Re: ppp stalls on computer activity
Thanks, csj
DMA was the problem. I didn't have the chipset set in the kernel. Works like
a dream now.
Michael Westwind
On Friday 26 September 2003 11:38, WMFender-Westwind wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a Sony laptop PCG-FXA32 running Debian SID, kernel 2.4.20
> (hand-rolled) with an odd problem. I have an external hardware modem
> (Motorola modemsurfr) on ttyS0. Every time there is heavy load on the
> machine, e.g. opening a program or when cron runs, downloading wll stop
> completely. As soon as the activity gets back to normal, downloading will
> resume. Any ideas? Other debian machines I have now and in the past have
> not done that. My /etc/ppp/ options is default, and my connection was set
> up by pppconfig. I am pasting in the .config for my kernel below. I have
> had several different kernel configurations on this machine, but did not
> save the configuration files. They all showed the same problem, so maybe
> this is a hardware issue?
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