Hi, I just recently have gotten WPA working with my bcm4306 card and am using the 2.6.20.3 vanilla kernel.
I've noticed alot of spamming in the logs related to WPA such as the following:


bcm43xx: Keys cleared
bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2)
bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0 ...

Mythos wrote:ummm gnome-terminal -> Terminal -> Set Title ?

tw04l124 also suggested this. I also was aware of this option, but it takes time to change the window title every time I run a program. I wanted it to be automatic with specific programs that are important to me.

Thanks anyway,

-Q

If anyone is interested here is my script I added this too


#!/bin/bash

export PROMPT_COMMAND=
export PS1="$"
echo -ne "\033]0;GAP\007"

FILE="/usr/local/src/gap4r4/save_X.gap"
[ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && FILE="/usr/local/src/gap4r4/save.gap"

/usr/local/src/gap4r4/bin/gap.sh -L $FILE $*


Thanks again ...

even with changing the command line the echo command does not work on either xterm or gnome-terminal. Any other ideas?

I accidentally omitted the -ne options to the echo command, which are needed for the escapes to be interpreted correctly and to omit spurious output. This is the command you need ...

another option for downloading the videos of youtube or whatever is the video downloader firefox plugin

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2390

cheers

-Q

even with changing the command line the echo command does not work on either xterm or gnome-terminal. Any other ideas?

Cheers

-Q

In a nutshell, it's this: echo "\033]0;the terminal title you want\007"

See also this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=18106

This doesn't seem to work in xterm, not to mention gnome-terminal. Infact if i use the xterm -T"title" at the command line it gets replaced by the ...

Does anyone know a command line way to set the title of a terminal window. I've noticed emerge does this but its a matter of convenience so I don't want to spend forever looking for it.

Thanks

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Brainfart wrote:sed maybe? something along the lines of s/^M//

yeah.. I just tried that before I found an easier way. Apparently there are more characters garbled than just the ^M.. :-/


thanks anyway

cheers

-Q

Okay.. I found a way to fix it

emerge fixdos
crlf Nethack-3.4.3-htmldump-0.3.diff

Hi,

I'm thinking of setting up a nethack tournament among some friends over our upcoming break. To do this we want dump files of the endgame. In particular I'm trying to patch the source with the patch from here:

http://nethack-users.sourceforge.jp/htmldump/

The only patches that don't fail are ...

even worse after a bit of playing
yeilds nothing when shifting 4

hmm any hints ?

xmodmap -pke | grep sterling

has no results

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I recently moved to the UK from the US. I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to type the UK pound sign "L"
in a US keyboard.

Thanks

-Q

Any advise about changing time zones in linux?

of course that is just a symlink change of /etc/localtime

I'm going to be moving from the US to UK for nine months then back.

I know some odd things can happen if you end up with future dated files and whatnot.. So I just wanted to hear something ...

Thanks both for you input. termios.h looks like a much simpler option that ncurses.

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I'm working on an experimental crypto program and want to have the user input a passphrase, but don't want it to be displayed.

I would like for there to be * characters or just a curser moving over with a blank.

I'm fairly sure I can do this with ncurses but this seems like using a bulldozer to ...

If you are not broadcasting your SSID, SoftMAC cannot connect to the AP.

Jose,

Are you sure about this? Currently the only AP I can connect to has a hidden SSID. I specify the essid and it has worked fine for some time now.
This may be router equipment specific, since this is my universities ...

Thanks Carlo,

I learned something new today

Today I synced to find dvdrtools hard masked.

I've checked for a bug report or glsa and came up with nothing.
Anyone know why this package has been hard masked?

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You may want to keep a bootable kernel image around without prempt.

As I recall, I had some issues with prempt in much older kernels. It worked for some time and then without warning made my system quite unworkable.
I didn't have any bootable kernels without preempt, so I had to boot from a live ...

Thanks JoseJX,

After recompiling xorg-server it works with my old config.
I'm not sure why it didn't work with all the drivers installed :-/

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anyone successfully updated to modular X using the "nv" driver?

I stupidly forgot to add the VIDEO_CARDS="nv" and INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"
to my make.conf

I'm recompiling xorg-server with these options. Are there any other options needed to get this up and running?

Thanks ;-)

-Q

One thing to be wary of is the nvidia chipset on many of the 12" ppc models. Nvidia has released a driver (x86 only) but no specs
so you would be stuck with no 3d acceleration for the time being. This is the one major disapointment I've had myself with my laptop.

-Q

On the newer ebuilds I am getting a kernel opps when I do ifconfig eth1 up

currently

bcm43xx-0.0.1-r20060329
ieee80211softmac-0.1-r20060329
firmware: wl_apsta 3.130.20.0
kernel: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1
card: Broadcom 4306

the command line says Bus Error
and my dmesg looks like:


Machine check in ...