Cant browse internet even though I can ping site

pazzport · 01-23-2005, 02:13 PM

I am running fedora core 3 with ndiswrapper .12 on a dell lattitude d600. From a shell, I can verify that I have an IP address with valid DNS information. I can ping the sites with good response time and they come up instantlly in links, but when I try to access the site in firefox or any other gui application the site comes up extremely slowly if at all. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

SciYro · 01-23-2005, 02:33 PM

sounds like a software problem ... are you using KDE by any chance?

anyways, how much RAM do you have?

msg4real · 01-23-2005, 02:46 PM

YOU PROBLY NEED TO ADD RAM OR MAKE A BIGGER PARTION

pazzport · 01-23-2005, 06:03 PM

I am running KDE - I have a 40 gig partion with almost nothing on it and 256 meg of RAM. What can you tell me about KDE probs?

SciYro · 01-23-2005, 06:25 PM

All i hear is it is a memory hog, also from personal experience (on linspire), its slow (altho, it might just be this crappy dell computer)

how fast does konquer load up pages?

richpri · 01-23-2005, 06:47 PM

try adding the following line to /etc/modules.conf

Code:

alias net-pf-10 off

This will turn off IPv6.

pazzport · 01-23-2005, 08:40 PM

Like many I am somewhat new to linux. Fedora Core 3 doesn't have modules.conf - how bout modprobe.conf ?

pazzport · 01-23-2005, 08:46 PM

what would have been smart is for me to try that then comment. My problem is solved - thanks alot richpri

msg4real · 01-27-2005, 11:51 AM

i found out that mozilla brower is much faster ++ BETTER i use mandrake 10.0/10.1 HOPED THAT HELPED YOU IF YOU HAVE IT PRE INSTALLED IT WOULD BE IN THE INTERNET GROUP
http://www.mozilla.org/ is there site Also firefox 1.0 is faster thu what does i686 mean

would it run on a 2400+ prosser /work??