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I'm running 11.2RC2 (installed from the KDE4 LiveCD)  on an Asus Eee 1005HA, and WiFi performance is very poor.  It's constantly dropping the connection, and when it is connected, downloads come in bursts of full connection speed, and then zero data for a while.. then another burst of data and so on.

I can't really (at least not easily) compare 11.1 on this netbook as the WiFi driver support isn't part of the 11.1 kernel/distro etc. What have been comparing to on this netbook is Ubuntu 9.10... and there WiFi performance is really good, so I assume something (else) is wrong with the 11.2 install or config, but I'm not sure how to look into it.  A bug search on 11.2 and WiFi doesn't return much.

Is anyone else noticing this?

You didn't even provide Wi-Fi chipset and driver. Plus pci id would be nice.

It's an Atheros AR9285 and I'm using the ath9k driver (as set up during the install). I've since re-installed, and there is a distinct difference now between the two installs. The initial install was done using the 11.2RC2 KDE Live iso. The second install was done using the full DVD install. In both cases all defaults were accepted (with KDE4 as the only installed desktop). The online updates were applied, and then the extra repos added. In both installs the WiFi was detected and worked without any tweaking or user configuration. With the KDE Live install, the WiFi was as described above.. dropping all the time, with data only coming in, in short bursts. With the DVD install, the WiFi works (so far) as expected with full speed data transfers etc. In both cases the WiFi signal strength is the same (ranging from 50% to 70%). C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org