From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ql866-0005zd-4T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:28:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5654F21C07F; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:28:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1C2A21C021 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:27:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF798DEBEC for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:27:25 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id w5ZGB-22n0Nz for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:27:25 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2551DEB82 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:27:25 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.0 and oldconfig Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:27:24 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4E29FF8B.5040400@gmail.com> <20110724170544.60faac47@digimed.co.uk> <4E2C60C7.1040901@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E2C60C7.1040901@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201107250027.24922.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 230027d59a4b7361fa15fe8e29211552 On Sunday 24 July 2011 19:13:27 Dale wrote: > I'm not sure it is the nic tho. It downloads just fine when emerge is > fetching files. I'm not saying it isn't tho. I really don't know what > it is. I'm also keeping in mind that the nic is built onto my mobo. I > have never had good luck with a built in nic. On my old rig, it never > worked right. That's why it has cards in it too. I had a nasty experience with a network device a few months ago. It wasn't a NIC this time but a WAP, which when it went faulty managed to wipe out half of the USB disk to which I was backing up the machine the WAP was connected to. Much repeated backing-up of several boxes was required to re-establish the status quo. Just goes to show that hardware failures can do some weird things. (Pick the bones out of that, Volker. Preferably without gratuitous offensiveness.) -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter number 5290