I’m gonna try Gentoo on my desktop machine. It’ll be interesting to compare SMP from FreeBSD to modern Linux.
I had a extremely horrible time installing Gentoo today. Here’s all that I tried:
- gentoo 2004.1 livecd – SMP kernel: no network
- gentoo 2004.1 livecd – regular kernel: no network
- gentoo 2004.0 livecd – SMP kernel: no network
- gentoo 2004.0 livecd – regular kernel: network works!
Then I do the actual install and reboot with my snazzy new 2.6.5 SMP kernel:
no network
Recompile without SMP:
network works!
I have a 3com 3c905 card. You think linux would have working networking support for it with a SMP kernel…
Anyways, I’m sure I can track down a fix for this problem. I also had a hard time getting DMA to be enabled for my hard drive. I had to compile in the specific driver for my IDE chipset, and for the unused IDE raid controller. Also, my hard drive is labeled as /dev/hde for some reason.
My next steps are to get udev working, install xorg-x11 and gnome2 and then pimp out my desktop settings.