Thiago Lüttig wrote:
Hi, someone has installed the kde 3.5 how it´s running ??
I have tried to install kde-meta-3.5.0, however I get problems while
merging kdetalk-3.5.0 . I am not sure yet if I am alone on this one.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114078
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I'm using Xorg 7 rc's, and I'm no longer able to switch to say, the
console. Or perhaps another session that I have started up with a
different WM/DE, as the same user.
Any ideas?
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Michael Sullivan wrote:
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 15:00 -0500, fire-eyes wrote:
Michael Sullivan wrote:
I don't really know who to ask about this error. I searched for an
explanation on Google and it gave me a link to the Gentoo German forums,
so I thought maybe someone here could help me
David Morgan wrote:
It's not kernel related, it's glibc telling you that you screwed up with
memory allocation somewhere.
The only 'fix' is to fix your code, so no one can help without seeing it
(apart from maybe listing some common mistakes that cause this).
Okay. My difference is that I
Michael Sullivan wrote:
I don't really know who to ask about this error. I searched for an
explanation on Google and it gave me a link to the Gentoo German forums,
so I thought maybe someone here could help me with this.
I wrote a Qt program. It compiles just fine, but when I try to run it
I installed gnome 2.12.1. I am running xfce4 on display :0 . I tried to
start gnome session on :1 via: startx /usr/bin/gnome-session -- :1 ,
however it bails with gnome-session: you're already running a session
manager. Any ideas? I am not running another gnome session.
I was able to do this in
Note: mkisofs (in cdrtools) is what you create the ISO with, growisofs
is what you use to write the iso to DVD with.
Yeah, I think growisofs is a confusing name, too.
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Gentoo Shadow wrote:
dear friends,
1) how to band(block) porno web url(s)+web contents using squid-cache
server?
2) which filtering tool is de best for a internet-cafe?
Have a look at Dans Guardian, it works with squid to do just that. I
know of entire ISP's using it.
I think the ebuild
When I try to run evolution-2.4.1, i get *** glibc detected *** free():
invalid pointer: 0x08144e90 *** on STDOUT and it doesn't start.
It doesn't exit either, i have to ctl-c in the terminal. I got this with
2.2 as well. I have been completely unable to run evolution because of this.
Any ideas
Iain Buchanan wrote:
Not long ago, I griped about 2.6.13 being _very_ slow to boot and run.
My original email is at the bottom.
I've since recompiled the kernel without SMP and Hyperthreading, and the
system is _much_ faster.
So, there is a problem with 2.6.13 and SMP or Hyperthreaded
Oliver Friedrich wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
What simple command can Ido to write data to the whole drive?
Hi Mark,
well, its not Gentoo, but DBAN is specialy Designed for secure wiping...
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
Give it a try...
BeowulfOF
There is also bcwipe (in
John Lange wrote:
I'd like to test the newest version of OpenOffice which is 2.0rc1.
I have 1.1.4 installed currently.
When I do emerge --search openoffice it does not show a 2.0 version as
being available. Is this because I need to unmask something or because
nothing past 1.1.4 is
fire-eyes wrote:
Currently, those are only available with openoffice-bin. I am using
2.0.0rc1 right now. All you need to do is use the appropriate unmask in
/etc/portage/package.unmask (you may need to create /etc/portage/ first:
=app-office/openoffice-bin-1.9.93
Looks like some clients
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
It seems that on two of my machines, after recent updates, I no
longer have /dev/cdroms and therefore cannot mount CDs, etc. I can
mount them by hand using the old style /dev/hda. The hardware works.
It just seems that udev is now doing something different.
Has
Mark Knecht wrote:
Done.
In my case the drives are there and working, but the /dev/ names are
more old style.
Wanna trade systems? :)
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Hello, I am using udev-070 and I cannot find my dvd drive.
The kernel certainly finds it:
hdd: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-708A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
However /dev/hdd doesn't even exist. Furthermore, neither do /dev/dvd or
/dev/dvdrom or /dev/cdrom or anything of the sort. Leaving me zero
access to read
Zac Medico wrote:
Your build logs show that in both cases you got segmentation faults when
running perl. I suggest that you roll back to the last working version of
perl that you had.
