I have been trying to use NFS on an iOpener to play MP3 files that are
on my main Redhat .2 computer. I'm not having much luck. Here are
some posts I've made to the iOpener BBS in the last few days which
describe the problem. The last entry, especially, implicates Linux
NFS and/or the Pegasus driver as the trouble area.
Any ideas what to try next? Any data that needs to be collected?
I am at your disposal.
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I've got jailbait 5.1 installed on the Sandisk and a Linksys 10/100
and am seeing pretty much the same problem with NFS. FTP gets
400KB/sec, but NFS performance is lousy and playing MP3's over the
network get lots of dropouts.
If I use rsize=1024,wsize=1024 on the NFS mount, then the dropouts
still occur but are much shorter in duration. My ifconfig ethernet
stats show RX packets:5642, errors:82, dropped:0, overruns:0,
frame:117. In technical terms, "this is bad".
Anyway, I'm still looking for a solution to this NFS problem, too.
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I took kernel 2.4.0test1, patched the 0.3.13 pegasus driver into it,
then applied the patch above to make it v0.3.13h27. Built kernel and
modules, FTP'ed that to the IO, lilo'ed and rebooted.
Then I NFS mount /home from my RH6.2 system on the IO and try to play
MP3's. Same problem with dropouts as before. Same indications of
errors in the ifconfig stats.
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Still no joy here. I'm using:
kernel 2.4.0test1
pegasus 0.3.13h29
usb-uhci 1.231, IRQ 11
With rsize=1024,wsize=1024 I get dropouts playing mp3's over NFS. With
the default of 8192, I get dropouts and NFS server not responding
after a few seconds of play.
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Just to make sure that the NFS problem wasn't with the RH 6.2 server
I'm using as the source of the MP3's, I loaded the IO up with win98.
I put Windows 98, the Linksys USB driver, and Omniplex Omni-NFS Lite
on the IO. Then I NFS mounted /home from my RH 6.2 system on the IO as
drive I:. Using the Windows Media player 6.4 I then played MP3's over
NFS without any dropouts.
Using tcpdump on the RH 6.2 system I noted that Omni-NFS is using
rsize,wsize=4096.
So anyway, there is an existance proof that there is nothing wrong
with my NFS server or network, and that the IO is capable of doing NFS
and playing MP3's at the same time. Unfortunately, the existence proof
does not include Linux or the Pegasys driver. Foo!
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-Rick
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