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From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
Subject: Re: [386bsd] NFS and NE2000 - unusable!
Message-ID: <1993Feb24.015841.12846@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 01:58:41 GMT
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Johannes Grosen (grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu) wrote:
: I've been working to get my NE2000 compatible card to work properly
: with NFS mounts. I've searched postings to this group and found a
: patch by 'curt@toad.com' which I have applied to my sources. I've tried
: different rsize and wsize settings including the magic '4K' number all
: to no avail. When I try writing to an NFS-mounted file system my machine,
: for all intents and purposes, locks up. I get silo overflows if I move
: my mouse when running X. There are numerous isr 14 and isr 94 messages
: logged. What am I missing here? Is anyone successufully using NFS with
: an NE2000 card? If so, what have you done to get it working? Should I
: just throw away my card and get a WD card?

I've been using ne2000 compatibles with no problems with 386bsd. We install
one using nfs and tar. cpio and cp did not work.

#compengr:/nfs /nfs nfs rw,rsize=1024,wsize=1024,soft 0 0

You can only use rsize=1024
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Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
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