RE: [gentoo-user] wireless network issues
I'm using DHCP, yes. I added this line to /etc/conf.d/net: iface_eth1="dhcp" Eric Heller. On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 18:06, Brent L Johnson wrote: > Not sure why Firebird would work and nothing else. > But do you have your DNS servers listed in > /etc/resolv.conf or are you using DHCP? > > - Brent > > > -----Original Message- > > From: eric heller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 6:42 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [gentoo-user] wireless network issues > > > > > > Hi! > > > > I recently read on slashdot about a great little program that > > emulates certain windows wireless network card drivers, > > called driverloader (see www.linuxant.com). I was especially > > glad to hear about this because it supports my Intel Centrino > > PRO/Wireless mini-pci card (for which there are currently no > > real linux drivers, at least not to my knowledge). > > > > Anway, I got driverloader working, and things seem to be > > working on some level. I got eth1 to run and it's even > > correctly connecting to my wireless network. I disconnected > > by ethernet cable, stopped eth0, and then fired up > > MozillaFirebird. To my delight, everything seemed to be working great! > > > > But then I fired up evolution, and it was unable to resolve > > the address of my pop email server. I thought, what the heck? > > So I went to my command line and tried to ping the address. > > Ping returned nothing. So I tried www.yahoo.com. Still > > nothing. It seems that the only program that can actually > > resolve host names is MozillaFirebird, and nothing else. > > > > Any ideas why this may be? Is there something I need to do to > > get eth1 setup right? Here's what I did: > > > > 1 ln -s /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.eth1 > > > > 2 rc-update add net.eth1 default > > > > 3 edited /etc/conf.d/net to include the line: > > iface_eth1="dhcp" > > > > 4 /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start > > > > And it started up with no errors. > > > > 5 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop > > > > But like I said, only MozillaFirebird seems to be able to > > establish any kind of connection. It may likely be a problem > > with driverloader, and if it is, then I'll try out their user > > list, but I'm still not very familiar with gentoo, and I just > > wondered if there's a step I missed in configuring eth1 to > > work right. Do I need to somehow "tell" all my programs that > > they need to use eth1 instead of eth0? Any ideas? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Eric Heller. > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] wireless network issues
Hi! I recently read on slashdot about a great little program that emulates certain windows wireless network card drivers, called driverloader (see www.linuxant.com). I was especially glad to hear about this because it supports my Intel Centrino PRO/Wireless mini-pci card (for which there are currently no real linux drivers, at least not to my knowledge). Anway, I got driverloader working, and things seem to be working on some level. I got eth1 to run and it's even correctly connecting to my wireless network. I disconnected by ethernet cable, stopped eth0, and then fired up MozillaFirebird. To my delight, everything seemed to be working great! But then I fired up evolution, and it was unable to resolve the address of my pop email server. I thought, what the heck? So I went to my command line and tried to ping the address. Ping returned nothing. So I tried www.yahoo.com. Still nothing. It seems that the only program that can actually resolve host names is MozillaFirebird, and nothing else. Any ideas why this may be? Is there something I need to do to get eth1 setup right? Here's what I did: 1 ln -s /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.eth1 2 rc-update add net.eth1 default 3 edited /etc/conf.d/net to include the line: iface_eth1="dhcp" 4 /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start And it started up with no errors. 5 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop But like I said, only MozillaFirebird seems to be able to establish any kind of connection. It may likely be a problem with driverloader, and if it is, then I'll try out their user list, but I'm still not very familiar with gentoo, and I just wondered if there's a step I missed in configuring eth1 to work right. Do I need to somehow "tell" all my programs that they need to use eth1 instead of eth0? Any ideas? Thanks! Eric Heller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome and openbox
Thanks Spider, your suggestions worked out great! eric heller. On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 16:14, Spider wrote: > begin quote > On 29 Oct 2003 15:31:50 -0600 > eric heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the suggestion, but no, Gnome's not loading metacity from > > there. I greped the whole ~/.gnome2 directory for metacity and didn't > > find anything. Either loading metacity is somehow hard-coded into the > > gnome-session, or there's some session config file I don't know about. > > Any other ideas? > > > > > With openbox3 its just to do : > > start gnome > open a terminal > type "openbox3 --replace &" > > save session, and it works. > > > previous to that theres some odd magic with a gconf key being set to > /usr/bin/gnome-wm, that is called and that then reads WINDOW_MANAGER > variable and uses that. (look inside, its a shellscript) > > > other users report that : > killall metactity ; openbox& > and then saving the session, will work. > > > //Spider -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome and openbox
