[gentoo-user] Wireless redux

2005-03-31 Thread Ed Jabbour
After days of wrangling with /etc/wireless, I got it -- almost. One problem remains. At boot, wlan0 sets up fine, but then dhcpcd fails, returning that dhcpcd is already running on wlan0. Once booted, I must remove /var/run/dhcpcd-wlan0.pid and then run dhcpcd. I can't seem to find what in

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless redux

2005-03-31 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Thursday 31 March 2005 08:33 am, Jason Cooper wrote: Ed Jabbour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: After days of wrangling with /etc/wireless, I got it -- almost. One problem remains. At boot, wlan0 sets up fine, but then dhcpcd fails, returning that dhcpcd is already running on wlan0

[gentoo-user] sys-libs/db - required?

2005-03-29 Thread Ed Jabbour
The descriptions for certain versions of sys-libs/db state that db is required for RPM and MySQL, neither of which I use. I have four versions installed. db-4.1.25_p1-r4 requires Blackdown jdk, which I also do not use and would just as soon get rid of. Would unmerging all the dbs affect the

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/db - required?

2005-03-29 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 04:16 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:00:23 -0500 Matthew Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | You can use qpkg to find those packages that depend upon another: Not for system targets. Then what does the following mean? Is it unreliable?

[gentoo-user] Wireless went kaboom

2005-03-27 Thread Ed Jabbour
It had been a long while, so I ran an emerge -uDvp world. Now, my wireless doesn't work. I tried manual: iwconfig wlan0 essid Arachne key s: open I get: Error for wireless request Set encode (8B2A : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. iwconfig: IEEE 80211g

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless went kaboom

2005-03-27 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Sunday 27 March 2005 02:24 pm, Jason Cooper wrote: Ed Jabbour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: It had been a long while, so I ran an emerge -uDvp world. Now, my wireless doesn't work. I tried manual: iwconfig wlan0 essid Arachne key s: open I get: Error for wireless request

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless went kaboom

2005-03-27 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:51 pm, Jason Cooper wrote: I've had great success with: # iwconfig ath0 essid MyESSIDName mode managed channel 6 enc \ 0011-2233-4455-6677-8899-AABB-CC [snip] It looks like the bug is in gentoo's initscripts... Give the command above a try (with

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless went kaboom

2005-03-27 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Sunday 27 March 2005 05:49 pm, Stroller wrote: On Mar 27, 2005, at 7:41 pm, Ed Jabbour wrote: /etc/conf.d/wireless is unchanged from when it worked, as is /etc/conf.d/net. The symlinks in /etc/init.d are also unchanged.I have baselayout 1.11.10-r4. That's an unstable baselayout

[gentoo-user] Who is ndc38841 why is he getting my mail?

2005-03-27 Thread Ed Jabbour
My posts here get posted, but I also have been receiving Delivery Status Notification (Failure) from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] with my post attached. Anybody else

[gentoo-user] mplayer and realplay

2005-02-28 Thread Ed Jabbour
/etc/mplayerplug-in.conf has enable-real=0. Yet, mplayer in Firefox about:plugins continues to list: audio/x-pn-realaudio RealAudio ram,rm Yes audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealAudio rpm Yes application/smil SMIL smil Yes audio/x-realaudio RealAudio ra Yes How might I get mplayer to

[gentoo-user] mplayer build fails

2005-02-26 Thread Ed Jabbour
USE=3dnow divx4linux directfb fbdev live mmx nas network nvidia rtc sse emerge mplayer: demux_gif.c:21:21: gif_lib.h: No such file or directory demux_gif.c: In function `demux_gif_fill_buffer': demux_gif.c:43: error: `GifFileType' undeclared (first use in this function) demux_gif.c:43: error:

[gentoo-user] Boot problems, sort of.

2005-02-19 Thread Ed Jabbour
At boot, I get the following after Caching service dependencies: gawk: /lib/rscripts/awk/gendepends.awk. 440 (FILENAME=- FNR=184) fatal: can't rediredt to /var/lib/init.d/deptree (Read-only filesystem) ln: cannot remove '/var/lib/init.d/started/checkroot:

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot problems, sort of.

