[ltp] T21 Slow Network

[Richard Neill]

Richard Bellin wrote:
> Greetings All,
> 
>   I have a T21 Thinkpad that I am having network
> problems with under Linux. 
> 
>  The problem is that data transfers between this
> laptop and any other computer on the local network are VERY
> slow. It would appear that transfer rates are
> throttled at 2mb per second. 


Just a thought: are you sure it's a network problem and not a disk 
problem? I suspect a DMA problem. It might also be the wrong network driver:

Could you post the output of the following commands:

   /sbin/hdparm /dev/sda

   /sbin/lsmod


Richard