Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

Lennart Sorensen wrote: Until the OS loads network drivers AND configures IP support AND starts accepting packets in, there is nothing for the firewall to do. Certainly on Linux I can make sure iptables is populated (or least has a sane policy set) before I bring up networking. In other words: "Wh

Re: Status of SATA support

Carlos Fernandez Sanz wrote: Since this document is a bit our of date: http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html What's the best supported brand and/or model of SATA/RAID controllers which do not suck? Thanks. 3ware works well for me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

Re: Why is NFS write so slow?

Xin Zhao wrote: Sorry for the dumb question. I am trying to develop a new filesystem based on NFS, which runs in a very fast network environment. I used the source code of NFS2, but noticed that NFS write is very slow. Even if I changed wsize to 8192, it still can only reach 1MB/s. I don't know w

Re: SATA Promise TX4 Crash

Brad Campbell wrote: Neil Whelchel wrote: Hello, I have two Promise SATA TX4 cards connected to a total of 6 Maxtor 250 GB drives (7Y250M0) configured into a RAID 5. All works well with small disk load, but when a large number of requests are issued, it causes crash similar to the attached, except

Re: Atheros wi-fi card drivers (?)

Mateusz Berezecki wrote: Hi list members, I've been doing some reverse engineering of madwifi HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) object file recently. I ended up with an almost complete source code for one chipset so far and I was wondering if it is legal to publish such source code on the internet

HIFn driver

Hi people... I was wondering if anyone was working on a HiFn driver so that I could use my soekris engineering VPN accelerator card ?* Sincerely Raphael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: zlib or crypto ?

Ian Norton wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write a module that uses deflate, I'm wondering which is the best point to use the zlib functions from, crypto.h or zlib.h i only need to compress data of about 4k in size, any suggesions? Regards Ian shouldn't there be only one copy of zlib in the entire kerne