Last night, I managed to download Firefox for R5. Because I was using the regular image, I didn’t have enough space to extract it. The speed was about 15KB/sec… not bad really, though I’m not sure what it would’ve been in another OS.
I did have an issue while using wget on sites where the content length was unspecified: after the file downloaded, wget would just sit there like it was waiting for more data. Dunno if it’s a bug in wget or the netstack or what.
I also FTPed into HaikuHost and downloaded the SVN log for the revision I was running; pretty simple albeit pretty cool.
Edit: I also noticed Haiku was very stable compared to some of the previous versions… was that just me or did anyone else notice it?
Heh! One of the things I actually LIKE so much about an OS or Application in its alpha stages is the feeling of trepidation when trying to get something to actually WORK! :?
With Haiku, so many important features are just TANTALIZINGLY close to working its actually both frustrating and rewarding at the same time.
Take my network setup for example. Bearing in mind that this is Haiku running from the HD, not a VM. It’s behind a Windows XP box so is sharing an internet connection via broadband. It has a working nic driver, is able to ping the IP of the Windows box, is attempting to connect to URLs with Net Positive, is attempting to resolve ftp requests via wget. It is this close ][ to sucessfully doing ALL of them but failing to do any of them bar pinging the XP box.
All this points to a single setting between the Haiku box and the Windows machine (or ISP) being wrong, I just don’t know which one it is!
After adding the forcedeth driver for my nForce2 NIC and ifconfig it + writing a resolv.conf, I’m able to ping www.google.com ONE time and then getting “ping: no route to host?” a million times. BeShare or Vision won’t connect at all.
Hi, here on rev19896, networking is set up automatically under vmware, and i don’t have any nameserver issue so far. On the other hand my downloads with wget or ftp randomly stall except on really small files.
Disabling IDE DMA in the boot menu solved it for me!
(Well, i discovered a few days ago that the slow shutdown under VMWare was also due to an IDE DMA problem, it seems to be the same issue. See bug #985 )
I recently shifted my Haiku/BeOS/Zeta system to an entirely different machine. This has freed-up my IBM xSeries205 for use as a linux fileserver as opposed to a Haiku test machine. Anyhow, most everything on the new Haiku box is working sweet (basking in a luxurious 512 Mb ram) except for ethernet :o/
Now, on this machine there is a 3Com networking card that is quite happy using the 3c503 drivers under R5. Naturally, I have hijacked a copy of the R5 driver to test under Haiku.
When using ifconfig in conjunction with IP addresses and the up command, I get ‘ifconfig: Setting flags failed: No such file or directory’ error message.
ifconfig will then list the device as being present.
Wooot! Wooot!
Dropped in the stock 3com driver from Zeta (ec9xx) and fired up Net+!!! For the first time EVER, I’m browsing the internet using my favourite little OS :o)
