[gentoo-user] Re: martian source with unknown IP and MAC

2015-08-17 Thread James
Grant gmail.com> writes: > I received a suspicious prompt while browsing a financial account of mine on my laptop so I restarted my modem but did not DHCP to it.  I immediately received a series of type 08 00 martian sources logged to dmesg on my laptop from a 10.x.x.x source while my local netwo

[gentoo-user] Re: Install PreQualifying Matrix

2015-08-17 Thread James
Jeremi Piotrowski gmail.com> writes: > Planning questions are an OK-ish idea, but I surely wouldn't link to > derivative distributions to answer them. We have appropriate wiki pages > for all options, those that are insufficient should be improved. These > could be linked to so that people know w

[gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-17 Thread walt
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:51:34 +0200 Heiko Baums wrote: > Am 16.08.2015 um 18:45 schrieb walt: > > I've been seeing this keyboard problem for the past few weeks: > > after running some command from a bash prompt (haven't tried zsh > > yet) the keyboard stops working. Almost like somebody unplugged

[gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-17 Thread walt
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:21:54 +0200 Marc Joliet wrote: > I don't think you mention precisely which (type of) keyboard you use > within this thread (please forgive me if I overlooked it). Does it > happen to be a Logitech "Unifying Receiver" model? No I didn't mention which keyboard. I tend to f

[gentoo-user] Re: [WAS: keyboard stops working] Recent kernels block the loading of non-GPL kernel modules

2015-08-17 Thread walt
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:53:37 -0500 Dale wrote: > >> walt wrote: > >>> Linus and friends have been marking lots of existing > >>> kernel symbols with the SYMBOL_EXPORT_GPL macro, which was > >>> designed to block the loading of any kernel module not explicitly > >>> licensed as GPL software.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-17 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-17 03:17, netfab a écrit : Le 16/08/15 à 19:27, Michel Catudal a tapoté : the latest kernel from sunxi that supports the mali GPU (3.4.103) for my old Mele A2000G [offtopic] Latest up to date (3.4.108) can be found here [1]. It also embeds patchs and fixs from armbian [2]. ¹. https

Re: [gentoo-user] Install PreQualifying Matrix

2015-08-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > If anything I would actually go for a simplification of the install > procedure, to something extremely low maintenence (for the handbook > authors ofc). An ext4 single disk install with grub2 (meh) that every one > can handle. > > Sure g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation failure

2015-08-17 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-17 14:58, »Q« a écrit : On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 20:46:44 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: Er, no. You don't. You really, really REALLY don't want to go Stage 1 :-) My second install was a stage 1, way back in the day when the stage 3s weren't fully usable out of the box yet. My first was a s

Re: [gentoo-user] [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-17 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sun, 16 Aug 2015 09:45:52 -0700 schrieb walt : > I've been seeing this keyboard problem for the past few weeks: after > running some command from a bash prompt (haven't tried zsh yet) the > keyboard stops working. Almost like somebody unplugged the keyboard > from its usb port (except that th

Re: [gentoo-user] Install PreQualifying Matrix

2015-08-17 Thread Jeremi Piotrowski
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, James wrote: > So another day, another borked set of installs. You are aware that for every failed install that comes to this mailing lists there are countless that go just fine, right? Planning questions are an OK-ish idea, but I surely wouldn't link to derivative distribu

[gentoo-user] Re: UEFI booting

2015-08-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/08/2015 03:59 μμ, Rod wrote: Hi list, I'm trying to figure out how to make my boot partition to boot from UEFI, I have grub2 installed, but I keep getting a error when I ask it to install the boot information. mount /dev/sdc1 201633156 201478 1% /

[gentoo-user] Re: installation failure

2015-08-17 Thread »Q«
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 20:46:44 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Er, no. You don't. You really, really REALLY don't want to go Stage > 1 :-) > > My second install was a stage 1, way back in the day when the stage 3s > weren't fully usable out of the box yet. My first was a stage 2 (fully > documented b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation failure

2015-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/08/2015 20:54, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 17/08/2015 17:36, Dale wrote: >>> Heck, I wish a stage 1 install was supported. I think I'd give it a shot >>> if I could. >> >> Er, no. You don't. You really, really REALLY don't want to go Stage 1 :-) >> >> My second install was a s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation failure

2015-08-17 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/08/2015 17:36, Dale wrote: >> Heck, I wish a stage 1 install was supported. I think I'd give it a shot if >> I could. > > Er, no. You don't. You really, really REALLY don't want to go Stage 1 :-) > > My second install was a stage 1, way back in the day when the stage

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation failure

2015-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/08/2015 17:36, Dale wrote: > Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 08:03:10PM +0700, jfmxl wrote: >>> It's pretty clear that you what you think I need to know about gentoo is >>> that its not for me because I don;t know what I'm doing and cannot think >>> logically ... Ill give

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-17 Thread mcatudal
- Mail original - Le 16/08/15 à 19:27, Michel Catudal a tapoté : > the latest kernel from sunxi that supports the mali GPU (3.4.103) for > my old Mele A2000G [offtopic] Latest up to date (3.4.108) can be found here [1]. It also embeds patchs and fixs from armbian [2]. ¹. https:/

[gentoo-user] martian source with unknown IP and MAC

2015-08-17 Thread Grant
I received a suspicious prompt while browsing a financial account of mine on my laptop so I restarted my modem but did not DHCP to it. I immediately received a series of type 08 00 martian sources logged to dmesg on my laptop from a 10.x.x.x source while my local network runs on 192.168.x.x only,

