Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-11 Thread Mick
On 09/05/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 9 May 2006 11:36:42 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: when I go to shut down the laptop, the shutdown command will not work from my regular user, I have to su to be able to shutdown -- I use fluxbox, and I know this works properly in

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Timothy A. Holmes wrote: FAR more problems than im willing to go through (the shortest set of instructions ive seen so far for automount is like 3 pages) + IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher = LOL. After this, I find quite odd you have to be root to mount a

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
My /etc/fstab says: /dev/sdb1 /mnt/removable vfat noauto,async,user,exec 0 0 and I can mount it as a user just by clicking on its icon on Konqueror, for example. I think what you really need, however, is not automount but maybe HAL. Check in the wiki and/or docs for info, and

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks I have a couple of issues on my laptop that I would like to get wrapped up in the easiest method possible 1. Flashcards / memory sticks - Right now -- in order to mount my camera cards / thumb drives -- I have to become root -- its easy, but

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
[N] net-misc/vpnc (): Free client for Cisco VPN routing software I have to say, I used vpnc on FreeBSD at my last FT gig, and it worked like a charm.. was pretty simple to set up and run, and it Just Worked. Best, --Glenn -- Glenn E. Sieb, MTS Bell Laboratories [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Andreas Claesson
On 5/9/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the response -- I tried the additional stuff in /etc/fstab that you mentioned and when I hook up the usb drive and type /mount/sda1 /mnt/flash -- I get You must be root to mount When the information is in /etc/fstab all you have

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 May 2006 08:47:00 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Thanks for the response -- I tried the additional stuff in /etc/fstab that you mentioned and when I hook up the usb drive and type /mount/sda1 /mnt/flash -- I get You must be root to mount If you specify both the device and the

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 08 May 2006 19:15:03 -0400, JimD wrote: Google for gentoo dbus or gentoo hal. You want three programs. Hal, D-Bus and ivman. Hal and gentoo are real easy, you basically emerge and have them start at boot. ivman is the app that listens for events and will carry out actions in a

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
On Mon, 08 May 2006 19:15:03 -0400, JimD wrote: Google for gentoo dbus or gentoo hal. You want three programs. Hal, D-Bus and ivman. Hal and gentoo are real easy, you basically emerge and have them start at boot. ivman is the app that listens for events and will carry out actions in

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Jure Varlec
On Monday 08 May 2006 20:48, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: I need to be able to use a USB to Serial dongle to talk to my switches -- the adapters that I have are Triplite ones and I do have the driver disk for windows -- along with this, I need a good communications program (equivalent to

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
-Original Message- From: Jure Varlec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:20 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop On Monday 08 May 2006 20:48, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: I need to be able to use a USB

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
One Additional Question: when I go to shut down the laptop, the shutdown command will not work from my regular user, I have to su to be able to shutdown -- I use fluxbox, and I know this works properly in gnome/kde, I was just wondering if there was a way it could be made to work in fluxbox -- I

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 May 2006 11:36:42 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: when I go to shut down the laptop, the shutdown command will not work from my regular user, I have to su to be able to shutdown -- I use fluxbox, and I know this works properly in gnome/kde, I was just wondering if there was a way

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-08 Thread b.n.
Timothy A. Holmes wrote: FAR more problems than im willing to go through (the shortest set of instructions ive seen so far for automount is like 3 pages) + IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher = LOL. After this, I find quite odd you have to be root to mount a USB stick.

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-08 Thread Mick
On 08/05/06, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My /etc/fstab says: /dev/sdb1 /mnt/removable vfat noauto,async,user,exec 0 0 and I can mount it as a user just by clicking on its icon on Konqueror, for example. I think what you really need, however, is not automount but maybe HAL. Check in the

Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-08 Thread JimD
Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks I have a couple of issues on my laptop that I would like to get wrapped up in the easiest method possible 1. Flashcards / memory sticks - Right now -- in order to mount my camera cards / thumb drives -- I have to become root -- its easy, but an

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-08 Thread Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)
[N] net-misc/vpnc (): Free client for Cisco VPN routing software I have to say, I used vpnc on FreeBSD at my last FT gig, and it worked like a charm.. was pretty simple to set up and run, and it Just Worked. Best, --Glenn -- Glenn E. Sieb, MTS Bell Laboratories [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 732 949