Hi,
I have been using PCLOS for a few years now, 2007 and 2009.
My PC connects via eth0 to an ADSL modem/router either with
static IP or DHCP and Internet works fine.
I formatted a partition and installed PCLOS 2010.7 KDE to it.
I booted the new system, expecting to (almost) never see the old
one again. But I was surprised to discover that I cannot access
anything on the Internet.
In the taskbar I see the network icon which correctly shows my IP
and the default gateway (my router) and DNS address. When I open
Firefox and fill in a location I get "waiting for pclinuxos.com" (or whatever site) forever!
I couldn't even get a response from the router itself,
on my own local IP segment!
Any ideas what is wrong? As soon as I rebooted my PCLOS2009
I was online again as usual, so the hardware and network defs
sure seem OK.
On the basis of a suggestion I checked my FireFox settings,
and found that I had
network.dns.disableIPv6 setting as 'false' in Firefox,
and I changed it to 'true'. I also changed the proxy setting from
'system proxy settings' to 'no proxy'. These changes did not help,
I still cannot connect.
But here are an assortment of facts, which make no sense to
me, but might help someone figure this out. (I hope!!!)
in no particular order:
1) from a shell I can ping any site, by IP *or* by dns name.
2) my browser gets NO response from my router at 10.0.30.100
but if i type the url
ftp://10.0.30.100 I *DO* get a prompt for
my password from the router. (After I give the password
it tells me that ftp is not available, which is true).
3) I have found *ONE* web site that worked in my browser:
support.mozilla.com !!!
4) Another app that also failed to connect to the Internet:
Synaptic does not download repository listings. So I have not
tried any other browser, since I cannot install anything.
5) I checked my firewall settings (in the control center)
and it says that I have NO firewall limitations.
So, there is definitely a tcpip connection available to the
outside world,it just doesnt want to work for me. :-(
Any help much appreciated!
Shimon
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