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Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more |
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> frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.) When it goes out, |
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> pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down. It's gotten to |
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> where just to get an application (like gnumeric) to open I have to su - |
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> to root and shut down /etc/init.d/net.eth0 until the Internet comes back |
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> on. This morning the internet was out and I'd shut down net.eth0 and |
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> then tried to run monodevelop and it refused to start giving me some |
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> message about my PC's hostname not being set correctly in /etc/hosts. I |
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> checked it and /etc/hosts was correct. Must just be a glitch with |
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> monodevelop. My question is what is it about Gentoo that relies so |
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> heavily on connecting to the internet? My network was running just fine |
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> - just the connection between the cable modem and the internet was down, |
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> but everything inside my router should have been fine... |
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I saw somewhere in portage a daemon that manages |
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connection/disconnection from the network. I think it was for laptops. |
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But now I don't know what it is called or where it is in portage. |
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I wonder if it would work? |
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Rob. |
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Rob Lytle Home Page |
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A Seti search for intelligent life in Central Pa. |
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http://home.comcast.net/~europa100 |
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