Hello
I've just reinstalled RH7.2 on my laptop, and decided to try KDE. It's all very pretty, and konqueror seems to have a LAN browsing capability, which is nice. Problem is that when I click on the network line/icon in the sidebar, I get a message "unable to connect to host localhost". When I directly enter the share I want, it appears, but sometimes hangs. I tried editing the desktop lan shortcut, but whatever I put in, it went to localhost/whatever and couldn't find anything.
I'm assuming there's something really simple that I've missed, but this feature doesn't seem to be mentioned in the help files, and google doesn't turn anything up.
Anyone use this feature/ know what I should be doing?
Jim

if you cannot connect to localhost, this usually mens, thet the device lo is not installed.

try looking at yopur network config with the command:

ifconfig

this lists all interfaces you have installed in the computer. if you see somewhere lo as an active interface, then there is another problem...

cya

raven

I'm sure it was there. Have abandoned KDE for being too slow, sadly so was gnome, so I think it was RH7.2. Needs some tweaking of my system I think.
Jim

My Konqueror seems to have a LAN browsing capability, which has problem that is when I click on the network line in the sidebar, I get a message "unable to connect to host localhost".
Several people that have installed Linux 7.2 have the same problem/Feature.
My loopback seems to be ok but here is my ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:244:E2:C9
inet addr:192.168.0.5 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1740 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:572 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:272299 (265.9 Kb) TX bytes:87338 (85.2 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:171 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:171 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:11064 (10.8 Kb) TX bytes:11064 (10.8 Kb)
Thanks

I have never got Konqueror web browser to work. I am not sure why. However, for browsing a widows network I use komba. It works very well. ;-)