[Ilugc] Rockwell modem driver
- From: siva@xxxxxxxxxxx (Sivasankar Chander)
- Date: Mon Aug 30 11:40:13 2004
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Before i switched over to linux(RH9) i was using windows 98SE. I find
that the that my internet connection is much slower than it was under
windows.
This is a general problem which i also faced.
I don't about RH 9, as I don't use it much. However, I've never had
a problem maxing out my DIAS connection on downloads on my RH7.3 system.
(And previously, I've used multi-Mbps broadband connections on RH73
notebooks with full bandwidth. Not to mention that I have no problems
maxxing out an 800 Mbps 4-port Tulip full-duplex fast Ethernet card
while doing LAN file transfers and the like).
56kbps is so slow that it looks like background noise to the networking
stack of the Linux kernel.
The obvious things to look for are your modem initialization strings
that allow it to connect at maximum speed of your modem.
I feel it is not a driver issue, but the way the data is transferred to the
browser under X.
This is nonsense, as anybody who uses Mozilla with kde/X can attest.
I felt that All GUI stuff including refreshing is slower in linux than in
windows.
Again, nonsense. GUI performance is one of the areas where XFree86 was always
way ahead of the Windows world, on well-supported hardware.
You must be using a graphics card without decent XAA support under X
(probably a no-name SiS card or similar from China). SiS and various other
Asian manufacturers don not release programming information for their
chips in a timely manner - so there aren't any good open-source drivers
for their cards. If you've got one of those, tough luck. You're probably
stuck using X on the raw framebuffer.
I'd suggest upgrading to halfway decent hardware (ATI, Matrox, NVidia,
Intel i810, i815 or similar, from good hardware companies with a track record
of open-source driver support) with XAA support in X, and see it fly. It's
much faster than IE/Windows on exactly the same hardware. Even a lowly
S3 Trio or an Alliance AT3D PCI card (both of which sold for
~$2 or Rs.90 retail at Fry's way back in 1998) had scorching performance even
on a lowly 486/Pentium classic running XFree86 3.3.6. OTOH, a crappy
SiS63xx might well be over 100 times slower, even on a P4 3.06 GHz. YMMV -
there's no substitute for using your brains and doing some research before
obtaining HW.
-Siva
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