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Old 08-13-2004, 04:49 PM   #1
Shoal
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Internet REALLY Slow


Hi all. The 'net runs slower than a dial-up on my Linux partition, but faster than Speedy-Gonzales on my Windows partition. Huh?

Anyone know what might be causing this? This has happened on Mozilla 1.6, 1.7.2, and Mozilla Firefox 0.8.

Thanks,

Robert Aronson
 
Old 08-13-2004, 08:38 PM   #2
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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.
 
Old 08-13-2004, 08:49 PM   #3
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When you say "modem", you make me think that you think I have a standard dial-up modem. These drivers are also for ethernet cards, right?

Thanks,

Shoal
 
Old 08-13-2004, 09:25 PM   #4
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What card? and what is the output of

#lsmod
 
Old 08-13-2004, 09:32 PM   #5
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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.
 
Old 08-13-2004, 09:42 PM   #6
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hippias...try it as root

bignate@delia bignate$ su -
Password:
delia root # lsmod

lots o' ouput...

EDIT: Hippias, I just read that you are in Baltimore...I have a sail boat in Essex and travel your way a lot ...take care!

Last edited by BigNate; 08-13-2004 at 09:43 PM.
 
Old 08-13-2004, 09:47 PM   #7
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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:

$cd /home/bignate

or

#emerge -C world
 
Old 08-13-2004, 11:00 PM   #8
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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.

But anyway, here's my lsmod output:

Code:
Module                  Size  Used by
ppp_generic            29552  0
slhc                    7200  1 ppp_generic
isofs                  33912  1
zlib_inflate           22656  1 isofs
udf                    94660  0
nls_iso8859-1           3904  1
md5                     3872  1
ipv6                  232352  6
radeon                127008  10
parport_pc             32832  1
lp                     12200  0
parport                38952  2 parport_pc,lp
snd-seq-midi            8160  0
snd-emu10k1-synth       6816  0
snd-emux-synth         36320  1 snd-emu10k1-synth
snd-seq-virmidi         6912  1 snd-emux-synth
snd-seq-midi-emul       7776  1 snd-emux-synth
snd-seq-oss            31232  0
snd-seq-midi-event      7552  3 snd-seq-midi,snd-seq-virmidi,snd-seq-oss
snd-seq                51024  8 snd-seq-midi,snd-emux-synth,snd-seq-virmidi,snd-seq-midi-emul,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event
snd-via82xx            24128  0
gameport                4480  1 snd-via82xx
snd-mpu401-uart         7072  1 snd-via82xx
snd-pcm-oss            51812  0
snd-mixer-oss          17952  2 snd-pcm-oss
snd-emu10k1            85508  2 snd-emu10k1-synth
snd-rawmidi            23616  4 snd-seq-midi,snd-seq-virmidi,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-emu10k1
snd-pcm                93156  3 snd-via82xx,snd-pcm-oss,snd-emu10k1
snd-timer              24484  2 snd-seq,snd-pcm
snd-seq-device          8008  7 snd-seq-midi,snd-emu10k1-synth,snd-emux-synth,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-emu10k1,snd-rawmidi
snd-ac97-codec         58148  2 snd-via82xx,snd-emu10k1
snd-page-alloc         11972  3 snd-via82xx,snd-emu10k1,snd-pcm
snd-util-mem            4448  2 snd-emux-synth,snd-emu10k1
snd-hwdep               8928  2 snd-emux-synth,snd-emu10k1
snd                    52484  18 snd-seq-midi,snd-emux-synth,snd-seq-virmidi,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event,snd-seq,snd-via82xx,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-emu10k1,snd-rawmidi,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-seq-device,snd-ac97-codec,snd-util-mem,snd-hwdep
soundcore               9248  2 snd
af_packet              20520  2
hid                    53312  0
raw                     7616  1
ide-floppy             18752  0
ide-tape               34864  0
ide-cd                 40548  1
cdrom                  37184  1 ide-cd
floppy                 59444  0
tulip                  45248  0
nls_cp437               5568  1
vfat                   13760  1
fat                    45120  1 vfat
nls_utf8                1920  3
ntfs                   85932  2
supermount             37876  3
via-agp                 7360  1
agpgart                31016  2 via-agp
uhci-hcd               29104  0
usbcore                99132  4 hid,uhci-hcd
rtc                    11576  0
Man, I would SO like to get this problem fixed. I'm tried of waiting for a full three minutes for every page to load...
 
Old 08-14-2004, 12:01 AM   #9
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Quote:
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

Run Konquerer

Boy that was fun, (yeah I know, īget a lifeī )
 
Old 08-14-2004, 05:37 AM   #10
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Quote:
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??

lsmod, lists all loaded modules.
 
Old 08-15-2004, 11:31 AM   #11
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Sorry it took so long for me to reply. Yes, I'm quite sure I'm not using a dial-up modem.
 
Old 08-15-2004, 01:08 PM   #12
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ok...then what ethernet card are you using??
 
Old 08-15-2004, 02:32 PM   #13
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Vendor: ‎ADMtek
Bus: ‎PCI
Bus identification: ‎1317:985:1317:574
Location on the bus: ‎0:11:0
Description: ‎ADM983 Linksys EtherFast 10/100
Module: ‎tulip
Media class: ‎NETWORK_ETHERNET

Thanks,

Shoal
 
Old 08-15-2004, 02:58 PM   #14
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Ok now we are getting somewhere

hmm, well then we have established that you are on-line and using ethernet under mandrake and that it's a linksys card.

That card does infact use the tulip driver.

So let's start from the top then. Ping somebody.

$ping www.google.com -c 3

and post the output.

also post the output from:

$/sbin/ifconfig

But just the part about the card we are discussing, we shouldn't need the 'lo' section.
 
Old 08-15-2004, 03:40 PM   #15
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Here's the requested info:

Code:
PING www.google.akadns.net (216.239.57.147) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 216.239.57.147: icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=132 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.57.147: icmp_seq=2 ttl=237 time=84.1 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.57.147: icmp_seq=3 ttl=237 time=88.7 ms
 
--- www.google.akadns.net ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 10403ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 84.128/101.710/132.283/21.699 ms
Code:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:20:78:1F:5F:7B
          inet addr:192.168.8.22  Bcast:192.168.8.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::220:78ff:fe1f:5f7b/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:17911 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12509 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:20860517 (19.8 Mb)  TX bytes:1204217 (1.1 Mb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xbc00
Thanks,

Shoal
 
  


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