Re: [gentoo-user] About vbox vm kernel config

2014-10-03 Thread Ivan Viso Altamirano
I think that make allmodconfig is the same but more easy El 03/10/2014 01:59, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk escribió: On Thu, 2 October 2014, at 4:15 am, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: … In the past I've lost lots of time doing this: Getting the right drivers into the

[gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-03 Thread walt
On 10/02/2014 09:39 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:24:51 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: On 10/02/2014 10:05 PM, walt wrote: I did some googling and enabled the appropriate kernel drivers, then rebooted and now the output from ifconfig includes this interface: wlan0:

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Making a bootable USB flash drive from ISO image

2014-10-03 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: I was also wrong in stating I use isohybrid for the LXFDVDs. I used to but since switching to using GRUB to boot the DVDs, there is no need for it. GRUB bootable DVD ISOs can boot from USB sticks by default. Neil, Can you elaborate? For example

[gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) [SOLVED]

2014-10-03 Thread walt
On 10/03/2014 07:21 AM, walt wrote: On 10/02/2014 09:39 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: Did you try dhcpcd wlan0 to see if it gets an IP-address? That doesn't work (yet). An error message said that /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf was missing, so I copied this example from a man page: #cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-03 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Friday 03 October 2014 7:21:58 AM walt wrote: On 10/02/2014 09:39 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:24:51 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: On 10/02/2014 10:05 PM, walt wrote: I did some googling and enabled the appropriate kernel drivers, then rebooted and now the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) [SOLVED]

2014-10-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 03/10/2014 19:24, walt wrote: On 10/03/2014 07:21 AM, walt wrote: On 10/02/2014 09:39 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: NetworkManager gets wlan0 working normally, but the problem is the network doesn't come up until I log in and use the NetworkManager panel applet to enter the psk manually. Ugh.

[gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-03 Thread walt
On 10/03/2014 11:28 AM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: NetworkManager gets wlan0 working normally, but the problem is the network doesn't come up until I log in and use the NetworkManager panel applet to enter the psk manually. Ugh. As for NetworkManager, just log in to your DE as root or run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Making a bootable USB flash drive from ISO image

2014-10-03 Thread thegeezer
On 03/10/14 16:19, James wrote: Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: I was also wrong in stating I use isohybrid for the LXFDVDs. I used to but since switching to using GRUB to boot the DVDs, there is no need for it. GRUB bootable DVD ISOs can boot from USB sticks by default. Neil,

[gentoo-user] /dev/shm mode 1777

2014-10-03 Thread Joseph
I'm getting an error message during emerge: * configure has detected that the sem_open function is broken. * Please ensure that /dev/shm is mounted as a tmpfs with mode 1777. * ERROR: dev-lang/python-3.3.5-r1::gentoo failed (configure phase): my /dev/shm is mounted as drwxr-xr-x 17 root root

[gentoo-user] Problems with update of smplayer (needs mplayer2?)

2014-10-03 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, While updateing my world ;) an update of smplayer was announced. The update failed with: ... ... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -MD -MP -Wundef -Wall -Wno-switch -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm mode 1777

2014-10-03 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting an error message during emerge: * configure has detected that the sem_open function is broken. * Please ensure that /dev/shm is mounted as a tmpfs with mode 1777. * ERROR: dev-lang/python-3.3.5-r1::gentoo failed

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm mode 1777

2014-10-03 Thread Joseph
On 10/03/14 23:00, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting an error message during emerge: * configure has detected that the sem_open function is broken. * Please ensure that /dev/shm is mounted as a tmpfs with mode 1777. * ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm mode 1777

2014-10-03 Thread Joseph
On 10/03/14 21:42, Joseph wrote: [snip] Yes, that should be fairly safe to run. The only risk is if you have some application running which has files open on it; but umount should give you an error in that case. Also, you can/should remove that fstab entry entirely once you have remounted it;