Month: September 2007
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Flakey Wireless + NFS != Good
Why would a flakey wireless connection cause login problems for a specific tty without affecting others? Why would the wireless connection affect local logins at all? These and many other questions may never be answered but at least the problems have a solution. If login problems weren’t enough the NFS mounts I had were causing…
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Followup on 2.6.23 idle wakeups
Well, I figured out that uhci_hcd was the culprit for the previous wakeups. uhci_hcd provides USB 1.1 support, which I can disable because my laptop is all USB v2. As you can see below the menu governor for 2.6.23-rc5 + hrt patch doesn’t work quite as well versus 2.6.23-rc4 + hrt patch because the CPU…
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SimpleShare Weirdness
Several days ago my SimpleShare desktop NAS stopped responding via NFS. Access to the web interface was still functional with no errors, a cursory disk check found no problems, rebooting the drive didn’t fix it. However, attempting to mount the drive over CIFS (samba) worked. After that NFS access worked again, for whatever reason. For…