Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB to Serial adapter setup

2007-03-30 Thread Mark Haney
P.V.Anthony wrote: Mark Haney wrote: I've got a USB to Serial adapter I want to use in Gentoo to talk to my Cisco devices via console, however, none of the docs Ive found are very current (most for the 2.4 kernel), can someone point me to a good set of instructions on how to get this thing

[gentoo-amd64] Eterm wierdness

2007-03-30 Thread Jason
Got a wierd one. Sometimes (usually after a memory intensive task, like emerging ooffice), Eterms in which I'm logged in as root will cause a PrintScreen whenever I hit an arrow key. To avoid the printjobs, I start Eterm with '--print-pipe /usr/bin/true', which prevents the waste of paper,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Where has package.keywords gone?

2007-03-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 29 March 2007 19:02:36 Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:32:01 +0100 Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to have a package.keywords file in /etc/portage/, but since installing crossdev that is now a directory, thus: # ls -l /etc/portage/package.keywords

Re: [gentoo-amd64] livecd with serial console support?

2007-03-30 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 09:11:33AM -0700, Mike Doty wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joshua Hoblitt wrote: [snip] 3. it's a good idea, so it's probably already included(but not documented) Possible - but it's certainly not enabled by default. -J --

Re: [gentoo-amd64] livecd with serial console support?

2007-03-30 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 01:42:40AM +0200, Bernhard Auzinger wrote: console=ttyS0 should do it Of course, but you should add the desired baudrate and settings too. For example - console=ttyS0,115200n8 Obviously -- This is how I setup the systems once they have been successfully installed

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Eterm wierdness

2007-03-30 Thread Duncan
Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:47:48 -0400: Got a wierd one. Sometimes (usually after a memory intensive task, like emerging ooffice), Eterms in which I'm logged in as root will cause a PrintScreen whenever I hit an arrow key. I've