If you read my original post, I tried that is well. When I did so, Gnome just got hung up trying to load openbox and would never finish loading. thanks eric heller. On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 16:14, Janne Kovesjärvi wrote: > Default session file is PREFIX/share/gnome/gnome.session > > You can also set your preferred window manager to > environment variable WINDOW_MANAGER. > > Janne > > Thanks for the suggestion, but no, Gnome's not loading metacity from > > there. I greped the whole ~/.gnome2 directory for metacity and didn't > > find anything. Either loading metacity is somehow hard-coded into the > > gnome-session, or there's some session config file I don't know about. > > Any other ideas? > > > > Thanks > > eric heller. > > > > > > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 13:20, Doug Weimer wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 03:16, eric heller wrote: > > > > > > > cat ~/.xinitrc: > > > > bbkeys -t & > > > > openbox & > > > > gnome-session > > > > > > > > Is there something I can do to tell Gnome not to bother loading it's own > > > > window manager? > > > > > > Have you checked the session file? If your using gnome2, take a look at > > > .gnome2/session and see if it is trying to load metacity there. If it > > > is, try deleting the metacity entry. > > > > > > Doug > > > > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome and openbox
Thanks for the suggestion, but no, Gnome's not loading metacity from there. I greped the whole ~/.gnome2 directory for metacity and didn't find anything. Either loading metacity is somehow hard-coded into the gnome-session, or there's some session config file I don't know about. Any other ideas? Thanks eric heller. On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 13:20, Doug Weimer wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 03:16, eric heller wrote: > > > cat ~/.xinitrc: > > bbkeys -t & > > openbox & > > gnome-session > > > > Is there something I can do to tell Gnome not to bother loading it's own > > window manager? > > Have you checked the session file? If your using gnome2, take a look at > .gnome2/session and see if it is trying to load metacity there. If it > is, try deleting the metacity entry. > > Doug > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I browse a CDROM
>Thanks very much forturning me on to xfe. I like this very much. I > can browse the CD quickly, and it opens web pages in Mozilla, which is > just about perfect for me. Glad to hear you got it to compile with no major difficulties. >Biggest problem I had with it is it asking me if I really want to > quit, and that's a very small problem. Look in menu: options>preferences tab: Confirmation. cheers, eric heller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I browse a CDROM
I can't stand nautilus and konqueror and the like. I personally use a little program called Xfe as my file explorer/manager. To my knowledge, there's no gentoo ebuild for it, but compiling it from source is pretty painless. It's very simple and kind of ugly, but it gets the job done in the least obstrusive way. Also supports drag 'n drop in many contexts. Xfe: http://www.roland65.ovh.org/xfe/xfe.html And on sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xfe eric heller. On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:02, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I picked up a sample CD today that has html explaining what's on it, > and then a bunch of audio samples. I can't figure out how to get started > browsing the CD. For instance, there's a file called 'Start Here.html' > at the top of the CD that I can see if I mount the CD and look at it in > a terminal. > >This is typical Windows Explorer work. What tool could I use in Linux > to do the same thing. I run fluxbox, not KDE or Gnome where this is > probably better handled. What app might I emerge to make this easy? > > Thanks, > Mark > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my disc space
Looks like you've got about 6 GB of swap. eric heller On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 16:01, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > # fdisk /dev/hde >Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System > /dev/hde1 * 111 88326 83 Linux > /dev/hde212 812 6434032+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hde3 813 4866 32563755 83 Linux > > Not easy for me to read. Any other commands to check the hard drive > > Thnaks > > B.R. > Stephen > > > Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > > Stephen Liu wrote: > > > >> Hi all folks, > >> > >> HD - 40G > >> At time of installation I asiged > >> > >> boot 100 mg > >> swap 800 mg > >> rootremaining, about 39G > >> > >> $ df -h > >> FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > >> /dev/root 32G 2.6G 29G 9% / > >> > >> where is 7G gone > > > > > > Are you sure you didn't do something like a 8Gb swap? > > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] php emerge failed
hi! The php and mod_php ebuilds are failing for me: ::snip:: checking for CURL support... no checking for cyrus imap support... no checking for xDBM support... no checking whether to enable DBA... no checking for gdbm_open in -lgdbm... yes checking for GDBM support... yes configure: error: DBA: Could not find necessary header file(s). !!! ERROR: dev-php/php-4.3.3-r3 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 338, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed ::/snip:: So it checks whether or not to enable DBA, says no, then chokes up when it can't find the DBA headers? What's up with that? tia, eric heller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] gnome and openbox
I've been running openbox beneath gnome as my window manager for some time. Then today, for no reason, Gnome decided to crap out when it was loading. I think it gets hung up on trying to load it's *own* window manager, metacity. The Gnome startup splash screen gets hung with the text "Window Manager" and never finishes starting. cat ~/.xinitrc: bbkeys -t & openbox & gnome-session Is there something I can do to tell Gnome not to bother loading it's own window manager? I tried setting the WINDOW_MANAGER env. variable as recommend in `man gnome` to "openbox" and changed by .xinitrc to: bbkeys -t & WINDOW_MANAGER=openbox gnome-session But then Gnome won't load either and still gets hung up with the text "Window Manager" on the splash screen. Any ideas? What am I doing wrong? Why is this the first time it has ever given me this problem? eric heller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which laptop should I get?
