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gentoo
so on thursday i started my attempt at installing gentoo on my toshiba portege 7140 laptop. its an older but reliable laptop and i thought i would toss gentoo on to help me in my wardriving persuits. so i managed to make it all the way through the installation steps. but when i booted into gentoo as opposed to the livecd, the os was unable to find my nic. so it was reccomended that i recompile my kernel with the e100 module integrated. so i do that, only changing one thing on the kernel. it takes like 2 hours to compile, actually freexing the first time i did it. and i get an error message.
ERROR: failed to compile the "modules" target...
while ihave this error, i have experianced the comp locking up if the screen is allowed to go to sleep. the screen will go black and ill use an arrow key to bring back the screen, about half the time results in the caps light flashing and no response.
so needless to say im gettin a little frustrated. this is day 3 on this project, and i feel like my old win 2k build was much more stable than this.
ok, that was my rant. anybody else have asimilar horror stories?
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