Quick stupid emptool question

Hey all,

Just a quick question does emptool do uploads etc over ethernet or is that strictly an emplode thing at this point?

Thanks,
Mike

Someone? Anyone? Anyone out there actually using emptool?

Anyone out there actually using emptool?

You betcha. But I only have a MkI, so I don't know about the ethernet.

Actually, while I'm here, I might relate a little interesting thing about trying to use emptool with the empeg-car USB driver with UHCI on an SMP machine. It seems to me that when the empeg sends data to the computer, the first packet (or block, or whatever) arrives OK, but the second one arrives so quickly that the interrupt goes to the other CPU, which has not yet figured out that the first packet has arrived, and things go downhill from there. My workaround is to sit there and watch while emptool tries to get the database, if it is not working, I go to a root window and do "echo 2 > /proc/irq/x/smp_affinity" and everything proceeds as normal.

It's a bit of a pain, but it works, and I'm prepared to put up with it for the time being for the sake of using USB rather than serial. I'll wait until the proper 2.4 kernels come out, and if the strange behaviour hasn't magically gone away, then I guess I'll have to try and rectify it.

If anybody else was in the same situation, and has fixed things, I'd like to hear about it.

Richard.

Yep, it works fine with Ethernet.

Rob

Now that the Emptool source has been released, we expect you guys to both fix the problems you're describing as well as port this puppy to the Mac. You can have that done by tomorrow, right?

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Tony Fabris