[gentoo-user] Adaptec 3405 Raid performance

2008-11-20 Thread Vernon A. Fort
Anyone have one of these raid cards? The disk performance is horrible. The setup: ASUS P5Q kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r9 Adaptec 3405 Firmware version 5.2-12415 (June 7th 2007) XFS file systems with LVMS I have put the mount options noatime,nobarrier in one file system but it made no

[gentoo-user] Advanced routing

2008-01-03 Thread Vernon A. Fort
We switched from a cisco router to using a gentoo box with mutiple nics - all appears to be working very well. However, i ran into a major problem when one of my PC's went nuts. It flooded the network with unknown protocol which I saw from tcpdump. Basically, I am trying to find a way to

Re: [gentoo-user] Advanced routing

2008-01-03 Thread Vernon A. Fort
Sascha Hlusiak wrote: Am Donnerstag 03 Januar 2008 21:59:59 schrieb Vernon A. Fort: We switched from a cisco router to using a gentoo box with mutiple nics - all appears to be working very well. However, i ran into a major problem when one of my PC's went nuts. It flooded the network

Re: [gentoo-user] pam errors in update world - how to trackdown

2007-10-12 Thread Vernon A. Fort
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting an error when update world tries to install sys-libs/pam that tell me this: Merging sys-libs/pam-0.99.8.1-r1 to / * * Your current setup is using one or more of the following modules, * that are not built or supported anymore: * pam_pwdb,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Vernon A. Fort
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone �éí¢‹¬z¸žÚ(¢¸j)bž bst== I'm 42, linux user since 1988 (slackware) then redhat 4.2 through 9.0 then fedora core. Got burned out doing constant upgrades and discovered Gentoo in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Vernon A. Fort
Vernon A. Fort wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone �éí¢‹¬z¸žÚ(¢¸j)bžbst== I'm 42, linux user since 1988 (slackware) then redhat 4.2 through 9.0 then fedora core. Got burned out doing constant upgrades

[gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

2005-09-07 Thread Vernon A. Fort
With redhat/fedora, you could find WHEN the box was installed using rpm -qi basesystem. I am switching most of my boxes to gentoo and I would like to tell when the ORIGINAL install occured. Any pointers? Vernon -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] K8N Neo4 and skge

2005-07-12 Thread Vernon A. Fort
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 19:27 -0500, Vernon A. Fort wrote: New to gentoo! Welcome to a new world of learning! I have gentoo amd64 loaded and the forcedepth drive is detecting the first network card. Both the default skge and the sk98lin manually downloaded

FOLLOWUP: [gentoo-user] K8N Neo4 and skge

2005-07-12 Thread Vernon A. Fort
Vernon A. Fort wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 19:27 -0500, Vernon A. Fort wrote: New to gentoo! Welcome to a new world of learning! I have gentoo amd64 loaded and the forcedepth drive is detecting the first network card. Both the default skge and the sk98lin

[gentoo-user] K8N Neo4 and skge

2005-07-11 Thread Vernon A. Fort
New to gentoo! I have gentoo amd64 loaded and the forcedepth drive is detecting the first network card. Both the default skge and the sk98lin manually downloaded from SysKonnect will load without errors and display in the lsmod. Neither will actually detect the network card. I have