Hey guys!

I've set up my Sony Vaio SR-5K notebook with RedHat 8. A Orinoco wireless card connects to a Linksys router which is attached to a cable modem. So far so good.

Here's the problem:
Some internet pages are painfully slow to load, or don't load at all. Now before you jump to conclusions, here are some more pointers...

- the same page loads perfectly fine and FAST on the same machine booting into Win2k
- other pages load just fine and FAST
- both Mozilla (latest nighly) and Konqueror behave the same
- the activity light on the PCMCIA card does NOTHING while I wait and blinks only sporadicly on the "bad" pages

Domains I have trouble with include ebay.com, paypal.com, amazon.com and more. Pages which load blazing fast include this one (linuxquestions.org), maximum-suzuki.com, eisenbach.com and more.

And once again, the exact same page (cnn for example) loads blazing fast on the same notebook booting into Win2k running mozilla.

ANY hints or questions regarding my setup?

Thanks,
Andre

It may be something funky on the page, like some nasty flash that they haven't compiled support into for moz or Konq yet, Linux is still stuck in the realm of flash 5. To rule out networking issues, check to see if there is some spam in "dmesg" about, most likely, failure issuing blah blah blah to BAP header?

The orinoco card is normally quite solid, weird.

Cheers,

Finegan

finegan:
Thanks for your reply. One of the sites that work really bad in Linux but ok after rebooting to windows is Mozilla.org... Ain't no fancy flash there....

I'll check dmesg, thanks.
Thanks so much for the help.

Any other tips/checks are greatly apreciated!

Cheers,
Andre