Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/sysutils/nvnet
To: Joel CARNAT <joel@carnat.net>
From: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 01/13/2006 09:41:03
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:06:04AM +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> for what it's worth saying it, I did try it yesterday (as I already
> tried morgan's and had issues).
> Conclusion : it works like a *** charm *** !!!

Of course it does!

> When I tried Morgan's initial patches, I quickly got some timeout()
> messages which finally led to no network at all. It also acted this way
> under FreeBSD-6. We did try to solve it (thX morgan) but never got a
> decent solution.

Yes, I added a patch to raise the timeout so that it does not cause
spurious interface reinitialization.

I contacted the maintainer to get the patch integrated but I got no anwser.

> Note that I had GENERIC.MPACPI (to have ACPI configured) and the module
> didn't load because it said it was incompatible with MP mode. So I
> switched to GENERIC and it went up OK. Maybe there's should be a note in
> MESSAGE ?

Or maybe there should be a fix. What does it says exactly?

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@netbsd.org