Re: [gentoo-user] OT ( was : Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4)

2007-07-19 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle giovedì 19 luglio 2007, Billy McCann ha scritto: [...] > > 2. Copy old .config and "make". In this case you miss any new > > kernel options. [...] That is no true. If you copy your old .config and give make, the make asks you for al

Re: [gentoo-user] autoloading ipw3945

2007-07-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:19:55 +0930 Novensiles divi Flamen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used to have the modules load , which initiated the ipw3945d with an error > that it can't start until runlevel three, then it worked perfectly once that > runlevel was reached. Now it loads the module but

Re: [gentoo-user] autoloading ipw3945

2007-07-19 Thread Novensiles divi Flamen
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:38:12 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Sounds good. I assume you do *not* have ipw3945 in > /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. If my guess is wrong, do you get > the boot-time error message I mentioned (Failed to load ipw3945). > Your guess is correct, it is not in there. > > My /

Re: [gentoo-user] autoloading ipw3945

2007-07-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:05:27 +0930 Novensiles divi Flamen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have exactly the same laptop, with the wireless assigned to eth1. net.eth1 > is not run in any runlevel, but is launched from udev. Sounds good. I assume you do *not* have ipw3945 in /etc/modules.autoload.

Re: [gentoo-user] autoloading ipw3945

2007-07-19 Thread Novensiles divi Flamen
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:57:01 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > What is the clean way to do this? Currently I am using the first > method above and averting my eyes when the yellow star is to appear. I have exactly the same laptop, with the wireless assigned to eth1. net.eth1 is not run in any runlevel, b

[gentoo-user] autoloading ipw3945

2007-07-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
My laptop (inspiron 6400) has an intel 3945 wireless chip and hence I use net-wireless/ipw3945{,d,-ucode}. If I include ipw3945 in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, I get an error msg during boot Failed to load ipw3945 However, everything works fine. Specifically, ifconfig shows that the

Re: [gentoo-user] XSESSION="Xsession" doesn't work!

2007-07-19 Thread Stroller
Thanks very much indeed for your help, James. On 19 Jul 2007, at 00:47, James Ausmus wrote: If anyone has time to change XSESSION="Xsession" and log on to their machine as a new user I would be grateful to hear what results they get. I can't help wondering if this is a little-tested option a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 Jul 2007, at 23:22, Albert Hopkins wrote: ... I'm looking for a cable so that I can copy the sony drive onto a gentoo partition of another system via a usb 2.0 to ata/eide cable. It was suggested this cable: ttp://tinyurl.com/ynhszy [sic] But being in Florida... These are really easy t

Re: [gentoo-user] enable musicbrainz on amarok?

2007-07-19 Thread Ryan Sims
On 7/19/07, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I recently recompiled amarok with the musicbrainz USE flag enabled, to allow tagging of mp3 files with musicbrainz. However, when I try to "Edit tag information..." the "Fill-in tags using MusicBrainz" button is always disabled. It tells me to inst

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:45 +, James wrote: > Ok Albert, > > I'm convinced. I'm going to give your suggestions a whirl. > One cautious step I'm adding as suggested, is to back up the > virgin drive with DD. > > I'm looking for a cable so that I can copy the sony drive > onto a gentoo partitio

[gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread James
Albert Hopkins gentoo.org> writes: > I've been using RIPLinux for 3 years and haven't had any issues with it. Ok Albert, I'm convinced. I'm going to give your suggestions a whirl. One cautious step I'm adding as suggested, is to back up the virgin drive with DD. I'm looking for a cable so tha

Re: [gentoo-user] OT ( was : Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4)

2007-07-19 Thread Billy McCann
On 7/17/07, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 14:24 -0500, Billy Wayne McCann wrote: > My purpose for pasting this into this discussion is three-fold: to > show > why I said what I did, to hopefully dispel the notion that I merely > made > this all up, and to discus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:29 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > Well, actually we are using both (chainloading ntldr by grub) and if you are > changing the partition scheme, you might need to work with it. > Sorry I was confused. [...] > > Sorry when I said boot via liveCD I wasn't specifically r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 19 Juli 2007 21:01 schrieb Albert Hopkins: > On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:58 +, James wrote: > > Albert Hopkins gentoo.org> writes: > > [...] > > > I'm not sure if Vista versus XP make any difference. In a recent post > > on this list about grub one reader posted about the fact tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:58 +, James wrote: > Albert Hopkins gentoo.org> writes: [...] > > I'm not sure if Vista versus XP make any difference. In a recent post > on this list about grub one reader posted about the fact that with > Vista the boot.ini file is gone. I'm not sure that this ef

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 troubles

2007-07-19 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 19 July 2007 17:51:32 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Thursday 19 July 2007 18:00, Mike Williams wrote: Etaoin, thanks for you time. I fear I would fail basic routing, which is surprising, seeing how I do similar things with IPv4 networks! These addresses are all supposed to be properly in

[gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread James
Albert Hopkins gentoo.org> writes: > 1. Boot with a live cd (or better yet RIPLinux on a USB stick). RIP Linux looks very cool. No experience with this but, hey I'm going to try and use this... I'm not sure if Vista versus XP make any difference. In a recent post on this list about grub

[gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread James
Julian Simioni gmail.com> writes: > Depending on what software you need to run, running Windows in VMware > can work quite well. VMware is not an option. We use the laptops for embedded systems development. Most Semiconductor companies still require you use Windows for their intrisic Integrate

Re: [gentoo-user] Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
Last year I bought a Dell Inspiron that did not come with any software cd. The drive, came with XP pre-installed as well as a "recovery" partition that you could use to restore the XP partition to factory. Of course it runs Gentoo. What I did was: 1. Boot with a live cd (or better yet RIPL

Re: [gentoo-user] Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Julian Simioni
On 7/19/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I seem to have an adventure every time I set up a dual boot laptop with Windows and Gentoo. The last time I found out that HP will ship you an OEM install CD so after formatting the hard drive (deleting the windows hidden partition) you can p

[gentoo-user] Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread James
Hello, I seem to have an adventure every time I set up a dual boot laptop with Windows and Gentoo. The last time I found out that HP will ship you an OEM install CD so after formatting the hard drive (deleting the windows hidden partition) you can put windows on any partition you want and not ha

[gentoo-user] enable musicbrainz on amarok?

2007-07-19 Thread b.n.
Hi, I recently recompiled amarok with the musicbrainz USE flag enabled, to allow tagging of mp3 files with musicbrainz. However, when I try to "Edit tag information..." the "Fill-in tags using MusicBrainz" button is always disabled. It tells me to install Musicbrainz, but it's installed. Wha

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 troubles

2007-07-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 19 July 2007 18:00, Mike Williams wrote: > fe80::214:f600:b67e:b4db is the link local address of the upstream > router, which is also configured as dead:beef:2::1/48. Strictly speaking, if it's taken from the same block, it should be at least /49; otherwise, they would uncorrectly be

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 troubles

2007-07-19 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 19 July 2007 16:12:18 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > More precisely, it seems that these neighbor solicitation messages come > from the far end router, like it somehow believes that your internal > host is on its same subnet, and is trying to resolve its ipv6 address to > its link layer address

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 troubles

2007-07-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 19 July 2007 17:02, Mike Williams wrote: > I hadn't configured the "subnet router anycast address", but I can > still ping it. Again makes no difference if it's specified or not. Ok, then probably the linux implementation recognizes it anyway. But it seems this is not the issue here.

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 troubles

2007-07-19 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 19 July 2007 13:56:23 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > Ok, just some shots in the dark: > > - Do the hosts also get the default router, along with the ipv6 address? > You can check with "ip -6 route". You should get, among the others, a > default route pointing to the ipv6 link local (fe80:) addr

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 troubles

2007-07-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 19 July 2007 14:56, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > IIUC, icmpv6 echo request packets enter the router/firewall from the > bond2 interface, and leave the box using the bond0 interface > (confirming that forwarding works). But, the router/firewall is trying > to get the link-layer address of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 13:36 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:58 +0930 Iain Buchanan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else, but > > what I _don't_ like is when you have both man and info, and one of > > th

RE: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-19 Thread burlingk
> -Original Message- > From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 3:00 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3?? > > I totally agree here. (Of course, I think the Free Software vs. > Proprietary Software "war

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 troubles

2007-07-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 19 July 2007 13:45, Mike Williams wrote: > I can add dead:beef:2::11/64 (yes, /64) to the internet side of > router/firewall, a default route via dead:beef:2::1 and then happily > ping ipv6 things on the internet. Ok, so your ipv6 link to your provider (and to the ipv6 Internet) is w

[gentoo-user] IPv6 troubles

2007-07-19 Thread Mike Williams
Hey all, I was hoping we've got some IPv6 experts around, as I've got some "issues" I've been banging my head against for 2 days. Very briefly our network is a gentoo firewall box with 5 interfaces, 1 to the internet, and 4 to private networks (192.168.xxx.0/24). What I would like to do is assig

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:58 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else, but > what I _don't_ like is when you have both man and info, and one of > them is very deficient (in grub's case, man). The description is > different,

[gentoo-user] Tracker app opinions

2007-07-19 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Hi, I would like to know, does anybody have experinces with tracker? I mean this tracker: app-misc/tracker Available versions: (~)0.5.4-r1 {applet debug fam gnome gsf gstreamer jpeg pdf test thumbnailing xine} Installed versions: 0.5.4-r1(10.37.50 2007-07-19)(applet -debug fam gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] English sucks (was: Re: Installation problems)

2007-07-19 Thread Kent Fredric
On 7/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:35 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] English sucks (was: Re: > Installation

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs error: "permission denied" when executing a command

2007-07-19 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi James and the others, thank you very much, this option made the trick. Regards, marco On 7/19/07, James Ausmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: man mount /user gets you (*'s added by me for easy find): user Allow an ordinary user to mount the file system. The name of th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Stroller wrote: > > It's enough to make the > > average person's head spin (and does) - it can easily take two > > hours for me to get a class full of reasonably bright Windows > > techies to grasp ... > > You clearly have more experience than I do with teaching novices  

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs error: "permission denied" when executing a command

2007-07-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi, > i have a problem with NFS. A partition mounted on machine gentoo1 > is correctly exported and mounted in gentoo2 (that is, it is possible > to read and write on it). However whenever i try to execute a program > from gentoo2 that it is stor