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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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[arch-general] Security updates & packages in testing
by Grigorios Bouzakis 21 May '08

21 May '08

Hi, there has been some security updates for packages in Core that have been upgraded and have been lying in Testing for a long while. The ones that come to mind are bzip2 and openssh but there might be more. Is there any reason those havent moved yet? As far as i can see bzip2 is missing some signoffs since April. One month+ is a lot of time for such packages to stay in Testing IMO. Someone should move them quick. Greg

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[arch-general] top posting
by Xavier 20 May '08

20 May '08

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html What about using a consistent style, at least for one given ML? arch-general is really painful to read sometimes. Thanks!

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[arch-general] Extremely stupid script I wrote for fun.
by eliott 20 May '08

20 May '08

I spent a few hours the other night fiddling around with metalinks and aria2. I came up with an extremely stupid script I wrote for fun. I recommend nobody use it. That being said.. here it is. :) http://code.cactuswax.net/git/?p=random.git;a=blob_plain;f=pacgobbler/pacgo… The only 'good' thing about it, is that it highlights how extensible pacman can be via the external-fetch mechanism. Go pacman!

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