Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe

2008-01-04 Thread Justin
There is one of the greatest tools at windows you need now: http://legroom.net/software/uniextract With this tools you can extract everything which can be extractet. Have fun with it!! Grant schrieb: Can anyone think of a way to extract the XP 64-bit drivers I know are in an .exe file from

[gentoo-user] depclean question

2008-01-04 Thread Mick
It shows these versions of db: sys-libs/db selected: 1.85-r3 4.1.25_p1-r4 4.2.52_p4-r2 4.3.29-r2 protected: none omitted: 4.5.20_p while equery shows: # equery depends sys-libs/db [ Searching for packages depending on sys-libs/db... ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r4 (berkdb? sys-libs/db)

Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-04 Thread Grant
Also, gentoo has an attic where all older ebuilds are archived. You can grab the ebuild and any related files and use your local overlay to keep it around for as long as you need. http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/x11-drivers/ There are nvidia-drivers and a legacy branch for

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean question

2008-01-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 January 2008, Mick wrote: It shows these versions of db: sys-libs/db selected: 1.85-r3 4.1.25_p1-r4 4.2.52_p4-r2 4.3.29-r2 protected: none omitted: 4.5.20_p while equery shows: # equery depends sys-libs/db [ Searching for packages depending on sys-libs/db... ]

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean question

2008-01-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 January 2008, Dale wrote: 4.5.20_p satisfies all those listed DEPENDs, so it's OK to let depclean do what it wants. alan I wouldn't say to do this for important stuff like Python or Perl but I usually let depclean do its thing, as long as it is not a critical package, then

Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe

2008-01-04 Thread Grant
search the hard drive for any files that were unpacked - you might find where it unpacked files and, if you're lucky, it might contain all contents - 32 bit and 64 bit. Yes, and they would probably be located in the %TEMP% directory. I was just using the Windows search. - Grant --

Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe

2008-01-04 Thread Jean-Baptiste Mestelan
On 03/01/2008, James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: search the hard drive for any files that were unpacked - you might find where it unpacked files and, if you're lucky, it might contain all contents - 32 bit and 64 bit. Yes, and they would probably be located in the %TEMP% directory. --

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean question

2008-01-04 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 04 January 2008, Mick wrote: It shows these versions of db: sys-libs/db selected: 1.85-r3 4.1.25_p1-r4 4.2.52_p4-r2 4.3.29-r2 protected: none omitted: 4.5.20_p while equery shows: # equery depends sys-libs/db [ Searching for packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe

2008-01-04 Thread Grant
There is one of the greatest tools at windows you need now: http://legroom.net/software/uniextract With this tools you can extract everything which can be extractet. Have fun with it!! Luckily I have my USB wireless adapter working with Linux drivers so I don't need to use ndiswrapper, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Wireless Network Adapter?

2008-01-04 Thread TimeBreach
Actually i'm using vanilla-sources just for rt73usb driver. I've Gentoo 64Bit too. Before i used Gentoo-Sources. I just copy my .config from Gentoo Sources to Vanilla Sources and i have no issue (since 2 month). Grant a écrit : I'm using ASUS WL-167g USB WLAN (rt73usb) and work well with or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Wireless Network Adapter?

2008-01-04 Thread Grant
Actually i'm using vanilla-sources just for rt73usb driver. I've Gentoo 64Bit too. Before i used Gentoo-Sources. I just copy my .config from Gentoo Sources to Vanilla Sources and i have no issue (since 2 month). Nice, we're doing the same thing then. Did you place the firmware in

Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-04 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 07:58:52 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * nvidia missing in FILESDIR Can anyone tell what happened? You probably copied the ebuild, but not the contents of the files/ subdirectory. It probably needs some patch that lived there. So you need to copy that directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-04 Thread Grant
* nvidia missing in FILESDIR Can anyone tell what happened? You probably copied the ebuild, but not the contents of the files/ subdirectory. It probably needs some patch that lived there. So you need to copy that directory along with its contents to the same place you copied the old

Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-04 Thread Grant
* nvidia missing in FILESDIR Can anyone tell what happened? You probably copied the ebuild, but not the contents of the files/ subdirectory. It probably needs some patch that lived there. So you need to copy that directory along with its contents to the same place you copied

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean question

2008-01-04 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 04 January 2008, Dale wrote: 4.5.20_p satisfies all those listed DEPENDs, so it's OK to let depclean do what it wants. alan I wouldn't say to do this for important stuff like Python or Perl but I usually let depclean do its thing, as long as it is not

[gentoo-user] Re: Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-01-04, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * nvidia missing in FILESDIR Can anyone tell what happened? You probably copied the ebuild, but not the contents of the files/ subdirectory. It probably needs some patch that lived there. So you need to copy that directory along

