Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 06 October 2002 16.16, zentara wrote:
> While I have your attention Anders, what do you think would cause a 30
> sec delay before DNS starts resolving on a dialup account? I've tried
> everything and I'm stumped.
> I hav'nt found anything on google about delayed dns.  It works fine after
> about 30 seconds. If I boot the same setup with my old 7.2, dns works
> instantly. So I'm guessing that versions 8+ have some other neccessary
> configuration file?

Does the network continue to run slowly or is it just the startup that's slow?

I had a problem with the newer 2.4.19 kernels in that they've started using a 
new acpi code, and according to Hubert Mantel this is used in 8.1 too. What 
would happen is that the networc card would continuously timeout. I wouldn't 
get a dhcp response for over a minute.

On his suggestion I added "pci=acpi" on the lilo boot line as a kernel 
parameter and after that, everything works perfectly. I have a brand new 
machine. For older hardware you could try "acpi=off" and see if that improves 
matters.

//Anders
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