh://svn.gentoo.org/var/svnroot/scire (for devs) OR svn switch --relocate http://anonsvn.gentoo.org/repositories/gimli http://anonsvn.gentoo.org/repositories/scire (for users of anonsvn) Thanks. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death
On Sunday 23 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote: vmware hasn't even been merged yet. _Booting_ both OSes is OK. XP fails; gentoo does not. If I'm not mistaken XP has to at least work before vmware will. (...) I'm guessing it's my video card, a Radeon 9250 You are right that XP should work - or you can install it on a virtual machine. I am not sure what advantages you get from running vmware from a partition (unless of course you also want to dual boot). My experience with video card is: stick with Nvidia as long as AMD/ATI hasn't cured the driver problems - however this is a Linux advice! You are correct about the psu and probably right about the card. It may be a card vs board problem (I had a motherboard that just would not stand a Nvidia 6600GT, however it locked, it did not shutdown). I'm afraid I can't help more as far as Windows is concerned: the latest version I booted from HD was 3.1 and the latest I run in vmware is 2000. Good luck, Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
