My goal is to set up a wireless gate to connect to the Internet. I have followed http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=53812 and my cards are detected and the modules load fine. The problem is that i can't seem to get connectivity between the two wireless cards.

I hope the info below is enough ...

sorry about posting the screen shot

i got the winamp skin from http://www.deviantart.com/view/2942343/

There is no window manager under linux that imitates the OSX gui but you could make gnome look like OSX if you used the aqua theme for the window borders could then use gdesklets to create the idoc effect

here is my screen shot, note I'm not using the aqua theme

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i can listen to CDs as normal user using the gnome CD Player application however xmms won't let me do it. Though it works as root any one with any ideas?

the user is in the audio group and the cdrom group in the /etc/group file the volume is on the correct level.

I can see the /mnt/cdrom dir but it shows no files

i am having trouble listen to music CDs on my system as root the cd will appear and work fine. However as a regular user nothing happens here is the relevant line in my fstab file:

/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0
I have also added the user to the audio and cdrom groups in ...

Does anybody know of any XSL-FO processors that convert to MS word format and or Open Office format??

I had the same problem you are having i fixed it editing the /etc/apache/conf/apache.conf file


a comment = '#'

remove the comment from 'ServerName localhost'

comment out the following
#LoadModule unique_id_module modules/mod_unique_id.so
#AddModule mod_unique_id.c

the run it and see if it ...

I got it to work i found the default.cfg file in my home dir so all i did was move it to ~/.q3a/baseq3 and it worked! can't understand why it was in ~ in the first place?

Sys_Error: Couldn't load default.cfg

Thats the error i keep getting when i try to run quake as a normal user. I've added my user to the games group. Quake will also run as root with no problems. I've made a default.cfg file in the following places to try and solve the problem

/opt/quake3 ...

i like to think that i have a sence of humor but some things just arn't funny

I know there is no point to this but I think this is pretty cool idea anyway

http://www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo/

I've tried to set up xinerama before and failed miserably could one of you post a copy of your XF86config-4 file? So I can hopefully see where I’m going wrong.

Thanks for the replies guys

As it turns out my isp was having problems at the same time it was trying to install

I’m trying to install gentoo 1.2 on a HP vectra vli8, I’m using the kernel module 3c59x for my onboard network card so far the machine boots up brings up eth0 and loads dhcpcd with no problems. I have complied and configured bpalogin (a login client for Australian Bigpond cable customers) as I have ...

thanks ebrostig

i did the emerge rsync and i don't get the errors any more thanks for your help

are you 100% sure that you have compiled the emu10k1 module in the kernel? I'm using the a emu10k1 based sound card to and i had to compile it as a module.

I had simmilar error messages with my wireless card modules in the end i hadn't complied the correct module

thanks ebrostig i know linux is case sensitive, i'm new to Gentoo not Linux

rac :
how do i get a package description of a emerge file? I've already looked at man emerge and it didn't seem to have anything

I have a few questions regarding emerge and rc-update. I know these are very newbie questions sorry for asking them :oops:

1. How do i get a list of files added by rc-update?

2. How do i search for packages i've tried

emerge -S xmms

but i get these error messages

Searching... \portage: aux ...

hi i did an emerge --update system last night then when i logged in this morroning i got these error messages as soon a i typed the user name


configuration error -unknown item 'CONSOLE' (notify administrator)
configuration error -unknown item 'DIALUP_CHECKS_ENB' (notify administrator ...

i tried typing nano /etc/fstab but it said unknown command

telstra uses dhcp but with other distros i've had to use a login client called bpalogin but i can't use it durning the install process so i don't know what to do

I have two questions

1 - has anyone got any suggestions on a good partitioning scheme i have two hard disks hda 30g and hdd 40g, my bios doesn't allow me to set hdd as bootable. I would like to be able to run three os's windows, redhat and gentoo?

2 - does the / partition and /boot partition have ...

i have errors im my fstab file, ho do i edit it after a base install none of the other text editors such as vi or nano seem to be installed help

Is it possible to setup my cable modem account during the gentoo install process? I am an Australian telstra bigpond customer are there any other bigpond customers out there that can help?