* RE: [gentoo-dev] drivers for Conexant hsf modem
@ 2003-02-10 11:23 99% Yavor Goulishev
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From: Yavor Goulishev @ 2003-02-10 11:23 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Henti Smith; +Cc: gentoo-dev
Instead of emerge rsync
you can download the latest snapshot of portage from http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/ .
For today it is portage-20030208.tar.bz2 (the size is 7MB)
Than copy this to the gentoo machine and untar in /usr directory.
Best Regards, Yavor Goulishev
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henti Smith [mailto:bain@tcsn.co.za]
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:23 PM
> To: Yavor Goulishev
> Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] drivers for Conexant hsf modem
>
>
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:00:01 +0200
> "Yavor Goulishev" <yavor.goulishev@wizcom.bg> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Thats what I'm trying.
>
> I have machines here at office with net connection.
> the only way I can get the ebuild to work is to havea functional
> portage directory.
>
> I can tar up the current one on machine and copy to new
> install machine and do it that way.
> just copying the source and running emerge as you suggested
> won't help, since you need a net connection
> to emerge rsync to create a portage tree.
>
> I also don't have a CD writer to cut a CD with to transport
> from machine on net to machine at home.
> 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
> a functional server. I don't have machines I can switch off.
>
> 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
> on a machine for the liveCD as this would be smaller and more
> portable "32 MB usb drive" or something I can arrange.
> 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
> should have all possible modules included.
>
> I'll find a way to do this .. but it is a mission and a pain.
>
> Henti
>
>
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