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I always wanted to try out systemd as I like the ideas and concept behind it. So lets get started: add systemd USE-flag emerge –ask –changed-use –deep @world emerge –ask systemd change grub config to use init=/usr/bin/systemd reboot localhost christian # systemd-analyze Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/bin/systemd-analyze”, line 23, in from gi.repository import Gio ImportError: No module named gi.repository This can be fixed with: emerge -av dev-python/pygobject Here are the first results: ...

I run into a problem where I have a device which has two normal serial ports and some on a PCI device. After booting the kernel I got this error line: Couldn’t register serial port 0000:02:0a.2: -28 In order to get more than 2 serial ports working, I “fixed” my currently used kernel config: CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=32 CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS=6

If you already have Git installed, you can get the latest development version via Git itself: git clone https://github.com/git/git.git

Last days I run into a problem that I needed to change the mac address of a network card directly under linux. In the last years VxWorks was used for this purpose – oh and yes I know that you should not change a mac address 🙂 But I am working in a company which produces devices with network ports and they need an initial mac address. The first thing you would try is to use ifconfig to change the mac address. ...