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Dale wrote: |
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> Well, I have found out this much but I need some help figuring out the |
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> rest. I booted into my old Gentoo and the modem works fine and it |
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> connects the same way, the ARQ thing. It uses the old kernel, the old |
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> hal, dbus and the old KDE. I am beginning to think this is a kernel |
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> thing but I can't back up a version because hal, dbus or one of them |
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> requires this kernel or higher and my new KDE requires the new hal, |
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> dbus, sounds like a catch 22 don't it. |
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> What can I do to make sure it is the kernel? Is it possible to back |
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> up a kernel version, the one the old Gentoo uses, and not botch up |
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> hal, dbus or something? |
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> Just to make it more clear. I have to versions of Gentoo on two |
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> seperate hard drives. I redone my install when I moved to a faster |
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> drive. |
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> Thanks |
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> Dale |
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> :-) |
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Well, this turned out to be weird. This modem would work fine in my old |
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Gentoo but not the new one. I thought the modem was fine. I was |
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wrong, again. This modem has a thing called ARQ on it and it was turned |
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on. That is short for Automatic Repeat Request by the way. If I |
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understand this thing correctly, and I prolly don't ;) , it sort of |
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checks each peice of data and that takes time to do, therefore it slows |
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my connection down a lot. Since I only get 26K, I need all I can get. LOL |
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Anyway, gkrellm now shows a nice steady stream of data coming across the |
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connection, allbeit a slow stream. If anybody is unfortunate enough to |
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find a DSL or cable modem with this feature, you may want to turn that |
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puppy off. |
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Best I can figure is the old Gentoo had some setting left over from my |
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old modem that got hit by lighting that disabled this "feature". When I |
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got this modem then upgraded everything it picked it up and off it |
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went. I sure am glad this is over. I downloaded OOo for windoze |
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yesterday. It took all night and all day, about 21 hours or so. It |
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would only take about 8 hours now. Oh, I have to send it to my now |
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ex-girlfriend so she don't have to buy M$ Office. I don't have windoze |
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here. Yes, we still talk. |
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Well, thanks for reading anyway. I learned this the hard way. I got |
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lonesome at times. ;) I was hoping Holly would share her genius. LOL |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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To err is human, I'm most certainly human. |
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I have four rigs: |
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1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. |
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2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. |
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3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. |
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4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. |
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All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. |
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