Ricky Chan wrote: > I built debian 3.1 on mips raq2 cobalt with the well known buggy network > card yesterday using the new installer rather then then old telnet > method. However I got some unexpected results. > > The pings times to this box was less than 0.5ms which was fine, however > as soon as you start downloading packages, the ping time starting > incrementing by 1000ms for each ping. > > I have built around 30/40 of these boxes but used the older 2.4.25 > kernel or put my own custom built kernel (2.6.9) > http://www.ricky-chan.co.uk/raq2-mips/ > on it. > > By copying slowing my 2.6.9 kernel over (failed a lot of times!), I was > able to install and reboot the cobalt. The network issues then no > longer existed. > > I was wondering if the maintainer of the kernel may have forgot to apply > the infamous timing patch on the galileo-tulip on the kernel?
The maintainer has no access to a cobalt machine for kernel development and has to rely on efforts by others. Could you build the source package at http://people.debian.org/~ths/mips-kernels/cobalt-test/ (it builds only the cobalt kernel) via dpkg-source -x *.dsc apt-get build-dep kernel-patch-2.4.27-mips cd kernel-patch-2.4.27-mips-2.4.27 dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot -B and tell me if the resulting 2.4.27 kernel works for you? Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]