Re: [lfs-support] Ethernet Card Not Found

2013-11-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gordon Findlay wrote: >> >> >> >> That's kind of what confuses me about this whole issue... the degree to >> which discussions here and elsewhere get so heated and angry. It's >> obviously supremely important to some people - but I don't understand >> why, when to me it seems such a small thing. >

Re: [lfs-support] Ethernet Card Not Found

2013-11-27 Thread Gordon Findlay
> > > > That's kind of what confuses me about this whole issue... the degree to > which discussions here and elsewhere get so heated and angry. It's > obviously supremely important to some people - but I don't understand > why, when to me it seems such a small thing. > > Simon. > > I teach Linux, a

Re: [lfs-support] Ethernet Card Not Found

2013-11-27 Thread Baho Utot
On 11/26/2013 09:23 PM, William Harrington wrote: > On Nov 26, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > >> Want to bet which one of these I can remember? > p33p1 for people! Nope too many characters -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/

[blfs-support] Proprietary Radeon Driver

2013-11-27 Thread Dan McGhee
I'm working my way throught the Xorg installation and getting close to installing the drivers. Xorg hasn't quite caught up yet with my chip which is Radeon HD 8610G, and I'm going to use the proprietary driver from ATI. I'm asking for advice on when to install it. It's a pre-compiled binary

Re: [lfs-support] Good Results with LFS and EFI

2013-11-27 Thread Rob Taylor
Hi Dan, I was wondering how it was going with secure boot and LFS? I have reached the 6.48. GRUB-2.00 stage of my re-build of LFS 7.4 using my new scripts and wrappers. For this stage, since I already have secure boot disabled and am booting the traditional way, I think I will just follow the LFS

Re: [lfs-support] "Interesting" Names

2013-11-27 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 11:03 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > On the other hand, I can understand another possible difference unless > I don't understand what "hot-plug" means. To me it's the ability to > "plug something in" while the computer is running and have it > work--much like a USB device. If m

Re: [lfs-support] Ethernet Card Not Found

2013-11-27 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 13:27 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > The wording in this message comes across a little too strong. Yes, we > sometimes get a little emotional about the foolishness that we see, but > lets try to be a little more civil when discussing technical matters. > That's kind of what

Re: [lfs-support] Ethernet Card Not Found

2013-11-27 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 19:24 +, akhiezer wrote: > that particular machine; or what? It's an intriguing concept - *never* > needing > to know the name of network device(s) on one's Linux computer, and for > someone > like yourself who would appear to be an (>=)advanced user. Like I said... "