Thread: [Ndiswrapper-general] SMP stable with version-0.8
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(by w. of P. W. <pa...@mi...> - 2004-08-10 05:21:27
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I visited your wiki site for the first time yesterday, and was quite surprised to discover SMP kernels are still not supported, as I began using version 0.8 on an SMP system days after it was released, and it seems quite stable. I simply assumed that was one of the problems fixed with that release. Version 0.7 was a write-off, at best it simply hung the system, more often though it caused a kernel panic when the CPUs lost sync. Several hours with the 0.9 release indicated similar problems so has been shelved as well. I use Slackware with dual 550 PIIIs, usually with some variation of the 2.6.6 kernel, but the patched 2.6.7 kernels seem promising. The wireless is a Belkin f5d7000 (PCI) with Broadcom BCM4306 chipset. The VIA sound and VIA USB on the moterboard have been disabled and replaced with add-on cards. I suspect generic problems, possibly BIOS incompatabilities or kernel support with VIA chipsets, not with this board in particular. There is AGP support, but no on-board video, and I have alternated PCI and AGP video cards with no discernable effect on the wireless either way. I have made some minor changes to the source and makefiles, - replaced all instances of "wlan" with "eth" ( wlan%, wlan0 ) in the source. Ndiswrapper then loads as eth1 ( eth% ) by default and probably just makes life easier for me, but you never know. - to properly "make clean" it was necessary to add lines to explicitly delete ALL files not included in the original distribution (except the installed windows drivers), including /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper. I hope this is of some help, and thanks Paul |
From: <az...@se...> - 2004-08-10 10:03:51
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Westell wrote: | - replaced all instances of "wlan" with "eth" ( wlan%, wlan0 ) in the | source. Ndiswrapper then loads as eth1 ( eth% ) by default and | probably just makes life easier for me, but you never know. You should insmod ndiswrapper with the option 'if_name=3Deth'. http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper= .8?rev=3D1.1&view=3Dmarkup - -- ~ .''`. Torbj=F6rn Svensson, azoff (at) se (dot) linux (dot) org ~ : :' : 7EB9 2DC5 61AE DAB5 7099 BAC6 798E E39A DBDB 0CFD ~ `. `' http://azoff.homeip.net | http://azoff.tty0.org ~ `-- http://www.se.linux.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBGJ2WeY7jmtvbDP0RAjORAJwNEgBMkEZ/hvYtmQKQopq6U/hvHwCg0aq7 ZP/5Gi/dY22ochGy1M3du5U=3D =3DPNEB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
From: Soeren K. <soe...@sk...> - 2004-08-19 10:01:19
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paul <at> minimalinux.org <paul <at> minimalinux.org> writes: > Version 0.7 was a write-off, at best it simply hung the system, more often > though it caused a kernel panic when the CPUs lost sync. Several hours with > the 0.9 release indicated similar problems so has been shelved as well. > Hi, more or less the same goes for me. I have used v 0.8 on a Dell Inspiron 9100 with Hyperthreading enabled successfully for about a week. Yesterday I've upgraded to 0.9 and the system froze after about 5 minutes. My config: - gentoo linux - kernel 2.6.7 - Dell True Mobile 1450 a/b/g (well AFAIK its a Broadcom BCM4306, currently I don't have my notebook at hands). Any thoughts about why v 0.9 is less stable than 0.8? Best regards, Soeren |
From: Giridhar P. <gi...@lm...> - 2004-08-19 11:15:43
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Try 0.10rc1 and let us know if it works or not. -- Giri |
From: Soeren K. <soe...@sk...> - 2004-08-19 19:29:56
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Giridhar Pemmasani <giri <at> lmc.cs.sunysb.edu> writes: > > Try 0.10rc1 and let us know if it works or not. > hi, it seems to work. if have just installed it and ran some stress tests (downloads, compiles and so on). until now it seems quite stable. thanks a lot for the good work! best regards soeren |
From: Gerald H. <ghe...@ro...> - 2004-08-19 12:31:25
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On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:52:26 +0000 (UTC), you wrote: >paul <at> minimalinux.org <paul <at> minimalinux.org> writes: > >> Version 0.7 was a write-off, at best it simply hung the system, more = often=20 >> though it caused a kernel panic when the CPUs lost sync. Several hours= with=20 >> the 0.9 release indicated similar problems so has been shelved as = well. > >more or less the same goes for me. I have used v 0.8 on a Dell Inspiron = 9100 >with Hyperthreading enabled successfully for about a week. Yesterday = I've >upgraded to 0.9 and the system froze after about 5 minutes. Try the 0.10rc1 release, it has been working with no problems for me with Hyperthreading (Dell Inspiron 5150, Fedora Core 3 Test 1). |