can you browse sites by IP address with opera?

eg go to a xterm and type 

host www.ihug.co.nz

then put http://111.222.233.244/ into opera (where 111.222.233.244 is
the ip address returned by the host command.)


On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:58:51 +1300
Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Problem now solved. I found lilo in very recent history so must have
> gone back looking for something else & hit enter by mistake. Thanks for
> the reply.
> 
> I now have the modem working under M10 and the 2.6.3-7mdk kernel. As
> user I can surf using Konqueror , but not using Opera the msg being
> 'unable to locate.....'. As root, opera works fine, also as user for
> local files. I can not find a setting in Opera which could affect this,
> any help on this would be appreciated.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Barry
> --------------------
> 
> Barry wrote:
> > Have just finished reloading lilo, but what caused it to be altered in 
> > the 1st place????
> > 
> > My setup...
> > hda7    Mandrake8.2         kernel 2.4.18-6mdk
> > hda8    /home (for hda7 only)
> > hda9    swap
> > hda11    Mandrake10 (inc /home)     kernel 2.6.3-7mdk
> > 
> > I normally use hda7, its proved very reliable for me and the modem 
> > works. Lilo was set up and has been modified from this ptn to allow me 
> > to experiment on hda11. To allow this to work the 2.6 kernel, 
> > System-map, initrd files were copied to /boot in hda7. All worked fine - 
> > until this morning.
> > 
> > Last night I booted hda10 and was looking at various log files and 
> > changing screen resolutions with ctl-alt+/-. Shutdown was normal.
> > This morning on bootup I got a lilo screen based on the /etc/lilo.conf 
> > file for the Mandrake 10 setup. This would not boot my original setup 
> > until I copied the 2.4 kernel and files across and then reconfigured and 
> > ran lilo.
> > 
> > As I have not had this problem previously and did not run lilo while 
> > running M10 on hda11 I am wondering how lilo got to be altered.
> > 
> > Any ideas please anyone
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
> > Barry
> > 
> > btw the LTmodem drivers for the 2.4 kernel do nor work with the 2.6 kernel
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 

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