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From: "José Pedro Saraiva" <nocive@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] iwl4965 performance
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:02:07
Message-Id: 12a679470803261202s27951542wf4f6cc9b8ecf4533@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] iwl4965 performance by Thomas Kahle
1 Hi,
2
3 Have you tried using the driver from the 2.6.24* series kernel? I've been
4 using iwl3945 from tuxonice-sources 2.6.24-r3 without any performance or
5 stability problems whatsoever.
6 Good luck.
7
8 Regards,
9 José Pedro
10
11 On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Thomas Kahle <tom111@×××.de> wrote:
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16 > Hi,
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18 > I am using the iwl4965 driver which is included in the kernel
19 > 2.6.25-rc6. Everything works fine (Networkmanager, WPA2, etc.) The only
20 > thing I experience is a very bad performance.
21 > I cannot get more than around 30 kb/s. Also the responses are rather
22 > slow. If I open some new tabs in firefox it takes up to 5 seconds before
23 > there is enough data to render something.
24 > When using wired network its much faster.
25 > The router is also not the source of the problem, with my old airo card
26 > i could get up to 200 kb/s, the macbook running gentoo gets to around
27 > 500kb/s.
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29 > Any ideas where to start investigation ?
30 >
31 > Thanks
32 > Thomas
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