RE: [gentoo-user] slightly OT, laptop for gentoo

2008-02-14 Thread Adam Carter
Obviously we can easily get a USB to serial adapter You can still get laptops with real serial ports (HP sell them). You might want to investigate whether you can manipulate the USB serial adapter to your requirements. I tried once with setserial and it didn't work - I havent had time to look

RE: [gentoo-user] Squid configuration include

2008-03-18 Thread Adam Carter
Hi! i need to include a file in squid.conf because i need to divide the squid.conf file in two parts and export one of this to other servers...how can i do this? This included file will contain all the cal and rules for squid. You can refer to external files in some of the directives, so that

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo router: Conntrack table full

2008-03-25 Thread Adam Carter
The contents of the connection table is in /proc/net/ip_conntrack Example: tcp 6 65 TIME_WAIT src=192.168.1.4 dst=20.x.y.40 sport=4986 dport=80 src=207.46.109.40 dst=192.168.1.4 sport=80 dport=4986 [ASSURED] mark=0 use=1 So go nuts with grep/awk/sed/sort/uniq etc to find what is consuming

RE: [gentoo-user] compiling a module after the fact

2008-05-01 Thread Adam Carter
I thought I remembered someway to compile a single module after the fact that didn't involve recompiling everthing... but just now I entered the usr/src/linux directory and edited .config adding the sshfs FUSE module. when I ran `make' I see it grinding thru the whole thing again. Is that

RE: [gentoo-user] New eth.0/openrc setup - I'm confused

2008-05-01 Thread Adam Carter
# /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart * ERROR: net.eth0 has been stopped by something else # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start * WARNING: net.eth0 has already been started meantime netstat indicates no changes at all.. eth0 is up throughout. Do this; /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop - verify the interface

[gentoo-user] Apache status

2008-05-04 Thread Adam Carter
I'm running Apache 2.2.8 and want the status info, so i need to add Location /server-status SetHandler server-status Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from .foo.com /Location But, in httpd.conf IfDefine INFO LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so /IfDefine So what's the syntax to

[gentoo-user] Disk upgrade sanity check pls

2008-05-08 Thread Adam Carter
I'm running out of disk space on my laptop and the new disk arrived today. Old setup; 60 gig drive; /dev/hda1 = /home (used to be windows, hence the partition number) /dev/hda2 = swap /dev/hda3 = / New setup; 250 gig drive /dev/hda1 = / (including /home) /dev/hda2 = swap Here's my plan; - make

[gentoo-user] Gnome wallpaper

2008-05-14 Thread Adam Carter
My wallpaper doesnt come up when Gnome starts, but if i open the System - Preferences - Appearance dialogue it appears (i dont even need to make a change). So it looks like something is not running until i open the dialogue. Any ideas on how to fix it? Or will i have to resort to 'mv .gnome

RE: [gentoo-user] Gnome wallpaper

2008-05-14 Thread Adam Carter
My wallpaper doesnt come up when Gnome starts, snip Does 'nautilus' start? Try using 'nautilus --no-desktop'... Not sure if it tries to or not, but when I try to run it as you suggest, it dies; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ nautilus --no-desktop [1] 7059 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Initializing

[gentoo-user] Regex question

2008-06-03 Thread Adam Carter
I want to filter the strings; ? something http:// or ? something? https:// or ? something ftp:// from URLs in apache. I know i need to escape ? but i'm not sure about / and i've used '(something|otherthing|whatever)' to make the 'or's work. LocationMatch

RE: [gentoo-user] Regex question

2008-06-04 Thread Adam Carter
I just wanted to comment something about Iain's suggestion: '^\?.*(http|https|ftp)://' If you add that '^' you're assuming that's the beginning of the string (as you may already know); the thing is I cannot see the cases where your URL starts with '?', the characters, and finally

[gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-01 Thread Adam Carter
I'm finding it unusable as it crashes often. How are you guys finding it?

[gentoo-user] RE: Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-03 Thread Adam Carter
Thanks everyone for your feedback. I'm trying firefox-bin now, and it seems stable. I guess this means that my .mozilla stuff isnt the problem.

