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

2014-10-02 Thread Ivan Viso Altamirano
I think that "make allmodconfig" is the same but more easy El 03/10/2014 01:59, "Stroller" escribió: > > > On Thu, 2 October 2014, at 4:15 am, Harry Putnam wrote: > > … > > In the past I've lost lots of time doing this: Getting the right > > drivers into the kernel build. > > ... > > I wondered

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

2014-10-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, October 02, 2014 07:05:51 PM walt wrote: > My ISP just forced me to upgrade to a new fiberoptic plan with very > little advance notice. > > I can't complain too much because my download speed is three times > faster than yesterday, but now I need to use a USB WiFi adapter if > I want

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

2014-10-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
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: flags=4099 mtu 1500 > > > >

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

2014-10-02 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
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: flags=4099 mtu 1500 > ether b8:a3:86:99:a8:d8 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) > RX packets 0 b

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

2014-10-02 Thread walt
My ISP just forced me to upgrade to a new fiberoptic plan with very little advance notice. I can't complain too much because my download speed is three times faster than yesterday, but now I need to use a USB WiFi adapter if I want to use my main desktop machine anywhere other than my kitchen. (D

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

2014-10-02 Thread Stroller
On Thu, 2 October 2014, at 4:15 am, Harry Putnam wrote: > … > In the past I've lost lots of time doing this: Getting the right > drivers into the kernel build. > ... > I wondered if anyone can offer a `.config' for a very recent kernel or > at least not ancient that they know will build a boota

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

2014-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 21:38:36 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > They did something, but it's not particularly special. All they did > > was run isohybrid (from syslinux) on the ISO image. It uses unused > > space at the start of the DVD ISO specification that is normally left > > blank to hold a

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

2014-10-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-10-02, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 21:11:03 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> What I'm wondering is why all the blog posts, wiki pages, and HOWTOs >> showing either the complicated command-line procedures or >> dependency-heavy "USB creator" apps? (Many of them quite re

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

2014-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 21:11:03 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > What I'm wondering is why all the blog posts, wiki pages, and HOWTOs > showing either the complicated command-line procedures or > dependency-heavy "USB creator" apps? (Many of them quite recent.) There is no need for them. > Did

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

2014-10-02 Thread Grant Edwards
In order to test some stuff, I needed to install Xubuntu in one of the hard drive partitions on a 5-6 year old generic tower machine. I downloaded the Xubuntu 14.04.1 AMD64 ISO, which at 935MB no longer fits on a single CD. So I burned a DVD+R. It failed to boot. The drive in which I burned it i

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

2014-10-02 Thread Ivan Viso Altamirano
You could do make allmodconfig . Have you try localmodconfig or localyesconfig ? El 02/10/2014 05:16, "Harry Putnam" escribió: > I want to install gentoo as guest with VirtualBox. Host is windows 7. > > In the past I've lost lots of time doing this: Getting the right > drivers into the kernel b