Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2006-01-27 Thread Ron Bickers
On Thu January 26 2006 17:41, Tom Smith wrote: Sheesh, I finally found a solution to this very annoying problem (may also help the gentleman with the UK keyboard problem (Peter Ruskin?)... I actually discovered this while playing around with QEMU, it had the EXACT same problem as WTS. I just

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2006-01-27 Thread Tom Smith
The problem occurs when running Win4Lin *within* a VNC session. The same goes for QEMU. I don't fully understand the difference between loading X at the console versus loading it at a virtual console, but I think that some keyboard mappings (among other things) are treated differently in the

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2006-01-26 Thread Tom Smith
Sheesh, I finally found a solution to this very annoying problem (may also help the gentleman with the UK keyboard problem (Peter Ruskin?)... I actually discovered this while playing around with QEMU, it had the EXACT same problem as WTS. The problem appears to be an X keyboard mapping issue. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-23 Thread Tom Smith
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 02:16:52 +, Peter Ruskin wrote: Well, of course! This is Gentoo - no rpm hell here! What you need is rpm -ivh --nodeps Win4Lin... Before you do that, check through the list of dependencies that rpm showed and make sure they are all

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:42:06 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: Before you do that, check through the list of dependencies that rpm showed and make sure they are all installed. That was my original question that started this thread... Which Gentoo packages do I need to install to satisfy the

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Tom Smith schreef: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 02:16:52 +, Peter Ruskin wrote: Well, of course! This is Gentoo - no rpm hell here! What you need is rpm -ivh --nodeps Win4Lin... Before you do that, check through the list of dependencies that rpm showed and

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread Dale
Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 22 December 2005 23:47, Tom Smith wrote: Here's the error that rpm -ivh Win4Lin... generates: error: Failed dependencies: /bin/sh is needed by Win4LinPro-6.2.5-01 ... Well, of course! This is Gentoo - no rpm hell here! What you need is rpm -ivh

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 22, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Dale wrote: Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 22 December 2005 23:47, Tom Smith wrote: Here's the error that rpm -ivh Win4Lin... generates: error: Failed dependencies: /bin/sh is needed by Win4LinPro-6.2.5-01 ... Well, of course! This is Gentoo - no rpm

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread Tom Smith
Dale wrote: I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed so maybe I am missing something. Why not do a emerge win4lin and be done with it? Why does it have to be a rpm install when it is in portage? Like I said, maybe I'm missing something here. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -p win4lin These

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread Dale
Tom Smith wrote: Because the Portage Win4Lin is at version 5--the Netraverse version is at 6 and includes additional Pro utilities that provide the Terminal Server functionality, among other things. Maybe some poor soul, Tom Smith maybe ;, can ask them to update the thing to version 6?

[gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2005-12-08 Thread Tom Smith
Earlier this year, I worked with Netraverse on trying to solve this issue... I was able to get a Mandrake 9 server working (NumLock included) but couldn't get the same results when I tried to migrate to Mandrake 10. MDK 9 was working so I left the issue alone.Now I'm trying to get Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2005-12-08 Thread Tom Smith
Sorry, my brain's mush... I'm just a whole lot of tired! The problem is that the Num Lock keypad doesn't work.I reported this issue to Netraverse back in January and they apparently still don't have it fixed. It's definately something with their software but I saw some references to creating X

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2005-12-08 Thread Tom Smith
I'm running Win4Lin Terminal Server 3... They may have fixed the problem in your version.How do I go about getting a "win4lin-sources" kernel? I was unable to one anywhere. Maybe I would have better luck with that.Ron Bickers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu December 8 2005 16:47, Tom Smith

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2005-12-08 Thread John Jolet
that no longer exists.at least that's what I was told when I was trying to install...they said use vanilla sources and patch.On Dec 8, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote:I'm running Win4Lin Terminal Server 3... They may have fixed the problem in your version.   How do I go about getting a

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Smith
That worked! I had to go back to vanilla-sources-2.6.11.11 to get full SMP support (Win4Lin issue) but the kernel patched correctly and loaded the MKI module.It's a bummer that I can't use gentoo-sources, or "win4lin-sources" (wherever they are), for this. I was hoping to take advantage of

[gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread Tom Smith
Hi all,I've got an MDK 9 server running Win4Lin Terminal Server. I'm trying to migrate this server AWAY from Mandrake to Gentoo.There are referrences everywhere that indicates there's a win4lin-sources kernel but I have yet to find it anywhere.Does Gentoo still support Win4Lin "out of

