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So what do we do when these Kawa-chip adapters cease to exist? (modified 0 times) PoserFryk Profile So what do we do when that eventually happens? I have just begun learning Linux... got a copy of red hat, managed to install it... played XBill a lot. My question(s) to you experts are these: 1. Can we create a 32 MB flash archive containing a NEW audrey op sys with updated drivers for OTHER flavors of usb to ethernet adapters? 2. Do these kind of archives exist? If so, where? 3. Is there an archive out there of the latest Audrey opsys (the one with shell) in case I screw mine up? Here's to those who have come before me... without you're guidance so far, all I'd have is a $59 cute gadget to show my girlfriend how to giggle. Thanks in advance! PoserFryk "Everything that can be invented already has been" --US Patent Office, 1889 02-01-2002 16:51:17

RE:So what do we do when these Kawa-chip adapters cease to exist? (modified 0 times) peclark Profile QNX 6.1 is supposed to support the pegasus chipset usb ethernet adapters, so I've pulled io-net, devn-pegasus.so, and some other necessary files from QNX 6.1 over to the audrey to see if I could get a pegasus USB-10T or DLINK-DSB650 working, but with no luck. The QNX 6.1 docs say the SMC EZ Connect 2202USB/ETH is tested and supported, so I got one, and it does work on the Audrey (with the 6.1 networking). The only problem is that when running phjuke playing mp3s over the network it is nowhere near as smooth as the stock audrey with the 3com adapter (I get pauses and skipping). So before this is really useful to anyone I think there are two problems to solve: 1) why won't other pegasus adapters work besides the SMC one? (even better, what about pegasus II?) 2) how can the set-up be tuned to stop the skips/pauses If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it. Pete 02-02-2002 20:21:17

RE:So what do we do when these Kawa-chip adapters cease to exist? (modified 0 times) bholio Profile How are you mounting your mp3 repository? What OS? I've found that fs-nfs2 works best (if your server is Linux) If you use fs-cifs to mount a Windows or Samba machine, do NOT use the -v option. (Certainly do not use more than 1 -v). Somehow the -v option slows things down to 1/3 the speed of the same connection without specifying -vv on fs-cifs. Try doing some speed tests. time cp bigfile.mp3 bigfile2.mp3 to get an idea of your transfer rate. You can get speed info from Win98's system monitor tool. I found that when stuff works, I was getting 130kBytes/sec. When I used -v -v, I was getting 45kBytes/sec. You never know... 02-02-2002 20:32:31

RE:So what do we do when these Kawa-chip adapters cease to exist? (modified 0 times) peclark Profile Thanks for the ideas bholio. I tried the time command on copying a 4 megabyte file and watched the network monitor in Windows 2000 and was getting around 300K bytes per second during the copy with the SMC Adapter. There were no pauses during the transfer though. I tried this with the 3com adapter and the QNX 6.1 devn-klsi.so driver and was getting around 230K bytes per second, no pauses during the file copy with this either. Then I tried phjuke with the 3com adapter and the QNX 6.1 networking and had the exact same problems as the SMC. The whole time my other Audrey with stock networking and the 3com adapter were working fine. These were both over a netbios share using fs-cifs with only the -a option. One thing I did notice is that the cpu on the Audrey seems to be much busier when using native QNX 6.1 networking than with the stock Audrey. Now I'm wondering if the reason I'm getting the pauses is because the CPU is too busy rather than the network being a problem. I've tried playing around with the priority of many of the processes, and even killing off most of the non essential ones but to no avail. I can only lessen the problem, but eventually I'll get a pause in every mp3 I play. 02-03-2002 19:09:00

RE:So what do we do when these Kawa-chip adapters cease to exist? (modified 0 times) bholio Profile If you think it's a CPU thing, copy a small mp3 file to your audrey /tmp dir and play it from there. There will be no networking issues at all. That will prove it is the CPU. Maybe your songs are running at a hight bitrate than mine. Mine are at least 128k, but certainly not higher than 192. Probably some are 160.. To mess with the processes, be sure to use ps -o pid,pri,args to see which processes run under what priority. Also, to start phjuke and then mess with it's priority, I found that I had to do it like this: phjuke & (wait until it started, then switch back to shell window) slay -P 15 phjuke If I did it another way, phjuke's priority would not change. Also note that if a song is already playing when you slay -P phjuke, switch it to another song to get the priority change to affect madplay. 02-04-2002 09:29:33

RE:So what do we do when these Kawa-chip adapters cease to exist? (modified 0 times) nevarre Profile Audrey's processor isn't exactly a barn-burner, it seems possible. 02-04-2002 11:14:29

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