Zac
Well, it was the same version of perl actually, however I have remerged
it and still run into the
Rumen Yotov wrote:
Hi,
Check if your perl is compiled with ithreads USE-flag.
I have it ON with no problems but there's an warning in it's
description (if enabled).
HTH.Rumen
You're right, it is on. Which is interesting, because I had problems in
the past with that, and I thought I had
fire-eyes wrote:
Rumen Yotov wrote:
Hi,
Check if your perl is compiled with ithreads USE-flag.
I have it ON with no problems but there's an warning in it's
description (if enabled).
HTH.Rumen
You're right, it is on. Which is interesting, because I had problems in
the past
I solved this issue. Rather, we solved this issue. I'd like to thank
those who helped me, I am so happy.
The problem was ithreads USE flag in both libperl and perl. Removing
those, remerging libperl, running perl-cleaner all, then remerging perl,
and again running perl-cleaner all, resulted in
How do I use smartctl (smartmontools) on a single disk in a scsi raid
array? I've done it before, I just forget how. /dev/sda is the entire
array, not an individual disk.
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, the long and short of it was that reverting
back to r1 may fix it but the people involved did not have much
success, prehaps track the bug and see if anyone has made a wrokaround
byt now.
stu
On 9/16/05, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I upgraded to xorg-x11-6.8.2-r3 , as per
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-07.xml .
Now when I run rdesktop-1.4.1 to connect to a win 2003 teriminal server
here, then use putty (a free ssh client), my normally green cursor turns
black, and leaves a trail of black on black boxes
Ian Clowes wrote:
fire-eyes wrote:
I'm looking for suggestions on software which could do the following 1)
if our primary gateway goes down, do nothing 2) if it does go down,
change the default gateway to line B 3) when the primary comes back, set
the gateway back to B. I have two physical
Ian Clowes wrote:
fire-eyes wrote:
I'm looking for suggestions on software which could do the following 1)
if our primary gateway goes down, do nothing 2) if it does go down,
change the default gateway to line B 3) when the primary comes back, set
the gateway back to B. I have two physical
I'm looking for suggestions on software which could do the following 1)
if our primary gateway goes down, do nothing 2) if it does go down,
change the default gateway to line B 3) when the primary comes back, set
the gateway back to B. I have two physical interfaces and one alias.
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Howdy.
I have my kernel telling me that it found my dvd drive at hdd :
hdd: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-708A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
However, /dev/hdd doesn't even exist:
# stat /dev/hdd
stat: cannot stat `/dev/hdd': No such file or directory
I am using udev-068.
Any clues as to what's going on here?
I am using exim-4.50-r1, and it does not stop via /etc/init.d/exim
stop . It simply gives !!. More detailed errors on that sure would be
nice.
Looking into this, it's not creating the pid file specified in the
init.d script. I have to kill exim manually, then pass zap to the init.d
script to
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:27 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
Has anybody else seem this? My permissions sure seem fine.
Including /var/run? Some programs drop root privileges before
starting,
so you need the chmod 1777 /var/run.
Thanks for the reply.
/var/run is 1777 (it was before), yet it
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:27 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:59:22 -0400, fire-eyes wrote:
I am using exim-4.50-r1, and it does not stop via /etc/init.d/exim
stop . It simply gives !!. More detailed errors on that sure would be
nice.
Is there nothing in /var/log
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 00:51 +1000, Andrew Lowe wrote:
Hi all,
I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC
box for
some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range,
which
my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP
address
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 23:29 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
That's irrelevant. Portage keeps the ebuilds used to install each
package
in /var/db/pkg. Otherwise updating a deprecated package would be
impossible. The problem is that the ebuild uses an eclass that no
longer
exists.
Bingo.
I had
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 23:41 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
Bad news... my 1.8 ghz P4 died recently and I'm now running on my
emergency backup 6-year-old Dell (450 mhz PIII and 128 megs of RAM).
Let's just say that editing 2560 X 1920 digital photos in GIMP is a
rather liesurely process.
Good
Hi,
I am trying to unmerge all versions of php and mod_php on my system.
