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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 14:26:46 +0200 (SAST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
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On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 joerg.beyer@email.de wrote:

> you are right, I had no dma enabled. Now I recomiled the kernel with this
> dma-related options:
> 
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED is not set
> CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
> # CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
> # CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_WIP is not set
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_TIMEOUT is not set
> # CONFIG_IDEDMA_NEW_DRIVE_LISTINGS is not set
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA=y
> # CONFIG_HPT34X_AUTODMA is not set
> CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
> # CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB is not set
> # CONFIG_DMA_NONPCI is not set
> 
> 
> and I still get many many errors on the nic. Do I need something more in .config?

That should fix your slowdown during untarring/disk access, as for your 
NIC problem looks like you might be having a receive FIFO overflow, so 
perhaps the card stops processing incoming packets? I have no clue, 
Jeff?

	Zwane

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