With help from Tony Moore, and observing the letter of the marutan website setup instructions, I have now got RPCEmu 0810/519 networking reliably, so that the installation is able to access the outside world and the rest of my home network in the same way as my 089/402 installation.
Points to note (applicable obviously to my base system, a Win7/64-bit PC, with a 'rpcemu only' wired connection to the router, while the PC Windows side and all other devices connect wirelessly, and not necessarily in any other circumstances): - 0810/519 /never/ connects the first time of booting; the second attempt (not using the 'restart' button, but a complete relaunch) almost always connects, and if not, a third attempt invariably works. In this respect 0810/519 behaves identically to my 089/402 installation. The connection once up seems to be stable, and the Windows side does not need to be reset between reboots. LanMan98 works identically to 089/402. - Going by ROMark, 0810/519 seems to be slightly faster than 089/519, by about 5% overall apart from HD access, which is welcome. - Running a fairly recent version of NetSurf (3.1 Dev#1122) with JS enabled, the app takes about a minute to load for the first time after startup - it's as if it was parsing fonts (but there's no indication that it is doing this). During this time, MIPS remain at 'idle' levels: +/- 4-5 MIPS. When it has been run once, it can be quit and relaunched at normal speed, and in use it behaves normally and seems just as quick (but not noticeably quicker) than a parallel installation on 089/402. The usual !Boot and !System NetSurf modules, and IConv, have been installed. I can't explain this behaviour - has anyone else encountered it? NetSurf 2.9 behaves identically. The only difference is that NetSurf is resident on HostFS under 0810/519 but on HardDisc4 under 089/402. Anyway, the good news is that, on my setup at least, the latest OS version can now connect with the outside world. George -- george greenfield _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
