Sometimes I know it is just the internet, like in the evening, when the whole city here bogs down the bandwidth of the local service. The only reason I think there might be a problem with my ethernet driver also is that when I unplug my cat5 cable and plug it into the plug on my windows laptop, web pages on chrome and firefox "seem" to load faster. I have measured it once or twice going to cnn.com, and I get about a 5-10 second difference, I think. But I realize that is not necessarily a good scientific means of testing, so I am kind of wondering how I would check that.
To start with, do you know what ethernet card you have? You can check that... mmm.. in YaST too if you want (again, there are several ways to do this, but this method is a way for you to get used to YaST and learn where you can go poking around):
1. Open the main YaST Control Center 2. Click Network Devices> Network Settings 3. If you get an warning message about the Network being controlled by the Network Manager, just click OK, you're not going to change anything.. you're just looking at the details. 4. Click the Overview tab, and the details of your ethernet card should be shown in the bottom half of the window. For example, mine says, "RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
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Ok, I looked at the overview in YaST, bottom screen for my ethernet card, and here is what it says: MCP61 Ethernet MAC : 48:5b:39:f3:76:92 BusID : 0000:00:07.0 Device Name: eth0 Started automatically at boot IP address assigned using DHCP That seems like a generic name, doesn't it? Or is it actually the brand name of my NIC? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org