Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros chip with airodump-ng

2008-11-14 Thread Mick
2008/11/13 Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Airodump-ng shows an empty table. I discussed some time ago with some folks at madwifi and... the answer was basically that they need help. The drivers are far from being alright, there are obvious issues that still needs to be addressed... the

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros chip with airodump-ng

2008-11-14 Thread Stroller
On 13 Nov 2008, at 19:32, Simon wrote: ... I discussed some time ago with some folks at madwifi and... the answer was basically that they need help. The drivers are far from being alright, there are obvious issues that still needs to be addressed... the creation/destruction of interface

[gentoo-user] Headless gentoo install

2008-11-14 Thread Momesso Andrea
I need to install gentoo on an headless server. The problem is that I cannot attach a video on it at all, neither for the installation. I asked the seller to setup the bios for cd boot as main option, so that I can use a live distro for the gentoo installation. I know for sure that both the

Re: [gentoo-user] Headless gentoo install

2008-11-14 Thread Justin
Momesso Andrea schrieb: Does anyone know such a livedistro, or can anybody suggest a different method for my installation? Is it a blank machine or is there already an OS on it? Than you can easily do the installation from this. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Headless gentoo install

2008-11-14 Thread Qian Qiao
I doubt if any livecd distro would have a default root password and enable SSH at the same time, cos that would be a serious security flaw. Btw, apologies if I am top-posting, bloody mobile won't let me edit the quoted text. On 14 Nov 2008, 12:10 PM, Momesso Andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: [gentoo-user] Headless gentoo install

2008-11-14 Thread Dirk Uys
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Momesso Andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to install gentoo on an headless server. The problem is that I cannot attach a video on it at all, neither for the installation. I asked the seller to setup the bios for cd boot as main option, so that I can use

Re: [gentoo-user] Headless gentoo install

2008-11-14 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:24:07PM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Momesso Andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to install gentoo on an headless server. The problem is that I cannot attach a video on it at all, neither for the installation. I asked the seller

Re: [gentoo-user] Headless gentoo install

2008-11-14 Thread Stroller
On 14 Nov 2008, at 12:05, Momesso Andrea wrote: I need to install gentoo on an headless server. ... I know for sure that both the gentoo livecd and systemrescuecd need user interaction to setup ssh (at least I have to choose a root password). I think it won't be too difficoult to do it

[gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-14 Thread Harry Putnam
I remember discussion of one or more fairly new tools designed to ease the update of etc files following updates. Can anyone say what tools are currently available.

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 14 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: I remember discussion of one or more fairly new tools designed to ease the update of etc files following updates. Can anyone say what tools are currently available. cfg-update makes updates REALLY easy and comfortable.

[gentoo-user] stumpwm users .. need help with failed emerge

2008-11-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Attempting to install stumpwm-cvs I run into an emerge failure with on of the dependencies; dev-lisp/cmucl. Below is a snippet from the end of the emerge of dev-lisp/cmucl-l-19d_p2. Can anyone see what might be the problem? [...] i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -rdynamic -Wstric

RE: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-14 Thread Gormotte Julien
Personally, I think etc-update is cool and very easy to use. -Message d'origine- De : news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Harry Putnam Envoyé : vendredi 14 novembre 2008 16:35 À : gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Objet : [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files

[gentoo-user] kernel configuration help: no video

2008-11-14 Thread Andrey Vul
Tried to enable framebuffer and I have no framebuffer. The generic kernel on the 2008.0 livecd works. My video card is NVIDIA 9600M GS. What am I missing? Note: nvidiafb cannot be used because it will conflict with the proprietary drivers. I've had it happen with radeonfb and fglrx. Kernel version

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration help: no video

2008-11-14 Thread Andrey Vul
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:48, Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried to enable framebuffer and I have no framebuffer. The generic kernel on the 2008.0 livecd works. My video card is NVIDIA 9600M GS. What am I missing? Note: nvidiafb cannot be used because it will conflict with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Headless gentoo install

2008-11-14 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:25:19PM +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: The main problem is that most of usb distros are 32 bit, while I'd like to install a 64 bit system (so no chroot available). But you could build a temporary minimal 32 bits system which can serve to build a 64 bits one. Probably

