Re: [gentoo-user] 4G Stick Huawei E3276

2013-04-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.03.2013 12:36, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > But small progress, yes. I am close, I feel it :-) Switched to wvdial to rule out NM etc. wvdialconf etc I now have: [Dialer Defaults] Modem Type = Analog Modem Dial Attempts = 1 ISDN = 0 New PPPD = yes Init1 = ATZ Init3 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S

Re: [gentoo-user] 4G Stick Huawei E3276

2013-04-02 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 02 Apr 2013 13:13:26 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 30.03.2013 12:36, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > But small progress, yes. > > I am close, I feel it :-) > > Switched to wvdial to rule out NM etc. > > wvdialconf etc > > I now have: > > [Dialer Defaults] > Modem Type = An

Re: [gentoo-user] 4G Stick Huawei E3276

2013-04-02 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 02 Apr 2013 14:06:37 you wrote: > That's how I understand these devices to work, but unfortunately I can't > verify any of this because I do not have access to such a device or a 4G > network. :-( Yep, you are meant to see an ethernet interface coming up, which network manager will p

Re: [gentoo-user] 4G Stick Huawei E3276

2013-04-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.04.2013 15:19, schrieb Mick: > On Tuesday 02 Apr 2013 14:06:37 you wrote: > >> That's how I understand these devices to work, but unfortunately I >> can't verify any of this because I do not have access to such a >> device or a 4G network. :-( > > Yep, you are meant to see an ethernet in

Re: [gentoo-user] 4G Stick Huawei E3276

2013-04-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.04.2013 15:06, schrieb Mick: > On Tuesday 02 Apr 2013 13:13:26 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Modem Type = Analog Modem > Are you sure it is an analogue modem? Is this entry needed? Dunno. Removed. No difference. > The driver should create a number of devices, > ttyUSB0/ttyUSB1/ttyUSB2/...

Re: [gentoo-user] 4G Stick Huawei E3276

2013-04-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.04.2013 15:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > So I am back on cdc_ncm now. And I removed all the stuff I installed > when testing that huawei-driver-package. phew. Next small steps (but somehow promising): I was able to connect via wvdial and pull an IPv4-IP-adress via dhcpcd ... but th

Re: [gentoo-user] 4G Stick Huawei E3276

2013-04-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
forgot my current lsmod: > # lsmod Module Size Used by ppp_async 6157 0 crc_ccitt 1565 1 ppp_async ppp_generic17250 1 ppp_async slhc4443 1 ppp_generic option 26658 0 usb_wwan6870 1

Re: [gentoo-user] 4G Stick Huawei E3276

2013-04-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.04.2013 16:27, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 02.04.2013 15:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> So I am back on cdc_ncm now. And I removed all the stuff I installed >> when testing that huawei-driver-package. > > phew. > > Next small steps (but somehow promising): > > I was able to

[gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Davide Carnovale
Hi all gentoo people! I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of reinstalling it today. While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best known, back in the days, for being fast, as it was one of the first di

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 02.04.2013 19:51, schrieb Davide Carnovale: > Hi all gentoo people! > I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of > reinstalling it today. > While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is > available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best known, back i

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 07:51:17PM +0200, Davide Carnovale wrote: > Hi all gentoo people! > I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of > reinstalling it today. > While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is > available. As far as I remember, gentoo was

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Davide Carnovale
Michael, thanks, i know amd64 would be better, i used to had a multilib system, but for now i have a problem with java and 64-bit so i'm stuck on the 32-bit world for now =) Bruce, i see that, it looks like it's hardened indeed, i'll see what being hardened means and if it fits me, thank you. anyw

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > The most important para to me in the news item was: "The feature can also be > completely disabled using net.ifnames=0 on the kernel command line." I just > added that to my grub.conf entries and I sail blissfully on with eth0. I updated re

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/04/2013 19:51, Davide Carnovale wrote: > Hi all gentoo people! > I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of > reinstalling it today. > While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is > available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best known, back in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/04/2013 21:13, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: >> The most important para to me in the news item was: "The feature can also be >> completely disabled using net.ifnames=0 on the kernel command line." I just >> added that to my grub.conf entries a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-02 Thread Jarry
On 02-Apr-13 21:13, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: The most important para to me in the news item was: "The feature can also be completely disabled using net.ifnames=0 on the kernel command line." I just added that to my grub.conf entries and I sail bl

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Davide Carnovale
Ahaha thanks Alan, very explanatory and funny email! I won't say "gentoo is fast" anymore, I promise. :-) As for the rest i'll just keep the i486 base and start from there since I already compiled the kernel and stuff... Thanks all D Il giorno 02/apr/2013 21:18, "Alan McKinnon" ha scritto: > O

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-02 3:21 PM, Jarry wrote: On 02-Apr-13 21:13, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: The most important para to me in the news item was: "The feature can also be completely disabled using net.ifnames=0 on the kernel command line." I just added that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/04/2013 21:41, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-04-02 3:21 PM, Jarry wrote: >> On 02-Apr-13 21:13, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Peter Humphrey >>> wrote: The most important para to me in the news item was: "The feature can also be completely disabled usin

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
:-) While we're on the welcome stage, you should be introduced to some of the regulars around here: I'm the snarky old git with the weird sense of humour that often morphs into biting sarcasm. Neil Bothwick is the eccentric English gent who can get across a whole paragraph in two words. He also

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-04-02, Alan McKinnon wrote: > No, you are stilling misunderstanding. He's not the only one. > The news item goes to great lengths to explain that there is a new > way and it is different from the old way. I did grok that much. I had a 70-persistent-net.rules file that named my three i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/04/2013 22:31, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-04-02, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> No, you are stilling misunderstanding. > > He's not the only one. > >> The news item goes to great lengths to explain that there is a new >> way and it is different from the old way. > > I did grok that much.