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread John Jolet
you have to use the vanilla sources and patch with the kernel patch on the win4lin site. they have a patch for 2.6.12, and 2.6.14, though the latest vanilla kernel I saw was 2.6.13... :) Im running 2.6.12 right now. On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hi all, I've got an MDK

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread Tom Smith
Well, I'm using the gentoo-sources (2.6.13) and was able to get the patch to apply. The problem is that I don't have the Netraverse option in menuconfig after patching the kernel.Is there a trick for getting this to work?John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you have to use the vanilla sources

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread John Jolet
um, then the patch didn't apply.On Dec 5, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote:Well, I'm using the gentoo-sources (2.6.13) and was able to get the patch to apply. The problem is that I don't have the Netraverse option in menuconfig after patching the kernel.   Is there a trick for getting this to

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread Tom Smith
Hm... I guess all I can say is that the log file indicated that everything patched correctly--that is, it listed the file names it was patching and there were no errors.When I tried to reapply the patch, it recognized that it had already been applied and asked if I wanted to reverse it or

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hm... I guess all I can say is that the log file indicated that everything patched correctly--that is, it listed the file names it was patching and there were no errors. When I tried to reapply the patch, it recognized that it had already

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 09:20:11PM -0500, John Jolet wrote: okay, I was wondering how to get the other kernel versions. it's emerge gentoo-sources (space) 2.6.11 is it? hum, that's funny, I was going to tell you emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.11 but equery list -p gentoo-sources

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:20:11 -0500, John Jolet wrote: okay, I was wondering how to get the other kernel versions. it's emerge gentoo-sources (space) 2.6.11 is it? emerge -av gentoo-sources-2.6.12 will get you the latest version prior to 2.6.11, which is a 2.6.9 revision for gentoo-sources.

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread John Jolet
On Aug 26, 2005, at 2:46 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:20:11 -0500, John Jolet wrote: okay, I was wondering how to get the other kernel versions. it's emerge gentoo-sources (space) 2.6.11 is it? emerge -av gentoo-sources-2.6.12 will get you the latest version prior to

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/26/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 26, 2005, at 2:46 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:20:11 -0500, John Jolet wrote: okay, I was wondering how to get the other kernel versions. it's emerge gentoo-sources (space) 2.6.11 is it? emerge -av

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread Ron Bickers
On Thu August 25 2005 09:47 pm, John Jolet wrote: I've purchased the win4lin product, (the home version) to test out certain windows apps I need to run. They claim that gentoo has a patched kernel available for this. Does anyone know anything about this? I have a modified

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:03:49 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: There is much here I don't understand. Isn't it possible for someone who actually got one of the missing ebuilds to re-build an ebuild and pass it around? For instance, I seem to have linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r11 linux-2.6.11.11

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/26/05, Ron Bickers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu August 25 2005 09:47 pm, John Jolet wrote: I've purchased the win4lin product, (the home version) to test out certain windows apps I need to run. They claim that gentoo has a patched kernel available for this. Does anyone know

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread Ron Bickers
On Fri August 26 2005 01:21 pm, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have a modified gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r11 ebuild that I've been using as an overlay and it's been working fine for me for months. I'll be happy to share if anyone is interested. Yes please. Ok. You can get the ebuild tree

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Friday 26 August 2005 12:03 pm, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 8/26/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 26, 2005, at 2:46 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:20:11 -0500, John Jolet wrote: okay, I was wondering how to get the other kernel versions. it's emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Thursday 25 August 2005 10:58 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: John Jolet schreef: On Thursday 25 August 2005 21:17, Mark Knecht wrote: Maybe it's just an oversight and temporarily gone? - Mark well, it's definately gone now. can someone comment on why and whether it's temporary? I'd

[gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
I've purchased the win4lin product, (the home version) to test out certain windows apps I need to run. They claim that gentoo has a patched kernel available for this. Does anyone know anything about this? The instructions they sent me said to emerge win4lin-sources, but emerge --search finds

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:47 pm, John Jolet wrote: I've purchased the win4lin product, (the home version) to test out certain windows apps I need to run. They claim that gentoo has a patched kernel available for this. Does anyone know anything about this? The instructions they sent me

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
yeah, well, a new install as of two days ago...it's 2.6.12. emerge --search win4lin-source turns up nothing. Is there anothing thing I should be searching for? I'm kinda new to gentoo, been using redhat and mandrake for 5 years, though. On Thursday 25 August 2005 20:54, Michael W. Holdeman

