Re: [Qemu-devel] NE2K PCI and Windows 98SE & Cirrus Logic

[Leigh Dyer <leigh@eclinic.com.au>]

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 22:24 -0700, Tim wrote:
> > I don't unfortunately have any work-around for the network problems.
> > I've also tried a manual network setup using the tun/tap device, but it
> > doesn't work any better.
> 
> For the most part, network has been working fine for me.  I have used
> the linux bridging module, across a real ethernet device and tun0, and
> it worked ok.  I am now routing across my host OS (which I have done
> before), and it is also working ok.  However, I have noticed that from
> time to time my pings time out.  Typically the first one or two pings
> when I ping a given host.  After that, it usually works fine for
> subsequent pings, though sometimes re-surfaces.  Could it be a timing
> issue with the virtual device?  Probably not the problems you are
> experiencing Hetz, though worth mentioning.
> 

It's been fine for me in Linux (PCI or ISA mode), and in ISA mode in
both Windows 98 and 2000, but Win98 seems to trip up in PCI mode. 

> 
> I am using the most recent CVS (at least, as of this afternoon), and the
> following command line:
> 
> qemu -pci -m 256 -cdrom win2k-install-cd.img -hda win2k-cow.img -boot c -n "$TUN_SCRIPT"
> 
You're running Windows 2000 with PCI enabled? I didn't think this worked
yet - certainly all of my attempts so far to get this running have
failed. Did you have to do anything special to get PCI mode working with
Windows 2000?

Thanks
Leigh