[gentoo-user] Re: [Xen] How to set or bring up "vif" interfaces?

2007-01-14 Thread Sven Köhler
> I would like to have Xen to run unmodified OS (Windows, and some other > Linuces). I know Linux may be ran Xen-aware, but the goal is to > experiment some kernel packaging, so that I need to use the distribution > kernel. > I got the FC5 isos. > I made a file "/etc/xen/fc5-guest.cfg" (see attache

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-14 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> Are you on dial-up too? The EXTIF='ppp0' may need to be eth0 for you if >> you are using a DSL or cable connection. > > I use an adsl-modem to connect to the internet. It is configured over > eth1 but the connection runs over ppp0 so i think this is right, but i > am no

Re: [gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong

2007-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 14 January 2007 19:08, Iván Pérez Domínguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong': > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > I've also attached a longer system update script that I use, for > > reference. > > I've been taking

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-14 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Are you on dial-up too? The EXTIF='ppp0' may need to be eth0 for you if you are using a DSL or cable connection. I use an adsl-modem to connect to the internet. It is configured over eth1 but the connection runs over ppp0 so i think this is right, but i am not sure. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org m

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-14 Thread Dale
Thomas Lingefelt wrote: > Honestly for making a router ShoreWall really helps out. Shorewall is > basically a set of scripts that read configuration files that you set up > and then interacts with iptables for you. > > http://www.shorewall.net/ > http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_quickstart_guide

[gentoo-user] etc-update automerge-trivial-changes-only flag

2007-01-14 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
A few weeks ago I modified etc-update to add a new flag. This new flag makes etc-update to apply trivial changes exit without showing the menu. A bug was filed, but had no response so far. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159080 I just wanted to know what you think. PS. This etc-update co

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-14 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> I used this script a long time ago. It worked until iptables got >> changed. It still worked but it gave a few errors. Maybe some guru can >> look at this and update it for us both. Then maybe I can get someone to >> upgrade the script on the site. I had to edit the

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Lingefelt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Honestly for making a router ShoreWall really helps out. Shorewall is basically a set of scripts that read configuration files that you set up and then interacts with iptables for you. http://www.shorewall.net/ http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_qu

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 net.eth1 net.eth2 persist in trying to come up even though not in any run level.

2007-01-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 20:39 +, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 23:12, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 19:56 +, Mick wrote: > > > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 01:13, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > hmm, now I look at it, I have RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!bluetooth", and yet > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong

2007-01-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 18:15 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 14 January 2007 13:22, Iván Pérez Domínguez > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Telling emerge > to continue when something goes wrong': > > After installing Gentoo in different machines several times, I won

Re: [gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong

2007-01-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 21:34 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > Iván Pérez Domínguez writes: > > > After installing Gentoo in different machines several times, I wonder if > > is there any way to tell emerge to keep installing as much as possible > > even when something goes wrong. > > Sure there is. H

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-14 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I used this script a long time ago. It worked until iptables got changed. It still worked but it gave a few errors. Maybe some guru can look at this and update it for us both. Then maybe I can get someone to upgrade the script on the site. I had to edit the very first bit about which interfac

Re: [gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong

2007-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 14 January 2007 13:22, Iván Pérez Domínguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong': > After installing Gentoo in different machines several times, I wonder if > is there any way to tell emerge to keep installing as much as po

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about kernels and kernel patches

2007-01-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 20:21 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Is it possible for me to unpack > the kernel source, apply the Win4Lin patches, and then patch that kernel > all the way up to 2.6.18? you could try applying the patches straight to the 2.6.18 kernel. Depending on how much of the releva

[gentoo-user] Problem with kernel 2.6.18-r6

2007-01-14 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
Hi there. I'm having a problem with kernel 2.6.18-r6. My laptop hangs during boot, right after detecting the mouse and the keyboard. it doesn't matter whether I enable initrd or not, dies anyway. No kernel panic, no oops messages, it simply freezes. The funny thing is that sometimes it keeps runn

[gentoo-user] Problem with kernel 2.6.18-r6

2007-01-14 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
I'm having a problem with kernel 2.6.18-r6. My laptop hangs during boot, right after detecting the mouse and the keyboard. I doesn't matter whether I enable initrd or not, it dies anyway. No kernel panic, no oops messages, it simply freezes. The funny thing is that sometimes it keeps running a lit

[gentoo-user] [way OT]network drivers for windows xp guest in vmware player?

