Re: MODEM LATENCY
I think you may be suffering from what I've come across
lately: the modem gets stuffed up if the serial port baud
rate is too high. Try setting the port speed (use pppconfig)
down to 56700 instead of 115200, and I think you may find
things start to work better for you. (worked here...)
As for configuring your sources file, use apt-setup to
set things up as you need.
Matthew
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:26:31PM -0800, D. Hoyem wrote:
> I hate to ask this cause it is really a DUHHH ... How
> do I select the mirror that I want to go to? This is
> part of the address in the sources file
> htpp://security.debian.org/dists/potato/ binaryi386...
> that is not the complete address, but how do I specify
> the mirror that I want to use?
> Don
> --- Forrest English <forrest@truffula.net> wrote:
> > apt-get install hdparm
> >
> > but, i kinda doubt that it is a latency problem on
> > the hard drives. i'm
> > guessing your connection to the mirror you have
> > selected in your
> > sources.list is just poor. try another mirror
> > closer to you.
> >
> > just a suggestion, but the slowest drive i've ever
> > seen was .89 megs a
> > second. which is still more than enough to not time
> > out waiting for data
> > for a dsl line, much less a modem.
> >
> > --
> > Forrest English
> > http://truffula.net
> >
> > "When we have nothing left to give
> > There will be no reason for us to live
> > But when we have nothing left to lose
> > You will have nothing left to use"
> > -Fugazi
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, D. Hoyem wrote:
> >
> > > I have been trying to use the apt-get update ;
> > apt-get
> > > install communicator to get Netscape downloaded
> > from
> > > the Debian non-free site that is in the sources. I
> > can
> > > connect and download but then I get timed out... I
> > was
> > > told on #Debian irc.debian.org that it might be a
> > > latency problem...So I did a search on the wed and
> > > found quite a bit of info and it all is saying to
> > use
> > > hdparm to check your hard drive. I have 2 hard
> > drives
> > > and Debian is on hdb2(swap) 156M, hdb3(/) 5.6G. I
> > have
> > > tried as root and the response is, command not
> > found.
> > > What am I doing wrong, and will this help resolve
> > the
> > > latency problem, do I have to be in the /sbin or
> > > /usr/sbin to run this comand? After I find the
> > best
> > > settings when do I need to place them so they will
> > be
> > > picked up on start up?
> > > TIA
> > > Don
> > >
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