However:
# emerge -C php mod_php
dev-php/mod_php
selected: 4.3.2-r5 4.3.8
protected: none
omitted: none
'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 09:06 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
3. use a compound filter rather than separate ones (this assumes there
is less overhead doing this - subjectively it does seem quicker)
Thanks for the tips. The above one is the only one I don't really
understand, can you elaborate a bit?
I have posted about this before, with no real solution, figured i'd
throw it out again see what happens.
I am using evolution 2.2.3. The speed of the filtering is atrocious. For
example, this morning I had 42 new messages, and it took 3 minutes 50
seconds to get it done, an dmove it into the
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 12:13 +, Fernando Meira wrote:
Hi,
that lzma is quite impressive!!
Interesting, there is an .ebuild in the source too ;) It's not in
portage, however.
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On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:49 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote:
So what's the problem? You'll be using something like tar | 7z or
whatever
the command for lzma is. I mean, tar handles ownership and
permissions. Or am
I missing something?
I could be missing something, my brain isn't working right
On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 15:57 -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote:
Now on to my topic. I have noticed that the Samba version
presently available in Portage is v3.0.10.
# emerge -pv samba
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild U ]
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 07:14 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge samba -s
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS done on the command line is a very poor idea,
use /etc/portage/package.use instead.
I forget the specifics, but I have seen a system run into serious
problems and library screwups
Hi. I used to play flightgear 0.9.8 quite a lot. Then I stopped for a
few months. I tried again last night, using the YF-23 aircraft. But
it's not working. fgfs --show-aircraft doesn't even list it anymore.
I reinstalled the game, and it's still not there. I don't understand,
what the heck
I started up a nx server on a knoppix 3.8 system. The system username it
sets up is nxuser.
I try to connect from my gentoo system, and the user it is trying to use
to connect first to SSH is nx.
I have been unable to find where to change this. Note that this is not
the nx username that you
Hello,
I am using rdiff-backup for my full system backups. Of course, it would
be annoying if I had to use it to do a full restore. I would need a
LiveCD with rdiff-backup on it.
I am assuming the gentoo install cd's dont have this. I have looked at
knoppix, it is not on those. Any ideas?
Or
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 16:42 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
Hi All,
Just wanted to announce that MyOSS Magazine - Edition 3 (We're Edition
3!) is now officially hitting the street. This is a community driven
project which aims to publish monthly. (Sorry if this is considered as
spam).
I have
I've run into a strange ethereal error. I use system A to log into
system B, via ssh -Y, then run ethereal from there. It shows up on
system A.
This has worked fine for a while, but now as you'll see in the
screenshot, the buttons along the top are missing their graphics, and
where you usually
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 08:53 -0400, fire-eyes wrote:
I've run into a strange ethereal error. I use system A to log into
system B, via ssh -Y, then run ethereal from there. It shows up on
system A.
This has worked fine for a while, but now as you'll see in the
screenshot, the buttons along
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 17:23 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:53:43 -0400
fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've run into a strange ethereal error. I use system A to log into
system B, via ssh -Y, then run ethereal from there. It shows up on
system
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 14:01 +0200, Mauro Arnoldi wrote:
Hi to everyone
I have upgraded my gentoo system (emerge -Du system) and I included an
upgrade even of GCC and other basic system programs. Now I have a problem
with samba:
/etc/init.d/samba start
* samba - start: smbd ...
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 13:18 -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
I don't know about there being a manual but one way is to have etc-update
show you the differences - that shows what's being taken out and what's
added.
That and full backups. A good idea, folks. Can save a lot of trouble.
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On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 13:24 -0400, Michael Haan wrote:
Apache2 is trying to download php files, not run them. What gives?
You need to set the types up in apache's config. I haven't done this in
a while so I don't quite remember. That and the way apache is configured
in gentoo has changed wildly
Perhaps I'm confused here, but I'm looking int freenx. Using esearch
freenx, this was the only item I found:
net-misc/nxserver-freenx
Now the name of it implies it's just a server, is the client in there
too, or is this seperate?
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I just installed nxserver-freenx, however it doesn't appear any
documents were installed with it. Meaning I have no idea how to even set
it up.
Any pointers?