[gentoo-user] proftpd anonymous ftp broken

2008-07-08 Thread Adam Carter
Logging in anonymously fails, so check syslog and find; Jul 8 17:40:22 absydos proftpd[17200]: absydos - ProFTPD 1.3.1rc2 (devel) (built Sun Aug 5 06:10:17 EST 2007) standalone mode STARTUP Jul 8 17:40:28 absydos proftpd[17213]: absydos (10.28.209.110[10.28.209.110]) - FTP session opened. Jul

RE: [gentoo-user] libusb upgraded failed with USE doc

2007-10-06 Thread Adam Carter
This sort of error is often fixed by re-emerging openjade. I've re emerged jadetex openjade, but still have the same problem. I can masked it temporaly in /etc/portage/package.use, Thanks! I also tried re-emerging openjade with no result. I re-emerged an sgml package and that fixed it. I

[gentoo-user] Alsa kernel driver problem

2007-10-24 Thread Adam Carter
Alsaconf doesnt find any sound devices, however modules (in particular snd_via82xx) are loaded; localhost linux # lsmod | grep snd snd_pcm_oss29664 0 snd_mixer_oss 12160 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_dummy 1988 0 snd_seq_oss21824 0 snd_seq_midi_event

RE: [gentoo-user] Alsa kernel driver problem - fixed

2007-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
Sounds like the wrong driver is being loaded. What is the output of lspci? From a console, what does modprobe snd_via82xx show and what's being sent to /var/log/messages?? I found that the Intel HD Audio module is also required, not just the via driver. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Networking Issue

2007-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
Any ideas? The /etc/conf.d/net file is very basic. All is has is config_eth1=(dhcp) then the wireless stuff. I could get eth1 to work if I manually assigned an address, but now that doesn't work either. Any help is appreciated. You're sure that the Ethernet card is eth1 and

RE: [gentoo-user] smartctl strangeness

2007-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
Anyway, this is where things get even stranger. I've quadruple-checked and I still don't believe it. The Maxtor drive now PASSES smartctl -H and the new one FAILS. The Maxtor still gets the dma_intr errors in dmesg and the Samsung is said to have it's DMA disabled which contradicts the BIOS,

RE: [gentoo-user] smartctl strangeness

2007-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
The BIOS has 131G for the Samsung in a sub-menu for that drive: Maximum Capacity [131071MB], fdisk sees the whole 160G. In that case I'd look for a BIOS update. (FWIW 128 x 1024 = 131072). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] What should i use instead of /dev/usb?

2007-10-27 Thread Adam Carter
I am using some hardware that requries external drivers (no ebuild either) and it says i should; mknod /dev/usb/panel0 c 180 180 Since /dev/usb doesnt exist, what is the correct alternative? (2.6.22-gentoo-r8) thanks.

RE: [gentoo-user] ERROR: net-misc/iputils-20070202 failed

2007-11-11 Thread Adam Carter
This is happening when emerging iputils with +doc USE. If I remove doc from the USE flags list, then it does emerge completely. Any thoughts? Thanks, -- Valmor de Almeida jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79/html/../co mmon/../co mmon/dbl1sr.dsl:2:66:W: cannot

RE: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Adam Carter
data However, if it's a data cd, then iso9660 MUST either be build into the kernel or available as a module for the auto part of your cdrom fstab line to work correctly... hmmm... maybe need also autoload in the module loading section of the kernel configurator. ok.

[gentoo-user] Grep question

2009-03-01 Thread Adam Carter
I need to select all the lines between string1 and string2 in a file. String1 exists on an entire line by itself and string2 will be at the start of a line. What's the syntax? I cant use -A as there is a variable number of lines. Thanks.

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Grep question

2009-03-05 Thread Adam Carter
awk '/^foo/,/^bar/' a does the same :) Nice... Thanks for all these answers. Interesingly when I moved the sed script (sed s/;/\\n/g) from Linux to Solaris it failed as Solaris sed doesn't like putting the newline character as the translated to bit. Installing GNU sed on the Solaris

RE: [gentoo-user] Usernames in ssh attacks

2009-03-19 Thread Adam Carter
In my ssh logs this morning I noticed a couple login attempts with usenames on them... I've never seen that before. It is usually just an IP address. Mar 18 20:19:48 [sshd] refused connect from postmas...@dns.cablecentro.net.co Mar 18 23:42:44 [sshd] refused connect from 211.116.136.107

[gentoo-user] vmware overlay, server v2 no console

2009-04-03 Thread Adam Carter
I've upgraded to vmware server v2 and it seems to be working, ie i cant start my suspended guest OSes, but from the web GUI i cant get the console to popup after loading the firefox plugin. When i click the area that says click anywhere to open the console nothing happens. I've not used v2

