May 2008 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] New nvidia drivers in testing
by Thomas Bächler 29 May '08

29 May '08

The new nvidia drivers have finally been released. They are in testing now for both architectures. I upload them completely untested, as my desktop is unaccessible until tomorrow. I dropped the libnvidia-wfb from the package, as it does the same as Xorg's libwfb and our xorg-server is sufficiently new (at least as far as I was told). Please report and working/non-working GPUs, I hope we can move this to extra soon.

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[arch-general] For the person who manage the RSS feed (packages)
by Attila 29 May '08

29 May '08

Hi, thanks very much for appending i686/x86_64 to the filename. This makes it very much better. See you, Attila

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[arch-general] Error using WPA on the new kernel
by ponto 29 May '08

29 May '08

Description: After doin' the last kernel's upgrade to: 2.6.25.4-1 Wireless connections using wpa_supplicant cease to work, viewing the log files an error repeats: iwl4965: Error sending REPLY_RXON_ASSOC: Already sending a host command. Steps to reproduce: ifconfig wlan0 up iwconfig wlan0 essid ssid_s_name wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -w -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B dmesg this is from dmesg: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:02:00.0 at offset 1 (was 100102, writing 100106) ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 wlan0: RX authentication from 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=87) wlan0: associated wlan0: CTS protection enabled (BSSID=00:11:20:68:ad:f0) wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:11:20:68:ad:f0) wlan0: WMM queue=2 aci=0 acm=0 aifs=3 cWmin=15 cWmax=1023 burst=0 wlan0: WMM queue=3 aci=1 acm=0 aifs=7 cWmin=15 cWmax=1023 burst=0 wlan0: WMM queue=1 aci=2 acm=0 aifs=2 cWmin=7 cWmax=15 burst=30 wlan0: WMM queue=0 aci=3 acm=0 aifs=2 cWmin=3 cWmax=7 burst=15 ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready wlan0: RX deauthentication from 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 (reason=2) wlan0: deauthenticated wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 wlan0: RX authentication from 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=88) wlan0: associated wlan0: CTS protection enabled (BSSID=00:11:20:68:ad:f0) wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:11:20:68:ad:f0) iwl4965: Error sending REPLY_RXON_ASSOC: Already sending a host command wlan0: no IPv6 routers present wlan0: RX deauthentication from 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 (reason=0) wlan0: deauthenticated wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 wlan0: RX authentication from 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=89) wlan0: associated wlan0: CTS protection enabled (BSSID=00:11:20:68:ad:f0) wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:11:20:68:ad:f0) iwl4965: Error sending REPLY_RXON_ASSOC: Already sending a host command wlan0: RX deauthentication from 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 (reason=0) wlan0: deauthenticated wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 wlan0: RX authentication from 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=91) wlan0: associated wlan0: CTS protection enabled (BSSID=00:11:20:68:ad:f0) wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:11:20:68:ad:f0) iwl4965: Error sending REPLY_RXON_ASSOC: Already sending a host command wlan0: RX deauthentication from 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 (reason=0) wlan0: deauthenticated wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 wlan0: RX authentication from 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:11:20:68:ad:f0 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=93) wlan0: associated wlan0: CTS protection enabled (BSSID=00:11:20:68:ad:f0) wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:11:20:68:ad:f0) iwl4965: Error sending REPLY_RXON_ASSOC: Already sending a host command

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[arch-general] netcfg and atheros or where to set the ap mac
by Arvid Ephraim Picciani 28 May '08

28 May '08

Hi, netcfg is quite what i need for my laptop. unfortunatly i can't get it to work with the built in atheros card. The errror is "wireless association failed". Well obviously atheros doesnt associate automaticly. you have to do it manually. not a problem, i just set an ap via iwconfig and it works. netcfg has an option IWOPTS. the docs claim this will be passed to iwconfig. unfiortunatly that is not the case. so where can i set the ap? -- best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen Arvid Ephraim Picciani

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[arch-general] aufs with kernel 2.6.25
by Michael Towers 27 May '08

27 May '08

Hi there, Is anyone else having problems with aufs and the new kernel (2.6.25.4-1, i686)? Here it is a bit of a disaster - I mount it and that was the end of the session, no message, complete system lock up, hard reset necessary. Here is my simple test script: ################## run as root #!/bin/sh mkdir -p aufsu mkdir -p tfs/system mkdir -p tfs/mods mount -t aufs -o br:tfs/mods=rw:tfs/system=ro aufs aufsu ##################

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[arch-general] experience with gprs/umts cards & linux?
by Arvid Ephraim Picciani 25 May '08

25 May '08

Hi, Unfortunatly i need to travel a lot recently. For windows you can use those pcmia cards that act as a modem for umts/gprs connections. If anyone tried something like that on linux, please share your experience. Maybe i could use a mobile with bluetooth as well. -- best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen Arvid Ephraim Picciani

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Re: [arch-general] thunderbird 2.0.0.14: Don't see attachments anymore
by Jan de Groot 23 May '08

23 May '08

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 23:50 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Alper KANAT wrote: > > Why don't you guys use thunderbird-branded-2.0.0.14 package on AUR ? > > > Because that is built from source with gcc-4.3 so will have the same > problem. Did someone try to remove the optimization flags from the mozconfig file already? I've read a recent blogpost from a mozilla dev about distribution changes to mozilla products where the default compiler flags should give the best results, as every part of thunderbird/firefox/xulrunner have specific compiler tunings, where an --enable-optimize in mozconfig will use generic optimization for the whole package.

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[arch-general] thunderbird 2.0.0.14: Don't see attachments anymore
by Michael Schaefer 22 May '08

22 May '08

Hello everybody, after upgrading to thunderbird 2.0.0.14 i cannot open attachments anymore or rather see them. Before opening an email the attachment symbol still appears in the list but when opened i just see the textbody and the symbol (speaking about the paper-clip) disappears. Furthermore encrypted mails don't get decrypted automaticlly. Funnilly enough here i see the content attached as 'encrypted.asc' but have to save and decrypt it manually to read it... Anyone with same problems? I checked my preferences, but nothing changed.. kind regards - Michael

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[arch-general] About Arch pkg compress format
by Bendany Qian 21 May '08

21 May '08

Hi all I just have a sugguestion about the pkg format. Currently archlinux is using gzip compress method to pack the package, I think it is better to use bzip2. since bzip2 format can save about 10%-20% disk space than gzip. As I know, FreeBSD has already switch its package format from gzip to bzip2 a few year ago. The back is bzip2 takes more time to compress/decompress. since we are using morden computer. it is not a big problem. (arch only support i686/x64) Regards. Qian -------------------------------------- GANBARE! NIPPON! Win your ticket to Olympic Games 2008. http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/ganbare-nippon/

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[arch-general] Any way to decrypt hashes set by ssh HashKnownHosts?
by David Rosenstrauch 21 May '08

21 May '08

Just on a whim, I decided to try out the Debian tool to scan for weak keys resulting from the recent openssl security hole. And lo and behold, it found 2 weak keys in my known_hosts file! Problem is, though, since Arch recently turned on HashKnownHosts by default in ssh_config, those 2 lines in the known_hosts file are encrypted, and so I don't know which host machines that I've been ssh'ing into are affected by the problem. Anyone know if there's any way to decrypt the hashes created by the HashKnownHosts setting? TIA, DR

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