Re: Laptop speedstep and wifi questions

2006-06-05 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 08:01 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: If you put together a patch, they may accept it upstream. They did for paldo. http://www.paldo.org/paldo/sources/NetworkManager/NetworkManager-0.6.2-paldo-2.patch.bz2 http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/NetworkManager/initscript/paldo/ That's

Re: Laptop speedstep and wifi questions

2006-06-05 Thread Justin The Cynical
Andrew Benton wrote: Justin The Cynical wrote: So far, I've been able to figure out most everything else on getting this Asus Z71V running like a top, but I'm having a bit of a time getting the speedstep stuff working. I've googled, but I must be blind as I'm really only finding info on

Re: ping command

2006-06-05 Thread Justin The Cynical
Randy McMurchy wrote: Naga Gangadhar Reddy wrote these words on 06/04/06 00:39 CST: I have install LFS. My pc is in a private lan. I can access internet through a proxy. But Iam unable to ping any web site using ping command in the terminal. Ensure you have valid DNS servers identified in

Re: OT: Mass Storage with cybershot

2006-06-05 Thread Carlos Eduardo de Brito Novaes
Actually, that's a thought. As far as I know, all Sony cameras support usb-storage, but they also support PTP - there's a menu option on the camera to switch between them. Possibly the camera is in PTP-mode, and thus needs to be changed to use storage instead? Thats also what I think

Gnome and libexec path

2006-06-05 Thread Peter B. Steiger
Finally the light dawned last night. I have tried to upgrade Gnome to 2.1x several times over the past six months and each time ran into missing icons or (the most frequent and annoying symptom) a broken address book that won't show my existing entries or allow me to add new ones. Somehow a

Re: Gnome and libexec path

2006-06-05 Thread Andrew Benton
Peter B. Steiger wrote: Why did you (blfs authors) write the Gnome section so as to put the libexec functions in a separate directory (e.g., /usr/gnome/lib/gnome-applets, /usr/gnome/lib/bonobo, etc.) rather than just one big /usr/gnome/lib/libexec? There was a discussion about it and the

Re: Gnome and libexec path

2006-06-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/5/06, Andrew Benton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter B. Steiger wrote: Why did you (blfs authors) write the Gnome section so as to put the libexec functions in a separate directory (e.g., /usr/gnome/lib/gnome-applets, /usr/gnome/lib/bonobo, etc.) rather than just one big

Re: Laptop speedstep and wifi questions

2006-06-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/5/06, Simon Geard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's my intention, although I want to test it a little more thoroughly first. Possibly a hint for LFS might be a good start, if anyone here wants to try it out? I wish I had a laptop. I'd love to give it a spin. I think Jeremy Utley uses

Re: Gnome and libexec path

2006-06-05 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 22:44 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: There was a discussion about it and the decision was to put libexec files for PACKAGE in /usr/lib/$PACKAGE http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2005-October/011808.html Domo arrigato! Glad to know I wasn't the only one

Re: iw statements how should I deal with them?

2006-06-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/5/06, Georgina Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To get a wireless connection up it is necessary to pass a number of arguements to iwconfig. I'm not sure what would be a neat and tidy way of doing this. I've found that if I call a script with the commands, there're not recognised.