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