Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems with pam-0.99 upgrade

2007-11-04 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: OK, knowing as you all do that I'm a non-admin sort of person these sort of instructions - the 2 paragraphs at the end - scare me. I hate having to guess what anyone means. lightning pam.d # qfile -o /etc/pam.d/*

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems with pam-0.99 upgrade

2007-11-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/4/07, Richard Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: OK, knowing as you all do that I'm a non-admin sort of person these sort of instructions - the 2 paragraphs at the end - scare me. I hate having to guess what anyone

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Problems with pam-0.99 upgrade

2007-11-04 Thread Duncan
Richard Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 07:02:13 -0500: Mark Knecht wrote: OK, knowing as you all do that I'm a non-admin sort of person these sort of instructions - the 2 paragraphs at the end - scare me. I hate having to guess what

[gentoo-amd64] Compaq Presario V6420US

2007-11-04 Thread Unknown
I decided to join the laptop club and bought a Compaq Presario V6420US. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834147458 Call me ancient but I´ve never had wireless ethernet before so it´s new to me. I can´t seem to get it working. Initially I tried using ndiswrapper but

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Compaq Presario V6420US

2007-11-04 Thread Beso
what bmc board do you have? try a lspci and tell us what board you have. some bcm boards do work fine with their native linux driver. 2007/11/4, Unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I decided to join the laptop club and bought a Compaq Presario V6420US.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Compaq Presario V6420US

2007-11-04 Thread Unknown
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 15:27:48 +0100 Beso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what bmc board do you have? try a lspci and tell us what board you have. some bcm boards do work fine with their native linux driver. On the back of the chip: BCM4311KFBG lspci -nn: 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Compaq Presario V6420US

2007-11-04 Thread Peter Davoust
Getting the presario 6000 to work is a pain. ACPI is horrible, I've heard of issues with sound, and the wireless can be a pain. Right now I'm using ndiswrapper with whatever drivers are on that Ubuntu Forum page. There's a huge forum post on Ubuntu about getting this laptop working, you might want

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Compaq Presario V6420US

2007-11-04 Thread Beso
4311 PCI-E Supported for kernel 2.6.20.6 and laterthis is from the official bcm43xx supported devices. so the steps that you have to do to make it work is: 1. download a kernel = 2.6.20.6 (the 2.6.23 is the latest and i recommend it since it's good on my laptop) 2. go to /usr/src/linux and do a

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems with pam-0.99 upgrade

2007-11-04 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Richard, Thanks for the response. I would have NEVER guessed that this qfile command was telling me the files that are no longer needed. I should have read the man page on that. Well, strictly speaking it points out files

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Compaq Presario V6420US

2007-11-04 Thread Beso
2007/11/4, mailinglists [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I have a HP dv6000 - they're not the same but they look pretty darn similar. I had a very hard time getting the kernel bcm43xx drivers to work - and when they did they didn't work very well (short

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Compaq Presario V6420US

2007-11-04 Thread mailinglists
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Beso wrote: do you have a bcm43xx chipset supported? from what you've said it seems that you have the 4318 chip, which is one the most horrible and bugged broadcom chips. i ended up buying another wireless card for 17¬ based on an atheros