[gentoo-user] Re: Headless gentoo install

2008-11-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-11-14, Momesso Andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to install gentoo on an headless server. The problem is that I cannot attach a video on it at all, neither for the installation. Use a serial console. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! ! Now I understand

[gentoo-user] Bluez hcid.conf syntax

2008-11-14 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I have a minor problem: I recently bought a Microsoft Presenter Mouse (I know, shame on me, but it's the only affordable device with this kind of functionality). So far, it works as expected: - it works out of the box with the Microsoft dongle - it works with my normal bluetooth

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.26 and iwl3945

2008-11-14 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I recently updated from tuxonice-2.6.24-r9 to tuxonice-2.6.26. I hoped it would solve irregular kernel crashes on my Dell notebook and would reactivate the wifi LED. However, it caused more problems than it solved. - the pvrusb2 (V4L2) kernel module works but causes kernel panics and

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-14 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: I remember discussion of one or more fairly new tools designed to ease the update of etc files following updates. Can anyone say what tools are currently available. dispatch-conf works. May want to try them all and pick the one you like. I like etc-update as far

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-14 Thread John covici
on Friday 11/14/2008 Dale([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Harry Putnam wrote: I remember discussion of one or more fairly new tools designed to ease the update of etc files following updates. Can anyone say what tools are currently available. dispatch-conf works. May

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-14 Thread Dan Wallis
On 14/11/2008, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An eix on both dispatch-conf and etc-update yield no matches -- where can they be found? They both belong to sys-apps/portage on my systems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ qfile dispatch-conf sys-apps/portage (/usr/sbin/dispatch-conf)

[gentoo-user] portage-2.2 + collision protect

2008-11-14 Thread Markos Chandras
Hello, I ve upgraded to portage-2.2 . From that time i am having a problem. When portage finds a collision between two files during the merge time , it complains and doesnt merge the new package. The weird thing is that i do not have collision-protect under FEATURES on /etc/make.conf file

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2 + collision protect

2008-11-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Markos Chandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I ve upgraded to portage-2.2 . From that time i am having a problem. When portage finds a collision between two files during the merge time , it complains and doesnt merge the new package. The weird thing is

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-14 Thread John covici
on Friday 11/14/2008 Dan Wallis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On 14/11/2008, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An eix on both dispatch-conf and etc-update yield no matches -- where can they be found? They both belong to sys-apps/portage on my systems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ qfile

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2 + collision protect

2008-11-14 Thread Markos Chandras
On Saturday 15 November 2008 01:07:33 Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Markos Chandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I ve upgraded to portage-2.2 . From that time i am having a problem. When portage finds a collision between two files during the merge time , it

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2 + collision protect

2008-11-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Markos Chandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2008 01:07:33 Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Markos Chandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I ve upgraded to portage-2.2 . From that time i am having a problem. When

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto compile Xgl on Gentoo (to have dual seat box)

2008-11-14 Thread noro kamen
2008/11/12 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can't you do the same with AIGLX in Xorg? it's RH/Fedora project, but on project page http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aiglx there is no valuable info ...it's for managers only :-) noro

[gentoo-user] [OT?] /etc/shadow perms group shadow?

2008-11-14 Thread Michael Higgins
I have a question which may or may not be Gentoo-specific, but here goes: An application runs as a web server. In this application I have hooks to PAM. The results I was getting from attempting to authorize against PAM were fruitless, until I looked at making a way for the user running this to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] /etc/shadow perms group shadow?

2008-11-14 Thread Michele Schiavo
/etc/sudoers ?? Il giorno ven, 14/11/2008 alle 16.57 -0800, Michael Higgins ha scritto: In this application I have hooks to PAM. The results I was getting from attempting to authorize against PAM were fruitless, until I looked at making a way for the user running this to read /etc/shadow.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] /etc/shadow perms group shadow?

2008-11-14 Thread Stroller
On 15 Nov 2008, at 00:57, Michael Higgins wrote: ... An application runs as a web server. In this application I have hooks to PAM. The results I was getting from attempting to authorize against PAM were fruitless, until I looked at making a way for the user running this to read