On Saturday 21 April 2012 16:21:31 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Do a: > > dmesg | grep -i firmware > > and check for firmware loading errors.
I have what seems to be the same network hardware, so I did what you said and duly found an error. I hadn't had any obvious network performance problems but I emerged linux-firmware anyway. After the next reboot (without any firmware loading errors) kmail couldn't send any e-mails, complaining each time that it was unable to create an SMTP packet (I think that's what it said). So I removed linux-firmware, rebooted and got kmail back. Go figure. :-) -- Rgds Peter
