Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: How do I build the PPPoE module into the kernel? CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y (that's under Code maturity level options -> Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers) CONFIG_PPPOE=y (that's under Device drivers -> Network device support -> PPP over Ethernet (EXPERIM

Answer to Evolution Icons

2006-06-07 Thread Peter B. Steiger
I can answer myself, since a little experimentation turned up the answer I was looking for. I asked: > When I launch X with an alternative wm like fluxbox, are there other > services I need to launch manually so Gnome applications can find their > respective icons? That would be gnome-settings-d

Postfix, Thunderbird and separate shared e-mail partition

2006-06-07 Thread rblythe
I am venturing into the deep unknown with this one. I am going to be installing postfix and ultimately Thunderbird. I am doing this so I can understand how mail servers work and I like Thunderbird. My situation is this: Currently I multi-boot with Mepis, Suse, LFS/BLFS (working on now), and

Re: ping command

2006-06-07 Thread Justin The Cynical
Naga Gangadhar Reddy wrote: yes, There are multiple machines on the lan, Iam able to connect to internet using browser but not able to ping/traceroute any website. Ok. The machine you can not ping from, can it reach the web? Can it ping other machines on the LAN? Try putting this into a b

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Andrew Benton
Angel Tsankov wrote: CONFIG_PPP=y CONFIG_PPPOE=y Btw, how do you know that I need to build the PPPoE module? In an earlier post you mentioned installing RP-PPPoE, and in your /etc/ppp/options file, you said you had the line plugin rp-pppoe Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listin

Re: latest wine 0.9.14 and BLFS-SVN-2006-05-28

2006-06-07 Thread Leo Peschier
checking for freetype/ftnames.h... no everything else on freetype being yes. For your information. I've installed wine 0.9.12 on a blfs 6.1. I have just the same message in my configure.log. Everything runs fine though. install FontForge ... Did that too. > However, I saw from the bui

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Angel Tsankov
Angel Tsankov wrote: Now it does, but when I reboot the system after installing the kernel I get a lot of lines reading: ./hotplug.functions: line 113: /lib/modules/2.6.11.12/modules/isapnpmap: No such file or directory Known bug with /etc/hotplug/pnp.rc. Remove that file, because it only loa

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Angel Tsankov
Angel Tsankov wrote: Hmm, I had disabled "Loadable module support" prior to rebuilding the kernel. This should mean that the PPPoE module is built into the kernel and is therefore always loaded, right? No, this means that the module is not built into the kernel and never loaded. You can build

Evolution icons redux

2006-06-07 Thread Peter B. Steiger
Now that I have solved the contact list problem in Evolution 2.6 (turned off file locking and dot locking at config/compile time for gnome-data-server), I'm back to a problem with the icons. If I start up in full Gnome (xinitrc launches gnome-session instead of fluxbox), all the icons work fine.

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: Now it does, but when I reboot the system after installing the kernel I get a lot of lines reading: ./hotplug.functions: line 113: /lib/modules/2.6.11.12/modules/isapnpmap: No such file or directory Known bug with /etc/hotplug/pnp.rc. Remove that file, because it only loa

Re: Gnome and libexec path

2006-06-07 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 22:45 +1200, Simon Geard wrote: > Out of curiosity, do you have similar problems with the various > calendaring functions? Absolutely - Any attempt to go into the calendar functions locks up all of Evolution, and I had to go to console and kill the process to regain control

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: Hmm, I had disabled "Loadable module support" prior to rebuilding the kernel. This should mean that the PPPoE module is built into the kernel and is therefore always loaded, right? No, this means that the module is not built into the kernel and never loaded. You can build

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Angel Tsankov
Hmm, I had disabled "Loadable module support" prior to rebuilding the kernel. This should mean that the PPPoE module is built into the kernel and is therefore always loaded, right? What does your kernel .config say? It should say CONFIG_PPP=y CONFIG_PPPOE=y Now it does, but when I reboot the

