Re: firmware hotplug kernel 2.6.15 ?

2006-01-12 Thread Jim Gifford
Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote: On Thursday 12 January 2006 05:22, Jim Gifford wrote: All in the nutshell, I have the impression, that Linux-Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG is still in a very early state of development ? Would it not be a good idea to include some instructions in the BLFS-Book ? I hav

RE: firmware hotplug kernel 2.6.15 ?

2006-01-12 Thread David Fix
> just for the sake of learning: if I take of the cable out of > my eth0-card from > the PC, I get inmediately the message: "eth0: link down".Or after > reconnecting, "eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full duplex, lpa 0x41E1". Up > to now, I thought, that the ability of the system to recognize the > behavi

Re: firmware hotplug kernel 2.6.15 ?

2006-01-12 Thread Dr. Edgar Alwers
On Thursday 12 January 2006 04:18, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > This is not hotplug. Hotplug is working if you can pull and push the > card, not the cable. just for the sake of learning: if I take of the cable out of my eth0-card from the PC, I get inmediately the message: "eth0: link down".Or

Re: firmware hotplug kernel 2.6.15 ?

2006-01-12 Thread Dr. Edgar Alwers
On Thursday 12 January 2006 05:22, Jim Gifford wrote: > This is a bug in the 2.6.15 kernel, some of the wireless scripts use a > /sys/class/net/eth0/wireless variable to detect things, so that may be > one issue. OK, I really think, that 2.6.15 still may have some problems with Wireless issues, as

Re: recompiling lfs+blfs with utf-8 support

2006-01-12 Thread Simon Scheiwiller
Tushar Teredesai schrieb: The simplest way would be to start from scratch. Though it is doable by installing ncurses and working up the dependency chain and compiling packages that depend on ncurses. It is a nice learning experience :) I know it's easier from scratch, but than then will have

OpenOffice error

2006-01-12 Thread Joel Means
Hello all, I am trying to install OpenOffice-1.1.4 from chapter 34 and got an error during the build. I followed all of the instructions including applying the patches up to and including: bash -c "source LinuxIntelEnv.Set.sh; dmake" my only difference was adding the options --enable-kde and

Re: problems starting bind

2006-01-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
lux-integ wrote these words on 01/12/06 04:55 CST: > and the server fails to start. ( Incidently the boot script has the > configuring file switch -c as /etc/named.conf (and according to the blfs > book it should be /home/named/etc/named.conf). I fixed this but it made no > difference.

Re: problems starting bind

2006-01-12 Thread Alan Lord
Randy McMurchy wrote: Alan Lord wrote these words on 01/12/06 13:01 CST: I don't know anything about bind Is your network connection active, operational and your dns servers configured correctly in resolv.conf? Um, Bind *is* a DNS server. :-) Yes I agree, but the error looked like it cou

Re: problems starting bind

2006-01-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Alan Lord wrote these words on 01/12/06 13:01 CST: > I don't know anything about bind > > Is your network connection active, operational and your dns servers > configured correctly in resolv.conf? Um, Bind *is* a DNS server. :-) -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (G

Re: problems starting bind

2006-01-12 Thread Alan Lord
lux-integ wrote: I am having problems starting bind-9.3.1. The program is installed in its default location /usr/local. It was configured as: ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc localstatedir=/var --enable-threads --with-PACKAGE=$SOMETHING --with-openssl=/somewhere --with-lbtool. it compiled and i

Re: problems starting bind

2006-01-12 Thread lux-integ
Greetings, I made the original posting and since then I managed to identify two failings during bind testing (post installation) 1: failure of one of the test program (IOsocket-INET6) during its compilation, 2: failure of the 'dnssec test' during the testing phase of bind-installation. bo

Re: recompiling lfs+blfs with utf-8 support

2006-01-12 Thread Simon Scheiwiller
David Lyne schrieb: There is a hint: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/utf-8.txt which is old and not maintained anymore... and it doesn't answer my question. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html

Re: recompiling lfs+blfs with utf-8 support

2006-01-12 Thread David Lyne
Hi Simon I want to recompile my lfs system with utf-8 support, but I don't want to delete everything and start compiling for 3 days, so maybe I'll try to recompile everything in lfs starting from ncurses and then everything in blfs. There is a hint: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downlo

recompiling lfs+blfs with utf-8 support

2006-01-12 Thread Simon Scheiwiller
Hi all I want to recompile my lfs system with utf-8 support, but I don't want to delete everything and start compiling for 3 days, so maybe I'll try to recompile everything in lfs starting from ncurses and then everything in blfs. so 1. is that actually possible or will I mess up my system for su

problems starting bind

2006-01-12 Thread lux-integ
Greetings, I am having problems starting bind-9.3.1. The program is installed in its default location /usr/local. It was configured as: ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc localstatedir=/var --enable-threads --with-PACKAGE=$SOMETHING --with-openssl=/somewhere --with-lbtool. it compiled and instal

Re: Xorg 6.9?

2006-01-12 Thread Alan Lord
Luca Dionisi wrote: I'm trying to install xorg 7 from scratch. I removed all files from a previous installation of xorg 6.8.2 Now if I try to build Mesa on its own, first, it complains about the absence of X11/Xlib.h And if I try to build xorg --with-mesa... pointing to the dir where I unpacked o

Re: Xorg 6.9?

2006-01-12 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 12/27/05, Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you unpack both of them and try to build, it attempts to build the > demos which require freeglut to be installed. And freeglut can't be > installed, because it needs to have Mesa installed first to provide the > GL headers and libraries. So,