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