On Feb 5, 5:56 am, Dima Tisnek <dim...@gmail.com> wrote: > I keep getting these in the terminal repeatedly when trying google > latitute which uses google gears. > > I don't have any wireless interfaces, and I tried same with wireless- > tools (iwlist, iwconfig) installed (they live in /sbin, firefox lives > in /opt), and whatever I do I keep getting these messages. I also get this problem. I use gentoo and I avoid loading unnecessary apps. Gentoo also considers iwlist and the like to be administrative in function, so they are in /usr/sbin .
With these apps installed in the 'right' place, the console gets flooded w/ logs... Fixes: * gears should look in sbin dirs * gears should check once on a given page for apps (not repeatedly calling if not found) * gears should definitely eat up console output... > For now I'll just close the terminal, but this is rather annoying! > > Anyways there used to be sites online that geolocated you based on ip > where you came from, why not do the same in gears? IIRR gears tries to use both to get a better estimate.