2005-02-19 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Saturday 19 February 2005 07:42 am, Luke Albers wrote: emerge the newest gawk again or use -xml On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 14:13 +0200, Ivan Yosifov wrote: The output of 'mount' and 'cat /etc/fstab' ? On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 06:28 -0500, Ed Jabbour wrote: At boot, I get the following after

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot problems, sort of.

2005-02-19 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Saturday 19 February 2005 11:42 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 09:19:46 -0500, Ed Jabbour wrote: emerge the newest gawk again or use -xml Re-emerged gawk 3.1.3-r2 and rebooted. Same problem. That's the problem version. Either emerge r3 or use the -xml flag when

[gentoo-user] Persistent chmod nvram

2005-02-09 Thread Ed Jabbour
I need /dev/nvram to be chmod 666. I make the change, but it doesn't persist through a reboot. Any advice on making the change permanent appreciated. Using udev if that's relevant. Thanks. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Wrong link for X11.

2005-02-03 Thread Ed Jabbour
I'm having problems setting up Codeweavers. I have to set up certain links with rgb,l which I've done. I still have problems, however. I just noticed that in /usr/lib/X11 I have: X11 -- ../X11R6/lib/X11 in blinking red. No wonder, as /usr/lib/X11R6 doesn't exist. /usr/X11R6 does. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NVidia on Riva TNT2

2005-01-31 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Monday 31 January 2005 03:52 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:26:36 -0500, Ed Jabbour wrote: cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf xorg.conf.orig just in case etc-update whacks it etc-update won't whack it. You may when running etc-update but the program itself never

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NVidia on Riva TNT2

2005-01-30 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Sunday 30 January 2005 05:52 pm, Bill Six wrote: --- Ed Jabbour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 28 January 2005 03:04 am, Bill Six wrote: Sorry about the ambiguity. Windows won't open. All I can see is my background. The bar at the bottom won't display. Nothing works at all. I

Re: [gentoo-user] X hangs during startx

2005-01-29 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Saturday 29 January 2005 06:37 am, you wrote: Hi all Sorry to trouble everyone but I need some assistance with xorg please I had every thing working nicely up until last night when I decided to emerge sync make -uD world and configure the new kernel ( linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r6 ) I then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NVidia on Riva TNT2

2005-01-28 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Friday 28 January 2005 03:04 am, Bill Six wrote: Sorry about the ambiguity. Windows won't open. All I can see is my background. The bar at the bottom won't display. Nothing works at all. I can't really describe anything more than that. I'm just trying to see if someone else has had

[gentoo-user] Many version of automake

2005-01-27 Thread Ed Jabbour
I have all the following versions of automake: 1.5, 1.8.5-r2, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4 The latest emerge system unmerged my erstwhile only automake - 1.8.5-r1 - and gave me all the above. Any clues, pointers, advice - any at all - appreciated. Thanks. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Many version of automake

2005-01-27 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Thursday 27 January 2005 03:42 pm, you wrote: I have all the following versions of automake: 1.5, 1.8.5-r2, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4 The latest emerge system unmerged my erstwhile only automake - 1.8.5-r1 - and gave me all the above. Any clues, pointers, advice - any at all -

[gentoo-user] 2.6.10-gentoo-r4n??

2005-01-15 Thread Ed Jabbour
I just emerged gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10-r4. Upon compiling, I see that it's described as 2.6.10-r4n. What does that n mean? Thanks. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless a nogo

2005-01-14 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Thursday 13 January 2005 08:20 pm, you wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:25:35 -0500, Ed Jabbour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:47 pm, you wrote: It appears that iwconfig is failing to set your WEP key. If your password has any charcters that are significant

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless a nogo

2005-01-13 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:47 pm, you wrote: It appears that iwconfig is failing to set your WEP key. If your password has any charcters that are significant to the shell, you need to escape them. What does iwconfig report if you run the commands by hand? Specifically after running: