[arch-general] New kernel/updates - Is the timezone information messed up for dual-boot configs?

[David C. Rankin]

On Tuesday 22 September 2009 01:36:32 pm Xavier wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:17 PM, David C. Rankin
> 
> <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> > Listmates,
> >
> >        I have been chasing my tail on the madwifi issue and I think I
> > have found the problem. It's not madwifi at all, it's the timezone
> > handling.
> 
> WTF does fsck/recovery console at boot have to do with slow wireless?
> 

	Networking is very sensitive to time difference between hosts (especially to 
time going backwards). I am making an educated guess here, but I suspect that 
when the box came up 5 hours in the past it adversly affected the wireless 
networking in some strange way. How? -- Dunno, but after tearing apart the 
madwifi setup, downgrading kernels, packages, etc. and re-upgrading, the only 
change was the localtime setting in rc.conf that was causing my clock to reset 
by the tzoffset on boot.

	That's my swag at it...

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