[gentoo-user] VMware Workstation environment on Gentoo

2013-12-16 Thread J.Marcos Sitorus
Hello list, Anybody here ever successfully configured VMware Workstation on Gentoo? I have installed VMware Workstation 9 on my Gentoo box. It work for normal virtual machine, but it never work for nested ESXi. I want to create VMware lab on my PC for testing purpose (vMotion, svMotion, DRS, etc).

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-16 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 21:30:52 +0200 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade > > > Sanitize sources > > If you just want to rebuild the current kernel, you need sometimes to > sanitize the kernel sources: > > |root # ||make distclean| This has now been u

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:39:36 +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > Don't you save a copy of your kernel .config in /boot/ ? > > > Apparently not. > How do you install the kernel? make install copies the config to /boot as well as the kernel. -- Neil Bothwick Don't put all your hypes in one ho

[gentoo-user] Re: make distclean

2013-12-16 Thread eroen
On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 15:12:58 -0600 Bruce Hill wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 08:57:08PM +, Markos Chandras wrote: > > > > You could get your running config using > > > > zcat /proc/config.gz > .config > > Only if you enabled: > CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y > CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y > in your running

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-16 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 08:57:08PM +, Markos Chandras wrote: > > You could get your running config using > > zcat /proc/config.gz > .config Only if you enabled: CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y in your running kernel. -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-16 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 09:30:52PM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade > > > Sanitize sources > > If you just want to rebuild the current kernel, you need sometimes to > sanitize the kernel sources: > > |root # ||make distclean| > > Interestin

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-16 Thread Markos Chandras
On 12/16/2013 07:30 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade > > > Sanitize sources > > If you just want to rebuild the current kernel, you need sometimes to > sanitize the kernel sources: > > |root # ||make distclean| > > Interesting option. Wish it

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 16/12/2013 22:39, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > On 12/16/2013 10:28 PM, Mick wrote: >> On Monday 16 Dec 2013 19:57:30 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >>> On Dec 16, 2013 9:38 PM, "the" wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/16/13 23:30, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 12/16/2013 10:28 PM, Mick wrote: > On Monday 16 Dec 2013 19:57:30 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> On Dec 16, 2013 9:38 PM, "the" wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 12/16/13 23:30, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Interesting option. Wish it had said it would nuke

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 16 Dec 2013 19:57:30 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Dec 16, 2013 9:38 PM, "the" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 12/16/13 23:30, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > Interesting option. Wish it had said it would nuke my .config as > > > well. Just finishe

Re: [gentoo-user] Wifi, problem, problem, problem

2013-12-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 16 Dec 2013 15:56:35 Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > On 12/16/2013 10:43 AM, Florian HEGRON wrote: > >> My problem : > >> Recently, I decided to install Gentoo on an old acer laptop. > >> And as everydays, when I try to install my wifi device on a Gnu/linux > >> distro, I have a problem

Re: [gentoo-user] recent trouble with wicd and systemd (non-global ctrl_ifname)

2013-12-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 13/12/2013 14:57, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >>> On 13/12/2013 00:47, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:52 PM, wrote: > At home I use a wired conne

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Dec 16, 2013 9:38 PM, "the" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/16/13 23:30, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > Interesting option. Wish it had said it would nuke my .config as > > well. Just finished setting it up. Thought I'd follow the advice > > given before rebui

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-16 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/16/13 23:30, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > Interesting option. Wish it had said it would nuke my .config as > well. Just finished setting it up. Thought I'd follow the advice > given before rebuilding the kernel. Should've backed up the .config > fi

[gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade Sanitize sources If you just want to rebuild the current kernel, you need sometimes to sanitize the kernel sources: |root # ||make distclean| Interesting option. Wish it had said it would nuke my .config as well. Just finished setting it up. T

Re: [gentoo-user] Wifi, problem, problem, problem

2013-12-16 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/16/2013 10:43 AM, Florian HEGRON wrote: >> >> My problem : >> Recently, I decided to install Gentoo on an old acer laptop. >> And as everydays, when I try to install my wifi device on a Gnu/linux >> distro, I have a problem. >> The wireless card

Re: [gentoo-user] Wifi, problem, problem, problem

2013-12-16 Thread Florian HEGRON
My problem : Recently, I decided to install Gentoo on an old acer laptop. And as everydays, when I try to install my wifi device on a Gnu/linux distro, I have a problem. The wireless card is Intel Pro 2200BG. I tried to follow the simple wiki page : https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wifi It appears

Re: [gentoo-user] Wifi, problem, problem, problem

2013-12-16 Thread Mehdi Chemloul
Le 16/12/2013 15:36, Florian HEGRON a écrit : > Hello, > > First : > I use Gentoo since few weeks. > It's very technical distro. I learn about linux, and many tools. I > really learn to do what I want. > It's a good distro ! > > > My problem : > Recently, I decided to install Gentoo on an old acer

[gentoo-user] Wifi, problem, problem, problem

2013-12-16 Thread Florian HEGRON
Hello, First : I use Gentoo since few weeks. It's very technical distro. I learn about linux, and many tools. I really learn to do what I want. It's a good distro ! My problem : Recently, I decided to install Gentoo on an old acer laptop. And as everydays, when I try to install my wifi device

LVM - is thin provisioning used? - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-12-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-11-15 5:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/11/2013 23:58, Tanstaafl wrote: Now, the question is, what the heck is thin-provisioning in lvm2, am I using it, and if not, do I need it? I'm pretty sure I'm not using it, but how to be sure? If you use thin provisioning, you already know i

[gentoo-user] recommendation for a data recovery service

2013-12-16 Thread luis jure
for all i know, my data disk died yesterday (WD caviar black, 2TB). first i see the message: SATA PORT3 Device Error Press F1 to resume and then during boot up this: [2.775026] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [2.775571] ata3.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: @preserved-rebuild gone in a loop

2013-12-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 16 Dec 2013 04:04:34 eroen wrote: > On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:37:53 +0100 > > Benjamin Block wrote: > > Most of the times, when some binary packages on my systems do cause > > something like this, then I just unemerge the package that keeps > > recompiling and emerge it again afterwards. T