Konqueror and Netgear router

seelk · 06-04-2006, 09:52 PM

I have the WGR614v6 Netgear router. Everything is fine accessing the internet from Windows or Firefox. However, with Konqueror I can not access the internet. It seems as though it locks up the router. Has anyone experience this? Please advice.

tsphan · 06-04-2006, 11:36 PM

I'm using the same router. It works perfectly fine for me on Windows as well. Yet, when on Linux, for Firefox and Konqueror, it seems to lag up when I use up the DNS too much. I would go to some very "connectful" site, like Myspace. It would freeze up when I make it show images. Then when I try to connect to another site, it doesn't work because it cannot connect to the server with that name. Yet, when I type in the IP of the server I'm attempting to connect, it works just fine.

From those times, I've concluded that it must be a DNS problem that the WGR614v6 has with Linux or something. On Windows 98 for my sister's computer, I realized that if I didn't configure the DNS settings myself, it would make it work when loading up large webpages. I tried to apply the same thing on Linux. I discovered that Slackware doesn't have such a good Network configuration tool and that I can't view images while on Linux trying to view myspace.

If you are manually setting the DNS server instead of the auto configure for your DHCP connection, try to set it to auto configure and see if that works. I dunno how Arch linux configures the DNS, but give it a shot if it's manually configured. If it's already auto, then I have no idea :-(

seelk · 06-04-2006, 11:41 PM

Yes it is on auto-configure and it happens on any distro I try not just Arch. The router does not like Konqueror for some reason.

seelk · 06-05-2006, 01:26 PM

Does anyone else have a problem with Konqueror and the WGR614v6 Netgear router??

tsphan · 06-05-2006, 10:57 PM

from what i looked up with google, there's a problem with it when having WEP and DHCP running?? I don't plan on attempting that myself, but if you wanna try it...

tsphan · 06-30-2006, 05:14 PM

there is a firmware update for the router now. It's installed on my router. Currently, it can at least give me a static IP address for the network, but I'm still having DNS problems using it as well.