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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I added in rc hdparm -m16 /dev/hda to fix a linux incompatiblity with the 
Compaq computer and it did not help with the download problem, stil 
stalled with wget at 72%, every time.

Microcom is also not improved.  Instead of typing send atdt7615041 or
just plain atdt7615041 twice (first time I just get a buzz, not a dial) I 
can type at (wait) and then atdt7615041, but no other progress.

I would like kermit anyway for ftp downloads.

lynx 2.8.1 does not require lynx.lss, just lynx.cfg.


On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> I just downloaded libz.so.1.1.3 using BL2, on the first try, no stalling,
> with the same hardware.
> 
> There is definitely something not working quite right in my BL3, on the 
> same computer, 5 minutes earlier.  I would like to help diagnose the 
> problem with this as BL3 is not very useful to me if I cannot use it to 
> download linux files.  If nobody else confirms my problem, I might suspect 
> the hard drive (hdparam) reset problem, which I have corrected in BL2 but 
> did not bother doing in BL3 since it has not showed up yet other than when 
> I tried to ls something in the BL2 partition.  BL3 is accessing C: 
> somehow, isn't it?  Would it do so only 75% of the way through variable 
> size downloads?  I can also try on the other BL3 computer to get the same 
> file. 
> 
> It is also possible that the hdparam problem is interfering with microcom 
> so we will plug in the phone line and try  microcom on the other computer.
> Maybe the 'reset' message is being sent every time I receive 'assword:'?
> 
> 
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> > I was unable to get past about 80% trying to download either lynx.tgz
> > (SW40)  or Kermit (for SW40) using links for BL3 or wget.  Every time it
> > would stop (0 B/sec) at the same place in the file.  Lynx was from
> > ftp.planetmirror.com and SW4.0 Kermit was from the Kermit site.
> > 
> > These were relatively large files, and stalled at about 80% or so.
> > One of them, on the second or later tries, would then always stall wget 
> > at 
> > 4096 bytes.  I forget which one.
> > 
> > Today I am trying to download another linux file:
> > www.iamjlamb.com/~keesan/libz.so.1.1.3  (from elflibs.tgz SW4.0,
> > downloaded to that address via a faster connection, unpacked, the file I 
> > wanted was then moved to my web directory because I don't have kermit for 
> > file transfer yet, or microcom working to dial my bbs and get the same 
> > file from there after ftping it there.)
> > 
> > With lynx (2.6 for SW3.1) it gets to 44.5 of 61K, several times.
> > Wget stalls at 72%, several times.
> > Links goes to 0 B/s at 75% of the file, several times.
> > 
> > I could download a short .com file okay, it is apparently just the linux 
> > files causing stalling.  I have not had this problem with BL2, ever.
> > 
> > I eventually downloaded lynx and kermit on a Win98 computer (we were
> > testing a modem in it anyway) and did llpro file transfer.  Dont' yet 
> > have 
> > either one working.  Lynx needs zlib. Kermit may need a later ncurses and 
> > I can't download linux files with BL3.
> > 
> > Someone please confirm.  I will leave libz there for a day or two.
> > (I will try getting it with BL2 next, via kermit file transfer.  I can't 
> > get kermit working in Bl3 - it may  need a newer ncurses, which I expect 
> > I 
> > also cannot download with Bl3, nor can I download an older kermit for 
> > SW3.5).
> > 
> > 
> > I thought at first that I had a bad ISP connection but this is too 
> > reproducible.  Two days in a row, and no problem in between with other 
> > OSes.  Three different sites and files.  
> > 
> > Sindi
> > 
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