Hi all,

I am having trouble getting my wireless pcmcia network card to work.
I had it running nicely before with Mandrake 9.1 on a Dell Inspiron 8200.
However I went to upgrade to 9.2, and I had power management set up in the bios so about 5 mins into the upgrade I noticed the monitor try to dim and then everything froze and I had to shut it down.
I tried again doing a full install of mandrake 9.2 and the same thing happened only a little later.
After disabling it in the bios I got 9.2 installed, and did everything like I did in 9.1 but I cant get it to work properly.
So I trashed 9.2 and installed MEPIS Linux and I get the same problem.
Sometimes webpages will load, but if it does it takes forever.
I even tried disabling WEP, same result.
Anybody have any ideas for me?

Heres some info that might be useful:
darkfire55@0[darkfire55]$ dmesg
Linux version 2.4.22 (root@abit2000) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1 Wed Nov 19 13:13:23 EST 2003

# Other Stuff

hermes.c: 4 Dec 2002 David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
orinoco.c 0.13d (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
orinoco_cs.c 0.13d (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
eth1: Station identity 001f:0002:0001:0004
eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.4.2
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address 00:02:DD:32:4F:83
eth1: Station name "Prism I"
eth1: ready
eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
eth1: Error -110 setting multicast list.
eth1: New link status: Association Failed (0006)
eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
eth1: New link status: Association Failed (0006)
eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)

darkfire55@0[darkfire55]$ ping yahoo.com
PING yahoo.com (66.218.71.198): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.218.71.198: icmp_seq=0 ttl=237 time=81.7 ms
64 bytes from 66.218.71.198: icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=82.1 ms
64 bytes from 66.218.71.198: icmp_seq=2 ttl=237 time=143.9 ms
64 bytes from 66.218.71.198: icmp_seq=3 ttl=237 time=82.8 ms
64 bytes from 66.218.71.198: icmp_seq=4 ttl=237 time=83.4 ms

--- yahoo.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 81.7/94.7/143.9 ms

darkfire55@0[darkfire55]$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"default" Nickname:"RyanLinux"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:40:05:C7:B5:38
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:60/92 Signal level:-28 dBm Noise level:-139 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

darkfire55@0[darkfire55]$ ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:DD:32:4F:83
inet addr:192.168.0.100 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:111 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:38 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:35585 (34.7 KiB) TX bytes:7679 (7.4 KiB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2044 (1.9 KiB) TX bytes:2044 (1.9 KiB)

I went back and reinstalled Mandrake 9.1 just like I did before and I am having the same problems.
Just to see if it was just my pcmcia card not working properly, I took it out and hooked up my laptop straight to my DI-614+ router with a lan cable.
Now I am having the same problems with the wired lan as I did with the wireless lan.
If webpages load they take forever.
This is only accessing the internet though.
I can talk to the router just fine, and communications are instant.
Running ping in the console works and gives short return times ~80ms to yahoo.com, but it only sends out packets once every 2 seconds or so.

Anybody have any suggestions.
Everything works fine under WinXp.
Internet is extremely slow and sluggish under Linux (Mandrake 9.1, 9.2, and Knoppix LiveCD) with both wired and wireless connections.

I am using a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop connecting to DLINK Di-614+ router which is connected to Belkin 4 port cable router that is connected to a motorola Surfboard cable modem.