RE: [gentoo-user] vmware overlay, server v2 no console

2009-04-03 Thread Adam Carter
I've upgraded to vmware server v2 and it seems to be working, ie i cant start my suspended guest OSes, but from the web GUI i cant get the console to popup after loading the firefox plugin. When i click the area that says click anywhere to open the console nothing happens. I've not used v2

[gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail

2009-04-16 Thread Adam Carter
Much like http://bugs.gentoo.org/26150 the ia64 boot cd is not recognised and the bios falls through to boot the hard disk. Knoppix boots fine, but if i were to try to install from 32 bit knoppix it will fail as soon as I chroot as i would then be attempting to run 64 bit binaries from the

RE: [gentoo-user] Kernel fails to boot on Via Epia

2009-04-16 Thread Adam Carter
VFS: Cannot open root device 303 or unknown-block (3,3) Please append a correct boot option; here are the available: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,3) The kernel is unable to find your root device. Try with the sda notation, if that fails

RE: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail

2009-04-16 Thread Adam Carter
From: Francisco Rivas [mailto:taken...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 7:11 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail Hi, What Dell Laptop do you have?. because I tried to install Gentoo amd64 in a E4300 and

[gentoo-user] jre memory heap size issue

2009-04-21 Thread Adam Carter
I have set -Xmx256m using the Java control panel GUI, and; sphinx jre # pgrep -lf java 8949 /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/bin/java -Xmx256m -Xbootclasspath/a:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/javaws.jar:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/deploy.jar:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/plugin.jar -classpath

[gentoo-user] FW: jre memory heap size issue

2009-04-21 Thread Adam Carter
Sorry - here it is in plain text for the luddites, j/k :-) I have set -Xmx256m using the Java control panel GUI, and; sphinx jre # pgrep -lf java 8949 /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/bin/java -Xmx256m

RE: [gentoo-user] Confusing persistent sync problem

2009-04-23 Thread Adam Carter
Welcome to crane.gentoo.org Server Address : 134.68.220.74 Contact Name : mirror-ad...@gentoo.org Hardware : 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 1700MHz, 2024MB RAM Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more than once a day.

[gentoo-user] GUI for touchscreen PC?

2009-04-25 Thread Adam Carter
I have 800x480 resolution, but with the touchscreen the pointer is clumsy to use. I need something that has large buttons, and will re-size dialogue windows so that the buttons at the bottom still fit on the window. Any suggestions?

RE: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-04-27 Thread Adam Carter
have here (pentium-mmx) into a firewall/router. I tried a live cd, with the intent of building up a 32bit chroot in my big box, and syncing it into the old one. (All 64bit native in the studio boxes) when i inserted the live cd to begin the process, i got an error message at boot which said

RE: [gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation

2009-05-07 Thread Adam Carter
I have been using VMware workstation V. 5.5.9 and a Logitech wireless keyboard for some time. Today I somehow mistyped a Ctrl-something sequence while in the VM window, meaning to enter it elsewhere instead of the VM. Now, the cursor keys between the main keys and the keypad have stopped

RE: [gentoo-user] automated install || stage4? rapid deployment?

2009-05-11 Thread Adam Carter
I'm curious how other sysadmins rapidly deploy a slew of new Gentoo systems? In this case I'm setting up many dozens of Gentoo servers inside of VMware ESX and having to destroy and redeploy said systems regularly. The hardware (virtual, of course) varies ever so slightly, so cloning (via

RE: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-11 Thread Adam Carter
I've been trying to get to the bottom of my recent troubles with my IDE controller working with the 2.6.28 kernel. Now, linux never boots without a kernel panic, so dmesg never gets logged... Is there any way to have the kernel dump the boot log somewhere? I'd settle for scrolling up,

RE: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-12 Thread Adam Carter
My Gentoo laptop is a Macbook Pro SantaRosa (late 2007, probably MA896LL/A , following wikipedia). Since I use it for work I've always been quite conservative with it... it is an x86 machine and I upgrade things only after having read things here and there on the ML and possibly elsewhere

was [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 now old nvidia drivers

2009-05-17 Thread Adam Carter
For you guys with older hardware/drivers, have you tried turning on CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS and recompiling the kernel to see if its helps? (Kernel hacking - Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols). I use it to support vmware server 1.x and ati flgrx drivers (with 2.6.26 or later kernels). IIRC

RE: was [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 now old nvidia drivers

2009-05-17 Thread Adam Carter
For you guys with older hardware/drivers, have you tried turning on CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS and recompiling the kernel to see if its helps? (Kernel hacking - Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols). snip That is a good find. I can't say that it is the problem but it was not enabled on my

RE: [gentoo-user] nagging USE flag question

2009-05-18 Thread Adam Carter
The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook. But one thing has always bothered me: What's the point of specifying a *negative* flag with a hyphen? Why not just leave the flags you don't use out of the file entirely? Some flags are on by default, so this stops their use.

