On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 14:16 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Aaron Konstam wrote:
After fighting with For 9 months I am exhausted. I had to get the sound card to be recognized, to get the machine to shutoff when I shut it down, etc it has finally almost defeated me. It has worked for 6 months or more but suddenly during a yum update last week the network slowed down to a crawl. I did not update anything for awhile but now to use the web browser to load the web page of the local lan's router takes maybe 5 minutes if it loads at all.
I can ping the router with out problem but yum actions just slow to a halt, going to an external web page is impossible.
What does "top" say?
Have you tried the yum-fastestmirror package?
(I'm not sure if this is available for FC-6.)
top says not much is going on. Which is why I am frustrated. -- ======================================================================= People humiliating a salami! ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net