Compaq Armada e500
Ok, my apologies if I'm repeating what's been asked before. If so, please flame the high holy hell outta me.
Here's my predicament: I have a Compaq Armada e500, 900mhz, 192 MB/RAM, and a 6 GB HD. I've just installed RedHat 9.0, and use the GNOME desktop. Everything works fine EXCEPT networking, as far as web surfing and downloading files. (with the notable exception that I can snag files from a machine on my network without a hitch) Web surfing is SLOOOOW (and that's with trying Mozilla, Netscape 7.1, and Opera), and downloading very small files takes forever if at all (example: downloading AMSN basically kept stalling, no matter where I tried getting it.) Any and all assistance with this would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks! Walt |
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And welcome to LQ :) |
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I did indeed change to the eepro100, and things are working somewhat better (I was actually able to download a file) web browsing is still somewhat slow. I'd consider myself a step above a linux newbie, but not far from that. Are there any good links for system tweaking, as concerns performance? Any thoughts on stuff I might need to check before doing any tweaking? Again, thanks in advance for assisting a whiney newcomer! :D |
You may want to see what services you have running and stop them. Which browser are you using?
Glad to hear you got it up and running. |
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I've gone thru the services to see what I absolutely need and dont' need, and have pared those down, as well. (i've doublechecked to make sure I wasn't killing anything important, like gpm or somesuch) I've tried Galeon, Netscape, and Mozilla (yeh, mozilla is effectively netscape and vice versa) AND Opera, but things still take a while to render. Also, downloads can take forever, although I got one this morning that went somewhat ok. I am DETERMINED NOT TO PUT XP BACK ON THIS THING, TRUST ME. ;) |
5 Part article from Linux Journal, entitled "Tweaking Tux":
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5310 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5309 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5308 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5307 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5306 Powertweak an rpm program. From O'Reilly Net, Speeding up your system using HDParm. And here was my search on www.google.com/linux - hope they are of help. |
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Happy to help.
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