Chuck Hast wrote:
>Folks,
>Put a wireless NIC card in this machine, it appears that the running of
>NDISWRAPPER slows things down to the such that it is quite visible, indeed
>if there is a lot of data flowing over the link such as ssh into a machine and
>then running TOPn then it really gets slow particularly if the remote machine
>starts dumping a lot of activity into the top session. Anything that pushes a
>lot of data through that NDISWRAPPER slows it down. If i run the machine
>usinig the regular NIC card it screams (the machine not the data download)
>
>I can see where the NDISWRAPPER would eat cpu time but did not think that
>it would show up as that bad. Ohh well live and learn.
>
>
I use NDISwrapper on my HP laptop which uses a broadcom wifi 802.11G
card and I transfered divx movies across the network with it while doing
other things and have not noticed ndiswrapper eating CPU cylces. Maybe
the distro or how the package was compiled.
>--
>Chuck Hast
>To paraphrase my flight instructor;
>"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
>out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
>and twisted metal."
>
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