[gentoo-user] Networking problems

2006-11-03 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I seem to have some network issues with my gentoo install I have /etc/init.0/net.eth0 configured to run at the default runlevel. It appears to startup ok. No firewall has been installed yet. The network appears to startup eth0 correctly, obtaining a dhcp address from my cable provider via the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems

2006-10-31 Thread Jeff Cranmer
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems On Sunday 29 October 2006 20:11, Joe Menola wrote: On Sunday 29 October 2006 1:56 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Try running grub, then at the grub command line: root (hd2,5) setup /dev/sda quit Try setup (hd2)...also

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
: Oct 29, 2006 10:48 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, no prompt appears. It just hangs at the boot-up screen, repeatedly adding 'GRUB' to the top line of text. Hmm, GRUB isn't very

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems - Success

2006-10-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:02:43 -0500 (GMT-05:00) Jeff Cranmer wrote: The Bios drive order appears to be correct. The 250MD SATA drive is top of the hard drive order list, and I'm stumped. Jeff Perhaps simplifying

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
-Original Message- From: Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 29, 2006 1:47 PM To: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Subject: Grub problems I am trying to bring up a new Linux unit (my old desktop died on Thursday). My hardware is an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, running an Athlon X2 3800+ Dual core

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I am trying to bring up a new Linux unit (my old desktop died on Thursday). My hardware is an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, running an Athlon X2 3800+ Dual core processor. I have a serial ATA 250GB hard drive which I am attempting to install my OS into. The hard drive maps in the bios to SATA4,

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 29, 2006 3:05 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: swapspace is on /dev/sda2, /boot is on /dev/sda1, and root is on /dev/sda6 [snip] My grub.conf file is as follows: default=0 timeout=30

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
PS: The /boot/grub/devices.map presently contains (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/hde (hd2) /dev/hdh Jeff -Original Message- From: Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 29, 2006 3:55 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems Hi Richard, The full

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
to the shop :-/ Jeff -Original Message- From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 29, 2006 6:27 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Richard, The full output from running your suggested command

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 29 October 2006 6:49 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I'm going to borrow a Windows 2000 or XP OS and see if that will install. �If that fails, or unless someone comes up with any other solutions, I'll take the computer back to the shop :-/ It seems to me that bios and grub have different ideas

[gentoo-user] Help! Xorg broken!

2006-10-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi, I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1 I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package. Xorg now appears to be horribly broken. The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command line. Looking at Xorg.0.log, I have the following warnings and errors

[gentoo-user] Openoffice 2 Install problems

2005-12-02 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I've just upgraded to the latest version of openoffice It seems to be broken. When I start openoffice writer, I get the error /usr/lib/openoffice/program/javaldx: error while loading shared libraries: libuno_sal.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to install a cable modem connection.

2005-10-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I figured out what the problem was. I hadn't changed the interfaces file in shorewall to point to eth1 instead of ppp0 (the old adsl connection). Shorewall was blocking the connection. Once I corrected this, I was up and running Thanks On 2005-10-29 20:26 +, [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Trying to install a cable modem connection

2005-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
working? Thanks in advance Jeff Cranmer

[gentoo-user] Re: Quanta setup for cervisia?

2005-08-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I have been using Quanta to develop a small website. Apart from a tendency to die with 'sigsegv' crashes at regular intervals, the program seems to work quite well (the recovery function always manages to recover almost all my work after a crash). I would like to import the project into

[gentoo-user] Quanta setup for cervisia?

2005-08-28 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I have been using Quanta to develop a small website. Apart from a tendency to die with 'sigsegv' crashes at regular intervals, the program seems to work quite well (the recovery function always manages to recover almost all my work after a crash). I would like to import the project into

[gentoo-user] Shorewall failure following upgrade

2005-07-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I have recently updated shorewall on my 2.4 gentoo OS I now get the following error: /usr/share/shorewall/firewall: line 254: exists_:_frwd=Yes: command not found Warning: wierd character in interface `$' (No aliases, :, ! or *). iptables v1.2.11: Couldn't load match

Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall failure following upgrade

2005-07-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 16:17 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Works OK on a 2.6 system, too. It depends only on: iptables, iproute2 and virtual/libc (glibc). Some suggestions: 1.try revdep-rebuild -pv later w/o p to check if something needs to be rebuild (suspect 'iptables' here); 2.Check for

[gentoo-user] What happened to my world?

2005-07-17 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi, I run a dual-boot linux system. One is kernel 2.4 (in order to use Win4Lin 4) and the other is kernel 2.6 I have an emerge problem with my 2.4 kernel. After emerge sync, when I perform an emerge -up world, I do not see any packages requiring update. When I start checking individual

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my world?

2005-07-17 Thread Jeff Cranmer
/lib/portage/world) Cheers, Mark On 7/17/05, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I run a dual-boot linux system. One is kernel 2.4 (in order to use Win4Lin 4) and the other is kernel 2.6 I have an emerge problem with my 2.4 kernel. After emerge sync, when I perform

[gentoo-user] communications issue with ptal-init setup

2005-05-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi all, I am setting up a gentoo box for a friend of mine, and I'm having problems communicating with the printer. The printer is a parallel port HP deskjet 712C. After enabling the parallel port in the bios, I was able to detect the device from ptal-init as a deskjet-710C, but failed to

[gentoo-user] Re: communications issue with ptal-init setup

2005-05-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Problem solved - I emerged pnm2ppa, then created a ppd specific to the Deskjet 712C file from the web, and now it prints. Deep joy!g On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 13:52 +, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hi all, I am setting up a gentoo box for a friend of mine, and I'm having problems

[gentoo-user] Setting up an HP-3200C scanner

2005-05-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I am trying to set up an HP-3200C scanner (this is apparently the same as a UMAX 1220P parallel port flatbed scanner). I have followed the instructions at http://umax1220p.sourceforge.net/, but I'm running into a little difficulty. The instructions point to a command line utility, umax_pp in

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