Just throwing this out there, since I don't know too much about the subject . . .

Perhaps you can set a cronjob, or use one of the many "watch" services to reset the default gateway when one or the other interfaces go down?

Obviously you know how to use ip route commands, so fill in the rest :)

The problem you are experiencing may indeed be a thermal issue. This goes double if the fans aren't being activated to cool things down for some reason. You may want to use those patches to gain thermal support, and then work from there.

First take a look at "top" then "ps" then "htop" output. If they all report the same high CPU usage, then it's probably not an issue with the utilities. Next, try "iotop", it will report any unusual disk activity that may account for the increased CPU usage. If all else fails, you should change some ...

Hey, could it be possible that your CPU usage is being reported incorrectly? You should try with different utilities, and see if there are any other discrepancies. After that, then maybe tweaking a few CPU related settings in your kernel config will clear things up. Just a thought.

Could you possibly post your entire X.0.log for us to view?

Compiz Fusion comes with a script that will perform all of the necessary initialization for compiz and emerald on your system. The script is /usr/bin/compiz-manager.

If you open it up, you will see several options as well. The one you will be interested in is changing USE_EMERALD="no" to USE ...

Other than finding a net connection and downloading the firmware manually? No, I can't think of any alternative.

http://intellinuxwireless.org

I used to have this problem until I discovered it was my GTK+ theme that was messing the rulers up. Try changing themes.

Module is iwlagn. The module will load the firmware automatically once you emerge what I mentioned earlier. It will install the firmware files /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode or /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode depending on version.

LiveCD should still be able to write to memory, no? If not, and the microcode doesn't exist in /lib/firmware, then it's a bug (or a feature request depending on how you look at it).

Did you install the microcode for your adapter?

emerge iwl5000-ucode

I've never had to play admin on a box that's connected to anything other than my local network. However, I do use snortsam on my workstations. Could something like that help?

I'm not sure about that. My knowledge of smart cards is pretty limited. For instance, it could be that libcoolkeypk11.so is not the right security module for your card. Check the various Coolkey websites for further information.

http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/CoolKey
http://pkg-coolkey ...

Emerge pcsc-tools, which has much better debug functionality. The homepage is here:

http://ludovic.rousseau.free.fr/softwares/pcsc-tools/

The tools included should tell you whether or not everything is alright.

I wrote a guide for this here:

http://linux.com/community/blogs/DoD-CA ... Linux.html