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 1Ql8Mx-0000Ll-TX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:46:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A09E21C14D; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:45:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA0BE21C021 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:44:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywm21 with SMTP id 21so2645042ywm.40 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:44:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wAExdy5sqhkI8IBB7MQ+Bl34JfCR1lV/8FmzAX19/rk=; b=gM4vutCp878NY7aeseZdyNSoa0J6vRA66SfBGsa0iJOIDHRXhtGzhafcIDXfkaHpgC lvfx6er7zr5rh7DZXNETVlEkLGH9h7PMYQf3/TbmwLlYLVo9beuWp7oI6l/P+Gc9zTMy OE6abrAiAQTlDVRr8wWFF93WloMSwsJYpxz9E= Received: by 10.91.52.14 with SMTP id e14mr1514518agk.5.1311551089298; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:44:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-151-157.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.151.157]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f18sm4434030ani.27.2011.07.24.16.44.47 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:44:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E2CAE6E.8010906@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:44:46 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110708 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.0 and oldconfig References: <4E29FF8B.5040400@gmail.com> <20110724170544.60faac47@digimed.co.uk> <4E2C60C7.1040901@gmail.com> <201107250027.24922.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <201107250027.24922.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 34e2e04694ddc6436298e9a5a441dc3f Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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.) > > My old rig gave me some weird errors too. I can't recall what they were tho. I'm sure it is on the forums somewhere around mid to late 2003 or 2004 if I recall. I don't think I had that old rig to long when it went to acting all funny and such. Yep, hardware can be weird. I don't think mine is memory or anything but I'm only 99% sure. I'm leaving myself 1% to crawl out if needed. lol I can't say it isn't anything right now since I don't know what it is. That's the thing about puters, you can't rule out anything unless you can replace it and the problem goes away. Unfortunately I can't do that with CPU, ram and mobo or even the video card. Then again, I do have two ATI video cards. I'm to chicken to try them tho. I have no idea how to get a ATI card working. I'm going to check into this nic tho. I used to have a couple extras around here somewhere. Dale :-) :-)