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2005-01-15 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 16:53 +0100, Frank Schafer wrote: > as I wrote. The wpa_supplicant build failed. what were the error messages? have you posted a bug to bugs.gentoo.org? please do, as its the only way it will be fixed. > No wpa_supplicant > executable exists. Downloading the packet and buil

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2005-01-15 Thread Frank Schafer
as I wrote. The wpa_supplicant build failed. No wpa_supplicant executable exists. Downloading the packet and build it due to the README in the package works. No madwifi needed. The download of madwifi is that what hurts me, not the build. Regards Frank On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 18:28 +1300, Nick Rou

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2005-01-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 08:38 +0100, Frank Schafer wrote: > Hi, > > the original poster (me ;), got the card (ipw2200) working, would very > like to use the gentoo methods, but wasn't able to get wpa_supplicant > (masked) to work. > He tried to ebuild wpa_supplicant and the (needless) madwifi was >

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2005-01-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Frank Schafer wrote: Hi, the original poster (me ;), got the card (ipw2200) working, would very like to use the gentoo methods, but wasn't able to get wpa_supplicant (masked) to work. He tried to ebuild wpa_supplicant and the (needless) madwifi was downloaded and installed too amd the build failed.

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2005-01-13 Thread Frank Schafer
Hi, the original poster (me ;), got the card (ipw2200) working, would very like to use the gentoo methods, but wasn't able to get wpa_supplicant (masked) to work. He tried to ebuild wpa_supplicant and the (needless) madwifi was downloaded and installed too amd the build failed. The (gentoo install

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2005-01-13 Thread Matan Peled
Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: Is there such a thing as deep-dependency? If I try to emerge a ~x86 package which depends on a masked package of which I have installed the stable version, emerge will complain and I would have to install the dependency first, with all its dependencies. Seems to me all d

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2005-01-12 Thread Schafer Frank
le to save work, so any hint will be very welcome. Regards Frank -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] WiFi success story :| On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 08:13 +0100, Schafer Frank w

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2005-01-12 Thread Schafer Frank
e and download wpa_supplicant AND madwifi. BTW: wpa_supplicant is about 400k ... (totally unneeded) madwifi near 2M Regards Frank -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi su

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2005-01-12 Thread Charlie Gehlin
On Wed, January 12, 2005 21:50, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. said: > On Wednesday 12 January 2005 04:12 am, "Charlie Gehlin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I disagree, when dealing with a ~x86-package it might have >> deep-dependencies that is also in ~x86. > > Better to be informed about what unstable

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2005-01-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 04:12 am, "Charlie Gehlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I disagree, when dealing with a ~x86-package it might have > deep-dependencies that is also in ~x86. Better to be informed about what unstable packages are being installed than accept them automatically with any

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2005-01-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 08:13 +0100, Schafer Frank wrote: > Zes, it is > > the Gentoo initscripts are #!/sbin/runscript. There is no ``man > runscript'', no ``info runscript'' not much available on google. ... But > sh is well documented. > > Hmmm. have you read this? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/e

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2005-01-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:12 +0100, Schafer Frank wrote: > Hi all, > > I can't nderstand why things working on LFS, Redhat 7, Aurox, Mandrake, > Slackware and Debian don't work on Gentoo. > > I have (had) a working WiFi net at home. The machine I "upgraded" from > Aurox to Gentoo wasn't a particip

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2005-01-12 Thread Billy Holmes
Schafer Frank wrote: Zes, it is the Gentoo initscripts are #!/sbin/runscript. There is no ``man runscript'', no ``info runscript'' not much available on google. ... But sh is well documented. those runscripts in init.d are bash scripts. It's piped through runscript, so it can call the proper shell

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2005-01-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: -Original Message- From: Charlie Gehlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I also disagree on package.keywords since it's better to test if emerge goes well and that module actually works before making any static changes regarding keywords or even USE- & FEATURES-flags for t

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2005-01-12 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
> -Original Message- > From: Charlie Gehlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 2005 9:10 PM > To: Eugene Rosenzweig > Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] WiFi success story :| > > I disagree, when dealing with a ~x86-package it might have > deep-depe

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2005-01-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Charlie Gehlin wrote: I disagree, when dealing with a ~x86-package it might have deep-dependencies that is also in ~x86. I also disagree on package.keywords since it's better to test if emerge goes well and that module actually works before making any static changes regarding keywords or even USE-

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2005-01-12 Thread Charlie Gehlin
tage/package.keywords. > > See portage manpage for more info. > > Eugene. > >> -Original Message- >> From: Charlie Gehlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 2005 7:58 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user

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2005-01-12 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Gehlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 2005 7:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] WiFi success story :| > > Try: > > 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -Dv ipw2200' > > /©harlie > > On Wed, January 12, 2

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2005-01-12 Thread Charlie Gehlin
; ... but anyway, thanks for the hint. > > Frank > > -Original Message- > From: Martin Büchler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 4:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi success story :| > > unmask ipw2200, then ther

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2005-01-11 Thread Schafer Frank
46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi success story :| unmask ipw2200, then there is no need for building the driver yourself. i've got it here on my laptop, and it works like a charm. (asus travelmate 6002lmi, kernel 2.6.9) mfg martin On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:35:01

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2005-01-11 Thread Schafer Frank
11, 2005 5:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi success story :| On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Schafer Frank wrote: > > What will I have to do to change from simpleinit to sysv init? Would > it be sufficiennt to emerge sysv? Will I have to unmerge simpleinit? > I'

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2005-01-11 Thread Martin Büchler
unmask ipw2200, then there is no need for building the driver yourself. i've got it here on my laptop, and it works like a charm. (asus travelmate 6002lmi, kernel 2.6.9) mfg martin On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:35:01 -0700 (MST), Ric Messier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Ric Mess

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2005-01-11 Thread Ric Messier
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Ric Messier wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Schafer Frank wrote: What will I have to do to change from simpleinit to sysv init? Would it be sufficiennt to emerge sysv? Will I have to unmerge simpleinit? I'd like to have my initscripts #!/bin/sh. Is that the only reason you want a S

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2005-01-11 Thread Ric Messier
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Schafer Frank wrote: What will I have to do to change from simpleinit to sysv init? Would it be sufficiennt to emerge sysv? Will I have to unmerge simpleinit? I'd like to have my initscripts #!/bin/sh. Is that the only reason you want a SysV init? A bit odd, especially given: l