Re: [SLUG] Apparent lack of un-cached DMA memory

2007-03-27 Thread David P
On 3/27/07, Leslie Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get this card going on an old laptop and am using Damn Small Linux. If you're using the Live version of DSL, ndiswrapper's memory allocation problem may come from DSL's ramdisk. DSL allocates a fair amount of RAM for a virtual hard

Re: [SLUG] Apparent lack of un-cached DMA memory

2007-03-27 Thread Leslie Katz
David P wrote: On 3/27/07, Leslie Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get this card going on an old laptop and am using Damn Small Linux. If you're using the Live version of DSL, ndiswrapper's memory allocation problem may come from DSL's ramdisk. DSL allocates a fair amount of RAM

Re: [SLUG] Apparent lack of un-cached DMA memory

2007-03-27 Thread David P
On 3/27/07, Leslie Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have only the crudest understanding of these things, but coupling what you say with something Peter Chubb said in an earlier post makes me wonder whether that early high usage of RAM makes it impossible afterwards for the needed memory to be

Re: [SLUG] Apparent lack of un-cached DMA memory

2007-03-27 Thread Leslie Katz
David P wrote: I was thinking that maybe you could set the ndiswrapper module to load automatically on startup, especially before that high usage of RAM occurs. Maybe add ndiswrapper to /etc/modules? Thank you very much for your suggestion, David. When I chopped the process up into small chunks