Re: latest wine 0.9.14 and BLFS-SVN-2006-05-28

2006-06-07 Thread Alessandro Alocci
> > My first attempt on building wine aborted on the configuration step, > > indicating that it couldn't find freetype even though the only part that > > seemed to be missing was: > > checking for freetype/ftnames.h... no > > This looks wrong, the freetype headers are not in /usr/include/free

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Angel Tsankov
Hmm, I had disabled "Loadable module support" prior to rebuilding the kernel. This should mean that the PPPoE module is built into the kernel and is therefore always loaded, right? What does your kernel .config say? It should say CONFIG_PPP=y CONFIG_PPPOE=y Btw, how do you know that I need to

Re: latest wine 0.9.14 and BLFS-SVN-2006-05-28

2006-06-07 Thread Tasos Drosopoulos
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Andrew Benton wrote: > Tasos Drosopoulos wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I built yesterday wine-0.9.14 from source on a recent BLFS-SVN-2006-05-28 > > (LFS toolchain is based on gcc-4.0.3, glibc-2.3.6, binutils-2.16.1). Also > > use Xorg7.1 and freetype-2.1.10. > > Wine is not on

Re: latest wine 0.9.14 and BLFS-SVN-2006-05-28

2006-06-07 Thread Andrew Benton
Tasos Drosopoulos wrote: Hi all I built yesterday wine-0.9.14 from source on a recent BLFS-SVN-2006-05-28 (LFS toolchain is based on gcc-4.0.3, glibc-2.3.6, binutils-2.16.1). Also use Xorg7.1 and freetype-2.1.10. Wine is not on the BLFS book so if my post is inappropriate please ignore it.

Re: Gnome and libexec path

2006-06-07 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 09:02 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > Now all the icons appear correctly, but yet again my contacts list is > gone! I cleaned out my test user's entire /home directory so there > would not be any previous config files in place, started up again so > Gnome could build whateve

Re: Xkb error

2006-06-07 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 10:48 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 6/6/06, Filip Bartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In appendix is two patches from Fedora, which resolve this problem. > > Thanks for looking into this, Filip. These patches are already in > libxklavier-2.2. We should get that in th

Re: Laptop speedstep and wifi questions

2006-06-07 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 09:58 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > Good point. Wireless networking is certainly more useful than just > for laptops. However, on my single PC wired LAN, I can't test any of > the wireless tools. But I'll keep you posted if I ever get around to > setting up wireless access.

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Andrew Benton
Angel Tsankov wrote: Hmm, I had disabled "Loadable module support" prior to rebuilding the kernel. This should mean that the PPPoE module is built into the kernel and is therefore always loaded, right? What does your kernel .config say? It should say CONFIG_PPP=y CONFIG_PPPOE=y Andy -- http:

ping command

2006-06-07 Thread Naga Gangadhar Reddy
yes, There are multiple machines on the lan, Iam able to connect to internet using browser but not able to ping/traceroute any website.Randy McMurchy wrote:> Justin The Cynical wrote these words on 06/05/06 05:14 CST: > > >>I don't think that the OP would be able to get to a web site if the DNS >>w

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Angel Tsankov
1. created the /etc/ppp/ip-up and the /etc/ppp/peers/pppoe files; 2. populated the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and the /etc/ppp/chap-secrets files; 3. issued "ip link set eth0 up" (this produced no output on the terminal); 4. issued "pppd call pppoe" and I got: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. RP-PPPoE plugin

latest wine 0.9.14 and BLFS-SVN-2006-05-28

2006-06-07 Thread Tasos Drosopoulos
Hi all I built yesterday wine-0.9.14 from source on a recent BLFS-SVN-2006-05-28 (LFS toolchain is based on gcc-4.0.3, glibc-2.3.6, binutils-2.16.1). Also use Xorg7.1 and freetype-2.1.10. Wine is not on the BLFS book so if my post is inappropriate please ignore it. My first attempt on buildi