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On Sunday 24 July 2011 19:13:27 Dale wrote: |
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> I'm not sure it is the nic tho. It downloads just fine when emerge is |
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> fetching files. I'm not saying it isn't tho. I really don't know what |
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> it is. I'm also keeping in mind that the nic is built onto my mobo. I |
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> have never had good luck with a built in nic. On my old rig, it never |
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> worked right. That's why it has cards in it too. |
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I had a nasty experience with a network device a few months ago. It wasn't a |
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NIC this time but a WAP, which when it went faulty managed to wipe out half |
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of the USB disk to which I was backing up the machine the WAP was connected |
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to. Much repeated backing-up of several boxes was required to re-establish |
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the status quo. |
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Just goes to show that hardware failures can do some weird things. |
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(Pick the bones out of that, Volker. Preferably without gratuitous |
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offensiveness.) |
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Rgds |
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