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[arch-general] Fw: A question regarding the ifdplug and wireless interfaces
by Keith Hinton 19 May '10

19 May '10

Hopefully this gets to you folks. In edition, I've insured that this will be in plain-text, I received a content type was not allowed error message previously. thanks! Regards, --Keith From: Keith Hinton Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:21 AM To: Arch-General Subject: A question regarding the ifdplug and wireless interfaces Hi all, I have an interesting setup presently. One of these days I hope to move permanently to Arch-however, I'm on Windows presently so am running Arch in a VMware virtual machine by using VMware workstation 7 on Windows. I still do make use of tools such as the NetCFG tool, especially. As a blind Arch user, and one who does a lot of repetitive tasks, I like the use of netcfg personally. I have used it, especially rather than say, configuring WPA_Supplicant manually, even after reading all the documentation. While I do appreciate and value Arch Linux for most of the manual configuration, I still believe in my heart that automation of some tasks is an okay thing to do. What do you folks think? I for instance, tend to love pre-configuring specific files, such as Pacman.conf, and other various small files, and just cary them on a small USB 4GB thumb-drive of mine. That way, if and when I install Arch regardless of a VM or real environment, I have the various files to work with a head of time, already configured by me in the first place, avoiding the need to do that all over again. Usually, after that, I just need to cp the files for use in whatever they're intended to be used for. My first question though is this: does the ifdplug interface tool only work with Ethernet cards? Or is wireless Ethernet cards also supported? Also, when it comes to Arch and the various uses of the system environment, how was Arch designed so as to be so flexible? It amazes me at how light Arch Linux really is-it performed without a problem on my Intel Pentium III, 930MHZ, 256MB RAM Del desktop computer for two years. Of course, at the time I had a secondary Windows machine for the tools I use like Skype, that still remain unaccessible to the blind/visually impared community, whare as Skype in windows/Apple Mac remains the most accessible. Similar issues of accessibility/bugs occur in Mozilla's Firefox. presently, I find that Arch is one of the most interesting distrobutions of Linux available out there. Thanks for making such a fine distro, and I hope that you folks continue to develop Arch as you folks have for the passed what..99 years? LOL. Have fun, and happy Arching. If you folks wish to chat with me-you can occasionally find me on irc.freenode.net #ArchLinux as Keith-BlindUser For you Archers that use Twitter, if you wish to contact me that way besides the Arch-General or Arch-Releng mailing lists or Irc, you may follow keithint1234 on Twitter. Or send me an email off-list if you want at: keithint1234(a)gmail.com I can be reached on Skype by adding skypedude1234 to your Skype contacts lists. Thanks! Regards, --Keith

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[arch-general] nut-2.4.3-1 still having problems with usbhid-ups driver after update to kernel26-2.6.33.4-1
by David C. Rankin 18 May '10

18 May '10

Listmates, The network-ups-tools-2.4.3-1 package is still having problems with the usbhid-ups driver. I opened http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19351 on 5/3, but it still isn't assigned to anyone. I don't know if that's normal or not? After update to kernel26-2.6.33.4-1, I thought I would re-try network-ups-tools-2.4.3-1 to see if it might have been related to the last kernel. No luck, the current nut package fails in the same way. Returning to network-ups-tools-2.4.1-2, it works fine with kernel26-2.6.33.4-1. I have specified the details and log errors in task/19351 and updated it with the latest info after install of kernel26-2.6.33.4-1. Is there anything else you would like me to provide? If so, just let me know. 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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[arch-general] Question regarding the ArchLinux iso core image
by Keith Hinton 18 May '10

18 May '10

Hi. I've recently seen threads on this list pertaining to interesting issues with the Arch Linux core isos. I haven't had that problem in my primary tests of those Isos in particular. Is there any reason why a successful installation may occur in one environment over another? Or is this a common Linux problem. Thanks for answering my question. I hope that the rest of you folks have successful Core installations, however a net-install is the only real way to isntall Arch Linux. I do not see the point of the core installer media, personally. Why would one wish to use that? A snapshot will become outdated in a flash, and all of you archers know this. As soon as a newer package version is available the entire snapshot is outdated instantly. Or will be, given a few weeks/months/years/whatever. I therefore have always installed from what I believe to be the Arch-Way, wich is installing via the Internet alone to have an updated system. Does anyone agree/disagree with my idea on the proper way to install Arch? :D Regards, --Keith

