I'm new to Gentoo, but not to Linux. I'm a Unix system administrator by trade and I like to tinker with this stuff in my spare time. I installed Gentoo in VMWare ans was impressed by the virtual machine appearing to be more responsive than the host machine. :-) So, now, I've replaced RedHat with Gentoo on my main personal machine (a 2ghz Toshiba Laptop).
I've been very happy with the documentation I've read so far on http://www.gentoo.org. However, I haven't successfully found answers to the following questions: 1. Gentoo does not use Sys V init... It looks like it uses some sort of dependency tree. Where can I learn more about this system? This is related to the wireless LAN questions, because I'd like to set up, say, privoxy to depend on eth0 or eth1. 2. Wireless LAN - what's the "right way" to configure WEP? Right now, I'm running a hacked up /etc/init.d/net.eth1 that calls iwconfig directly. It works pretty well, but I like to do things in ways that other people and any GUI configurators will understand. 3. How does the hotplugger know to start /etc/init.d/net.eth1 when I insert my PCMCIA wireless card? I didn't set up any sort of relation between eth1 and the orinoco module, nor do I know where this might be set up by default. 4. Emerge -- does unmerge remove the files from the system? I unmerged the e100 package (since I actually have an eepro100, which comes with the kernel), but it didn't remove the files from /lib/modules or the entry from the modules file. Is this because removing kernel modules can be a Bad Idea, or am I using the wrong features of Emerge? 5. ACPI - I've never used ACPI before, but I went ahead and added "acpi" to the USE variable in my /etc/make.conf. The /usr/bin/acpi program works as advertised -- but my CPU runs at 100% whenever I boot without adding "acpi=false" to my kernel parameters. When I run "top", all of the usage shown as "system" -- except for the cpu-time used by the user processes that you'd normally expect to be running. I'm running the stock 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 kernel, and the toshiba_acpi module along with the smattering of other modules in the directory (ac, batter, button, fan, processor, thermal). Is there any way to use ACPI without having my CPU pegged all the time? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Luke -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
