Problem with Internet speed in laptop in Linux Mint

[Michael Butash]

What kind of card/chipset is it?  Always working with wireless networks,
interesting to know what's new and broken these days...  

-mb


On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 12:15 -0700, Renaton Patron wrote:
> Hi all, I have an update abut my problem.
> I finally disabled IPv6 by adding "ipv6.disable=1" manually at
> startup. 
> The fix worked well but the problem persisted, so I started searching
> about my wireless drivers and i found that there's a problem between
> my wireless card and the default drivers in jaunty, so they
> recommended installing a package called
> "linux-backports-modules-jaunty". I did that and worked very well. I
> can connect at 10Mb from the laptop.
> 
> Thanks for your answers and time.
> 
> Renato 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com>
> wrote: 
>         What kind of speed is the laptop ketting now, same as the
>         desktop ?
>         
>         
>         > -----Original Message-----
>         > From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>         > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On
>         
>         > Behalf Of Stephen
>         > Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 1:27 PM
>         > To: Main PLUG discussion list
>         
>         
>         > Subject: Re: Problem with Internet speed in laptop in Linux
>         Mint
>         >
>         > YAY working!
>         >
>         > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Bob
>         Elzer<bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>         > > Yep, that was it.
>         > >
>         > >> -----Original Message-----
>         > >> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>         > >> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On
>         > Behalf Of
>         > >> Eric Shubert
>         > >> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:39 AM
>         > >> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>         > >> Subject: Re: Problem with Internet speed in laptop in
>         Linux Mint
>         > >>
>         > >> Bob Elzer wrote:
>         > >> > No he is correct that the ipv6 is causing the problem,
>         I
>         > >> had the same
>         > >> > thing in Redhat at one time, with a wired connection.
>         > >> >
>         > >> > The answer is to disable the ipv6. I think during
>         install
>         > >> there is an
>         > >> > option to turn it off, which I always do now.
>         > >> >
>         > >> > I know it can be turned off in Redhat after install,
>         just don't
>         > >> > remember how.
>         > >>
>         > >> NETWORKING_IPV6=no
>         > >> in /etc/sysconfig/network file.
>         > >>
>         > >> > I found the answer the first time with a google search.
>         > >> >
>         > >> >
>         > >> --
>         > >> -Eric 'shubes'
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