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 02 April 2013 19:51:17 Davide Carnovale wrote: > Hi all gentoo people! > I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of > reinstalling it today. > While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is > available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best kn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-02 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Tue, 2 Apr 2013 20:31:10 + (UTC) schrieb Grant Edwards : > On 2013-04-02, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > No, you are stilling misunderstanding. > > He's not the only one. > > > The news item goes to great lengths to explain that there is a new > > way and it is different from the old way. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-02 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Tue, 2 Apr 2013 23:15:40 +0200 schrieb Marc Joliet : > Am Tue, 2 Apr 2013 20:31:10 + (UTC) > schrieb Grant Edwards : > > > On 2013-04-02, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > No, you are stilling misunderstanding. > > > > He's not the only one. > > > > > The news item goes to great lengths t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 20:31:10 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > In Flameyes blog, he showed an example of using udev rules pretty much > identical to the ones I already had, so I couldn't figure out what was > different (other than the default interface names, which still aren't > really predictab

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Davide Carnovale
Alan, thanks a lot for the cool description of you guys, I hope i'll get to know you all :-) Francesco, thank you, but you linked alpha and amd64, and i can't see any recent one for x86 D Il giorno 02/apr/2013 23:01, "Francesco Talamona" < francesco.talam...@know.eu> ha scritto: > On Tuesday 02

[gentoo-user] ntp-daemons

2013-04-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I always used net-misc/ntp for syncing time. Now I found net-misc/chrony and set it up looks good so far. Any opinions and experiences on the various ways of getting THE TIME? Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/02/2013 12:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Oh, and "gentoo is fast" is a nono swear word these days. That's ricing > :-) Nowadays we say the benefit of gentoo is USE so you get what *you* > want :-) > When I'm asked, I say that gentoo is extremely flexible and can be tailored in almost inf

[gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread walt
On 03/31/2013 06:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 01.04.2013 01:12, schrieb walt: >> Any of you admin types out there have any grumpy thoughts about this >> article? :) Is it really just marketing BS from cloudflare, or is it >> solid stuff? >> >> http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-al

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 03.04.2013 02:35, schrieb walt: > On 03/31/2013 06:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> Am 01.04.2013 01:12, schrieb walt: >>> Any of you admin types out there have any grumpy thoughts about this >>> article? :) Is it really just marketing BS from cloudflare, or is it >>> solid stuff? >>> >>>

[gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread walt
On 03/31/2013 08:37 PM, luis jure wrote: > i'm more than irritated by the > assholes minimizing the problem, or treating this as "non-news". Of course I don't know exactly which irritating people you mean, but there is one senior poster in this mailing list who (very rarely) lapses into posting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread luis jure
on 2013-04-02 at 17:58 walt wrote: > On 03/31/2013 08:37 PM, luis jure wrote: > > > i'm more than irritated by the > > assholes minimizing the problem, or treating this as "non-news". > > Of course I don't know exactly which irritating people you mean, i was referring specifically to the guar

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Raymond Jennings
as for the i486 only thing, my guess is because the kernel dropped support for 386 when 3.8 came out On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 04/02/2013 12:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > Oh, and "gentoo is fast" is a nono swear word these days. That's ricing > > :-) Nowadays

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 01.04.2013 05:37, schrieb luis jure: > > i'm glad for all the people who weren't affected. but whatever it was, i've > been suffering the consequences. so i'm more than irritated by the > assholes minimizing the problem, or treating this as "non-news". > if you meant me - it is none-news. Or, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread Raymond Jennings
Do guinea pigs work better or worse than tribbles at calming you? On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann < volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 03.04.2013 02:35, schrieb walt: > > On 03/31/2013 06:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> Am 01.04.2013 01:12, schrieb walt: > >>> A

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread luis jure
on 2013-04-03 at 03:33 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > if you meant me - read my previous post(s).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
Raymond Jennings wrote: >Do guinea pigs work better or worse than tribbles at calming you? > > >On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann < >volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Am 03.04.2013 02:35, schrieb walt: >> > On 03/31/2013 06:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >> Am 01.0

Re: [gentoo-user] 4G Stick Huawei E3276

2013-04-02 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 02 Apr 2013 16:48:26 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 02.04.2013 16:27, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > Am 02.04.2013 15:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> So I am back on cdc_ncm now. And I removed all the stuff I installed > >> when testing that huawei-driver-package. > > > > ph