From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18538 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Feb 2003 11:08:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 19822 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2003 11:08:45 -0000 X-Server-Uuid: D0C547F0-9FAC-4DF6-883B-583E4E2B9EA2 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:00:01 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Message-ID: <6F96D78604050B4F80E0AB2F9B1426AF3A864E@wdc.sofia.wizcom.bg> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [gentoo-dev] drivers for Conexant hsf modem Thread-Index: AcLQ8h/pPgovqoe+T0Giyge2baxkfAAARSSg From: "Yavor Goulishev" To: "Henti Smith" cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-WSS-ID: 125959BB82730-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] drivers for Conexant hsf modem X-Archives-Salt: 8f4b7126-b6d3-4d4f-9771-89812bd8e3f0 X-Archives-Hash: 5eb1cf600852625c6f88d866914e1b33 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 >=20 >=20 > On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 12:43:24 +0200 > "Yavor Goulishev" wrote: >=20 > > Hi Henti, > > You can use emerge -f to download the source. > > Also you can use emerge -p -f to get the URLs. > > The emerge 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=20 > other machine)and then > > copy them in $DISTDIR .The emerge will find them ;-)) >=20 > need modem drivers to get online ...=20 >=20 > even only to get ebuilds ... this is for a machine I want to install=20 > there is no installed machine already ...=20 >=20 > so it's a chicken and eg problem=20 >=20 > Henti=20 >=20 >=20 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list