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[arch-general] Last couple of updates Knocked my Wireless -- OUT (atheros/madwifi/ath_pci)
by David C. Rankin 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Listmates, I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting this problem. For months and months, ever since I installed Arch, my Atheros wifi (through ath0) has always just worked right out of the box. No biggie. You setup your /etc/network.d/mywpa.conf and add your config to the NETWORKS entry and then each time I would turn on my box, up came the network. That is, until the updates this past week or so. My config is still the same. The mywpa.conf file is: CONNECTION="wireless" INTERFACE=wlan0 SCAN="yes" SECURITY="wpa" ESSID="skyline" KEY="notmyrealkey" IP="dhcp" TIMEOUT=20 My rc.conf setting hasn't changed: eth0="dhcp" INTERFACES=(!eth0) gateway="default gw 192.168.6.13" ROUTES=(!gateway) NETWORKS=(!main mywpa.conf) DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network net-profiles hal @ntpd @sshd @crond @netfs @avahi- daemon @mysqld !postfix !dovecot !httpd !samba @cups kdm3) Now I boot my box and I get nothing but the "lo" interface brought up. What gives? To comply with the new warning about modprobe "blacklist", etc. all of the specified and empty files were moved from /etc/modprobe.d to /root/tmp. My wireless needs the ath_pci module and the ath5k module has always caused problems, so I added the "!ath5k" entry to the modules line before the ath_pci declaration and ath_pci is correctly loaded on boot, but still no wlan0 or ath0 devices are created. As a work-around while this is being sorted, I have been brining the device up with ifconfig ath0 up, then starting wpa_supplicant manually and then finally calling dhcpcd manually to get an IP. What in the world could have changed in the past week or so that is presenting my wireless from being brought up at boot?? Any help or pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] vim 7.2.245-1
by Aaron Griffin 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Jozsef <jozefk(a)gmx.com> wrote: >> I never used runtimepath before and everything worked fine. You shouldn't have to. It is set by default by vim. In a running vim instance do :echo &runtimepath >> And I don't have a "after" directory in /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ at the moment. Is it something I should create by myself? It doesn't need to exist. And it's certainly useless if empty. Only create it if you need it. > And all of that directories inside of /usr/share/vim/ are owned by root. It could be a reason why the plugins don't work if I copy them to vimfiles/plugins or vimfiles/after > I'm not running vim as root, why should I do that? Owned by root does not mean that you can't READ the files. Vim doesn't need to do anything except read them, and it can. I guess I'm confused as to where you installed your plugins. It's typically best to install them in ~/.vim/ rather than system wide

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[arch-general] [kernel26 >= .30 + e100] Slow ethernet
by Gerhard Brauer 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Hi, since 2.6.30.x (i could not exactly say if also with the latest 2.6.29.x) stock kernels i have a terrible slow ethernet transfer rate on my old Thinkpad T22 (Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 SP, module e100). Normal transfer rate ex. to a mirror is for me ~700Kb/s but i got only ~80-90 Kb/s. And a bunch of RX overruns and frame errors. I could solve it by following workarounds: a) Disable ACPI (acpi=off), but this is the ugliest workaround. b) When i generate CPU-Load (ex: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null) the transfer rate goes immediately up to normal and the RX error rate increasing stops. Stopping the dd the rate goes down again. So i thought it could be a timer/IRQ problem. I tried different acpi= and pci= kernel parameters without success. Also tried to isolate the Ethernet device to a non-shared IRQ. c) Current working solution is if i use nohz=off as kernel param. But testing with an 2.6.28 kernel i have installed on this TP there is CONFIG_NO_HZ=y also set (diff is only that this kernel has CONFIG_HZ=1000 and 2.6.30/31 CONFIG_HZ=300, but AFAIK if bootet with NOHZ these settings are ignored (tickless)). So there must be a signifikant change in >= 2.6.30 (tested 2.6.31 from testing also). Anyone has an idea to solve it without nohz parameter? I also could report it to LKML if this seems a bug (for me it is). Regards Gerhard

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[arch-general] Fw: Re: vim 7.2.245-1
by Jozsef 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

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Re: [arch-general] vim 7.2.245-1
by Jozsef 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

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[arch-general] Looking for czech and simplified chinese speakers for a quick pacman translation update
by Xavier 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Hello, we are just lacking a quick update for two languages (czech and simplified chinese), and it's just 13 messages, so maybe someone here could help ? The po files are there : http://code.toofishes.net/pacman/po_files/pacman/ http://code.toofishes.net/pacman/po_files/libalpm/

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Re: [arch-general] vim 7.2.245-1
by Javier Ramos Hidalgo 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

2009/9/21 Jozsef <jozefk(a)gmx.com> > Hi. > Before upgrading to vim 7.2.245-1 I removed vi, gvim and vim with pacman -R > then I installed only vim 7.2.245-1 and I see my scripts and plugins for > autocompition, buffers on top of window... are not working anymore. > Anybody had some similar experience? > Is there any fix for this or I need to start from begining and to search > for scripts/plugins again and to install them from scratch? > I have a similar problem. All the ~/.vim/plugins/ links are orphan. All points to vim-script somewhere in /usr but I haven't that path in my machine. Any idea? What package install that directory or something like that? Thanks

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[arch-general] ABS version of postgresql-libs does not match repo?
by Ray Kohler 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

The PKGBUILD at /var/abs/extra/postgresql-libs has version 8.4.0-1 (a version that was in testing a little while back), while the version in extra is still 8.3.7-2. This seems very dangerous since it would be easy for a non-testing user to give themselves an unintended soname bump. I'm guessing this happens because that's both the trunk and extra version for this package in svn? Might it be worthwhile to backout revs 49331 and 49332, which have this change and nothing more? Or am I missing something here?

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[arch-general] vim 7.2.245-1
by Jozsef 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Hi. Before upgrading to vim 7.2.245-1 I removed vi, gvim and vim with pacman -R then I installed only vim 7.2.245-1 and I see my scripts and plugins for autocompition, buffers on top of window... are not working anymore. Anybody had some similar experience? Is there any fix for this or I need to start from begining and to search for scripts/plugins again and to install them from scratch? Thanks. PS: I can't imagine working without vim anymore. -- Best, Jozsef Kurucity | Web & Graphic Designer +971 50 6783113 | jozefk(a)gmx.com

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[arch-general] lots of stale mirrors?
by Ray Kohler 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Following the community-deleting accident, a bunch of mirrors that are usually up to date have only synced once, and are now 30+ hours out of date. A bunch of other mirrors still haven't synced at all since community was repaired, and are now 3+ days stale. Is there something else going on now? What's up with Arch's mirror network?

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