I have a Dell XPS M1330 laptop with 2 gig ram and surfing the web on a high speed adsl with my wifi connection. But it feels like I’m on an old pc with dial modem! I guess there is some driver problem but I donno how to check this? Was running Ubuntu before and then everything worked without problems, but I simply love openSUSE so don’t want to change back 
Is there a tool to check driver compatibility or to see what drivers/hardware that need drivers?
hjoakim wrote:
> I have a Dell XPS M1330 laptop with 2 gig ram and surfing the web on a
> high speed adsl with my wifi connection. But it feels like I’m on an old
> pc with dial modem! I guess there is some driver problem but I donno how
> to check this? Was running Ubuntu before and then everything worked
> without problems, but I simply love openSUSE so don’t want to change
> back
>
> Is there a tool to check driver compatibility or to see what
> drivers/hardware that need drivers?
If your driver loads and wireless works, it should be compatible. There are, of
course, upstream changes that improve the performance of many drivers; however,
most of them in 2.6.25 should be able to keep up with an ADSL line. The command
‘/sbin/iwconfig’ will show what speed setting your wireless has. Even at 1 Mb/s
(the slowest), it should be 10X any dial-up.
Have you disabled IPV6? If it is enabled and you do not have an IPV6 name
server, there is a time out for EVERY name server lookup. You do that disable
in YaST => Network Devices => Network Settings under the “Global Options” tab.
A second source of slow operations is the beagle indexing. This should be disabled.
Larry