Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 26 Sep 2011 23:08:04 Mark Knecht wrote: My experience so far: 1) As discussed earlier, needing to mess with routes when changing which network I'm using. Sad when both options actually point to the same address. If you use ifplugd the eth0 will be activated auto-magically once a

Re: [gentoo-user] Nepomuk is eating my disk space

2011-09-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 27 September 2011 03:42:12 Nils Larsson wrote: You could disable it(search for Nepomuk in systemsettings). That's what I did. Got tired of nepomukindexer spawning hundreds of instances of itself and eating all my memory... Ah, yes, of course - thanks. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Nepomuk is eating my disk space

2011-09-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 27 September 2011 05:49:24 Indi wrote: Ah, yet another marvelous benefit of using kde. Indeed. I do try Gnome occasionally to see how it's progressing, but I can't get on with it - far too arrogant. And the others I've tried are too skinny to do all the things I want. So it's KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Should I be worried that I won't be able to dual boot in Gentoo?

2011-09-27 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday, September 26, 2011 10:26:03 PM Jonas de Buhr wrote: I am assuming that unlike the old days when I used to boot Linux on PCs using a floppy with SmartBootManager, now we'll need to generate some key/hash for our freshly compiled kernel, then add it to the BIOS firmware and flash the

[gentoo-user] Bind problems when registering new domains....

2011-09-27 Thread Jens Reinemuth
Hi everybody, i registered a new domain yesterday and tried to set the primary ans secondary nameserver as usual, which resulted in the following error-message: Nameserver error - ERROR: 116 SOA record response must be authoritative (resolver, answer)

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:43:13 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I haven't seriously considered wicd because I don't understand what it is, how it links into everything else on the system. For a user type the idea of dumping init scripts in favor of something else is a _really_ foreign idea to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Should I be worried that I won't be able to dual boot in Gentoo?

2011-09-27 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 26.09.2011 21:56, schrieb Michael Mol: Is it more complicated than that? Just a hunch, but I think the BIOS will probably be signed. Perhaps in replacement of the existing checksum functionality. I have something like that on my Motorola Milestone Android Phone. It is not possible to

Re: [gentoo-user] Bind problems when registering new domains....

2011-09-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:10:53 +0200 Jens Reinemuth j...@reinemuth.info wrote: Hi everybody, i registered a new domain yesterday and tried to set the primary ans secondary nameserver as usual, which resulted in the following error-message: Nameserver error - ERROR: 116 SOA record response

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:43:13 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:08:05 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Sep 27, 2011 5:11 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 26 Sep 2011 23:21:56 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 26 September 2011 22:45:20 Alan McKinnon wrote: It's unrealistic to support everything you ever did forever like MS tried to do (IE6 is *still* hanging around somehow...) Tell me about it! IE6 is the nastiest pain in the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Development framework with access restriction?

2011-09-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 26 Sep 2011 22:37:10 Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 09/26/11 16:01, Grant wrote: I'd like to hire a freelancer to work on my website. I don't want to provide access to all of my code, but instead only the particular file or files being worked on. Does anyone know of a development

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring

2011-09-27 Thread Jonas de Buhr
Top shows CC taking about 50% or in that vacinity... nothing else of note is running. But man I've been at this for 3 days, or so. Created at least 6 different kernels and none will get me booted... either I get a panic and root cannot be mounted, or the screen goes black shortly after grub

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Should I be worried that I won't be able to dual boot in Gentoo?

2011-09-27 Thread Jonas de Buhr
On Monday, September 26, 2011 10:26:03 PM Jonas de Buhr wrote: I am assuming that unlike the old days when I used to boot Linux on PCs using a floppy with SmartBootManager, now we'll need to generate some key/hash for our freshly compiled kernel, then add it to the BIOS firmware and flash the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Development framework with access restriction?

2011-09-27 Thread Jonas de Buhr
I'd like to hire a freelancer to work on my website. I don't want to provide access to all of my code, but instead only the particular file or files being worked on. Does anyone know of a development framework that would help facilitate that sort of thing? Would no shell access along with

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:43:13 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:08:05 +0700 Pandu Poluan

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:56:55 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alan, OK, so wicd really does seem to do the job. It was only about 10 minutes to get it working. Thanks to you and others for suggesting I look at it. Basically, I've removed net.eth0 and net.wlan0 from

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:56:55 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alan,    OK, so wicd really does seem to do the job. It was only about 10 minutes to get it working. Thanks to you and others for

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:08:45 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The only thing I've noticed is that ntp-client doesn't run when booting. ntpd does run immediately after ntp-client fails. I'm not sure if that's caused by some delay in the wired network coming up using wicd or something else

