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Saturday, January 14th 2006, 10:11pm

Internet Help for newbie

Hello, i am a new user to linux and I have installed my wireless adapter with ndiswrapper and i have successfully been able to ping local and remote IP addresses. and open pages with Konqueror. But i cannot get Firefox (my fav browser) to open pages, or any other program to connect to the internet.

I dont think its a DNS problem because Firefox doesnt hang on 'Looking up google.com'. instead it says the server is taking too long to respond

But if i resolve the ip of a host then paste it into firefox the page pops up instantly. or try the local ip of my router, or my internet IP(which links back to my router) router login page appears.

any help would be appreciated.

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Sunday, January 15th 2006, 12:26pm

Your problem could eventually be related to the IPv6 settings, that are by now activated by default in Firefox. Try out the following:

Open Firefox, enter as address about:config
In the filter-textbox, type IPv6
The line network.dns.disableIPv6 is probably set to false. Doubleclick the line in order to change the value to true.

Restart Firefox to activate the new setting. If your ISP does not support IPv6, this will solve your problem.

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Sunday, January 15th 2006, 6:55pm

works fine thanks, but isnt there a way to disable IPv6 by default in linux, so all programs will be IPv4. like gaim and those which do not have on option for IPv6

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Monday, January 16th 2006, 10:57am

In the file /etc/modprobe.conf for most of the distros, or for debian based in the file /etc/modprobe.d/aliases you will find a line

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alias net-pf-10 ipv6

change it to

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alias net-pf-10 off

This will take effect after the next reboot, IPv6-support is compiled into the kernel, therefore you need to reload the kernel ;)

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Before rebooting, also do a

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depmod -a

in order to actualize the modules dependencies
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Tuesday, January 17th 2006, 6:33pm

thanks, done that and all applications work, except gaim which still wont connect. any one know why?

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Wednesday, January 18th 2006, 8:22am

Just a wild guess... perhaps you have to recreate your account in gaim in order to make them work without IPv6? It cold be worth a try...

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Wednesday, January 18th 2006, 4:34pm

nope ive tryed that, it gets as far as "Starting Authentication" then it hangs for a few minutes before displaying connection error.

i downloaded and tryed kopete, but that didnt connect either. if it helps im using a Knoppix HD Install with KDE 3.4.1 and my wireless internet connection is a windows driver wrapped with ndiswrapper, which i suspect may be why i cant authencate with the msn server.

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Wednesday, January 18th 2006, 4:56pm

Actually this might not represent any problem. My daughter uses a Sagem WIFI-dongle with a ndiswrapper-driver that works (most of the time ;) ) quite ok.
So I don't think that ndiswrapper is the cause. Furthermore I think that the forums would be full of messages about such a problem, don't you think?

I actually don't have any clue on how to make gaim work - personally I use amsn and it works ok as well. But on the other hand, my ISP supports IPv6...

Maybe there's a (more or less) hidden setting in these apps, kinda like the one in firefox. Perhaps you shall start a new thread asking for gaim support?

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Wednesday, January 18th 2006, 7:21pm

could do, but im going to try a different a different distro (kubuntu). i googled around and found most people with this problem in gaim are on the Knoppix forum.
Anyway thanks for the help coco.

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Wednesday, January 18th 2006, 8:28pm

Good luck! And let us know the result!...

...even if a bit of debugging and a bug-report or such would probably have been nice for the Knoppix project.

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Thursday, January 19th 2006, 9:50pm

More Problems

even more problems, now after installing KUbuntu and putting ndisrapper on and installing the usb dongle with it. then i restart so i can activate wlan0 and... the system stalls at loading modules or something. ive reformated 4 times or so now, i was fine with knoppix, except it didnt connect to msn or have kdelibs installed propery.

Btw coco, or any one if you could reccommend a distro (with kde of course) that is easy to set up wifi on, like knoppix which had auto configuration of the network card, it would be greatly appreciated.

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Saturday, January 21st 2006, 10:53pm

FIXED :P just had to change the nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf to my real name server, although my router was supposed to forward it. thanks for you IPv6 help though coco

Btw back on knoppix, couldnt even get ndiswrapper to work on Kubuntu