8/11/2005
Gentopia is here!
So the cable guy came and everything should be setup. Only problem is that the cable modem is out in the living room and the Gentopia server is in my room (since it’s also my MythTV box) and there’s no wired connection to my room. So right now my laptop gets wireless and via a cross over cable connects to the Gentopia server. I have a acx100/111 based PCI card, specifically a Netgear WG311 card in there. But the box is a Dual P3 1ghz box so it uses SMP and the latest “stable” version of the acx100 driver is 0.2.0_pre8-pf57 which is not SMP (which I can confirm). I’ve spoken to the upstream devs that they actually have version 0.2.4 kind of out but it’s a hodpodge of code and does not load the firmware on my system. They don’t even use CVS or SVN, they make daily snapshots of their code and upload them to a server, at which point the two of them swap code and work like that. Dangerous if you ask me.
And to top this all off, I lost the wireless antenna when I moved. 
But hopefully I’ll get the card working and get something antenna like and it won’t depend on my laptop.
What happened to Gentoo Experimental you ask? Well I’ve been trying to set it up with them, but they have been in the process of transfering their DNS and that kind of hit some roadblocks.
We’ll see if I keep hosting it or if I move it.
Filed under: General, Gentopia, Linux
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