[gentoo-user] Wireless a nogo
Trying valiantly to set up wireless. I'm at the point now where I get the following: *Configuring wireless network for eth1 /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/iwconfig: line 340: iwconfig_get_essid_var: command not found *eth1 does not support setting keys *or the parameter mac_key_ or key_ is incorrect *Failed to configure wireless for eth1 /etc/conf.d/wireless has : essid_eth1=Mary #essid_eth1=any key_Mary=s:some passwd preferred_aps=( Mary ) /etc/conf.d/net has: iface_eth0=dhcp iface_eth1=dhcp iwconfig reports: eth1 NOT READY! ESSID:off/any Nickname:Mary Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Tx-Power=31 dBm Sensitivity=0/200 Retry min limit:0 RTS thr=0 B Fragment thr=0 B Encryption key:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Any advice appreciated. Thanks. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge lists too many programs
E.g., emerge -p xine lists xmms as a download. I don't want xmms, and if I don't have xmms, I don't think I need flac. How do I get only xine and its required libraries and codecs, and skip the unrelated stuff? I read the man page, but if the answer's there, I missed it. Thanks. -- Ed Jabbour -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE failed
On Feb 10, 2004, at 2:12 AM, Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti (lähetysaika maanantai, 9. helmikuuta 2004 21:30): I'm not sure I remember everything, but I'll try . . . I tried to update to KDE 3.2 using ~x86. kdelibs-3.1.4 blocked qt. So, unmerged kdelibs-3.1.4 and emerged the new qt. The install of 3.2 failed at some point, so I installed 3.1.5. Now, kde won't start. The Nvidia splash screen flashes 3 or 4 times, then I'm dropped into console. I checked /etc/X11/Sessions and it has the proper items, 3.1.1a and 3.1.5. No matter which I put in /etc/rc.conf, I get the same result. X works, but kde doesn't. I'm stumped as to where else to look. Any advice appreciated. Thanks. You didn't by any chance update gcc as well? No, I have 3.2.3-r1. And glibc 2.3.2-r1. Anyway, the problem probably isn't KDE, but XFree. (you could try and see whether startx works) Check through the XFree log (/var/log/XFree86.0.log) startx works, as does xdm. I can call up Mozilla, e.g. The XFree log shows no errors. I unmerged all instances of KDE I had, as well as qt. Then I emerged kde-3.1.5, which pulled down qt 3.2.3-r1. After 13 hours of compiling, KDE still doesn't work. The kdm.log doesn't show any errors. I don't know if it's relevant, but ldconfig shows: ldconfig: /usr/qt/3/lib/libscintilla.so.3 is not a symbolic link Well, it isn't - it's just a file. That directory has libscintilla.a, .so.3, so.3.0 and so.3.0.0. None of them are links. I really, really do not want to reinstall Gentoo. I hope someone has a clue, a pointer, suggestion, anything. -- Ed Jabbour -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] KDE failed
I'm not sure I remember everything, but I'll try . . . I tried to update to KDE 3.2 using ~x86. kdelibs-3.1.4 blocked qt. So, unmerged kdelibs-3.1.4 and emerged the new qt. The install of 3.2 failed at some point, so I installed 3.1.5. Now, kde won't start. The Nvidia splash screen flashes 3 or 4 times, then I'm dropped into console. I checked /etc/X11/Sessions and it has the proper items, 3.1.1a and 3.1.5. No matter which I put in /etc/rc.conf, I get the same result. X works, but kde doesn't. I'm stumped as to where else to look. Any advice appreciated. Thanks. -- Ed Jabbour -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE failed
On Feb 9, 2004, at 3:20 PM, Kevin Hanson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure I remember everything, but I'll try . . . I tried to update to KDE 3.2 using ~x86. kdelibs-3.1.4 blocked qt. So, unmerged kdelibs-3.1.4 and emerged the new qt. The install of 3.2 failed at some point, so I installed 3.1.5. Now, kde won't start. The Nvidia splash screen flashes 3 or 4 times, then I'm dropped into console. I checked /etc/X11/Sessions and it has the proper items, 3.1.1a and 3.1.5. No matter which I put in /etc/rc.conf, I get the same result. X works, but kde doesn't. I'm stumped as to where else to look. Any advice appreciated. Thanks. /etc/X11/Sessions should have kde-3.2.0 Why? 3.2.0 failed to install - so, all I have are 3.1.1a and 3.1.5. -- Ed Jabbour -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System update
On Thursday 11 December 2003 11:32 am, Oliver Lange wrote: For upgrading *all* packages that are installed on my box, i'm using this one: emerge --oneshot -uU `qpkg -nc -I` -v -p after checking what's going to be installed, enter the same command again, but this time without the -p option. Important: when using this command, never forget the --oneshot option, or you can forget the depclean feature.. H - dunno if I'll ever understand this emerge business. When I ran the above, all sorts of stuff showed up as N that I don't need or want. E.g, it wants to emerge gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r9 and gs-sources-2.4.23_pre8-r1. I use gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r1. Why are those other kernels showing? Why does it want to emerge foomatic? I use turboprint. -- Ed Jabbour -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System update
On Thursday 11 December 2003 08:18 pm, Oliver Lange wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emerge --oneshot -uU `qpkg -nc -I` -v -p H - dunno if I'll ever understand this emerge business. When I ran the above, all sorts of stuff showed up as N that I don't need or want. E.g, it wants to emerge gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r9 and gs-sources-2.4.23_pre8-r1. I use gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r1. Why are those other kernels showing? Why does it want to emerge foomatic? I use turboprint. That's strange, qpkg -I should list installed packages only.. Nope. It lists, e.g., /usr/src/linux-2.6.0-test6, but there ain't no such animal. What's the purpose of the /var/cache/edb/virtuals file? It has, e.g.: virtual/linux-sources sys-kernel/development-sources sys-kernel/gs-sources sys-kernel/win4lin-sourc es sys-kernel/gentoo-sources (sorry about the wrap) That's the source of the mix-up (sys-kernel/development-sources) ? I once tried win4lin, but got rid of it some time back. Because of the problems here, I never use world or system - don't like what they would do. I end up emerging package by package as needed. -- Ed Jabbour -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Now, grub!!?? (Was: emerge -u portage wants everything?)