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/25/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah, well, a new install as of two days ago...it's 2.6.12. emerge --search win4lin-source turns up nothing. Is there anothing thing I should be searching for? I'm kinda new to gentoo, been using redhat and mandrake for 5 years, though. On

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 25 August 2005 21:17, Mark Knecht wrote: Maybe it's just an oversight and temporarily gone? - Mark well, it's definately gone now. can someone comment on why and whether it's temporary? I'd prefer not to try to remember if've installed any other modules or patches this

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:08:06 -0500 John Jolet wrote: yeah, well, a new install as of two days ago...it's 2.6.12. emerge --search win4lin-source turns up nothing. Is there anothing thing I should be searching for? I'm kinda new to gentoo, been using redhat and mandrake for 5 years,

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:23:10 -0500 John Jolet wrote: On Thursday 25 August 2005 21:17, Mark Knecht wrote: Maybe it's just an oversight and temporarily gone? - Mark well, it's definately gone now. can someone comment on why and whether it's temporary? I'd prefer not to try to

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 25 August 2005 21:39, Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:23:10 -0500 John Jolet wrote: On Thursday 25 August 2005 21:17, Mark Knecht wrote: Maybe it's just an oversight and temporarily gone? - Mark well, it's definately gone now. can someone comment on why and

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 07:17:48PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Maybe it's just an oversight and temporarily gone? - Mark doubt it. According to the changelog for Win4Lin # ChangeLog for app-emulation/win4lin # Copyright 2002-2005 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: #

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread John Jolet
# ChangeLog for app-emulation/win4lin # Copyright 2002-2005 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: # /var/www/www.gentoo.org/raw_cvs/gentoo-x86/app-emulation/win4lin/ChangeLog, v # 1.22 2005/08/15 16:51:48 plasmaroo Exp $ 15 Aug 2005; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Holly Bostick
John Jolet schreef: On Thursday 25 August 2005 21:17, Mark Knecht wrote: Maybe it's just an oversight and temporarily gone? - Mark well, it's definately gone now. can someone comment on why and whether it's temporary? I'd prefer not to try to remember if've installed any other

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/25/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ChangeLog for app-emulation/win4lin # Copyright 2002-2005 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: # /var/www/www.gentoo.org/raw_cvs/gentoo-x86/app-emulation/win4lin/ChangeLog, v # 1.22 2005/08/15 16:51:48 plasmaroo

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:52:11 -0500 John Jolet wrote: W I appreciate everyone's help with this, but that changelog entry doesn't really tell me why it's gone and that it won't come back. No it just tells you that the dependency has been removed, so the assumption has been made ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin problems

2005-06-25 Thread Ron Bickers
On Sat June 25 2005 09:53 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: Are you running a Win4Lin patched kernel (eg, win4lin-sources)? Yes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ uname -a Linux baby 2.6.11-win4lin #1 Fri Jun 24 15:34:04 CDT 2005 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux You should also have

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin problems

2005-06-25 Thread Michael Sullivan
I don't think that vnetd is running, even though I think I started it: baby ~ # /opt/win4lin/bin/vnetd baby ~ # ps ax | grep 'vnetd' 11865 pts/1R+ 0:00 grep vnetd Did I format my ps command correctly? On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 11:11 -0400, Ron Bickers wrote: On Sat June 25 2005 09:53 am,

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin problems

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Shields
Try running /etc/init.d/vnetd status If it says started but ps ax | grep vnetd returns nothing, zap it: /etc/init.d/vnetd zap then /etc/init.d/vnetd start again. On 6/25/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think that vnetd is running, even though I think I started it:

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin problems

2005-06-25 Thread Michael Sullivan
I don't think I have it: baby ~ # /etc/init.d/vnetd status -bash: /etc/init.d/vnetd: No such file or directory I'm running emerge -Ss vnetd right now to see if I can find out how to get vnetd. Any advice? On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 15:09 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: Try running /etc/init.d/vnetd

[gentoo-user] Win4Lin problems

2005-06-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
I was trying to install Win4Lin and Windows 98 on my computer, but it gave me this output (including error): baby ~ # ebuild /var/db/pkg/app-emulation/win4lin-5.1.1/win4lin-5.1.1.ebuild config Checking the system. Found bootable CD-ROM. Extracting boot image ... Copying the Windows files.

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin problems

2005-06-24 Thread Ron Bickers
On Fri June 24 2005 04:35 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: I was trying to install Win4Lin and Windows 98 on my computer, but it gave me this output (including error): MERGE_NL: dos: ERROR: Win4Lin drivers are not loaded or not available for use. Cannot run DOS or Windows. Either Win4Lin is