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.

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 ...

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?

couldja tell me how, or point me to a tutorial? that would be much appreciated. thanks

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.

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

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)

at the 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..

bump...

sorry just cant seem to get help on this... tried several forums no one knows... did a few google searches .. nothing helpful...

when i type i get what does this mean?
thanks

also... does partition magic resize reiserfs partitons?

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

thanks

# 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

bump....
doesnt anyone know something?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

[/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 ...

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.

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

Code: Select all

modprobe ipw2200

and run iwconfig again.

when i run it tries to get it from the web, which inst working. how else do i get it

when i run iwconfig it outputs this:

do i have to install drivers for the wireless card?

(bump )

can anyone help?

how do i install openoffice from the packages cd?

when i use 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