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag 26 September 2011, 20:13:53 schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2011-09-26, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:37 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Hi, Happened upon this interview with Linus Torvalds that some of you might find interesting (if you haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag 27 September 2011, 04:05:31 schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2011-09-27, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 09/26/11 16:13, Grant Edwards wrote: That's hilarious. The Linux developers are _constantly_ changing APIs in ways that break existing device driver code.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/27/11 00:05, Grant Edwards wrote: Contribute your drivers upstream. When the devs change an API, they'll update your code for you. That sounds good, but in practice it doesn't work. 1) The kernel developers don't support any existing customers. Bugs are only fixed for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Dienstag 27 September 2011, 04:05:31 schrieb Grant Edwards: That sounds good, but in practice it doesn't work.  1) The kernel developers don't support any existing customers.  Bugs     are only fixed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Contribute your drivers upstream. When the devs change an API, they'll update your code for you. That sounds good, but in practice it doesn't work.  1) The kernel developers don't support any existing

Re: [gentoo-user] Nepomuk is eating my disk space

2011-09-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag 27 September 2011, 03:18:56 schrieb Peter Humphrey: Hello list, My /home partition is 15GB, and the other day KDE warned me it was down to 1% free. I found that .kde4/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend/soprano- virtuoso.db was occupying 12GB, so I deleted

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag 27 September 2011, 13:07:02 schrieb Michael Mol: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Dienstag 27 September 2011, 04:05:31 schrieb Grant Edwards: That sounds good, but in practice it doesn't work. 1) The kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Dienstag 27 September 2011, 13:07:02 schrieb Michael Mol: Except they have drivers which are buggy and require backported fixes. and that is the reason stable series exist. They are stable and they

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Because, in this case, the hardware, which is unreplaceable, went tits up. Meaning it no longer works. It can't be replaced, and they're SOL until they get the software ported forward. Their remaining hardware of the

[gentoo-user] pstree for modules ?

2011-09-27 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, ist there a tool, which displays the dependencies of loaded modules as a tree like pstree does for tasks? Thank you very much for any help in advance! :) Best regards mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Because, in this case, the hardware, which is unreplaceable, went tits up. Meaning it no longer works. It can't be replaced, and they're SOL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I can pretty much promise you that one area likely to get LOTS of attention in this kernel series IS security updates, at least if they are

[gentoo-user] build problems with vmware-modules

2011-09-27 Thread Jonas de Buhr
hello everone! i'm having problems running vmware. a recend emerge -DuvaN world upgraded vmware to version 6.5.5 and i upgraded the kernel to # uname -a Linux toxic 2.6.39-gentoo-r3 #4 SMP Thu Sep 22 16:06:58 CEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] build problems with vmware-modules

2011-09-27 Thread Jonas de Buhr
i just figured a build log in english might be more useful  * Package:app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.25-r3  * Repository: x-portage  * Maintainer: vad...@gentoo.org vmw...@gentoo.org  * USE:amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] pstree for modules ?

2011-09-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 27.09.2011 20:24, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, ist there a tool, which displays the dependencies of loaded modules as a tree like pstree does for tasks? Thank you very much for any help in advance! :) Best regards mcc Well, it's not a tool and it cannot print to terminal

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-27 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011 12:19:06 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:43:13 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:08:05 +0700 Reading the wicd homepage it looks like it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Should I be worried that I won't be able to dual boot in Gentoo?

2011-09-27 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011 13:11:30 Jonas de Buhr wrote: On Monday, September 26, 2011 10:26:03 PM Jonas de Buhr wrote: I am assuming that unlike the old days when I used to boot Linux on PCs using a floppy with SmartBootManager, now we'll need to generate some key/hash for our freshly compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde4: no hardware info without sys-apps/hal

2011-09-27 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
Check that the consolekit service is also on at bootup. Besides that, the udisks, upower, consolekit, policykit and udev flags apply here. Check they are on, particularly for kde-base/kdelibs (emerge -pv kdelibs). What kdelibs (and kde, in general) version(s) are you using? Hal hasn't been

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Obviously wicd seems to be more user friendly than fiddling around with init.d scripts and permutations, but in my head it's just a front end to such scripts and wpa_supplicant . . .  Have I got this wrong? It is a

[gentoo-user] Re: build problems with vmware-modules

2011-09-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/27/2011 10:08 PM, Jonas de Buhr wrote: hello everone! i'm having problems running vmware. a recend emerge -DuvaN world upgraded vmware to version 6.5.5 and i upgraded the kernel to # uname -a Linux toxic 2.6.39-gentoo-r3 #4 SMP Thu Sep 22 16:06:58 CEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad

Re: [gentoo-user] pstree for modules ?

2011-09-27 Thread meino . cramer
Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net [11-09-28 04:05]: Am 27.09.2011 20:24, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, ist there a tool, which displays the dependencies of loaded modules as a tree like pstree does for tasks? Thank you very much for any help in advance! :) Best regards