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It may be because the drivers for the modem are not proper. I would suspect that you are using a windmodem, and that you would need to use the apporpriate drivers via www.linmodems.org .
The modem should be a bit faster on linux with a properly configured card.
Forgive my newbie-ness, but if that's a shell command, I get nothing when I type "#lsmod" and "command not found" when I type "lsmod". I have a similar problem (slow connection) using Red Hat 9 vs WinXP. Thanks for your help.
Distribution: Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat/CentOS
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For those of you that read this...If someone puts a hash mark (#) in front of a command it means that you run it as root...and if it is a dollar sign ($) then it can be run as a normal user. Just a heads up as I have been discussing this in other threads and it is valuable information to new users. Like so:
What exactly am I looking for under lsmod? Almost all of it seems to be concerned with sound...
I also downloaded the program scanModem, but I can't seem to find out what chipset I'm running from the output. But I think, based on the website provided, that this is for actual modem--not ethernet--cards only.
Originally posted by Stevetgn I have a problem with very slow browser reaction.
Click a link and it takes for ever to go to that page let alone load the page. Its the same problem with Konqueror, Mozilla 1.7.1, Firefox 0.9.1.
I'm using Mandrake 10 which appart from this very slow annoying problem has been superb.
I also have the same problem on my laptop with the same distro/browsers
I tried a test with both my PC & Laptop plugged into my netgear ADSL/Router. I booted into WinXP on the PC and MDK 10 on the laptop put the same ULR into both and winxp instantly loaded the page while MDK10 on the laptop took for ever. I then booted the other way around... same result. This is obviously a Linux problem not ISP or browser based.
I'm still a bit of a can anyone shed any light on this?
If I can sort this out I'm pretty much on my way to dumping xp 'cause everything else is mega with this distro!
Thanks in advance
Steve
SAME DUDE !!!
Except that I am using a D-Link 504 router Modem, But everything is the same.
i am also having trouble getting the internet connection to initialize on boot.
And my nVidia GForce FX 5200 128mg video card is also extremely slow.
HELP ! HElP !!
OOOOOOHHHHHH!! YEAH
I have been a member of this forum for ten minutes and am elated that the answer I found here works great. Still canīt initialise internet on boot, but very happy for now, thanks to all.
Answer : open Gedit as root and browse to /etc/modprobe.conf
add these two lines:
alias net-pf-10 ipv4
install ipv4 /bin/true
Save and reboot.
On reboot run terminal as SU
# type the following
# ifup eth0
# type Enter
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Originally posted by Shoal What exactly am I looking for under lsmod?
We are looking for the module (driver) for an ethernet card to see if it is loaded and being used. I need to know what card. Tulip is an ethernet card module, but it is not being used it appears. However, the ppp stuff is for a dial-up connection, and it looks like it is being used. So are you or are you not using dial up??
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