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Post subject: [solved] The discovery of slowness: iwl4965
 Posted: Jul 19, 2008 - 11:00 AM
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Hello,
I am not new to sidux but new to this forum. I had to reinstall my root partition after the problems of last week with LSB. So I used the same CD (sidux Νυξ) from which I had initially installed sidux to reinstall it on the same laptop again. All went well except one point: the wireless Internet connection. While it is up and running and all seems fine with it, it is slower than a slow dialup connection and renders my Sony laptop useless. The same connection works perfectly fine for other laptops at the same time.
Some data here:
Result of lspci:
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)
Kernel driver in use: iwl4965
Kernel modules: iwl4965
I use wpa_supplicant and have taken over the old configuration. The only change I had to make was to change eth2 to wlan0. The old installation ran the wireless connection as eth2 and now wlan0 is needed.
Based on a post in these forums I did create an alias file in modprobe.d with these options:
disable_hw_scan=1 hwcrypto=1
But it has made no difference to the connection speed. I run the 2.6.25-11.slh.2-sidux-686 kernel, but have also tried the newest Debian kernel. No difference.
If you have any idea what could be wrong, I would appreciate you dropping a note here.
Thanks in advance for your help and time. |
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Post subject: RE: [solved] The discovery of slowness: iwl4965
Posted: Jul 19, 2008 - 12:04 PM
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Update: It seems the problem is solved. Though I had disabled the ethernet card, it was still enabled through some magic. It could be that there is something wrong with KDE Network Settings manager. This happened once before too. Wireless works just fine, as long as the ethernet card remains disabled.
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2nd update: I can confirm that there is a bug in KDE's Control Centre --> Network Settings.
I can disable eth0 here and then my iwl4965 powered wireless connection works fine, but eth0 is enabled during the next boot, which considerably slows down internet. The option to activate eth0 while booting is not ticked and I tried setting the options as root and via user and then administration mode.
It all works fine once you disable eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces |
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Post subject: RE: [solved] The discovery of slowness: iwl4965
Posted: Jul 19, 2008 - 01:37 PM
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Location: Budapest
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