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-04 Thread maxim wexler
--- Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:45:32 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote: Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. But Grant is trying to use

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-04 Thread maxim wexler
--- Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. But Grant is trying to use vanilla-sources. Exactly. Last I checked vanilla, git, and mm have 2.6.24

[gentoo-user] Re: Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-01-04, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ISTR that make prepare isn't sufficient. You have to do a make. IIRC, you can kill it once it starts compiling real code. I can't keep up with the acronyms I seem to recall. :) but I did a full make and I still get the same error. Should I

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-04 Thread kashani
Mark Knecht wrote: Yeah, my wife's 32-bit machine is still blocked. My son's 32-bit machine which hasn't been updated yet is still fine as is my 64-bit machine. Logically so far I do think it's a Gentoo problem. If it was specific to some Yahoo server that my house is pointed at it would have

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-04 Thread Grant
Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. But Grant is trying to use vanilla-sources. same thing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv vanilla-sources These are the packages that

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-04 Thread Grant
Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. But Grant is trying to use vanilla-sources. Exactly. Last I checked vanilla, git, and mm have 2.6.24 available in portage.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-04 Thread Grant
* nvidia missing in FILESDIR Can anyone tell what happened? You probably copied the ebuild, but not the contents of the files/ subdirectory. It probably needs some patch that lived there. So you need to copy that directory along with its contents to the same place

Re: [gentoo-user] Card reader only works if booted with card in

2008-01-04 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 06:39:33 +0100 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2008, Grant wrote: My card reader works if an SD card is inserted when the system is booted. If the card is inserted after the system is already booted, /dev/mmcblk0 never appears.

[gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

2008-01-04 Thread Richard Torres
I'm getting pretty much the same error (C compiler cannot create executables). I'm pretty sure it's because gcc-3.3.4 is installed. I've tried upgrading gcc by emerging but get the same error (catch-22 situation). Here's the last part of the error log which is the same with anything I try to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-04 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-01-04, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ISTR that make prepare isn't sufficient. You have to do a make. IIRC, you can kill it once it starts compiling real code. I can't keep up with the acronyms I seem to recall. :) but I did a full

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-04 Thread Grant
ISTR that make prepare isn't sufficient. You have to do a make. IIRC, you can kill it once it starts compiling real code. I can't keep up with the acronyms I seem to recall. :) but I did a full make and I still get the same error. Should I be booted into the same kernel that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-04 Thread Grant
ISTR that make prepare isn't sufficient. You have to do a make. IIRC, you can kill it once it starts compiling real code. I can't keep up with the acronyms I seem to recall. :) but I did a full make and I still get the same error. Should I be booted into the same kernel that

[gentoo-user] {OT} wengophone-like or skype-like SIP service?

2008-01-04 Thread Grant
Apparently I'm out of luck as far as using skype or wengophone on a hardened profile. Is there are kind of a similar service available that would work on a hardened amd64 system? I understand that I can use a client like sjphone and connect it to any sip service, but I like seeing my prepaid

Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage

2008-01-04 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:01:44 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to prevent eclean from removing a distfile for an installed package. Seems like that should be default behavior. From the eclean manpage: If you use the --destructive option, eclean will only

[gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Suddenly I noticed I'm on the bleeding edge. I don't know why. The latest: emerge -aDvu world is emerging unstable k3b-1.0.4. At least if I'm reading the output of eix correctly, it's unstable. I don't have anything in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS (it's not defined). In all of /etc/portage there are 4

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-04 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Suddenly I noticed I'm on the bleeding edge. I don't know why. The latest: emerge -aDvu world is emerging unstable k3b-1.0.4. At least if I'm reading the output of eix correctly, it's unstable. I don't have anything in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS (it's not defined). In all of

[gentoo-user] Re: Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-04 Thread Sven Köhler
Suddenly I noticed I'm on the bleeding edge. I don't know why. The latest: emerge -aDvu world is emerging unstable k3b-1.0.4. At least if I'm reading the output of eix correctly, it's unstable. I don't have anything in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS (it's not defined). In all of /etc/portage there are 4

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:47:42AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote I don't think it's Yahoo. I think it's Gentoo 32-bit. My desktop machine is Gentoo 64-bit using 2.0.0.11 and it's working perfectly fine. I wonder if it's because Yahoo is checking for user-agent. They may allow Firefox,

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wengophone-like or skype-like SIP service?

2008-01-04 Thread Randy Barlow
Grant wrote: Apparently I'm out of luck as far as using skype or wengophone on a hardened profile. Is there are kind of a similar service available that would work on a hardened amd64 system? I understand that I can use a client like sjphone and connect it to any sip service, but I like