Re: Multiple computers.

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On Fri, 12 May 2000, Sebastien Rougeaux wrote:

> firewire-devel> We are trying to connect multiple computers using firewire for
> firewire-devel> a high speed network, and are having a some problems with the
> firewire-devel> driver.
> 
> firewire-devel> When I load the driver on the first machine it can see all of
> firewire-devel> the machines on the network.  I used 'testlibraw' to check.
> firewire-devel> Now when I load the drivers on the next machine 'testlibraw'
> firewire-devel> reports that it is the only machine on the network, but
> firewire-devel> 'testlibraw' on the first machine now shows comm between the
> firewire-devel> two.  Then when I try to load the drivers on the next machine,
> firewire-devel> it has the same problem as the second machine, but now the
> firewire-devel> second machine can see all of the nodes on the network.  The
> firewire-devel> keeps happening as I load the drivers on other machines.
> 
> firewire-devel> So is there a way to get the last machine to see all the
> firewire-devel> computers on the firewire network?
> 
> For some reason, the ohci driver sometimes doesn't work properly on the
> first 'insmod' after hardware reboot... have you tried to load it again
> a couple of times and see if things are improving ?

Well first off I am using the pcilynx driver, so I don't think that is the
problem.  I might have put down the wrong card in my previous email (could
not remember the exact card).  I did try your suggestion, but it did not
work, testlibraw still does not see any of the nodes on the network.

Thanks.

Judd Tracy
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