On Monday 24 November 2003 01:07 pm, Spider wrote: begin quote On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:23:26 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems to me that I should either ignore the portage update now, or emerge only portage. I don't know whether the former os OK, and don't know how to do the latter. Any advice appreciated. Thanks. Ignore the please upgrade You .cant. upgrade portage at this time, and the build would fail anyhow. The new portage will be upgraded as part of the bootstrap process. Good - always happy to ignore things! The direction on the web page should be edited out, perhaps. Yet another problem. Got to the emerge grub stage, and did so. The grub command, however, got me a segmentation fault. I'll have to type it out (eeks): Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00010011 printing eip: c0138193 *pde = 000 Oops: 0002 loop eepro100 mii serial isa-pnp cloop usb-storage hid uhci usbcore CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[c0138193 Tainted: GF EEFLAGS: 00010202 eax: d14852e4 ebx: c0f7c070 ecx: cf8db7ac edx: 00010001 esi: cf8db790 edi: cf8db7ac ebp: cff:30200 esp: c94aff28 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process grub (pid: 1634, stackpage=c94af00 Stack: more (hex?) numbers here Call trace: more Code: more Segmentation fault Can anyone tell from the above why grub isn't running correctly? Am I to assume it didn't install right? -- Ed Jabbour -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Installation stalls at wget
I'm installing Gentoo on a laptop, and got to the emerge system step. Everything went smoothly until the system got to wget: creating po/Makefile cd . autoconf /bin/sh line 1: autoconf: command not found make: *** [configure] Error 127 !!! ERROR: net-misc/wget-1.9-r1 failed !!! Function src_compile, Line 50, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Any advice appreciated. -- Ed Jabbour -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Contents of /var/cache/edb/world
Just ran emerge sync. Above file has: net-ftp/gftp media-sound/zinf app-text/ghostscript media-sound/alsa-driver sys-kernel/gentoo-sources net-www/mplayerplug-in net-print/cups and nothing else. Seems I should be worried, but I'm not sure. Any advice appreciated. Thanks. -- Ed Jabbour -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Cannot ope Konsole, etc.
Recompiled 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 only to add i2c modules - everything else is unchanged. Rebooted, and tried to open Konsole (as a user) and got Unable to open a suitable terminal device. Looked at /dev/pty* and they look alright, I think. If root logs in to KDE, Konsole works. There's a permission problem someplace, but I don't know where. Also, at boot, I get a msg - rm: cannot remove '/dev/devfsd': Read-only file system. I checked the Gentoo forum, but all I could find was advice to downgrade gawk - I have 3.1.3. I don't think that's the problem here. I rebooted using the original bzImage, and am running with it. However, now my modules are messed up. E.g, depmod -ae: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o Any advice appreciated. Thanks. -- Ed Jabbour -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] Laptop in Europe
Anyone on this list gone to Europe w/ a laptop? Going to Italy and France. I have an IBM T30. I know I'll need a plug adapter, but don't know if I need a voltage converter. I don't think so, but thought I better check. And, if anyone's used an internet cafe in Paris or Rome, charges? Thanks for any information. -- Ed Jabbour -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] using Alt-F? to switch between consoles
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 01:32 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: I don't remember if it was this way with RedHat or Slackware, but with Gentoo, I can only use the left Alt key when switching between consoles. How do I make it so I can use either the left or the right Alt key? For me it's the same under Redhat 9. Both CTRL keys work, but only the left ALT key. I have suspected that this is based on which keyboard I choose when I configure X, but I don't know that. It does it in the console too. I have virtual consoles on 1-10. I run X on 11. Its annoying to have to use both hands to switch to X. For those of us lucky enough to have an old Northgate Omnikey, the left Alt key is perfect, because that's where the F keys are - one hand switching! -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