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[arch-general] Fw: NDN: Question regarding the ArchLinux iso core image
by Keith Hinton 18 May '10

18 May '10

Hey guys, I wanted to forward this message. Has anyone ever gotten this? I get this consistently when posting messages to Arch-General, from the following email adddress. Hope someone can tel me why this happens-or talk to whomever owns Arch-general, and update it. Is this a problem with the mailman configuration on Arch Linux's server that runs Arch-general? Thanks. Obviously my post was delivered but I don't know why this happens. Note: this doesn't happen with Arch-Releng. Sorry for posting this hear, but there you are. From: Post Office Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 3:17 AM To: Keith Hinton Subject: NDN: [arch-general] Question regarding the ArchLinux iso core image Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: Joey Kingery (Mailbox has been deleted. Try re-entering the address.)

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[arch-general] final final testing images
by Dieter Plaetinck 18 May '10

18 May '10

Okay guys, props to Thomas for finding out the problem with the initialization of wireless cards. I built new images, dated 2010.05.16 (aka "final final images" ;)) in which this should be fixed, and which also come with updated core packages, most notably kernel26-2.6.33.4-1 http://build.archlinux.org/isos/ thanks to everyone who tested the 2010.05.13 (or earlier) images. i received confirmation for 4 images with which a boot+installation went fine. for netinstall-dual.iso I only reiceved confirmation that it boots fine (but that's enough, given the other tested images). However i got no feedback for the core-x86_64 image. So right now, these two things are needed: * confirmation that archlinux-2010.05.16-core-x86_64.iso boots fine. * confirmation that wireless cards are properly initialised now. cheers, and stay tuned for a release soonish :) Dieter

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[arch-general] upgrade issues
by Wolfgang 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hi, I'm running Arch for quite a while on several machines. On one laptop there were no updates applied for quite a while. It was running kde4.0 and was using hda instead of sda as harddisk device. After applying all updates (download was roughly 1.8 GB) there are some issues (mainly with kde 4.4.3). All icons are missing until I switch icon-theme. After that there are still lots of icons missing, kde itself (eg. log-off), kde-apps (system-management), applications (k3b) and "unrelated" apps (opera). Also missing are the rating stars inside dolphin and gwenview (and probably others). I reinstalled all kde-meta packages wich pulled a view additional packages but didn't change anything. I tried to delete $HOME/.kde4 and also tried a newly created user. I looked at all(?) *.pacnew files. The only somehow related was kdm but couldn't find anything else. Any hints? Regards, Wolfgang

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[arch-general] troubles with resume after hibernate
by Nick Stepa 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hello all. I have such trouble: when i use `pm-hibernate` my notebook(asus x58-l) can`t resume normally(you can see a lot of error messages in dmesg). What should i do to fix this? Some log\config files you can find at http://devio.us/~hired777 Thx

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[arch-general] testing xorg packages may not be nvidia friendly
by Caleb Cushing 17 May '10

17 May '10

I tried installing testing on a box running nvidia drivers that I have at school. X didn't come up. I don't know why and didn't really investigate (as I was really testing to see if my box at home had an env issue seems it does). using nvidia-173xx-utils -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] final release candidate images for testing
by Dieter Plaetinck 17 May '10

17 May '10

new images are done. version: 2010.05.13 these are the images I want to rename to an official 2010.05 release after testing. http://build.archlinux.org/isos/Changelog http://build.archlinux.org/isos/ how should they be tested? for every file, that is: archlinux-2010.05.13-core-dual.iso archlinux-2010.05.13-core-i686.iso archlinux-2010.05.13-core-x86_64.iso archlinux-2010.05.13-netinstall-dual.iso archlinux-2010.05.13-netinstall-i686.iso archlinux-2010.05.13-netinstall-x86_64.iso I want to get a report from someone that an installation went fine. what kind of install doesn't really matter. manual, automatic, autoprepare, net/core whatever. this has been tested enough before, so any kind of install with each single image. On top of that, I want: A) confirmation for virtio_pci and virtio_blk on the install ISO's initramfs http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19401?project=6 B) at least one installation performed from a usb stick, using any of the above images. So if you test: send a reply mentioning which file you tested, and optionally if you can confirm A/B thanks for you help, Dieter

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[arch-general] ID3 tags in properties dialog
by Nilesh Govindarajan 17 May '10

17 May '10

I am using KDE, is there any plugin, etc. to view & edit ID3 tags for mp3 files in the properties window. I know about easytag and kid3, but that's not what I want. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु !

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