On Friday 02 April 2004 03:07 am, Bernd Sieker wrote:
> On 01.04.04, 21:51:37, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > I've performed a clean installation of NetBSD 1.6.2 on a NEC Mobilepro
> > 780. After the second try, everything seems to work except that I can't
> > use pkgsrc via NFS.
> >
> > When I was using NetBSD 1.6.1, I installed pkgsrc applications by using
> > swap and pkgsrc directories that are located on a FreeBSD server.  I can
> > still access the directories via NFS; but when I attempt a make install,
> > nothing happens -- the cursor goes to a new line and everything just sits
> > their until I cancel the job.  Executing 'top' on a separate virtual
> > terminal shows no related activity that I can identify.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> I don't think this is hpcmips specific, I have no trouble using
> nfs on my z50 over WLAN w/IPSEC, neither did with Ethernet.
>
> Hanging nfs often indicates that the card cannot handle the big
> requests, I think the default maximum packet size for nfs mounts
> was increased recently, so try something like:
>
>   nfs-server:/usr/pkgsrc  /usr/pkgsrc     nfs     rw,-r1024,-w1024,noauto

That did it -- THANKS!

>
> in /etc/fstab to restrict the maximum transfer size to 1k. I found
> I had to use that on machines with older network hardware.

Andrew Gould