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-25 Thread Adam Carter
RESULTS: fglrx loads, but does not see the adapter. There's also a problem with the mouse driver -- some undefined symbol. Have you rebuilt your kernel after emergeing xf86-input-mouse? If so you probably need to re-emerge xf86-input-mouse.

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-25 Thread Adam Carter
This seems a step backwards. No screens found, and still 3 things that would not load. Results follow: === startx run begins xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.21944 X.Org X Server 1.5.3 Release Date: 5 November 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-25 Thread Adam Carter
DRI requires kernel support - Device Drivers - Graphics - Direct Rendering Manager, and you'll want to select the correct ATI support under that. That's always been there, as modules. If I modprobe for r128, it gets loaded along with module drm. It makes no difference to the startx

RE: [gentoo-user] USE=mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext

2009-05-25 Thread Adam Carter
'grep flags /proc/cpuinfo' to see what features the CPU supports, and add those to USE. You'll recognise most but apparently pni = sse3 (but then my core2 also shows ssse3 as wellodd)

RE: [gentoo-user] USE=mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext

2009-05-27 Thread Adam Carter
actually care about moving binary packages around. Thoughts? thoughts: there are distros that hold your hand already. There's also Windows. For just in case Ubuntu doesn't hold enough of your hand. I'm with Wyatt on this one. Can we appreciate there may be a difference between

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-27 Thread Adam Carter
For me, libdri.so is a symlink to /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libdri.so libglx.so is a symlink to /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so (since you havent run the eselect to repoint it yet, it will be set to /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so). Can you tell me

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-27 Thread Adam Carter
Sorry Kevin, I wasn't paying attention and thought you were using ati-drivers/flgrx package, which is where /usr/lib64/opengl/ati comes from. Since you're not using flgrx I would expect you would use /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so and That was supposed to be

[gentoo-user] Touchpad wont click with xorg-server-1.5.3-r6

2009-06-02 Thread Adam Carter
I can no longer tap the touchpad to cause a mouse click. It worked in 1.5.3-r5, but i think r5 was -hal, whereas i have built -r6 +hal. I cant see any touchpad related patches in r6. Should i try -hal, reverting to -r5 or something else? I have no input devices defined in my xorg.conf. Dell

RE: [gentoo-user] Touchpad wont click with xorg-server-1.5.3-r6

2009-06-04 Thread Adam Carter
I can no longer tap the touchpad to cause a mouse click. It worked in 1.5.3-r5, but i think r5 was -hal, whereas i have built -r6 +hal. I cant see any touchpad related patches in r6. Should i try -hal, reverting to -r5 or something else? I have no input devices defined in my xorg.conf.

RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Adam Carter
lspci | grep VGA Or if that doesn't work lshw -class display

RE: [gentoo-user] DNS poisoning fix

2008-07-10 Thread Adam Carter
Is it merely a matter of using the right version of bind (for those who run a bind daemon locally), or does it go further than that? This issue is addressed in ISC BIND 9.2.8-P1, BIND 9.3.4-P1, BIND 9.4.1-P1 or BIND 9.5.0a6 rix adam # emerge -pv bind These are the packages that would be

RE: [gentoo-user] DNS poisoning fix

2008-07-10 Thread Adam Carter
So AFAICT it was fixed in stable/x86 around 11 months ago. Ignore my earlier idoicy - from ISC's site; YOU ARE ADVISED TO INSTALL EITHER THE PATCHES (9.5.0-P1, 9.4.2-P1, 9.3.5-P1) OR THE NEW BETA RELEASES (9.5.1b1, 9.4.3b2) IMMEDIATELY. The patches will have a noticeable impact on the

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5

2008-07-27 Thread Adam Carter
The root of the problem is really quite simple, you have a system with a python version python-updater doesn't like. The solution is actually quite simple: step 1. update python to 2.5, rebuild cracklib (afaik cracklib is the only system package that requires python), portage, gentookit.

