Re: Large FTP transfers

2002-09-28 Thread David Jones
On 28 Sep 02, at 8:01, Ray Olszewski wrote: > I'd imagine it could also turn up problems with the NIC or > with the filesystem partition, but I haven't actually > experienced either. I used to have hard crashes during long network transfers (not simply FTP transfers) that disappeared after I u

No go for DMA

2002-09-28 Thread david mattatall
I've noticed quite a slowdown on my systeml lately so I was looking through my dmesg for anything...odd. This is what I found: [EMAIL PROTECTED]# dmesg|grep -i dma ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:p

Re: block-major-33

2002-09-28 Thread Heimo Claasen
With configuring a not-so-quite-new laptop I strugled with precisely this problem. In the 2.2.x kernel based system it was rather a hassle, the 2.4.x have the PCMCIA 'card service' management (IIRR it was the earlier cs_mgr module) integrated. All what was needed on that laptop then was to write a

Re: Large FTP transfers

2002-09-28 Thread Ray Olszewski
Adam -- I noticed that you sent this to me personally, but troubleshooting exchanges like this one really work better when kept on the list. I have nothing useful to add based on the new information you sent, but possibly someone else will. So I'm CC'ing the list with this reply. One general s

Re: RPM packaging

2002-09-28 Thread Adam Luchjenbroers
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:59 am, Wladimir Foo wrote: > We use apt (Advanced packing tool) found in Debian GNU/Linux together with > RPM in our distribution (Voodoo Linux). Using our version of kpackager > it's closely resembles the Loki Update tool. Just "closely resembles" or does it actually inte

Re: RPM packaging

2002-09-28 Thread Wladimir Foo
> Where can I find tutorials on packaging my own RPMs? try freshrpms.net - They have a short, yet helpful tutorial there. rpm.org the official site also has info there. I would suggest trying freshrpms.net first before moving on to the more technical info. > Also, if I install a source RPM, is

Re: Large FTP transfers

2002-09-28 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 05:57 PM 9/28/02 +0930, Adam Luchjenbroers wrote: >What parts of system does an FTP transfer of a large file (eg .ISOs) >affect. I >am getting hard-lockups while trying to D\L the file. > >Where might the problem be? > >Mandrake 8.1 >Kernel 2.4.19 >KDE 3.0.2 > >Athlon 900MHz >nVidia GeForce 4

Re: Large FTP transfers

2002-09-28 Thread pa3gcu
On Saturday 28 September 2002 08:27, Adam Luchjenbroers wrote: > What parts of system does an FTP transfer of a large file (eg .ISOs) > affect. I am getting hard-lockups while trying to D\L the file. > > Where might the problem be? > > Mandrake 8.1 > Kernel 2.4.19 > KDE 3.0.2 > > Athlon 900MHz > n

Re: RPM packaging

2002-09-28 Thread Carl
At 13:29 28/09/2002 +0930, Adam Luchjenbroers wrote: >Where can I find tutorials on packaging my own RPMs? I do my packaging in the kde ide "kdevelop". Very simple. -- Carl - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mo

Large FTP transfers

2002-09-28 Thread Adam Luchjenbroers
What parts of system does an FTP transfer of a large file (eg .ISOs) affect. I am getting hard-lockups while trying to D\L the file. Where might the problem be? Mandrake 8.1 Kernel 2.4.19 KDE 3.0.2 Athlon 900MHz nVidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB 512MB Corsair DDR333 Soltek SL-75DRV5 (Via KT333 Ch