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On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 10:52 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
--- fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just installed nxserver-freenx, however it doesn't
appear any
documents were installed with it. Meaning I have no
idea how to even set
it up.
Any pointers?
You need to run
Okay so I got this nxserver stuff going fine. I can connect to the
server machine over its ssh port. But then it seems that something
called nxproxy is trying to connect from the client, to the server, on
TCP port 5000.
I've looked for documents or a config file for nxproxy, because I can't
use
On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 20:46 -0700, rob3 wrote:
My $million advice. Go to www..gnu.org, and just download the Grub
source and compile it. Just make a note somewhere on your copy of the
Gentoo manual (you did print it out didn't you? haha) that grub is
not in the emerge system.
It's not?
#
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 12:37 -0400, A. Khattri wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, fire-eyes wrote:
However, when I run it from cron as the same shell script (and redirect
STDERR and STDOUT to files):
ppp0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
Is it running as root from
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 21:27 +0200, Chris Prior wrote:
Try using ssh -Y instead of ssh -X.
(or set trusted forwarding in ssh_config)
Hrm. That did it. I'm curious, can you tell me a bit more than th eman
page about what -Y is? It basically says it's trusted, but doesn't go
any further.
Thank
First off, thanks to those on the list who replied to my intitial
problem, where it seemed that the environment for a script which cron
was running was different from when it was run directly as root.
I made the second line (after #!/bin/sh) source /etc/profile , and pow
it started working.
I'm trying to use pptpclient-1.6.0.
On its home page it says I need MPPE support in the kernel and PPPD. For
PPPD it was easy, a nice little USE flag. As far as MPPE support, it
says that if I modprobe ppp-compress-18 and that works, I should be all
set.
However I get:
Fatal: Module
I am following this document
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-gentoo.phtml
And when I get to emerging pptpconfig:
# emerge -pv pptpconfig
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B ] =dev-php/php-4.99.99 (is blocking
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 20:15 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote:
Hi,
Think your first problem is that you are mixing php mod_php they are
different things.
Please run: emerge php -pv and post the output to see what version
you
have if any.
PHP isn't slotted, so you could have either 4.3.x or 5.0.x
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 16:21 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:
Nope. It is there and it is disabled. The problem is that the program
keeps asking whether I want to enable it!
I have read a few things on this issue, though I do not use the product.
It actually goes to a wider problem, where if
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 09:20 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
Has it annoyed you enough yet to turn on JavaScript?
Hopefully not, documents which have been written to do so can then
litrally call home.
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On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:51 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:
I _will not_ enable JavaSpook.
What remains to be decided is whether I'll give up using Acrobat
Reader.
I guess I don't see what is special about Acrobat's own reader. I have
problems with it because
1) It is Adobe
2) It is binary
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 13:53 +, James wrote:
Hello All,
OpenOffice 2.0 looks significantly enhanced. Does anybody have
a guestimate or insight as to when it will be available, via
emerge?
Has anybody compiled OO 2.0 directly? If so what are your
results and is it stable?
As someone
By the way, I merged openoffice-bin 1.9.93 . I don't see the beta
versions in the standard (non-bin) ebuild.
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On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 08:35 -0400, fire-eyes wrote:
I'm using evolution 2.2.1.1. Up until today, in the lower left corner
there were three buttons: Mail, Contacts, Calendar, and one other I
forget. Today, I only see Mail and Contacts. This is rather alarming, as
I use the Calendar features
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 08:43 -0400, fire-eyes wrote:
Eh, looks like I found the problem. On STDOUT when starting evolution:
evolution-2.2:6552): evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot activate
'OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_Component:2.2': g_module_open of
`/usr/lib/evolution/2.2/components
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 09:15 -0400, fire-eyes wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 08:43 -0400, fire-eyes wrote:
Eh, looks like I found the problem. On STDOUT when starting evolution:
evolution-2.2:6552): evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot activate
'OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_Component:2.2
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 15:14 +0100, Edward Catmur wrote:
Continuing this, I did a revdep-rebuild -p. It wanted to remerge
evolution-data-server, but when doing that I get a flood of errors
ending in this:
/usr/lib/libsoup-2.2.so: undefined reference to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Have you
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 03:19 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Sun, 08 May 2005 21:42:55 -0400 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| There's quite a lot of messages today with zero subject, all I see is
| [gentoo-user]. This gets confusing when you get a ton of mail a day.
| It might
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 17:32 -0500, kashani wrote:
Is there something especially complicated about going into your
settings
in Thunderbird and setting gentoo.org as a domain that prefers text
emails?
