RE: firmware hotplug kernel 2.6.15 ? (solution? 2.6.14?)

2006-01-16 Thread David Fix
No, of course I had not. No one instruction has told me.to do. I am really _getting_mad ! I am used to work on research and development., but this is a very hard case of try and error approach. Nevertheless, please continue helping, I will return efforts writing a hint for this terrible

RE: firmware hotplug kernel 2.6.15 ?

2006-01-12 Thread David Fix
just for the sake of learning: if I take of the cable out of my eth0-card from the PC, I get inmediately the message: eth0: link down.Or after reconnecting, eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full duplex, lpa 0x41E1. Up to now, I thought, that the ability of the system to recognize the behaviour of a

RE: Unscrambling .. much later... C question

2005-11-09 Thread David Fix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: char c; if (c == ',' || c == ':' || c == ':') as it always passes as true. Then it folds the line in some specious way and I lose three letters. I did try going to the hex code if (c == '0x3b' || c == '0x3a' || c == '0x2c') and gcc got really annoyed with

RE: Unscrambling Files - some progress

2005-11-05 Thread David Fix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kids are useful for something. I got my young fresher windows kiddie to apply his (little) knowledge of C to your file. We got it compiled, but it keeps throwing Damn, couldn't open input file! errors. It can open the input file. It's this bit /* Make this

RE: Unscrambling Files - some progress

2005-11-04 Thread David Fix
There is an indent program, is there? Good . I'll go after it. Thanks very much for the effort in the above example. It's a pity I'm illiterate in C. I'll try it. The max line lingth I see. Where do I set the indent? Yeah, it should just be called indent. :) Um... In that program

RE: about the nfs-server script

2005-10-27 Thread David Fix
if pidof nfsd 21 /dev/null ; then { rpc.nfsd -- 0 sleep 1 if pidof nfsd 21 /dev/null ; then { echo_failure boot_mesg Killing NFS nfsd...

RE: openssh closes connection after username is sent

2005-10-26 Thread David Fix
Not everybody builds SVN. Bah! Yellowbellies! Dave ;) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

RE: Open Office 1.1.5 Fails to Configure

2005-10-22 Thread David Fix
undefined symbol: _Z16XineramaIsActiveP9_XDisplay This is a problem with your headers, add 'extern C {' and '}' around '#include X11/extensions/Xinerama.h, and then build through libvcl644li.so. However, I have no clue how to decipher this. Does it mean to put this sequence in the

tkinfo

2005-09-30 Thread David Fix
I just thought I'd mention... For those who are intimidated by the info command... There's tkinfo, which I just discovered today, and it takes all the frustration out of the info command. :) Very nice, and easy to install too! :) More information can be found at:

RE: A question about house keeping

2005-09-15 Thread David Fix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:50:46PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: On the line xterm -g 80x40+0+0 , what is -g for? TIA This question troubles me. In your massive bombardment of the lfs and blfs support lists for several weeks, has no one mentioned the use of man for

fping problem on SVN-20050730

2005-09-12 Thread David Fix
Hey folks, just wondering if anyone has used fping (http://www.fping.com) successfully with LFS? I'm running LFS SVN-20050730, and when I install fping 2.4b2_to-ipv6 (I tried 2.4b2, but had problems compiling it due to a problem with aclocal and/or automake, which I have no idea about!). I

RE: fping problem on SVN-20050730

2005-09-12 Thread David Fix
I'm kind of stymied, and would appreciate any assistance or cluebats anyone can throw at me. :) Bah humbug. ;) *throws cluebat at self* After a bit of debugging (inserting spurious statements like printf(check 1\n); etc) in the code, I found out that it's trying to use IPv6 sockets.

RE: fping problem on SVN-20050730

2005-09-12 Thread David Fix
Dave, they made it easy. Use ./configure options --cache-file=Dave.txt Then go through Dave.txt, and send us the lowdown. Exact error please. Thanks Declan, but with a bit of looking through the source file, I just removed this line from fping.c: #define IPV6 1

RE: NTP bootscript

2005-09-12 Thread David Fix
Here is a generic method to implement a timeout in BASH. SNIP NICE! *applause* Dave -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

RE: Multicard readers and xd-format [solved]

2005-09-05 Thread David Fix
So I went hunting through the /dev/sd{a,b,c} devices where I found the xd card residing on /dev/sdc. I was then able to mount and read it. Ah, so that *is* how it works... that was a lucky guess then. I'll have to remember that, since a new monitor I'm looking at getting includes a

RE: user package hint gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread David Fix
The final error that breaks the install is at the moment /bin/chmod: cannot access `/usr/share/gnome/help/fish-applet-2/C/*.xml': No such file or directory. And I'm too frustrated to look into it :-( Any helpful ideas? Thanks in advance and sorry for 'flooding' the list with help

RE: Firefox error to install

2005-08-15 Thread David Fix
Hope that helps. I always went into the debugger thinking I was going to get my problems figured out. But then reality set in that I don't know programming and I was just guessing at what all the odd calls were trying to do. Heheheh. :) I've been programming (C/C++) for about 9

RE: Firefox error to install

2005-08-14 Thread David Fix
Hi everyone! There was not any error to install it. When the BLFS 6.0 asks to run firefox in the /usr/bin, there is a failure: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/bin# firefox *** nsExtensionManager::_disableObsoleteExtensions - failure, catching exception so finalize window can close

RE: Firefox error to install

2005-08-14 Thread David Fix
What version of BLFS are the instructions based on. What version of LFS are you using? Of course... :D BLFS svn-20050814 ;) LFS SVN-20050814 :P Yeah, I know, you're gonna hate me for that, but I still figured I could let you know that I'm experiencing the same errors here too. :D

RE: Firefox error to install

2005-08-14 Thread David Fix
In fact, you may wish to search the archives for this error message and see what we did at the time to fix it, and see if a similar try might at least patch things. Sounds good to me, Randy... I'll see what an archive search finds. :) Dave --

EVMS :)

2005-08-12 Thread David Fix
Hey folks. :) Just wondering if anyone has successfully installed EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System at http://evms.sourceforge.net/) on an LFS system? If so, does anyone have any hints or tips on doing this? :) I'd be very interested in installing this, but if someone has any

EVMS question

2005-08-08 Thread David Fix
Hey folks. :) Just wondering if anyone has successfully installed EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System at http://evms.sourceforge.net/) on an LFS system? If so, does anyone have any hints or tips on doing this? :) I'd be very interested in installing this, but if someone has any