On 12/6/05, Robert Snyder <res03q8w@gte.net> wrote:
> 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.
This is a Broadcom chip set too. I am running SuSE 10. Going to get the
wire run over to this part of the house anyhow so I have a wire to work with
too.
-- 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."----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
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