Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo cannot find my HD

2009-09-11 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i have attached my dmesg output, please help me review. i have tried the kmuto.jp site, and i think i have all the modules installed and loaded, but i still cannot see my HD on my laptop On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Xi Shen wrote: > of course i am using genkernel. i do not have access

Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

2009-09-11 Thread Mick
On Friday 11 September 2009, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > However, when I put the -d, it didn't tell me anything except that > dhcpcd sent several discover packets and then said timeout, so my > original question still remains -- why a timeout with 5.1 with the same > dhcpcd.conf and no timeout

[gentoo-user] wireless does not work on thinkpad t61

2009-09-11 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my laptop is thinkpad t61, and wireless card is intel pro/wireless 3945abg (according to the lspci output). i have configured my kernel as instructed by the handbook, and after compiling and reboot, i can see my wlan interface by iwconfig -a, and i modprobe iwl3945. but when i try iwspy wlan0,

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless does not work on thinkpad t61

2009-09-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 20:20 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > my laptop is thinkpad t61, and wireless card is intel pro/wireless > 3945abg (according to the lspci output). i have configured my kernel > as instructed by the handbook, and after compiling and reboot, i can > see my wlan interface by iwconfig -a

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless does not work on thinkpad t61

2009-09-11 Thread Xi Shen
i solved it. thanks ;) On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 20:20 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: >> my laptop is thinkpad t61, and wireless card is intel pro/wireless >> 3945abg (according to the lspci output). i have configured my kernel >> as instructed by the

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo cannot find my HD

2009-09-11 Thread Xi Shen
ok, i have find all my HD now. bug```i just noticed that i cannot find my cdrom. it is a dvd+rw On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > i have attached my dmesg output, please help me review. > > i have tried the kmuto.jp site, and i think i have all the modules > installed and

[gentoo-user] Re: sSMTP write error...?

2009-09-11 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 09:22:46PM +0200, Jarry wrote: > > I think these two events are somehow tied together. Any more ideas? No, sorry. I think that the last step is to do a bug report at gentoo. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

2009-09-11 Thread covici
Mick wrote: > On Friday 11 September 2009, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > However, when I put the -d, it didn't tell me anything except that > > dhcpcd sent several discover packets and then said timeout, so my > > original question still remains -- why a timeout with 5.1 with the same > > d

Re: [gentoo-user] screen, mc, htop

2009-09-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm here again. > > So, the problem points is I can't decide what is the real problem. But > I can describe the symptomes. > > I use screen lot of and I like it veery much. Few weeks ago - when I > reinstall gentoo,

[gentoo-user] Error emergin mkinitrd

2009-09-11 Thread Massimiliano Ziccardi
Hi all. I've a problem trying to emerge mkinitrd. Everytime I try, I get: * ERROR: sys-apps/mkinitrd-3.5.7-r3 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2212: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || d

Re: [gentoo-user] screen, mc, htop

2009-09-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando > wrote: > > I use screen lot of and I like it veery much. Few weeks ago - when I > > reinstall gentoo, started this weird thing. > > If I start mc in the screen nothings h

[gentoo-user] Re: screen, mc, htop

2009-09-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/11/2009 07:04 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando wrote: I use screen lot of and I like it veery much. Few weeks ago - when I reinstall gentoo, started this weird thing. If I s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: screen, mc, htop

2009-09-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/11/2009 07:04 PM, Willie Wong wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando >>> wrote: I use screen lot of and I like it

[gentoo-user] Re: screen, mc, htop

2009-09-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/11/2009 08:08 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/11/2009 07:04 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando wrote: I use scr

[gentoo-user] port bandwidth discovery

2009-09-11 Thread James
Hello, Currently, I manage gentoo system that have a variety of 10 and 100 MB/s ethernet cards. I use lshw to distinguish the max ethernet port speed: For example: network:0 DISABLED description: Ethernet interface

Re: [gentoo-user] port bandwidth discovery

2009-09-11 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
James wrote: > Hello, > > Currently, I manage gentoo system that have a variety of 10 and 100 MB/s > ethernet cards. I use lshw to distinguish the max ethernet port speed: > > > Is this reliable? What if a 10/100 card is plugged into a 10MB/s hub? Have you tried mii-tool? quasar ~ # mii-tool -

Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

2009-09-11 Thread Stroller
On 11 Sep 2009, at 16:29, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: ... I am using unstable generally, so it just came in the update. I have no router, this is FIOS from Verizon. Sorry if this is a dumb question, but presumably the interface is an ethernet card, right? What's it connected to? FISO

Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

2009-09-11 Thread covici
Stroller wrote: > > On 11 Sep 2009, at 16:29, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > ... > > I am using unstable generally, so it just came in the update. I > > have no > > router, this is FIOS from Verizon. > > Sorry if this is a dumb question, but presumably the interface is an > ethernet card, ri

[gentoo-user] Re: Error emergin mkinitrd

2009-09-11 Thread walt
On 09/11/2009 08:58 AM, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Hi all. I've a problem trying to emerge mkinitrd. Everytime I try, I get: * ERROR: sys-apps/mkinitrd-3.5.7-r3 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2212: Call

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
> I have $PORTAGE_TMPDIR on the SD card, which is cheap enough to replace > if too many OOo compiles toast it. And I took your advice >> 2. It's sloow > > I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly some compiles completed. Not as > fast as my desktop of course, but faster than was expecting,

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
> 2. Don't change a winning team! If your kernel run's smoothly with no > weird glutches in drivers, leave it be. Only update if you want new > features. > Just my 2p's worth > Greetz, > Mark Works for my desktop. I haven't updated it for years. Just poked along fixing this and that; if something

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Dale
Maxim Wexler wrote: > > > Negatory. My dialup is attenuated by 8 miles of analog telephone line. > When I'm mobile it's a different story. > > mw > > > I was on a really crappy dial-up until recently. You have my deepest sympathies. Dial-up, of any kind, truly sucks. :-@ Funny thing is, our

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
> As mentioned yesterday, I now do all emerges in a chroot on my desktop to > build binary packages, then emerge -k on the Eee, so Ooo only takes 90 > minutes now. The only compiling I do on the Eee is kernel changes. > This suggests using the fetchonly switch, write the files to USB key while mob

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Funny thing is, our old phone lines were about that far too. Most of > the time I got about 3KB/s of throughput. I hope yours is better than that. > That's about the top speed here.

[gentoo-user] qmail problem

2009-09-11 Thread salvatore monaco
Hello I'm try to install on my gentoo server qmail whit vpopmail for virtualhosting when I'm try to connect on mailbox the log in qmail-smtpd are @40004aaacf981c82d5f4 /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw: error while loading shared libraries: libnsl.so.1: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:32:00 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > This suggests using the fetchonly switch, write the files to USB key > while mobile and compile them later on the desktop. But when I do > > % emerge -pfuvND world > > I just get page after page of the mirrors list from make.conf. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 11 September 2009 22:32:00 Maxim Wexler wrote: > > As mentioned yesterday, I now do all emerges in a chroot on my desktop to > > build binary packages, then emerge -k on the Eee, so Ooo only takes 90 > > minutes now. The only compiling I do on the Eee is kernel changes. > > This suggests

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-11 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I used to do this. Trust me, it's more trouble than it's worth. A 4G memory > card just for distfiles will solve the problem nicely. > > This includes the tree, distfiles and all the buildpkges on a fully loaded KDE desktop. r...@smoker / # du -shc /usr/portage/ 4.4G

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error emergin mkinitrd

2009-09-11 Thread Jacob Todd
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:23:23PM -0700, walt wrote: > On 09/11/2009 08:58 AM, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I've a problem trying to emerge mkinitrd. > > > > Everytime I try, I get: > > > > * ERROR: sys-apps/mkinitrd-3.5.7-r3 failed. > > * Call stack: > > *

Re: [gentoo-user] qmail problem

2009-09-11 Thread Aiko Barz
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:40:16PM +0200, salvatore monaco wrote: > Hello I'm try to install on my gentoo server qmail whit vpopmail for > virtualhosting > when I'm try to connect on mailbox > the log in qmail-smtpd are > > @40004aaacf981c82d5f4 /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw: error while loading >

[gentoo-user] How would I disable Flash (oand other things) for a single account?

2009-09-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Is it possible to shut off all multimedia stuff for a single account? It's doesn't have to be securely off, just off, so if it cannot be done by meddling with group membership then doing something in a root owned bash file that executes when the user logs in even that's fine with me. (Uh - even I d