2007-01-14 Thread b.n.
Hi, sorry if asking this here but there is always a bit of vmware-related activity in this ML, so I guess I can find someone rapidly helping me. I have successfully installed a WinXP SP2 guest in vmware-player, using easyVMX for building the virtual machine config. Everything works well, exce

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: # echo "INPUT_DEVICES=\"keyboard mouse\"" >> /etc/make.conf # echo "VIDEO_CARDS=\"radeon vesa\"" >> /etc/make.conf # VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" emerge x11-drm # emerge xorg-x11 # env-update # source /etc/profile # Xorg -configure # fails mouse detect # se

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-14 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Hi, > > I have a similar problem like Dale in this thread [gentoo-user] Need > help networking two machines, but i think it is not exactly the same. > > I was trying to set up a home router following the > gentoo-home-router-guide > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/de/home-router

Re: [gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong

2007-01-14 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
Alex Schuster wrote: > Iván Pérez Domínguez writes: > >> After installing Gentoo in different machines several times, I wonder if >> is there any way to tell emerge to keep installing as much as possible >> even when something goes wrong. > > Sure there is. Have a look at the emerge man page, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Improvement Request for Install CD

2007-01-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:57:54 +0100, Matthias Fechner wrote: > I asked which person or group I should ask that cpio is included into > the normal install CD which is generated by the getoo team. File a request at http://bugs.gentoo.org -- Neil Bothwick COBOL: (n.) an old computer language, des

Re: [gentoo-user] Improvement Request for Install CD

2007-01-14 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Avaricen, * Avaricen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-01-07 02:03]: > I'd suggest reading, start here: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_LiveCD_and_LiveUSB thx a lot for your link. The article is very interesting but it is not what I wanted. I asked which person or group I should ask that cpio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-14 Thread sean
James and all, thanks much for the help, however I have called it a day with this ATI Radeon 9550 card. I lost several days troubleshooting the thing, and every corner I tuned ran into another problem. Torture! Brought the card back to the store, replaced it with an Nvidia based card. Emerged

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help networking two machines.

2007-01-14 Thread Mick
Some quick thoughts: On Friday 12 January 2007 10:09, Dale wrote: > Hi > > I have done this before. Maybe something has changed because I can not > get it to work now. My main rig is called smoker. The second rig is > currently booted off the CD. I plan to use my main rig to sync and get > > d

Re: [gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong

2007-01-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Iván Pérez Domínguez writes: > After installing Gentoo in different machines several times, I wonder if > is there any way to tell emerge to keep installing as much as possible > even when something goes wrong. Sure there is. Have a look at the emerge man page, there 's lots uf useful informatio

Re: [gentoo-user] usb scanner HP2200c

2007-01-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:04:14 -0600, Dan wrote: > here's the output from the system log, i use metalog so > that's /var/log/everything/current. > > Jan 14 10:02:02 [kernel] usb 2-1: > USB disconnect, address 2 Jan 14 10:02:08 [kernel] ohci_hcd > :00:02.0: wakeup Jan 14 10:02:08 [kernel] usb 2

[gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-14 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hi, I have a similar problem like Dale in this thread [gentoo-user] Need help networking two machines, but i think it is not exactly the same. I was trying to set up a home router following the gentoo-home-router-guide http://www.gentoo.org/doc/de/home-router-howto.xml with shorewall as firewall

[gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong

2007-01-14 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
Hi, After installing Gentoo in different machines several times, I wonder if is there any way to tell emerge to keep installing as much as possible even when something goes wrong. Here's an example: emerge stuff1 stuff2 stuff3 emerge says "the following packages will be emerged" and so on. A

[gentoo-user] USE flags and configure-time problems

2007-01-14 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
Hi there. I just happend to emerge evince and, after half an hour got the following error: 18:07:32 (44.99 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/evince-0.6.1.tar.bz2' saved [1212271/1212271] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * chec

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 2.0 and gentoo

2007-01-14 Thread Jean-Baptiste Mestelan
On 1/14/07, Devon Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/12/07, Roberto Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:24:57 -0600, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 06:34 -0600, Roberto Martinez wrote: > > this sort of thing is often due to

[gentoo-user] Asus F3JV AS022P installation tips

2007-01-14 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, For people intending to buy an Asus F3JV-x: http://www.asso-polyvalente.fr/workspaces/members/mihamina/public/asus-f3jv-as022p Cheers -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 2.0 and gentoo

