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Peter Simanyi wrote:
This helps for me: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/cg_slowinternet.html
Thanks. I had to set up the /etc/ppp/ip-up.local file myself, as per the instructions on the site. Is this supposed to be a shell script or a text file? How can I verify that this file is called when starting a dial up? What script would automatically call and execute this file? When I "ping"ed the site, without download, I was getting a time of 269ms. When I downloaded a web page (nothing big) my time went up to 7600ms, until the page was loaded. Are you finding the same? Please take a look below and see if anything rings a bell that I should change. Will be reading through the other site on Monday. Thanks. zentara wrote:
Well you could try to use the setserial commands to change your com port to 115 Kbps. It should be setup properly for you nowadays, but in the old days the default com port speed was 9600, or some low value. You could put the setserial command in boot.local. Does you /etc/ppp/isp.options file have a line 115200 in it?
Thanks. I changed the port speed via setserial although Baud_base was already 115200. I do not have a boot.local file. Will my changes to the port via setserial not be recognized unless I use the command in boot.local? I also don't have a /etc/ppp/isp.options file. I found a possible problem with a shared IRQ. It looks like my modem/ttyS4 is sharing IRQ 5 with my USB 2.0 controller/ehci-hcd. Take a look at some of the info below: --- from: /usr/bin/procinfo irq 0: 3650116 timer irq 8: 4 rtc irq 1: 114485 keyboard irq 9: 0 acpi irq 2: 0 cascade [4] irq 10: 748324 EMU10K1 irq 3: 0 usb-uhci, usb-uhci, irq 11: 2197751 usb-ohci, nvidia irq 4: 4 irq 12: 482937 PS/2 Mouse irq 5: 33873 ehci-hcd irq 14: 61833 ide0 irq 6: 2 irq 15: 34731 ide1 from: Setserial /dev/ttyS4, Line 4, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x1000, IRQ: 5 Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 closing_wait: 3000 Flags: spd_vhi skip_test --- I changed speed from "spd_normal" to "spd_vhi". The rest is stock install. Anything ring a bell? Further suggestions? TIA Bernd
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On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 02:58:13 -0800 Bernd Koepsell <bernd@covenantmail.net> wrote:
zentara wrote:
Well you could try to use the setserial commands to change your com port to 115 Kbps. It should be setup properly for you nowadays, but in the old days the default com port speed was 9600, or some low value. You could put the setserial command in boot.local. Does you /etc/ppp/isp.options file have a line 115200 in it?
Thanks. I changed the port speed via setserial although Baud_base was already 115200. I do not have a boot.local file. Will my changes to the port via setserial not be recognized unless I use the command in boot.local? I also don't have a /etc/ppp/isp.options file.
You have to create the /etc/init.d/boot.local yourself. It dosn't matter where you put the setserial command. You can run it as root as soon as you boot up, but the boot.local method just automakes this for you.
I found a possible problem with a shared IRQ. It looks like my modem/ttyS4 is sharing IRQ 5 with my USB 2.0 controller/ehci-hcd. Take a look at some of the info below:
Yeah, IRQ conflict is a likelyhood.
Anything ring a bell? Further suggestions?
This is an internal pci card, right? Make sure your bios settings for your motherboard's com ports are disabled, maybe you need com1, irq4 for a serial mouse. But your second com port can be disabled in bios, and then you can assign irq3 to your modem card with setserial? Anyways, just because you are not using your motherboard's com ports, they may still be stealing usable irq's from you unless you disable them in bios. I resolved to end messing around with this long ago, by only buying external serial port modems. They only add about 10 bucks to the cost, but usually save you "hours" of hassles. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
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The 03.03.30 at 02:58, Bernd Koepsell wrote:
Thanks. I had to set up the /etc/ppp/ip-up.local file myself, as per the instructions on the site. Is this supposed to be a shell script or a text file?
Shell.
How can I verify that this file is called when starting a dial up?
/var/log/localmessages
What script would automatically call and execute this file?
man pppd -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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