On Friday 03 September 2004 06:11 am, David Sexton wrote:

I have a Dell 4000 Inistpron laptop, with one wireless Orinoco gold card and an Intel network card as well. Right now I am just using the wireless card to surfing the net or browse the network. When I surfing the net it's rely slow on Linux. How ever on windows it's way faster. Dose any one know why or how to fix this problem?

I occasionally have the same problem. eth0 = intel nic, eth1 = wireless. Its only slow on the wireless, right? 1) Check your routes. as root, type "route" If your default route does not appear on the same line as the orinoco interface, it can cause real slow browsing. "man route" will give clues how to change this, but its almost always a configuration problem somewhere down in the file... /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-<interfacename> For example, here's mine for my wireless card: (munged items are unique to my machine) # cat ifcfg-eth1 BOOTPROTO='dhcp' DHCLIENT_SET_DOWN_LINK='yes' DHCLIENT_MODIFY_RESOLV_CONF='yes' DHCLIENT_SET_DEFAULT_ROUTE='yes' MTU='' REMOTE_IPADDR='' STARTMODE='hotplug' UNIQUE='munged' WIRELESS='yes' WIRELESS_ESSID='munged' WIRELESS_KEY='munged' WIRELESS_MODE='Managed' WIRELESS_NICK='munged' WIRELESS_NWID='' -------------- Note the dhclient commands, The second one tells it to modify /etc/resolv.conf and without that DNS resolution can get horribly slow. The second dhclient command tells it to set the default route and without that it SOMETIMES fails to do so, and then it usually tries some bogus default route before it finds the correct one. Finally, sometimes it is necessary to create a default route file for the wireless nic, but not always. I dono why you sometimes have to. Here's an example I use at home when on wireless: # cat routes-eth1 default 192.168.192.1 0.0.0.0 eth1 It sits in the same /etc/sysconfig/network sub dir. All this is on SuSE 8.2, so YMMV HTH... -- _____________________________________ John Andersen