[gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption

2006-11-11 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas! I recently bought a Dell Inspiron e1505 laptop. I purposely got an Intel 3945 wireless card installed, because I read that it was more linux friendly than the dell wireless card. I emerge'd ipw3945, but can't get it to work. I get an error error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption

2006-11-12 Thread Peter Kelly
On Sunday 12 November 2006 02:00, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 12 November 2006 01:33, Ryan Tandy wrote: > > Peter Kelly wrote: > > > I emerge'd ipw3945, but can't get it to work. > > > > is ipw3945d running? > > > > /etc/init.d/ipw3945d start >

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption

2006-11-13 Thread Peter Kelly
On Sunday 12 November 2006 14:02, Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/12/06, Peter Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, the daemon is running. It starts when you modprobe ipw3945. > > There isn't a wifi switch that I've found. There is an LED that blinks > > s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Dual-Opteron

2006-01-04 Thread Peter Kelly
Dale wrote: > > Something like 640 packages according to the line count in Kwrite. > Try emerge -pe world |grep ebuild |wc -l to get the exact number of packages. Peter -- Jesus is my POSTMASTER GENERAL ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost

2006-03-15 Thread Peter Kelly
Hello to all. After an exciting week of a failed hard drive (/usr, /home, /var) killing the IDE port on the motherboard, I've finally got my gentoo box running again. Thank gawd for backups (/home, /var, /etc and all data). I finished the 'emerge -e world', but have a couple issues. First, when

Re: [gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost

2006-03-15 Thread Peter Kelly
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 16:46, Dave Moore wrote: > On 3/15/06, Peter Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su - > > Password: > > configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) > > configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost [SOLVED]

2006-03-16 Thread Peter Kelly
On Thursday 16 March 2006 00:22, Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: > Peter Kelly wrote: > > Hello to all. > > > > I know its a basic one but you say you re-emerged baselayout and bash > but did you re-emerge pam-login? Maybe pam and shadow also? Maybe shadow > was emerged witho

Re: [gentoo-user] giflib vs. libungif

2005-10-29 Thread Peter Kelly
On Saturday 29 October 2005 10:03 am, Uwe Thiem wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've got a weird conflict between giflib and libungif. "emerge --update > world" told me that libungif blocked giflib. So I unmerged libungif and > compiling kuickshow of kdegraphics failed because it needs libungif. > > test ~

[gentoo-user] Serious pcmcia network issues

2005-10-30 Thread Peter Kelly
Hola, I've got this old laptop that I'm bringing back from the dead (attic) for a special project. It needs sound and network capability. As it's a 300MHz PII, and I'm running gentoo on the 3GHz home server, I thought the optimizations of gentoo might pay off. First, I did a stage 3 instal

[gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot

2005-12-10 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas, After a week or so of upgrading gcc, emerge -e world/system, watching hal/dbus toggle between +/- 0.5 versions, and having gentoo upgrade udev while I'm doing all this, I've finally got a clean, rebuilt system. revdep-rebuild gives comes up clean. emerge -autvDN world comes up empty. emer

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot

2005-12-10 Thread Peter Kelly
On Saturday 10 December 2005 16:59, Richard Fish wrote: > On 12/10/05, Peter Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, upon reboot, I can't get a USB backup drive to mount correctly. > > It's an LVM2 partition that should show up as vgusbhd, mounted to > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot

2005-12-10 Thread Peter Kelly
On Saturday 10 December 2005 17:35, Peter Kelly wrote: > > And this command fixed it. /dev/mapper/vgusbhd-usbhd exists. > > > > crichton ~ # ll /dev/vgusb/usbhd > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 10 16:07 /dev/vgusb/usbhd -> ../sda1 > > > > This is

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot

2005-12-10 Thread Peter Kelly
On Saturday 10 December 2005 19:43, Thomas Harold wrote: > > Out of curiosity, is this the only LVM volume that won't boot? (i.e. do > you have other LVM2 volumes?) Yes. It's the only volume that isn't detected at boot. crichton log # mount |grep mapper /dev/mapper/vg-usr on /usr type ext3 (rw)

[gentoo-user] can't rebuild autofs after gcc upgrade

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Kelly
Hola, I recently did the gcc upgrade to 3.4.4. During the emerge -system/world, autofs failed, so I moved on with the --skipfirst. Now that emerge -e world has finished, I'm looking into the failures. So, a little more looking shows this. lookup_hesiod.c:20:20: hesiod.h: No such file or direct

[gentoo-user] Allmost freakin' done.