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5

2008-07-27 Thread Adam Carter
A more conservative approach (which shouldn't break anything AFAIK, but will take longer) is; 1. Run python-updater to move everything from 2.3 to 2.4 2. Uninstall python 2.3 3. Do your full emerge -uvD to update to python-updater 0.5 and python 2.5 4. (optional, you could to it later)

RE: [gentoo-user] netstat command

2008-07-30 Thread Adam Carter
is there a way to find out the time when the port was connected in netstat command For example netstat -anp | grep 12001 Dont think so. If its a server opening the port, look for syslog messages from the daemon.

RE: [gentoo-user] move instalation from one system to another one.

2008-07-30 Thread Adam Carter
My old laptop is dying. I'm going to move my gentoo installation to a new one. The old one was an old Pentium-M and the new one is core due. I want to to tar the root and boot and .. files from the old one to untar it to the new one. I want to know, What packages needs to rebuild

[gentoo-user] python-updater keeps catching same packages

2008-08-10 Thread Adam Carter
voodoo adam # python-updater * Starting Python Updater from 2.4 to 2.5 : * Adding to list: =x11-libs/vte-0.16.13 * Adding to list: =app-office/dia-0.96.1-r1 * Adding to list: =dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2 And if i run python-updater again after letting it rebuild these packages it picks

[gentoo-user] RE: python-updater keeps catching same packages

2008-08-10 Thread Adam Carter
Sorry, should have googled first; http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232467

[gentoo-user] X screen resolution

2008-08-19 Thread Adam Carter
X is starting in 1280x1024, however i want it to start in 1600x1200. At the moment im using xrandr to set it manually after i start X. Here's my config; the Modeline is required. voodoo adam # egrep '(1600|1280)' /etc/X11/xorg.conf Modeline 1600x1200 162.00 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201

RE: [gentoo-user] X screen resolution

2008-08-21 Thread Adam Carter
X is starting in 1280x1024, however i want it to start in 1600x1200. At the moment im using xrandr to set it manually after i start X. Here's my config; the Modeline is required. Can you show us your complete xorg.conf? Its in the middle of getting hacked around, so there's a few

RE: [gentoo-user] X screen resolution

2008-08-22 Thread Adam Carter
Hm, I don't see anything strange. Maybe in the rest of your Xorg.0.log? Its sorted - Gnome must have been resetting the resolution as it started.

RE: [gentoo-user] Debugging X

2008-08-23 Thread Adam Carter
It dies after the cursor shows up, spitting this backtrace and output. Sorry if the formatting sucks. The last line is probably refering to the fact I tried to run it from within screen, so if that could cause a problem say so, and tell me how the heck to get a log of this output

[gentoo-user] Linux vs Alteon

2008-08-28 Thread Adam Carter
My gentoo laptop is receiving an appropriate arp-reply from an alteon 2208 (according to tcpdump), but doesnt put it in its arp table. A windows box on the same port works fine. Has anyone come across this? Can i debug arp on linux?

[gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/apache2 fails, but apache will run

2008-09-28 Thread Adam Carter
rix adam # /etc/init.d/apache2 start * Starting apache2 ... (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs [ ok ] rix adam # The socket is not in

RE: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/apache2 fails, but apache will run

2008-09-28 Thread Adam Carter
On Sunday 28 September 2008 09:26:06 pm Adam Carter wrote: rix adam # /etc/init.d/apache2 start * Starting apache2 ... (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs [ ok

[gentoo-user] Wine + USB to serial adapter

2008-10-12 Thread Adam Carter
Is /dev/ttyUSB0 as functional as a regular /etc/ttyS0? I have a USB to serial adapter that uses the pl2303 driver, and have [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.wine/dosdevices $ ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 adam users 12 May 9 04:08 com1 - /dev/ttyUSB0 But it doesnt appear to work.

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Wine + USB to serial adapter

2008-10-13 Thread Adam Carter
FTDI work very well under windows or linux. Once you add the appropriate driver (via the linux kernel) you can boot either winblows or linux and use the 9pin-serial-to-usb as you like with either OS. The device is setup and works (hence the existance of the /dev/ttyUSB0 device). If the

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Wine + USB to serial adapter

2008-10-13 Thread Adam Carter
Also; absydos adam # setserial /dev/ttyUSB0 Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument And absydos adam # stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 speed 9600 baud; line = 0; -brkint -imaxbel absydos adam #

RE: [gentoo-user] ath5k in the kernel - where is it?

