Hello everybody,

I really hope someone can help me here; otherwise I have to ditch Linux!

I'm going to put this query into three parts for ease of reading:

1) I have an Acer laptop with Ubuntu 6.06 installed; Tiscali is my ISP and I want to connect to the net using my Dynamode-R-ADSL-C4W-EG wireless router (via Ethernet) . I have followed the instructions that came with it, opened Firefox and using http://192.168.1.1 got into the modems config settings; again following the instructions I entered my ISP username and password, and I can now connect to the net, albeit slower than dial-up!

2) I posted on the LinuxFormat forum, and somebody told me that I had to enter details re: Tiscali's DNS servers, and they kindly posted the link to the Tiscali website that contained the info I needed. I am a complete novice when it comes to Linux, broadband and routers and could not work out how to enter the DNS settings (again, opening Firefox and going to http://192.168.1.1). I was so stumped that I decided to email Dynamode and ask their advice.

3) Dynamode have told me that I don't have to enter DNS settings, just connect the modem to the ethernet port, enter my ISP username and password and I will be able to connect at broadband speeds.

What is going on? I really want to get broadband set up on Linux so that I can ditch Windows from my laptop, but I am really clueless about this and am really stuck.

Thanks very much in adance for any help.

PS Somebody suggested this may be an IVP6 issue and can be resolved by disabling it in Firefox?


Cheers,

ok. firstly you need to step back and look at this as a number of seperate issues.

1) you have an ADSL/Ethernet router. As such this is going to be 100% OS agnostic. the router sees your pc as an ethernet host, and nothing more. it has no interest in the fact that you are running linux. this is a great situation to be in... if you can't get your router online, it's not linux's fault.

2) the linux box is a local ethernet client, typically configured by DHCP on the router. tiscali give your router DNS details, and they are passed on to your clients via DHCP from the router. you should not need to add any details on if you are correctly configured by DHCP.

so... what actually IS the problem? if it's the experience you have on firefox then appreciate that that is the very end of a chain of very seperate events. have you tried using, for example, curl or wget to grab a web page, e.g. kernel.org you can see here the first stage of the DNS resolution. if it gets the IP address instantly then DNS is not a concern. if it then takes a while to download the file and wget's bandwidth summaries show a slow download speed then either 1) your ADSL connection is poorly sick and Linux is unrelated or 2) you have a local ethernet issue between yourlsef and the router.

Before you do anything else, i would reset my router, and reset it up. Make sure you thoroughly reset the router as it may be carrying wrong data for your pc.