Anyone with hair to spare - mine's all been pulled out

[Langstracht]

I hope someone can help me deal with this.

I have consecutively installed Mint, Fedora and ubuntu on a Toshiba Satellite C650.

The wireless connection created by Fedora is VERY fast ... and those of Mint and ubuntu are like molasses in February (connected - as in data is received - but measured in BYTES/sec).

I hope this "makes sense" to someone, for it sure doesn't to me.

I do NOT want to use Fedora ... but how can I overcome this "issue" and use one of the other distributions?


Thanks in advance for your help.

[Pjotr123]

Try disabling power management for the wireless card:
https://sites.google.com/site/easyli...-wireless-card

[Langstracht]

Well maybe I REALLY don't know what I'm doing but "iwconfig" does not produce any output that I can see (this is in ubuntu 12.04).

So I continue to be stuck ...

[daslinkard]

Well maybe I REALLY don't know what I'm doing but "iwconfig" does not produce any output that I can see (this is in ubuntu 12.04).

So I continue to be stuck ...

I want to make sure that I understand this correctly....when in the terminal and you run

iwconfig

....you are not getting any information in the CLI?

[Langstracht]

Well I was saying that, yes. But in error.

Doing it again - properly this time I guess - revealed:

Power Management: Off.

In addition, in the hope that it'll help solve this problem/mystery, it reported:

Mode: Managed
Frequency: 2.412
Bit rate = 65 Mb/s
Tx-Power = 15 dBm
Link quality = 69/70
Signal Level = -41 dBm and some more stuff of 0 errors.

Look forward VERY MUCH to a diagnosis and remedy.

TIA

[Pjotr123]

What wireless chipset is it? Please provide a hardware list in this fashion:
https://sites.google.com/site/easyli...re-information

[Langstracht]

Evidently it is:

AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
Vendor Atheros

I'm afraid I didn't understand your reference to how to detail it. Hopefully the above will suffice.

Thanks for taking this on.

[Pjotr123]

Try this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...72&postcount=4

--Edit: I've clarified and explained it on my website:
https://sites.google.com/site/easyli...are-encryption
(item 2.2, right column)

[audiomick]

Evidently it is:

AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
Vendor Atheros

I'm afraid I didn't understand your reference to how to detail it. Hopefully the above will suffice.

Just for future reference: you can generate a shorter lshw output by restricting it to the class of hardware you are interested in. You use the option -C . The man page says capital C, but lower case works too.

Do

man lshw

to look at the man page.

In this instance, you would do

sudo lshw -c network

To post that sort of output here, use the # button at the top of the post window to generate code tags, and paste the output between them. If it is a lot of text, the code box will have a scroll bar at the side.

[Langstracht]

Re: Anyone with hair to spare - mine's all been pulled out

Try this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...72&postcount=4

Did so. And it works perfectly!!! Genius.

Thanks so much.

Also thanks to audiomick for the tips. I'll endeavour to keep them in mind.