On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 10:25 +0000, Ian Porter wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 08:03 +0000, Ian Porter wrote: > >> > > >> > I am just wondering if there is an option within emerge that will > >> > tell me which packages need to be re-compiled > >> > [ R ] > > > > recompiled? generally you don't need to "recompile" packages. > > Oh soz, thought that "R" meant re-compile. sorry.
it does mean recompile, however what your saying is: emerge -p <package> = compile newest stable version of package and if the newest stable version is the one you've already got, then it will "Recompile" it. > > It might be helpful if you supply the exact command you're trying to > > use, and a sample of the output. It may be that you should be doing > > something slightly different. > > umm.. I am not at the PC at the minute, but I think it is something like > iwconfig wlan0 up I was referring to the emerge commands, but you seem to have that sorted out now. > to bring up the wlan0 with the ndiswrapper (I assume ?) and it is stopping > on this, now that you've mentioned it though, if you still want to try the ndis version and not wait for the rt2500 package, then you have to 1. install ndiswrapper (of course :) 2. load your inf file from windows (I'll leave it up to you to find out which one :) 3. load it (modprobe ndiswrapper) 4. then set essid, key, etc with iwconfig 5. then do ifconfig wlan0 ... (or dhcp) > the pc just hangs and I have to restart the pc(button on case :() don't know about that. > > even better would be > > `emerge -upD world` > > followed by a > > `revdep-rebuild` > > if kernel / gcc / major things like that have changed. > > > > I have done this as well, and only got the OO package, but with the > information from someone else on this list (thanks but forgot your name), I > shall not have OO in the revdep-rebuild list :) OO is fine to upgrade, if a little large. I use the openoffice-bin (version 2) and it works great! > btw do you use wpa_supplicant > with the rt2500 driver ? no, I've been meaning to for a while, so it's on my list of "been meaning to's" cya, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