2008-10-14 Thread Adam Carter
Thanks guys. Anybody tried it? I've tried it. Works at home with WPA2 PSK, but I get a segfault (in wpa_supplicant IIRC) when I use it with WPA2 Enterprise (802.1x) at work. I think my laptop is 2.6.25-gentoo-r6 or r7.

RE: [gentoo-user] ath5k in the kernel - where is it?

2008-10-15 Thread Adam Carter
Could you post the output of lspci, please? I have stability problems with madwifi on my system, so if you've got the same wlan chipset I would give it a try also (with 2.6.27, then). 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) FWIW I had no

RE: [gentoo-user] Slow connexion with usb to serial converter

2008-10-15 Thread Adam Carter
The problem is I don't know what kind of information I can give. What I can say is the transfer takes 10 minutes via usb to serial instead of 30 seconds via the standard DB9 connector. It sounds like you're saying that the USB-RS232 serial connector is slower than a real RS232 port - is that

RE: [gentoo-user] ath5k in the kernel - where is it?

2008-10-15 Thread Adam Carter
I've tried it. Works at home with WPA2 PSK, but I get a segfault (in wpa_supplicant IIRC) when I use it with WPA2 Enterprise (802.1x) at work. I think my laptop is 2.6.25-gentoo-r6 or r7. Update - no segfault with 2.6.27 with WPA2 Enterprise.

[gentoo-user] Does vmware work with 2.6.27?

2008-10-15 Thread Adam Carter
Or even 2.6.26? I use gentoo-sources. Presumably I'll have to use ~x86 for vwmare-modules and vwmare-server.

RE: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-02 Thread Adam Carter
I've got OpenOffice (compiled), v3.0.0 here. It appears broken. I haven't tried a lot of things, but this little RTF file gets it wedged right away: the console that started it says: error - missing word count in dictionary file Hash Manager Error : 4 So I'm guessing there's a problem in

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-02 Thread Adam Carter
After a --sync, this is the result: Calculating world dependencies \!!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/app-office/openoffice/openoffice-3.0.0.ebuild !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size !!! Got: 13385 !!! Expected: 13380 My machine has 13380, so it looks like the

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: dhcpd uses fake MAC address

2008-11-02 Thread Adam Carter
I just did this and everything is OK; the MAC address is correct. Booting is also faster by about 8-10 seconds (dhcpcd needed about 10 seconds to get the IP, udhcpc gets an IP instantly.) The difference in time could be due to dhcpcd performing a DHCPREQUEST, getting NACKed and falling back

RE: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-03 Thread Adam Carter
Hi I have am new to Gentoo. Ok, first thing to do is resubmit this post with a useful subject title :-) Many people like to file things away or ignore stuff that they're not interested in, so the subject is important.

RE: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-03 Thread Adam Carter
I previously used denyhosts - but (I can't remember why) it became preferable to block with IPtables rather than with tcpwrappers... which prompted me to dump it in favour of a bespoke script based upon blacklist.py (http://blinkeye.ch/mediawiki/index.php/SSH_Blocking) - though, now, I'm

RE: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Carter
Also take a note that there are no known-compromised hosts What about hosts listed in RBLs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_blacklists. It would be interesting to see if how much correlation there is between ssh brute forcing bots and the contents of the various lists.

RE: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Carter
Open a Wiki page on Wikipedia, update it every so often and provide simple parser for it so others can recycle same IPs. Since it's a Wiki page - others can update it as well (including botnet owners, but then they'd have to reveal themselves - tricky situation) :) Reveal themselves in what

RE: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Carter
Also take a note that there are no known-compromised hosts What about hosts listed in RBLs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_blacklists. It would be interesting to see if how much correlation there is between ssh brute forcing bots and the contents of the various lists. Maybe

RE: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug.

