[gentoo-user] Slow PCMCIA-USB

[Christoph Eckert]

Hi all,


I just purchased a PCMCIA-USB-card to make my notebook USB 2.0 ready. I 
connected an external USB drive and an mp3-stick using Knoppix and was 
very happy because everything worked right out of the box. Making a 
backup of my Gentoo installation to the USB drive was a real joy :) .

When running the card under Gentoo, everything is plug and play as well, 
but there are two disadvantages:

* I have to put in the card after booting. Otherwise I cannot establish 
a DSL connection (minor issue)

* Worse: The device works well, but file transfer rates (mass storage) 
are very slow (~32KB/sec)

So it seems not to be a hardware problem but a problem of my particular 
installation. I run a custom 2.6.14.2 kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8200. 
If anyone could point me to some keywords to ask search engines for or 
can provide some personal experiences, I'd really be glad. I'm also 
happy with RTFM :) .

Thanks a lot & best regards,


ce

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