Now that I just installed tcsh on my gentoo box I feel that my setup has been completed -- everything else is decoration. I have pretty looking gnome, refresh is (finally) at a pleasant 85, my scroll mouse scrolls and my sound card is ready to play horrible sounds embedded in web pages.

I probably recompiled the kernel few times too many -- I concluded it's best to compile usb support in since I have a usb keyboard (I don't intent to attempt recovering my system w/o a keyboard if a module
doesn't load - Jeremy), other than that I think it went pretty smoothly.. except for the episode with my network..

It's funny, really.. see I crimped my cables maybe 4 or 5 years ago.. back when I was still relatively clueless about the finer things in networking. I used a cute, little colour scheme.. something like..

WO O WG G WB B WBR BR

This worked well for me over the years.. with my old 10BT hub.. I bought a switch/router (the wireless one I mentioned here). My network stopped working.. to my credit it didn't take me long to figure out it was the cables.. Because full duplex fast ethernet needs...

WO O WG B WB G WBR BR