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 15:34, Elric Scott wrote: > I would love to build it myself, however we are talking about laptops > here. You can come pretty close if you find a smaller company that custom manufactures the laptops. Like i said in another post, I bought a laptop by Systemax, which is somewhere in between custom built and mass manufactured. I think there are also smaller companies that will even ship linux-specialized laptops. A quick search for 'linux laptops' on google will return relevant results. eric heller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which laptop should I get?
I recently bought a Systemax laptop (www.globalcomputer.com) because I was dissatisfied with most of the major-brand laptops on the market. Nevertheless, even this computer isn't exactly a dream linux machine. A couple of things to consider: a. does the laptop feature intel centrino technology? mine does, but there's no support for the intel minipci wireless card in linux as of yet. also, speedstep for the pentium-m doesn't seem to be supported in the 2.4.2* kernels, although I hear that it is in the 2.6.* series. also, the 2.4.* kernels don't seem to recognize my cpu cache (/proc/cpuinfo reports cache size: 0 KB), although again I hear the 2.6.* kernels do. I haven't tried it yet; I don't know. b. other acpi support, which can be dependent on your bios. call technical support as ask them about this. will your laptop be able to sleep and wake up, suspend, hibernate? mine does, but I could never get this to work on my old Dell laptop. c. video card. i know lots of people report problems with ATI mobility cards, so you may have to resort to framebuffer if you can't get a driver to add hardware acceleration. perhaps i'm lucky, my ATI card seems to be working fine with X at the moment. I would look at the laptops made by some of the smaller brands, youu'll likely find a cheaper machine that works just about as well as any other laptop out there as far as linux support goes. It depends whats most important to you. I chose a cheap, light notebook that has slight linux compatibility problems, but I knew this going into it, and I don't regret anything. Whatever works for you. other laptop users, what did i leave out? eric heller On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 22:34, Elric Scott wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I am currently looking at the HP Pavilion zd7000 and the Compaq Evo N800W. > Which laptop will have the least problems, and the most efficiancy? > > > - Elric > > "We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible, > for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, > we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing." - Mother Theresa > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/lbSNWOxHc22toikRAplBAJ9PgxaB+4yM/d/CQQIKYNMb7g4S8QCfWInh > ZifzK9iv0X3zIOLa1M84zLU= > =Bqxc > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gtk2 and fonts
I had a similar problem, although my fonts were appearing about twice as large as they should have been. A couple of things: 1. in gnome, try gnome-font-properties. There's a setting for application font faces and sizes, as well as a font DPI setting (look under details). 2. after doing this I still had problems with non-gnome apps and font sizes. Try creating a .Xresources file in your home directory. Put this line: Xft.dpi: X Where X is something that works for you. For whatever reason, I need to use 75 to get fonts that aren't twice as big as they ought to be. On my old redhat system, I used 96. Go figure. .Xresources should get merged next time you startx. hth, eric heller On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 12:57, Andrew Kirilenko wrote: > Hello! > > I have got following problem. After some update (not gtk2 or xfree or > other font-related) and rebooting I have got very small (something like > 10pt instead of 12) fonts in all gtk2 apps (I don't have any other gui > apps, so I can't tell nothing about them). After running fc-cache -f` > and `/etc/init.d/xfs restart` and restarting X everything was OK. Today > I have got the same problem and cn't solve it :( any suggestions? > > Best regards, > Andrew. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xfree problem
On my laptop, I just ran XFree86 -configure as root. It places as config file in /root which you can copy over to /etc/X11. This worked for me without the need to enter the correct refresh rates. eric heller [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 10:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am configuring Xfree > > I have a HP omnibook XE3L PIII 700, and I don't know vertical and > horitzontal refresh to configure the monitor, does someone know this? > what's the video card?? > > Thanks!! > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
