Hi donald, thank you for your comments. Unfortunately this does not help me:
- i use the latest kernel $ uname -r 2.6.15-26-386 - in fact i did use sudo (my wrong citation) $ sudo ethtool -K eth0 tso off Cannot set device tcp segmentation offload settings: Operation not supported my network module is $ sudo ethtool -i eth0 driver: ipw2200 version: 1.1.1 firmware-version: ABG:9.0.2.6 (Mar 22 2005) bus-info: 0000:06:05.0 -- VMWare networking extremely slow https://launchpad.net/bugs/51363 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs