RE: [gentoo-dev] drivers for Conexant hsf modem

["Yavor Goulishev" <yavor.goulishev@wizcom.bg>]

Hi Henti,
You should brake this circle causing the chicken egg problem  ;-)).
The solution is to have a machine with internet connection.
Never mind what OS. Use this machine to download the modem module source.
Then copy the source on the gentoo machine in the $DISTDIR directory.
Now you will be able to emerge and configure the modem module.

Best Regards, Yavor Goulishev

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henti Smith [mailto:bain@tcsn.co.za]
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 12:59 PM
> To: Yavor Goulishev
> Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] drivers for Conexant hsf modem
> 
> 
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 12:43:24 +0200
> "Yavor Goulishev" <yavor.goulishev@wizcom.bg> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Henti,
> > You can use emerge -f <package> to download the source.
> > Also you can use emerge -p -f <package> to get the URLs.
> > The emerge <package> command looks for the files downloaded in
> > $DISTDIR which can be set in /etc/make.conf and by default
> > point to /usr/portage/distfiles.
> > So you can download the files the way you want (event on 
> other machine)and then
> > copy them in $DISTDIR .The emerge will find them ;-))
> 
> need modem drivers to get online ... 
> 
> even only to get ebuilds ... this is for a machine I want to install 
> there is no installed machine already ... 
> 
> so it's a chicken and eg problem 
> 
> Henti 
> 
> 


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