[Maverick] Slow internet with Atheros AR2413

[Lollerke]

I installed yestedays daily live and todays avahi updates, but everything is slow. When I open up a web page in any browser it says: looking up ... waiting for... and pages are still not fully loaded after 3 mins. Installing programs with apt-get is 10mins because it takes 4min to start downloading, after that the downloading speed is good. I guess it's a DNS resolving problem.
The same net connection is working perfect with the Realtek 8193too network card, so it looks like this is an ath5k issue.

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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC861-VD Analog [ALC861-VD Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC861-VD Analog [ALC861-VD Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: balazs 1348 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xc0400000 irq 40'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC861-VD'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0862,1179820d,00100001 HDA:11c11040,11790001,00100200'
   Controls : 18
   Simple ctrls : 11
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100827)
Lsusb:
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: TOSHIBA Satellite L30
Package: linux (not installed)
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-19-generic root=UUID=e54fb53c-0555-43f0-ae35-f775a982be91 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=hu_HU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.26-generic 2.6.35.3
Regression: Yes
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.38
Reproducible: Yes
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
Tags: maverick kernel-net regression-release needs-upstream-testing
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 08/17/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.bios.version: V3.00
dmi.board.name: Satellite L30
dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvrV3.00:bd08/17/2007:svnTOSHIBA:pnSatelliteL30:pvrPSL33E-00E00XHU:rvnTOSHIBA:rnSatelliteL30:rvrNotApplicable:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Satellite L30
dmi.product.version: PSL33E-00E00XHU
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA

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[steets (rene-steetskamp)]

Same here with latest Maverick Netbook Edition with all updates from repositories on HP Pavilion dm1-1020ed. Problems started after upgrade to Maverick beta (under 10.04 I had no problems at all). Loading a test page showed a download speed of max 24 KiB/s.

I don't know what causes it and so I cannot attach this report to any package. Browsing the Internet I read about problems in kernel driver, network-manager and DNS.

In my case both Firefox and Evolution are slow. URL lookup in Firefox seems reasonably fast, but loading the page takes minutes instead of seconds (which votes against DNS?). However, some pages (e.g. Google) seem to load at normal speed. Loading video (e.g. TED.com) is so slow, it's not usable.

ifconfig:
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0c:ee:e6:93:75:a7
          inet addr:192.168.123.103 Bcast:192.168.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::eee:e6ff:fe93:75a7/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:2482 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:74
          TX packets:3201 errors:35 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1870869 (1.8 MB) TX bytes:428934 (428.9 KB)
          Interrupt:16

from kern.log:
eth1: Broadcom BCM4315 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller 5.60.48.36
eth1: no IPv6 routers present

Unity/Mutter is still buggy as hell, so I have difficulty to get to the tools I need (like even an X-terminal) for further details.

Anyway, let me know what info you need, and I'll try to provide it.

[steets (rene-steetskamp)]

Problem seems to be fixed. Network speed back to normal.

[rikigst (rikigst)]

Same here with Atheros AR5005G wireless network adapter. Some pages (like google) work well, but most websites don't load due to a timeout or load very slowly. Update manager is affected, too. Downloads take some time to start, but then, once started they work well (7 Mbps).

Running Maverick, latest updates (Sept., 10, 2010)

[doru (doru.stoica)]

Same problem to me, I have HP pavilion:

ifconfig

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:d2:4c:6c:ab
          inet addr:192.168.1.103 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::219:d2ff:fe4c:6cab/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:168184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:96709 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:237635127 (237.6 MB) TX bytes:10226928 (10.2 MB)

If I use an 3G USB modem everithing is woring fine. I lose pakages when I connect to the internet though wlan.

[Prunus dulcis (prunus-dulcis)]

I cannot follow on why this bug was marked invalid, as there were people having this problem and no further request for information has been made:

I seem to encounter the same problem in maverick with unbearably slow connection speed (mean ~ 1 kB with short bursts (around 1 second up to 30 kB) -> in lucid I had stable 600 to 800 kB of speed (as I still have them on my windows computer as well, it does not seem to be a network problem).

[Prunus dulcis (prunus-dulcis)]

I apologize, I tested some more and found out, that it is actually related to the browser putting its data not into RAM but on my SD-Card (which serves as harddrive replacement) and is very slow, it seems that for an unrelated reason (I yet have to find out) it slowed down. Putting the temp data into RAM speeds it up to its original speed, though originally that was not necessary.

[John Leach (johnleach)]

This looks to be a duplicate of bug #568090

Try the nohwcrypt mentioned in that ticket.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Lollerke, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available (not the daily folder) following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds ? It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please comment on which kernel version specifically you tested. If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tags:
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kernel-fixed-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

where VERSION-NUMBER is the version number of the kernel you tested. For example:
kernel-fixed-upstream-v3.13-rc5

This can be done by clicking on the yellow circle with a black pencil icon next to the word Tags located at the bottom of the bug description. As well, please remove the tag:
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If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the following tags:
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As well, please remove the tag:
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Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug's Status as Confirmed. Please let us know your results. Thank you for your understanding.

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