Re: [gentoo-user] [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-17 Thread Heiko Baums
Am 16.08.2015 um 18:45 schrieb walt: > I've been seeing this keyboard problem for the past few weeks: after > running some command from a bash prompt (haven't tried zsh yet) the > keyboard stops working. Almost like somebody unplugged the keyboard > from its usb port (except that the LED on the k

[gentoo-user] Re: Install PreQualifying Matrix

2015-08-17 Thread James
Dale gmail.com> writes: > James wrote: > > What I really would appreciate is some feedback on the Planning > > Questions listed below, as to help folks organized their thoughts and > > hardware details BEFORE actually performing an install or test-drive. > > Many/most of these options exist

Re: [gentoo-user] Install PreQualifying Matrix

2015-08-17 Thread Dale
James wrote: > Hello, > > So another day, another borked set of installs. This really got me thinking > as I have been munging around a multitude of gentoo(ish) installation > options. What I really would appreciate is some feedback on the Planning > Questions listed below, as to help folks organiz

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation failure

2015-08-17 Thread Dale
Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 08:03:10PM +0700, jfmxl wrote: >> It's pretty clear that you what you think I need to know about gentoo is >> that its not for me because I don;t know what I'm doing and cannot think >> logically ... Ill give it another shot, but I won't stick aro

[gentoo-user] Install PreQualifying Matrix

2015-08-17 Thread James
Hello, So another day, another borked set of installs. This really got me thinking as I have been munging around a multitude of gentoo(ish) installation options. What I really would appreciate is some feedback on the Planning Questions listed below, as to help folks organized their thoughts and ha

Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure

2015-08-17 Thread Jeremi Piotrowski
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, jfmxl wrote: > but no joy. When I rebooted the machine I saw the grub and a bunch of > initializations whizzed by ... but the kernel failed to mount root. Sounds pretty much like grub is passing the wrong root parameter. > I opened a shell and looked at /etc/fstab, but found

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI booting

2015-08-17 Thread Jeremi Piotrowski
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, Rod wrote: > Hi list, Hi > I'm trying to figure out how to make my boot partition to boot from UEFI, > I have grub2 installed, but I keep getting a error when I ask it to install > the boot information. First things first, are you installing gentoo from an UEFI boote

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation failure

2015-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/08/2015 15:03, jfmxl wrote: > It's pretty clear that you what you think I need to know about gentoo is > that its not for me because I don;t know what I'm doing and cannot think > logically ... Ill give it another shot, but I won't stick around on this > damn list any longer. No, that's not

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI booting

2015-08-17 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:59:30PM +1000, Rod wrote: > Hi list, > > # efibootmgr > efibootmgr: EFI variables are not supported on this system. > > > # grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi /dev/sdc > Installing for x86_64-efi platform. > efibootmgr: EFI variables are not supported on this syste

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation failure

2015-08-17 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 08:03:10PM +0700, jfmxl wrote: > It's pretty clear that you what you think I need to know about gentoo is > that its not for me because I don;t know what I'm doing and cannot think > logically ... Ill give it another shot, but I won't stick around on this > damn list any

[gentoo-user] Re: installation failure

2015-08-17 Thread James
jfmxl SDF.ORG> writes: > Since I installed the whole system to a qemu 'partition' inside a binary > file I have no access to what I've done or failed to do. So I guess I'm > just out of luck? I guess I will make a real DVD from the .iso and go > through the whole drill again on real hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation failure

2015-08-17 Thread jfmxl
It's pretty clear that you what you think I need to know about gentoo is that its not for me because I don;t know what I'm doing and cannot think logically ... Ill give it another shot, but I won't stick around on this damn list any longer. All of which highlights something you need to know a

[gentoo-user] UEFI booting

2015-08-17 Thread Rod
Hi list, I'm trying to figure out how to make my boot partition to boot from UEFI, I have grub2 installed, but I keep getting a error when I ask it to install the boot information. mount /dev/sdc1 201633156 201478 1% /boot/efi I have the /boot/efi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation failure

2015-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/08/2015 14:07, jfmxl wrote: > On 2015-08-17 17:20, Martin Vaeth wrote: >> jfmxl wrote: >>> I wrote a coupla days ago, using the guest interface at the website ... >> >> I do not know what you mean by "guest interface". >> One right place for your support question would be the >> gentoo forum

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation failure

2015-08-17 Thread jfmxl
On 2015-08-17 17:20, Martin Vaeth wrote: jfmxl wrote: I wrote a coupla days ago, using the guest interface at the website ... I do not know what you mean by "guest interface". One right place for your support question would be the gentoo forum "Installing Gentoo": https://forums.gentoo.org/vi

[gentoo-user] Re: installation failure

2015-08-17 Thread Martin Vaeth
jfmxl wrote: > I wrote a coupla days ago, using the guest interface at the website ... I do not know what you mean by "guest interface". One right place for your support question would be the gentoo forum "Installing Gentoo": https://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum-f-14.html > but the kernel failed

[gentoo-user] installation failure

2015-08-17 Thread jfmxl
Hi, I wrote a coupla days ago, using the guest interface at the website ... but I guess no one bothers with that , or they just threw away my mail. I'm looking for an alternative to debian/systemd and gentoo seems a good possibility. I downloaded the minimal amd64 install and went through the dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-17 Thread netfab
Le 16/08/15 à 19:27, Michel Catudal a tapoté : > the latest kernel from sunxi that supports the mali GPU (3.4.103) for > my old Mele A2000G [offtopic] Latest up to date (3.4.108) can be found here [1]. It also embeds patchs and fixs from armbian [2]. ¹. https://github.com/dan-and/linux-sunxi ².