I just received a bluetooth GPS receiver and thought I would share my experience getting it paired with bluez-gnome.
The GPS device has a fixed pin of 0000. When pairing it with bluez-gnome the applet only allows you to use a randomly generated pin and therefor fails. It seems the applet should be ...

ati-drivers 5.542 does not require xorg > v1.3. However it does not compile against the 2.6.28 kernel generating a similar (but I am not sure) error as previous versions did. It does include a patch to make it compile against the 2.6.27 kernel but I need the 28 as it is the one resolving my hardware ...

When emerging the latest ati-drivers it pulls xorg-server v1.5 as a dependency. However, when running X with the ati driver it complains that the driver does not support ABI versions above 2.0, and that the version used by xorg-server is 4.1. Also my videocard is not recogniced (radeon hd 3450) and ...

Xine would not work either (running tzap NRK2 -r in background and starting xine with xine /dev/dvb/adaptor0/dvr0). The coding is very different in the UK. Support for the video and especially audio in norwegian streams came recent and from what I've read on the net only mplayer is able to view the ...

Received a Pinnacle 310i DVB-T hybrid card a couple of days ago. Compiled the saa7134 chipset driver from gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r8 which seems to work as when doing modprobe saa7134_dvb dmesg outputs
DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0])
DVB: registering frontend 0 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T ...

I cant seem to get remote logging working. The plan is to use my linux router as the snort host, and my main server as the web- and mysqlserver. Been working on it for a while now. First snort complained about missing libmysqlclient* libraries, so I finally had to emerge mysql on the router. Then I ...

Hi. Our current router (Asus something) is beginning to piss me off way to often, and I need something to replace it with. I used to run a diskless machine with IP-tables and stuff in the closeth, but it was to much work every time I had to shut down some component in the network, and then ...

yes! adding ldapsam and ldap to the USE flags made samba work they way i wanted it to. i still have problems running smbldap-populate though.

heres what happens:

james iver # smbldap-populate
Populating LDAP directory for domain IDEALX-NT (S-1-5-21-4205727931-4131263253-1851132061)
(using builtin ...

wow, thats a really nice post marlo :D; though i might have solved the problem now.
i entered log level = 10 in smb.conf, and got this from /var/log/samba/log.smbd:

[2006/01/18 18:26:33, 5] passdb/pdb_interface.c:make_pdb_context_list(823)
Trying to load: ldapsam:ldap://127.0.0.1/
[2006/01/18 18 ...

hm, found another guide for ldap and samba as pdc at wikipedia, and this time at least ldap works. i do have a problem with samba though. when starting it i get:

james ~ # /etc/init.d/samba start
* samba -> start: smbd ... [ !! ]
* samba -> start: nmbd ... [ ok ]
* Error: stopping services ...

heres some more config files and messages:

james ~ # cat /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
#
# See slapd.conf(5) for details on configuration options.
# This file should NOT be world readable.
#
# Define global ACLs to disable default read access.

# Do not enable referrals until AFTER you have a working ...

i did include the samba.schema, but i have no idea what object class of the user means...? thanks

Hi. I'm currently trying to use samba on my Gentoo server in the basement as a Domain Controller. I found this guide: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LDAP_SAMBA_PDC_Basic_Setup, which I have been using to get everything up and going (I realise I dont really need an LDAP server to get Samba as the PDC ...

Hm, it seems that when I accedentally rebooted the server at 05:00 in the morning (wrote halt in wrong ssh session :p) made everything work again (the client is diskless and runs of the server located in my basement) ...

jeeves ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.4.31-gentoo-r1 i586)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.31-gentoo-r1 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
Gentoo Base System version ...

Hi. A couple of installs have now failed..or never finishes, since emerge seems to go into a loop of some kind. I have no idea whats going on, so Ill just pass some of the output here:

This was an install of MPD that went on during the whole night.
cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status Makefile depfiles ...

Didnt work out either way. I'll just use Etherboot for now.

Thanks for the tip. I didnt know how to install from a custom ebuild, and there was no directory named sys-boot/pxe-1.4.2 under portage, so I just downloaded the source and compiled it manualy, then ran pxe. It didnt work..

Hi. I'm trying to make a computer of mine boot over the network using PXE. I had it working using Etherboot, but now I got a new card featuring PXE, so I would like to try that out. As the title suggest, I get the error "PXE-E53: No boot filename received". The cause for this, according to the man ...

the reason i didnt buy a sony net md was cos the where no software to support it in linux. i doubt you will ever be able to use your md as an external drive, sorry. maybe in windows, but im not sure.

Hi. I recently installed TorrentFlux (PHP interface for a python bittorrent client (BitTornado in my case)) on my server . However, it doesnt work. I have no other clue than that it has something to do with apache not being able to run the python scripts that came with TorrentFlux. I've already made ...

I tried to emerge Gnome overnight, and ofcourse it failed at some point :P.
It came 8 packages down the row (of 92); to nautilus. This is the errormessage i got:

ule.lo nautilus-monitor.lo nautilus-program-choosing.lo nautilus-recent.lo nautilus-search-uri.lo nautilus-sidebar-functions.lo nautilus ...

Hmm. How is the speed of XFS compared to ReiserFS?

Isn't Reiser4 still beta?

Hi. I have just convinced my dad that Linux as the server OS actually can work, and also work a lot better than the Win2k setup we have now :P. Now I need to convert all my NTFS disk to another filesystem. It's 4 different drives, a 160Gb, 120Gb, 80Gb, and a 40Gb. I've organized them so that one ...