[gentoo-user] Re: Networkmanager on uclibc Gentoo system x86

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

João Jerónimo <joao.jeronimo.89 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Hello.
> 
> I installed the uclibc stage3 tarball no a x86 machine (I chose uclibc  
> because the PC has only 256 MB of RAM).

Did you use one of these to install your system?

http://mirror.as24220.net/pub/gentoo/experimental/x86/uclibc/

Also note:

 The i586 CPU (family 5) but it has almost everything that a i686 CPU
(family 6) has. The only CPU instruction that is missing is the NOPL or NOP
Long (means no operation). Now there is a patch available that simulate the
missing instruction in the kernel so that the user space don't know that the
instruction is missing. The program can use the instruction as if there is
nothing missing instead of crashing. The advantage is, the programs that are
compiled for i686 can run on the i586 CPU with this modified Kernel. In
Debian there is also a special optimized C Lib version for i686 CPU's (with
uses cmov instructions). This optimized version of the library works with
the modified Kernel too. For more info's go to 

http://notes.osuv.de/doku.php?id=geode.

hth,
James