2008-12-21 Thread Adam Carter
(tongue heading swiftly in the direction of cheek) Ring ring. Ring ring. Hello, Gentoo user list speaking Oh hi. It's the 1990s calling. We want our plain text email back No

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT DNS] common way to discover nameservers for an IP

2007-04-02 Thread Adam Carter
I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers serving a given IP. I don't remember if it was nslookup, host, dig or what but not finding it in those various man pages. I have made a different assumtion about what your question means than other posters - assuming you

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Adam Carter
A bit softer than some of the other suggestions; # eclean packages # eclean distfiles app-portage/gentoolkit contains eclean. From the man page; eclean is small tool to remove obsolete portage sources files and binary packages. Used on a regular basis, it prevents your DISTDIR and

[gentoo-user] wifi statup backgrounds

2007-05-27 Thread Adam Carter
Hi All, When i start my wifi network (with wpa_supplicant in debug mode) it backgrounds and I cant see the rest of the debug messages. How do i stop the backgrounding? debug snipped wpa_driver_madwifi_del_key: keyidx=1 wpa_driver_madwifi_del_key: keyidx=2 wpa_driver_madwifi_del_key: keyidx=3

RE: [gentoo-user] wifi statup backgrounds

2007-05-29 Thread Adam Carter
When i start my wifi network (with wpa_supplicant in debug mode) it backgrounds and I cant see the rest of the debug messages. How do i stop the backgrounding? Make sure of two things: 1. At /etc/conf.d/net, you add the -d to the line wpa_supplicant_wlan0=whatever -d I already

RE: [gentoo-user] pidgin

2007-06-23 Thread Adam Carter
I'm running 2.0.2 with no problems. Just remember to backup your .gaim directory before updating to pidgin, so you can go back if something doesn't work. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Really weird network problem

2007-06-23 Thread Adam Carter
Hello, I have some strange network problem: i can ping(icmp works), i can arping(arp works), my dns works, btw routes also looks ok, Ok - just to clarify, you are sucessfully pinging the webserver you want to contact by name - is that correct? If so, that

RE: [gentoo-user] Gnome-Panel's Network Monitor gives an error

2006-12-17 Thread Adam Carter
I had a similar issue with the gnome clock, I tried a number of things to get it working but I think revdep-rebuild -X was the winner. Emerge gentoolkit if you don't have it. HTH, Adam -Original Message- From: Gabriel Rossetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 15,

RE: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 device initiated services

2007-01-03 Thread Adam Carter
Or you could emerge ifplugd, then the startup scripts won't try to initialise eth0 if no cable is detected. Another alternative is netplug. I don't know how they compare, but I'm using netplug sucessfully. http://www.red-bean.com/~bos/netplug/README Rgs, Adam -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

RE: [gentoo-user] QEMU compile problem

2007-01-04 Thread Adam Carter
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux -gnu/bin/l d: errno: TLS definition in /lib/libc.so.6 section .tbss mismatches non-TLS reference in libqemu.a(helper2.o) /lib/libc.so.6: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: ***

RE: [gentoo-user] QEMU compile problem

2007-01-04 Thread Adam Carter
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux -gnu/bin/l d: errno: TLS definition in /lib/libc.so.6 section .tbss mismatches non-TLS reference in libqemu.a(helper2.o) /lib/libc.so.6: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: ***

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not starting with eth0, router not giving IP

2007-01-24 Thread Adam Carter
Recently after rebooting from Windows to Gentoo, I noticed I had no internet access. My router, which is set to give my mac address the same IP (192.168.0.104), seems to have decided NOT to do this anymore. Nothing has changed in my settings on either my

[gentoo-user] PCMCIA issues

2006-08-07 Thread Adam Carter
Hi All, I'm a complete pcmcia and WLAN noob, and cat get my compaq WL110 WLAN card (orinoco) working. I get this when i start the pcmcia service; absydos adam # /etc/init.d/pcmcia start* PCMCIA support detected* Starting pcmcia ...cardmgr[17282]: no sockets found!* cardmgr failed to

RE: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

2009-06-18 Thread Adam Carter
x...@localhost ~ $ glxinfo | grep renderer OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer If you're worried about 3D performance, run 'eselect opengl list' To see if you have a hardware accelerated option, and if so 'eselect opengl set option' will fix that. If you want more 2D speed, you'll

RE: [gentoo-user] Problem with the graphic card

2009-06-19 Thread Adam Carter
Thank you all. I think I'll wait, however, do you think that that is the problem that cause glxinfo | grep renderer direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer On my ubuntu machine, I get : direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965Q GEM 20090326

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-24 Thread Adam Carter
I havent been following this thread but have you checked the open source drivers? New features are always being ported in. The two options are; - Radeon driver (module is named ati) - Radeonhd driver (module is named radeon) Check out the current features here http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

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