[gentoo-laptop] Re: Digest of gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org issue 28 (228-231)

[Edwin Lua <rollerband@bluebottle.com>]

gentoo-laptop+help@gentoo.org wrote:

>Topics (messages 228 throught 231):
>
>[gentoo-laptop] problems with dma
>      228 - edgar Sanchez <edysanchez@gmail.com>
>      229 - =?iso-8859-1?Q?Marco_M=FCller?= <macxs@gmx.net>
>      230 - Luis Ortiz <wichos@gmail.com>
>
>[gentoo-laptop] Setting up PCMCIA NIC
>      231 - Tim Haughton <timhaughton@gmail.com>
>
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> Subject:
> [gentoo-laptop] problems with dma
> From:
> edgar Sanchez <edysanchez@gmail.com>
> Date:
> Thu, 1 Dec 2005 17:18:19 +0100
> To:
> gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org
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> To:
> gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org
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>
> hi:
> i have an acer 4152lmi laptop,& i cannot activate de dma
>
> hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
>
> /dev/hdc:
>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>  using_dma    =  0 (off)
> Can anybody help me?
> thx
>
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>
> Subject:
> Re: [gentoo-laptop] problems with dma
> From:
> Marco Müller <macxs@gmx.net>
> Date:
> Fri, 02 Dec 2005 01:06:49 +0100
> To:
> gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org
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> To:
> gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org
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> On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:18:19 +0100, edgar Sanchez 
> <edysanchez@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> hi:
>> i have an acer 4152lmi laptop,& i cannot activate de dma
>>
>> hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
>>
>> /dev/hdc:
>>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>>  using_dma    =  0 (off)
>> Can anybody help me?
>
>
> I had a similar problem with a debian machine. I solved it by 
> starting  some ide driver modules in a different order.
>
>
> c ya
> thancxs macxs
>
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> Subject:
> Re: [gentoo-laptop] problems with dma
> From:
> Luis Ortiz <wichos@gmail.com>
> Date:
> Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:26:11 -0800
> To:
> gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org
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> To:
> gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org
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>
>Edgar Sanchez wrote:
>  
>
>>hi:
>>i have an acer 4152lmi laptop,& i cannot activate de dma
>>
>>hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
>>
>>/dev/hdc:
>> setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>> using_dma    =  0 (off)
>>Can anybody help me?
>>thx
>>    
>>
>
>Make sure you compiled your kernel with DMA Support
>   Device Drivers --->
>      <*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
>      ...
>      [*]    PCI IDE chipset support
>      ...
>      [*]        Generic PCI bus-master DMA support
>      ...
>      [*]	 Use PCI DMA by default when available
>      ...
>Also know your laptop. There are some other options under "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL
>support" specific to hardware. You may have to select the appropriate so you can
>use DMA. For example my laptop is a Compaq Presario r3000 model and the
>motherboard is a nVidia nForce3, so I selected in "AMD and nVidia IDE support".
>
>I hope I'm not wrong, and I hope this helps.
>
>--
>Luis Ortiz
>  
>
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> Subject:
> [gentoo-laptop] Setting up PCMCIA NIC
> From:
> Tim Haughton <timhaughton@gmail.com>
> Date:
> Sat, 3 Dec 2005 21:19:28 -0500
> To:
> gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org
>
> To:
> gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org
>
>
>I have a Linksys PCMCIA WPC55AG NIC. This is supported by the madwifi driver.
>
>My problems are thus:  
>
>- The ath_pci module is not automatically loaded by whatever manages
>the PCMCIA slots (pcmciautil?).
>
>- If I modprobe the module manually it loads and seems to talk to the
>card (the link light starts flashing).
>
>- When I run init.d/net.ath0 start, it hands then times out when
>starting wpa_supplicant.
>
>What am I doing wrong?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Tim
>
>  
>

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