14 Oct
2002
14 Oct
'02
12:14
It turned out the problem was an irq conflict in the laptop. The network card was sharing an irq with the printer or sound (can't remember which). I made sure the irqs were different, and it was "full speed again".
Network cards on shared IRQs are bad, bad, bad! Windows or Linux, they hate sharing... -- 1:13pm up 5:50, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00