He doesn't want to, it's his choice. It is also my choice to filter
mails from him which are
I'm looking for a web based job ticket system. We use apache 2 and mysql
currently, and also have php 4/5.
Any suggestions?
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I'm keeping a series of full system backups. However i'd like to remove
anything portage related *that could be replaced by just an emerge
sync*. can I just remove /usr/portage/* in these older backups?
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First off, thanks to those who responded kindly, it is really
appreciated.
I feel very silly, but apparently the problem is the system itself. All
this time I was testing for speed by connecting to it from another
system, and fetching a file via ftp. I never PUT one until yesterday,
and then I
I have installed a 1000Mbps NIC in my system. This is the system some of
you read about me where I was trying to swap the names of eth0 and eth1
so maybe that has something to do with my problem.
The light on the NIC shows 1000Mbps link, as does the switch it is
connected to. Kernel messages show
So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0
and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as
eth0.
I was told here about the netdev argument to the kernel. I tried about 9
different ways of using this, but the documentation isn't exactly as
clear as
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 22:12 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 10:04 -0400, fire-eyes wrote:
So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0
and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as
eth0.
Perhaps you can try
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 15:33 +0100, Jonathan Wright wrote:
fire-eyes wrote:
Well, my fault for not mentioning. But I don't enable module loading
support on servers, it is a security risk.
Fair enough. I've done the same on my servers. What's the possibility of
moving the cards around
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 16:14 +0100, Jonathan Wright wrote:
fire-eyes wrote:
My understanding was that ether= was for 2.4 kernels, in fact the docs
for 2.6 say netdev= is the replace ment, but at this point i'm willing
to try.
Continuing the search, I've found this page:
http
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 17:46 +0200, Bert Buchholz wrote:
On Thu 21.04 10:04, fire-eyes wrote:
So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0
and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as
eth0.
Simply use nameif to name your NICs based
Just wanted to pass on that nameif was the solution to my NIC device
swapping issues. I had mentioned that it kept setfaulting, though it was
indeed doing its job.
I found a bugreport, and it turns out that if the config file you pass
nameif has more than 3 lines, it segfaults. This is fixed in
I have two NIC's in a server. One always comes up as eth0, the other
always eth1. One is on-board, the other is an add-on.
I'd like to swap them around, that is to say, have the NIC that is
currently eth0 become eth1, and the NIC which is eth1 become eth0.
Is this possible?
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On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 19:53 +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
fire-eyes wrote:
I have two NIC's in a server. One always comes up as eth0, the other
always eth1. One is on-board, the other is an add-on.
I'd like to swap them around, that is to say, have the NIC that is
currently eth0 become eth1
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 18:17 +0200, Jarry wrote:
Hi,
I'm installing Gentoo 2005.0 using universal installation CD
on a small, general purpose server (apache+mysql+php, mail,
some net-games, teamspeak, ftp, shells, 20-30 users, etc.).
Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some
How do I unmerge all versions of KDE? I understand kde is a meta
package, so emerge -C kde isn't going to do this (though I sure wish it
would).
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Sorry if this is a repost, it seems to have disappeared into the bit
bucket.
I put a 3Com 3C996B-T 1000Mbps NIC in my system. It uses the tg3
(broadcom) driver, which I have compiled in.
The kernel messages show the link at 1000. The light on the NIC shows
this. The lights on the switch show
Welp it was a routing issue. I made a specific routing entry for the
system I was testing from, and it worked out to about 18 - 20MB/s. The
limiting factor is the old scsi disks.
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Ok, this is free advice and may or may not be worth any more than that
-- I'm new here, but since nobody answered
Is your kernel configured for 1Gb as-such under the networking?
(In win now to do mail; not set up undel linux yet, so I can't check
exactly what/where.)
Also may need to
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