[mdlug] New MB passes the smoke test

[Peter Bart]

On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 16:26 -0400, Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> > From: Ingles, Raymond
> 
> > 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.
> 
>  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?
> 
>  Fortunately, the powernowd thing has apparently been fixed - the CPU frequency
> scaled quite well, as it should.
> 
>  Sincerely,
> 
>  Ray Ingles                                                    (313) 227-2317

	Glad to hear things are working out!

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Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
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