2005-12-13 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas. I did the gcc upgrade. Most stuff works, but there are a couple things to put to bed. During the days long emerge of system and world, and the subsequent reboot, things are the same. From what I know, this is what's changed, in addition to new compile. baselayout1.12.0_pre11-r3 ud

[gentoo-user] Posting to mail list through knode

2005-12-20 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas, Before I did something (the big question), I could post to the gentoo-users list through knode. I still get all the messages through kmail, but it's so much easier to follow threads through knode. How can I post to the list through knode? What did I un-do to stop this? Thanks. Peter

[gentoo-user] rc-status and broken links

2006-03-28 Thread Peter Kelly
Hola! After a recent rebuild starting with a failed hard drive, I think I've got everything nailed down... except root ~ $ rc-status -s default Runlevel: all alsasound [ broken ] apmd[ broken ] ... xdm

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-status and broken links

2006-04-02 Thread Peter Kelly
On Saturday 01 April 2006 19:22, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Peter Kelly wrote: > > Now, it shows that every service is [broken], but the advice to remove > > the broken service using rc-update -d (service) and add it in again does > > nothing. Everything is still [broken]. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-status and broken links

2006-04-03 Thread Peter Kelly
On Monday 03 April 2006 04:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 16:34:01 -0600, Peter Kelly wrote: > > I only see the [broken] message when I use `rc-status -s`. > > If I just type 'rc-status', I get a correct response for the default > > runlevel. >

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Peter Kelly
On Friday 05 May 2006 12:58, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > (snip) > > > > There are cases, where misonformation was not found for month, even > > longer - and there are a lot of very demanding and obscure articles, > > would you really bet, that every case of voluntary misi

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-05 Thread Peter Kelly
On Friday 05 May 2006 14:23, Teresa and Dale wrote: > I think most if not all my problem is the Linksys router. I don't think > I have it set up to let the two systems connect to each other. I'm not > sure where to even start either. She lost the book to the thing. I did > trial and error to g

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Peter Kelly
On Friday 05 May 2006 17:36, Maurice E Johnson wrote: > OMG > Will this thread ever stop? > It's been high jacked 5 times. > Will the guy that asked the original question please > either grow a brain or use the one he has. So rest of us don't have to > create filters for this list? > > What does ge

[gentoo-user] xdm is 'stopping'

2006-05-26 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas, Two days ago I updated the nvidia drivers, so I killed gdm and restarted xdm to reload the newer modules. Problem is, it looks like xdm never restarted. root ~ $ /etc/init.d/xdm status * status: stopping root ~ $ /etc/init.d/xdm stop * ERROR: xdm is already stopping. rc-status give

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm is 'stopping' [SOLVED]

2006-05-27 Thread Peter Kelly
On Saturday 27 May 2006 06:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:14 -0500, Peter Kelly wrote: > > Holas, > > > > > > Everything *seems* to work fine, but then there's that silly 'stopping' > > comment that doesn't google very we

[gentoo-user] http-replicator fetching on the server

2006-06-02 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas, I'm running http-replicator on a desktop (server). The laptop asks the desktop for files correctly, and that works just fine. The problem I'm seeing is on the desktop. Every night I do # emerge world --update --deep --newuse --fetchonly # /usr/bin/repcacheman which gets all the files

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator fetching on the server

2006-06-02 Thread Peter Kelly
On Friday 02 June 2006 09:03, Teresa and Dale wrote: > Peter Kelly wrote: > >Holas, > >Here are a few pertinent lines from /etc/make.conf > >http_proxy="http://crichton:8080"; > >RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -t 5 --passive-ftp \${URI} -O \ > >\${D

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator fetching on the server

2006-06-02 Thread Peter Kelly
On Friday 02 June 2006 10:02, Teresa and Dale wrote: > Peter Kelly wrote: > >On Friday 02 June 2006 09:03, Teresa and Dale wrote: > >>Peter Kelly wrote: > >>>Holas, > > > > > > > >>>>Emerging (1 of 3) kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.3 to / &g

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-meta minus toys, games, etc

2006-06-02 Thread Peter Kelly
On Friday 02 June 2006 14:55, Mike Owen wrote: > On 6/2/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Apologies if this has been asked before. I uninstalled my monolithic > > KDE and am ready to install the split KDE ebuilds. I want to install > > everything except toys, games and educa

[gentoo-user] What mouse protocol does xorg use when 'auto'?

2006-06-08 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas, I've just recently fixed a problem I had when scrolling up. Doing that would send out a signal that I had pressed the scroll button, and try to paste. Changing the mouse protocol in xorg.conf from #Option "Protocol""IMPS/2" Option "Protocol""auto" fixed the problem. Th

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] What mouse protocol does xorg use when 'auto'?

2006-06-08 Thread Peter Kelly
On Thursday 08 June 2006 20:19, Peter Kelly wrote: > Holas, > > Great. > How can I find out what protocol xorg is using now? Apparently, I'll need > to know pretty soon. Duh. Look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. You'll see a neat little line that says (**) Mouse1: Protocol: &

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaner USE variable in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-13 Thread Peter Kelly
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 06:04, Walter Dnes wrote: > I have a long USE variable (starts with "-*", so I enter stuff > manually. At one point it got to be something like... > > USE="-* 3dnow X a52 aac alsa bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr dga dio divx4linux dri > dvd dvdr dvdread encode exif ffmpeg flac for

[gentoo-user] Problem with gst-plugins-mad depclean

2006-07-21 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas, I decided to perform my (semi) monthly `emerge -a --depclean`, and ran into a problem. Part of the cleaning involved -- media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad selected: 0.6.4 protected: none omitted: 0.8.11 Well, doing this bails with /var/db/pkg/media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4/

[gentoo-user] java failure (or DVArchive issue)

2006-09-22 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas, I'm slowly, but surely, moving away from the Windows platform. My latest challenge is DVArchive, a utility for ReplayTV users. When I run it as root, there is no issue. I ran it as a user once, but every time since then I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ java -jar /opt/DVArchive/DVArchive.jar