[Sussex] Re: Sussex digest, Vol 1 #378 - 3 msgs

Rob Clegg robclegg at baulchgroup.co.uk
Tue May 20 12:47:00 UTC 2003


Thank's Steve, there's me thinking I going to have to manualy change files by hand and theres a command to do the work under my nose!
Rob

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>I don,t know how far Nick got with the wifi project at the kings Head but
>this 
>article from the Reg might prove inspiring
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/30750.html
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>Hello Guy's,
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>I was wondering if one of you could help me with a problem, I'm messing
>about with Debian Woody on an Sunsparc Ultra 2 (I wont to re-employ it as
>a Counter-Strike server) and the sunhme driver keeps locking up. I've
>managed to locate a patch for it but am not entirly sure what to do with
>it! Here's the patch;
>
>--- drivers/net/sunhme.c.orig	Mon Jul 15 02:38:27 2002
>+++ drivers/net/sunhme.c	Mon Jul 15 03:09:03 2002
> @@ -1983,6 +1983,7 @@ 
> 	}
> 	hp->tx_old = elem;
> 	TXD((">"));
>+	udelay(1);
> 
> 	if (netif_queue_stopped(dev) &&
> 	    TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(hp) > (MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1))
>
>I imagine I need to change the sunhme.c file before I recompile the
>kernel. Does the @@ -1983,6 +1983,7 @@ mean take out six lines from 1983
>including 1983 and replace them with these seven lines? 
>
>Here's lines 1863 to 1873 of my original sunhme.c.
>
>		hp->net_stats.tx_packets++;
>	}
>	hp->tx_old = elem;
>	TXD((">"));
>
>	if (netif_queue_stopped(dev) &&
>	    TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(hp) > (MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1))
>		netif_wake_queue(dev);
>}
>
>Cheers,
>
>Rob Clegg
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>Subject: RE: [Sussex] Driver Patch
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>Hi Rob
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>On 20 May 2003 at 09:12 Rob Clegg wrote:
>> I was wondering if one of you could help me with a problem, 
>> I'm messing about with Debian Woody on an Sunsparc Ultra 2 (I 
>> wont to re-employ it as a Counter-Strike server) and the 
>> sunhme driver keeps locking up. I've managed to locate a 
>> patch for it but am not entirly sure what to do with it! 
>
>The patch command will apply the patch for you.
>
>in the scripts directory there is the patch_kernel script that
>uses it to apply the kernel patches to the kernel.
>
>Steve
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