I have Mandrake 10.0 installed on my home computer and it works perfect. That's on Comcast cable internet directly connected to the modem.

I have a laptop I've installed Mandrake 10.0 and everything works great except the internet. I use the internet here at my shop and there's two other computers that share the internet. It works fine in Windows XP but in Mandrake, only a few webpages work (like this one). When I try to access other sites I get a timeout error and something about port 80. I also cannot connect to GAIM or anything else.

The laptop is connected to a DSL Gateway (which I guess is a modem/hub in one).

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Post the error message and someone will help you!

"An error occurred while loading http://www.google.com:


Timeout on server
Connection was to www.google.com at port 80"

That's the error message I recieve in the browser on 80% of the websites I try to go to. LinuxQuestions.org works fine though.

Also, I can't connect to gAIM or kOpete or anything. Just hangs while it's trying to connect.

Thanks!

Try adding this line to /etc/modprobe.conf:

alias net-pf-10 off

Hey,

Thanks for the help! I added the following like suggested in another thread with a similar problem (saw your post there as well).

alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off

Browsing the web works great but I still cannot connect to GAIM. I click Sign On and it just sits at the connecting screen and doesn't go anywhere.

Use a Gui like Guarddog to open the ports in your firewall which relate to the Gaim messenger protocols. If you wanna use Guarddog to configure your iptable firewall scripts, turn off Mandrake's default called Shorewall.

Does Mandrake install a firewall by default? I have Mandrake installed on my home computer, which is directly connected to a cable modem, and everything works fine. During the install I remember it saying something about no firewall being installed. *shrug*

Your linux kernel should have iptables built in by default and Mandrake should have installed its Shorewall app to help configure the scripted rules. If not you can still install Guarddog and use that instead, or Firestarter, etc.

Hm, well I can't seem to find Shorewall. I don't understand why it would work on my home computer, but not this computer when both were installed the same way, same versions (same discs), etc.

Any other possible ideas that might cause everything else to work, but no GAim (or any messanger program)?