2007-01-14 Thread Devon Miller
On 1/12/07, Roberto Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:24:57 -0600, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 06:34 -0600, Roberto Martinez wrote: > this sort of thing is often due to inconsistent/missing libraries > > 1. run revdep-rebuild > 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] usb scanner HP2200c

2007-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 14 January 2007 11:38, Justin Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] usb scanner HP2200c': > On AD 2007 January 13 Saturday 12:22:25 PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Don't apologise, if you know it's wrong, don't do it. Not only do I > > get two copies of your mail,

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Layer burn program

2007-01-14 Thread Mick
On Monday 18 December 2006 00:30, Dale wrote: > Luigi Pinna wrote: > > Hi! > > How can I burn a 8.5 GByte iso? I tried with k3b and I receive an error > > and growisofs failed at 99.9% with input/output error. > > I searched in portage but I didn't find a program with dual layer > > support. Nero d

Re: [gentoo-user] usb scanner HP2200c

2007-01-14 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2007 January 13 Saturday 12:22:25 PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Don't apologise, if you know it's wrong, don't do it. Not only do I get > two copies of your mail, but of every response when someone uses Reply to > All :( That's the way some mailing lists work because it's more 'RFC compli

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 2.0 and gentoo

2007-01-14 Thread Roberto Martinez
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:24:57 -0600, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 06:34 -0600, Roberto Martinez wrote: Well, I've done research and found nothing, except that it happens only on gentoo ... It appears that any mozilla product segfaults on my gentoo box b

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is there a gcc-4.1.1 alternative?

2007-01-14 Thread Dan
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:39:07 -0500 PaulNM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I once experienced something similar on my [i686 Pentium II > (Klamath)] server. I don't remember exactly what part of gcc was > compiling at the time of the "hang", but I found switching kernel > versions helped. According to

Re: [gentoo-user] usb scanner HP2200c

2007-01-14 Thread Dan
> OK, so it's not a permissions issue. What shows up in your syslog when > you connect the scannner? > > If you use syslog-ng, run "tail -f /var/log/message" then connect the > scanner. here's the output from the system log, i use metalog so that's /var/log/everything/current. Jan 14 10:02:02 [

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:59:13 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What seems great about OpenWRT is the possibility of installing > > packages. Only debian packages made for OpenWRT. I guess I'll have to > > learn about that... > > Me too. I would also like to learn how to cross compil

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

2007-01-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:35:04 +, Mick wrote: > I am not sure what happens when I have both an ethernet cable plugged > in and the WiFi adaptor. I guess both will come up but which one is > going to be used by applications to connect to the Internet? I use the preup() function in /etc/conf.d/n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: managing 802.11a/b/g

2007-01-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:30:48 + (UTC), james wrote: > If it's ready for testing shouldn't it be (~) masked and not (M) masked? > If not, what the meaning of masking with (~) versus (M) ~arch means a testing ebuild. In this case, the package apparently is considered not ready for general relea

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-14 Thread Mick
On Sunday 14 January 2007 09:46, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > I presume OpenWRT can run scripts to do something similar? > > I think it can run user-made scripts (that's the point, after all), but > my experience with OpenWRT is nil. I can cook up the script easily > enough, but I don't know about ezu

Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting hashes from MSWindows SAM files

2007-01-14 Thread Mick
On Sunday 14 January 2007 04:47, Ali Polatel wrote: > * Mick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Do you know if Gentoo offers any tool(s) to extract the hash numbers from > > MSWindows SAM files? I am thinking of the Linux equivalent of e.g. > > pwdump.exe > > > > I need the hashes to b

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, William Kenworthy wrote: get the device to tell you that its IP has changed? I use a linux box behind an old DSL300 for the above that extracts the IP number from the interface connected to the DSL300 every 60 seconds. If its changed, this triggers an update to dyndns (via

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

2007-01-14 Thread Mick
On Thursday 11 January 2007 17:52, »Q« wrote: > Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you could emerge ifplugd, then the startup scripts won't try to > > initialise eth0 if no cable is detected. > > Is there something like this which will bring my wireless connection up > or down depending o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3D games on AMD64 + ati 1900

2007-01-14 Thread Martins
On Thursday 11 January 2007 04:44, James wrote: > > yes /usr/games/bin/bzflag > when queried with the file command returns: > bzflag: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), > for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked > (uses shared libs), stripped > > > This is the first time I've