Matthew K Poer wrote:
no. when i do iwconfig i get the connection 'default'. this connection disappears when i shut off my motorola cable-modem.-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 steef wrote:hi folks, i have a fast broadband connection, my provider is at home dot nl. the connection worked like a charm till about two weeks ago, when the mailserver slowed down significantly, but the browser kept working as fast as ever. my provider could not tell me the cause of all this so i decided to do something myself. I installed (under etch) an asus wireless card with the rt2500 module, which works fine since yesterday-evening:.... sends my emails as fast as my onboard chip in the old days. the clou: so when i send emails from my two maillists with the onboard nvidia-chip the process is slow as a snail. when i use the wireless chip of the asus-card it goes as fast as ever. i have *not* a wireless modem and yet the rt2500 chip of the wireless asus-card does its work very well. somebody out there who understands this?? some explanantion will be highly appreciated, regards, steefPerhaps you are on a neighbor's wireless network, who uses a different ISP? Try a "sudo iwconfig" to show your wireless settings. - -- Please do not use HTML mail for fully-textual messages. Matthew K Poer <matthewpoer@gmail.com> Location: GA, USA Web: http://matthewpoer.freehostia.com GnuPG Public Key: 4DD0A9A6 Keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net Thinkpad 600: Debian Sarge Sony VAIO PCV-RS 520: Debian Etch -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with MultiZilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGHWMukRdiiE3QqaYRAhdSAJ9jEULb2/Ql/4tD5wV7A464P7ANXACfbxst gJpDHt/AFbgukoGpwf37LnU= =LndG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
this is the output of #ifconfig -a, with the modem 'on'. i shut off in /etc/network/interfaces eth1, my onboard nvidia ethernet_chip.
reg., steefeth0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-11-D8-00-00-B0-E9-2F-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:31:AA:03:D8
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:209 Base address:0x2000
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:D8:B9:27:9A
inet addr:192.168.123.160 Bcast:192.168.123.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:d8ff:feb9:279a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:715 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:738 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:11 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:745714 (728.2 KiB) TX bytes:63588 (62.0 KiB)
Interrupt:66 Base address:0xc000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:59 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:59 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4072 (3.9 KiB) TX bytes:4072 (3.9 KiB)
sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
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