[Frugalware-forums] Re: iwl3945

[Miklos Vajna]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 12:54:06AM +0200, Cassandra <solidago_caesia at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> On the other hand, I spoke too soon about my internet problem with
> http://frugalware.org.  Frugalware on my laptop but not my desktop is
> able to view http://frugalware.org.  My problem seems to be some weird
> product of computer and distro.  Several Linux distros don't work with
> http://frugalware.org or when I try to add-on for Mozilla Firefox.
> Zenwalk Linux does work as do the horrid M$ OS.  Also, OpenBSD fails
> to load frugalware.org on my desktop.  My experience with this is
> quite consistent, yet I get no answers on the problem.  I've posted to
> kerneltrap.org about it--where I think the question belongs.
> (Frugalware developers should probably spend their time on frugalware
> issues.)  I believe the problem is in the Linux kernel itself--either
> something to do with a Gigabyte motherboard or an AMD processor.  I
> just like to document the problem from time to time in the hopes that
> someone knowledgeable will look into it.

Isn't this related to:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=108851542715133&w=2

?

In short, a possible workaround:

sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_default_win_scale=0

related LWN article:

http://lwn.net/Articles/91976/
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