I'm charging the battery up now. It's taking an insanely long time, it's been plugged in and turned off for about 24 hours now and the system reports it's 4% charged.
-- - David Fleck On Monday, September 23rd, 2024 at 7:58 AM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@access.net> wrote: > On 09/23/2024 07:51 AM, David Fleck wrote: > > > So far, my laptop quest has lead me to an HP EliteBook 8560p cast off by my > > employer. So, yay, free! > > > > Installed OpenSuse Leap 15.6, everything seems to just work, except: > > battery is dead (easily fixed) and the wifi is molasses-in-January slow, as > > in 2 orders of magnitude slower than other laptops in the house. > > > Try again after battery has come up to full charge. > IIRC I once had an over-protective BIOS which slowed selected items when > battery was charging. > YMMV > > > Before I pick up a USB wifi adapter, can anyone give me some ideas w.r.t. > > troubleshooting why the onboard adapter is so slow? It's been many years > > since I had to mess around with tweaking network interfaces, so I've > > forgotten most of what is involved. > > > > Thanks- > > > > -- > > - David Fleck
