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by whiskers
Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:31 pm
Forum: Multimedia
Topic: video files over network
Replies: 13
Views: 2086

but what do i do next? when i try to play the file with realplayer, it downloads it from the other computer first before playing it. this can get annoying with larger files. kaffeine simply says that it can only play local files.
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by whiskers
Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:42 pm
Forum: Multimedia
Topic: video files over network
Replies: 13
Views: 2086

NFS is a solution, and samba is also another solution. All you have to do is emerge samba and you'll be all set. I've only used gnome, and things work fine there, but heres what you have to do in gnome.

Make sure you have the samba USE flag enabled by putting it in /etc/make.conf then do a emerge ...
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by whiskers
Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:49 pm
Forum: Multimedia
Topic: video files over network
Replies: 13
Views: 2086

this requires that i have a central server on which the files must be. is there any way i could mount the drive on another computer and play the files like that?
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by whiskers
Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:12 am
Forum: Multimedia
Topic: video files over network
Replies: 13
Views: 2086

couldja tell me how, or point me to a tutorial? that would be much appreciated. thanks
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by whiskers
Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:06 am
Forum: Multimedia
Topic: video files over network
Replies: 13
Views: 2086

couldja clear up what nfs is? it has to be a seperate server with that filesystem on it right?
im just trying to get media files from another computer.
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by whiskers
Sun Sep 04, 2005 1:01 am
Forum: Multimedia
Topic: video files over network
Replies: 13
Views: 2086

video files over network

when in windows, i could stream files from another windows computer and play it on this one without having to copy the file on to the computer. I cant find a way to do that on linux. any suggestions?

thanks
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by whiskers
Sun Aug 21, 2005 5:27 pm
Forum: Other Things Gentoo
Topic: best program to resize partition?
Replies: 6
Views: 1862

actually scratch previous post...

i use a slax live cd to resize_reiserfs, but the partiton is still the same size.
how can i shrink the partition (without using gparted)
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by whiskers
Sun Aug 21, 2005 4:44 pm
Forum: Other Things Gentoo
Topic: best program to resize partition?
Replies: 6
Views: 1862

at the

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./configure
stage of installing gparted, i get something about XML::Parser in perl needed for initool or something like that. i emerged perl, but it says the same thing..
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by whiskers
Sun Aug 21, 2005 12:17 am
Forum: Networking & Security
Topic: configure networking after instal[STILL NOT SOLVED GAH HELP]
Replies: 26
Views: 2892

bump...

sorry just cant seem to get help on this... tried several forums no one knows... did a few google searches .. nothing helpful...
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by whiskers
Sun Aug 21, 2005 12:14 am
Forum: Other Things Gentoo
Topic: best program to resize partition?
Replies: 6
Views: 1862

when i type

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resize_reiserfs -s 8G /dev/sda7
i get

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Can't shrink filesystem on-line
what does this mean?
thanks

also... does partition magic resize reiserfs partitons?
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by whiskers
Sat Aug 20, 2005 10:25 pm
Forum: Other Things Gentoo
Topic: best program to resize partition?
Replies: 6
Views: 1862

best program to resize partition?

what is the best program i can use to resize a reiserfs partition without losing any data

thanks
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by whiskers
Fri Aug 19, 2005 1:03 am
Forum: Networking & Security
Topic: configure networking after instal[STILL NOT SOLVED GAH HELP]
Replies: 26
Views: 2892

# zcat /proc/config.gz
zcat: /proc/config.gz unknown directory

# dmesg
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorythm 'NULL'
ipw2200: unknown symbol request_firmware
ipw2200: unknown symbol release_firmware
ieee80211_crypt_wep: Unknown Symbol crypto_alloc_tfm
ieee80211_crypt_wep: Unknown Symbol crytpo_free ...
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by whiskers
Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:09 pm
Forum: Networking & Security
Topic: configure networking after instal[STILL NOT SOLVED GAH HELP]
Replies: 26
Views: 2892

post the output of:

zcat /proc/config.gz

post the output of dmesg after loading modules. try updating the kernel and relinking /usr/src/linux and re-emerging ipw2200

what do you mean by updating the kernel? recomileing..downloading...? just clearing cause i dont have web access and i dont ...
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by whiskers
Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:55 pm
Forum: Networking & Security
Topic: configure networking after instal[STILL NOT SOLVED GAH HELP]
Replies: 26
Views: 2892

this may be a stupid suggestion, but i am having the same problems with the aforementioned wifi card and i was following the ipw2200 stuff. when i built the crypto in to the kernel i forgot to recompile it (make && make modules_install) and i got the same error messages. i'm sure you remembered to ...
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by whiskers
Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:34 pm
Forum: Networking & Security
Topic: configure networking after instal[STILL NOT SOLVED GAH HELP]
Replies: 26
Views: 2892

bump....
doesnt anyone know something?
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by whiskers
Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:23 pm
Forum: Networking & Security
Topic: configure networking after instal[STILL NOT SOLVED GAH HELP]
Replies: 26
Views: 2892

You'll probably have some more meaningful error message if you look at dmesg output.

dmesg network card related output looked like this

ieee80211_crypt: registered algorythm 'NULL'
ipw2200: unknown symbol request_firmware
ieee80211_crypt_wep: Unknown Symbol crypto_alloc_tfm
ieee80211_crypt_wep ...
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by whiskers
Sun Aug 14, 2005 8:49 pm
Forum: Networking & Security
Topic: configure networking after instal[STILL NOT SOLVED GAH HELP]
Replies: 26
Views: 2892

the exact error was like this:

(some boot stuff not related)
* Failed to load ieee80211_crypt_wep...
* Failed to load ieee89211_crypt_ccmp...
* Failed to load ieee80211_crypt_ttpk

(some more boot stuff not related)

* Bringing eth0 up via DHCP
* Error: Problem starting needed services
"netmount ...
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by whiskers
Sun Aug 14, 2005 5:34 pm
Forum: Networking & Security
Topic: configure networking after instal[STILL NOT SOLVED GAH HELP]
Replies: 26
Views: 2892

k ive recompiled the kernel with the crypto options mentioned by emerge wehn i tried to install ipw2200.
the install went fine, but now when i restart it says some errors about different types of crypto stuff, takes forever to bring up eth0 via dhcp and says netmount was not loaded becasue there ...
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by whiskers
Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:17 pm
Forum: Networking & Security
Topic: Wireless Network setup
Replies: 3
Views: 996

did a quick google search.. maybe this will help:

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9269

thats to get ur wireless adapter working in knoppix
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by whiskers
Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:06 pm
Forum: Networking & Security
Topic: configure networking after instal[STILL NOT SOLVED GAH HELP]
Replies: 26
Views: 2892

[/code] when i run emerge ipw2200 it tries to get it from the web, which inst working. how else do i get it

Stupid question (mine) and good answer (yours). Of course if you can use another connection it would be simpler, but I don't think so.

I'm not pretty sure, but I think that it's enough to ...
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by whiskers
Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:01 pm
Forum: Networking & Security
Topic: Wireless Network setup
Replies: 3
Views: 996

from what i heard, the gentoo live cd doesnt support wireless connections during the install. i think if you run the installation from a knoppix live cd you will be able connect to your network. never having done this i dont know how its done.
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by whiskers
Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:56 pm
Forum: Networking & Security
Topic: configure networking after instal[STILL NOT SOLVED GAH HELP]
Replies: 26
Views: 2892

dgaffuri wrote:Have you emerged ipw2200? Is the ipw2200 module loaded? Check with lsmod. If not run

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modprobe ipw2200
and run iwconfig again.
when i run

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emerge ipw2200
it tries to get it from the web, which inst working. how else do i get it
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by whiskers
Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:52 pm
Forum: Networking & Security
Topic: configure networking after instal[STILL NOT SOLVED GAH HELP]
Replies: 26
Views: 2892

when i run iwconfig it outputs this:

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lo           no wireless extentions

do i have to install drivers for the wireless card?
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by whiskers
Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:20 pm
Forum: Networking & Security
Topic: configure networking after instal[STILL NOT SOLVED GAH HELP]
Replies: 26
Views: 2892

(bump :-P)

can anyone help?
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by whiskers
Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:55 pm
Forum: Other Things Gentoo
Topic: installing openoffice from packages cd
Replies: 2
Views: 1144

installing openoffice from packages cd

how do i install openoffice from the packages cd?

when i use

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emerge openoffice
it tries to download it from the internet

how do i install it from the cd and will it add itself to the kde menu?

thanks
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