Gentoo Archives: gentoo-laptop

From: Edwin Lua <rollerband@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-laptop] Re: Digest of gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org issue 28 (228-231)
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:12:33
Message-Id: 43BF85C3.30508@bluebottle.com
1 gentoo-laptop+help@g.o wrote:
2
3 >Topics (messages 228 throught 231):
4 >
5 >[gentoo-laptop] problems with dma
6 > 228 - edgar Sanchez <edysanchez@×××××.com>
7 > 229 - =?iso-8859-1?Q?Marco_M=FCller?= <macxs@×××.net>
8 > 230 - Luis Ortiz <wichos@×××××.com>
9 >
10 >[gentoo-laptop] Setting up PCMCIA NIC
11 > 231 - Tim Haughton <timhaughton@×××××.com>
12 >
13 >
14 >
15 >
16 >
17 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
18 >
19 > Subject:
20 > [gentoo-laptop] problems with dma
21 > From:
22 > edgar Sanchez <edysanchez@×××××.com>
23 > Date:
24 > Thu, 1 Dec 2005 17:18:19 +0100
25 > To:
26 > gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
27 >
28 > To:
29 > gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
30 >
31 >
32 > hi:
33 > i have an acer 4152lmi laptop,& i cannot activate de dma
34 >
35 > hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
36 >
37 > /dev/hdc:
38 > setting using_dma to 1 (on)
39 > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
40 > using_dma = 0 (off)
41 > Can anybody help me?
42 > thx
43 >
44 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
45 >
46 > Subject:
47 > Re: [gentoo-laptop] problems with dma
48 > From:
49 > Marco Müller <macxs@×××.net>
50 > Date:
51 > Fri, 02 Dec 2005 01:06:49 +0100
52 > To:
53 > gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
54 >
55 > To:
56 > gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
57 >
58 >
59 > On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:18:19 +0100, edgar Sanchez
60 > <edysanchez@×××××.com> wrote:
61 >
62 >> hi:
63 >> i have an acer 4152lmi laptop,& i cannot activate de dma
64 >>
65 >> hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
66 >>
67 >> /dev/hdc:
68 >> setting using_dma to 1 (on)
69 >> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
70 >> using_dma = 0 (off)
71 >> Can anybody help me?
72 >
73 >
74 > I had a similar problem with a debian machine. I solved it by
75 > starting some ide driver modules in a different order.
76 >
77 >
78 > c ya
79 > thancxs macxs
80 >
81 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
82 >
83 > Subject:
84 > Re: [gentoo-laptop] problems with dma
85 > From:
86 > Luis Ortiz <wichos@×××××.com>
87 > Date:
88 > Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:26:11 -0800
89 > To:
90 > gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
91 >
92 > To:
93 > gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
94 >
95 >
96 >Edgar Sanchez wrote:
97 >
98 >
99 >>hi:
100 >>i have an acer 4152lmi laptop,& i cannot activate de dma
101 >>
102 >>hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
103 >>
104 >>/dev/hdc:
105 >> setting using_dma to 1 (on)
106 >> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
107 >> using_dma = 0 (off)
108 >>Can anybody help me?
109 >>thx
110 >>
111 >>
112 >
113 >Make sure you compiled your kernel with DMA Support
114 > Device Drivers --->
115 > <*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
116 > ...
117 > [*] PCI IDE chipset support
118 > ...
119 > [*] Generic PCI bus-master DMA support
120 > ...
121 > [*] Use PCI DMA by default when available
122 > ...
123 >Also know your laptop. There are some other options under "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL
124 >support" specific to hardware. You may have to select the appropriate so you can
125 >use DMA. For example my laptop is a Compaq Presario r3000 model and the
126 >motherboard is a nVidia nForce3, so I selected in "AMD and nVidia IDE support".
127 >
128 >I hope I'm not wrong, and I hope this helps.
129 >
130 >--
131 >Luis Ortiz
132 >
133 >
134 >
135 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
136 >
137 > Subject:
138 > [gentoo-laptop] Setting up PCMCIA NIC
139 > From:
140 > Tim Haughton <timhaughton@×××××.com>
141 > Date:
142 > Sat, 3 Dec 2005 21:19:28 -0500
143 > To:
144 > gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
145 >
146 > To:
147 > gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
148 >
149 >
150 >I have a Linksys PCMCIA WPC55AG NIC. This is supported by the madwifi driver.
151 >
152 >My problems are thus:
153 >
154 >- The ath_pci module is not automatically loaded by whatever manages
155 >the PCMCIA slots (pcmciautil?).
156 >
157 >- If I modprobe the module manually it loads and seems to talk to the
158 >card (the link light starts flashing).
159 >
160 >- When I run init.d/net.ath0 start, it hands then times out when
161 >starting wpa_supplicant.
162 >
163 >What am I doing wrong?
164 >
165 >Cheers,
166 >
167 >Tim
168 >
169 >
170 >
171
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