> I ran into a perpetual re-configuration problem with VMWare > also. > Every time I booted, it would complain about not being compiled > for > the running kernel. I'd log in, run vmware-config.pl, which > would > complete successfully. But then on the next boot, same error. > > The solution was to set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" in > /etc/conf.d/rc. I > was running a full udev system, so I had set that option to no. > But, > with it set to no, each time I rebooted the machine, the /dev > entries > that vmware_config.pl created would get lost, hence the not > configured > message. Enabling the device tarball persists those /dev entries > across reboots. > > Don't know if this is the cause of your problem, but it might > help. > > Dan >
well i know nothing about udev so i know thats not my problem, it seems to be working now once i got rid of the not_configured file, installing a virtual machine as we speak. so if you dont mind explaining, what is udev and what are its advantages/disadvantages and how would one go about setting something like that up? thanks nick > -- > Daniel Barr > http://www.danbarr.com/ > Asst Manager, Network & Security > Mercer Insurance Group > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
