Re: Acer Aspire 1524WLMi and RealTek 8169 - very slow

[Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Dawe <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
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> IRQ routing seems to be disabled in 2.6.10. I got a warning about an 
> unhandled interrupt for the VIA 8255 (I think that's the right number) 
> on shutdown. I'm wondering if there is some bad interaction between the 
> VIA chipset and the 8110 chipset.

Possible. I hope the networking does not perform better when you are
listening to music.

> Another datapoint: On a Netgear switch at work, I had to put the chipset 
> into 100Mbps half-duplex and set the MTU to 576 bytes, to get any decent 
> performance out of at it.
> 
> Anyway, I need to do more investigation.

Could you send an updated dmesg, lspci -vvx, /proc/interrupts please ?

Did you remove the other OS from the laptop ? I'd be curious to know
if it can teach us something.

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Ueimor