[mdlug] New MB passes the smoke test

[Garry Stahl]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>> From: Ingles, Raymond
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>> It didn't get a network address (a bit of Googling  indicates I can just
>> 'restart' the networking and it should work) and apparently 
>> there's a bug in the 'powernowd' daemon that throttles the CPUs at all times.
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>  Well, restarting the network didn't work. What worked was plugging the network
> cable directly into the Linksys firewall instead of a 10/100 hub. The hub itself
> may be bad - the Windows box my wife uses didn't work on the net when plugged
> into the hub.
>
>  Anyone heard of a problem with gigabit cards making 10/100 hubs flake out?
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>  Fortunately, the powernowd thing has apparently been fixed - the CPU frequency
> scaled quite well, as it should.
>   

Hey they break. I had to replace my last year.

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