Linux dsl question

[Zelmo3]

I put SuSE Linux 9.0 back on my desktop today, multi-booting with WinXP and Win98SE. I get dsl internet through Earthlink, with the PPPoE built into the dsl modem so that all I need to do is plug it into my ethernet port and set the ehternet adapter to use DHCP. It's been working well in Windows (both versions), but after installing the nForce2 drivers in Linux (for my Abit NF7-S) the internet has been very slow with Linux. I used ifconfig to change the MTU to 1492 (got this figure from references on the net and testing different MTUs), can ping servers with consistently good results, but web browsing is so slow that for a while I thought it just wasn't working, until I let it run for a couple of minutes to load each page.
Any ideas on how to get it up to speed? Any more info needed?

 

[cmetz]

Zelmo3, do you have another computer that you could do transfer tests with? Perhaps your Ethernet device driver is not so good. The NForce ones, if memory serves, are binary-only and not well regarded. If that turns out to be your problem, or if you don't have another PC and want something to try, get one of those $5-$10 RTL8139C cheap Ethernet boards that are always around (generally, these days, all the cheapo deal boards are that chip, the brand varies but it's the same chip) and see if that makes things work better.

 

[n0cmonkey]

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