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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-dev List <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] drivers for Conexant hsf modem
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:38:29
Message-Id: 1044876587.7285.137.camel@rattus.Localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] drivers for Conexant hsf modem by Henti Smith
1 Dont see why not: build a minimal system on another machine and tar it
2 across to the new one, or install from a stage 3 tarball (isnt that on
3 the livecd these days for non-network building anyway?), add the modem
4 stuff and rebuild when convenient.
5
6 BillK
7
8 On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 19:22, Henti Smith wrote:
9 > On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:00:01 +0200
10 > "Yavor Goulishev" <yavor.goulishev@××××××.bg> wrote:
11 >
12 > > Hi Henti,
13 > > You should brake this circle causing the chicken egg problem ;-)).
14 > > The solution is to have a machine with internet connection.
15 > > Never mind what OS. Use this machine to download the modem module source.
16 > > Then copy the source on the gentoo machine in the $DISTDIR directory.
17 > > Now you will be able to emerge and configure the modem module.
18 >
19 > Thats what I'm trying.
20 >
21 > I have machines here at office with net connection.
22 > the only way I can get the ebuild to work is to havea functional
23 > portage directory.
24 >
25 > I can tar up the current one on machine and copy to new install machine and do it that way.
26 > just copying the source and running emerge as you suggested won't help, since you need a net connection
27 > to emerge rsync to create a portage tree.
28 >
29 > I also don't have a CD writer to cut a CD with to transport from machine on net to machine at home.
30 > the only way is to download on net machine and remove hdd and take to home machine which I cannot do either because it's
31 > a functional server. I don't have machines I can switch off.
32 >
33 > I have asked in a mail to user list regarding the same problem if there is a way to compile the module for the driver
34 > on a machine for the liveCD as this would be smaller and more portable "32 MB usb drive" or something I can arrange.
35 > but would be so much easer to have a repostry of liveCD modules that are not on the CD. (tho personally I think the liveCD
36 > should have all possible modules included.
37 >
38 > I'll find a way to do this .. but it is a mission and a pain.
39 >
40 > Henti
41 >
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45 William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
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