[Etherboot-developers] Re: Possibly [PRISM] driver limitation?
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From: Michael B. <mb...@fe...> - 2002-08-27 17:45:24
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On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Boris Reisig wrote: > Today I have been doing a bunch of tests. My test machine has 128mb of > RAM and I was testing different size images and different network > card/drivers to check for problems. Here are the results > Realtek 8139 card with rtl8139 driver: 43mb,20mb, 19.3mb, 19.1mb, 17.6mb, 16.2mb, 15.2mb image files all booted OK. > Realtek 8029 card with rtl8029 driver: 43mb,20mb, 19.3mb, 19.1mb, 17.6mb, 16.2mb, 15.2mb image files all booted OK also. > Dlink DWL-520 with PRISM driver: 43mb failed, 20mb failed, 19.3mb ok, 19.1mb ok, 17.6mb,16.2mb ok, 15.2mb ok. > It seems their seems to be a limitation in file size in the PRISM > driver. Somewhere between 19.3mb-20mb's, the driver cannot allocate > space or initialize the data from the image file. Hopefully we could > fix this issue? [sooner the better..hehehe] I'll help where I can, but I don't see this as an urgent problem - why would you want to transfer images of 20MB and more anyway, particularly over a slow wireless link? Michael Brown http://www.fensystems.co.uk |