Dinesh Joshi wrote: > On 5/5/08, Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Here the net is the simple triband modem. However during install, since >> I had all the DVDs I chose to not use any mirror and the entire >> installation was off-net. Does that lock up the OS from the net in any >> way. It should not, at least in theory. >> > > No it shouldn't. I'm not a big fan of Debian though but try this: > > wget http://www.google.com > > It should save a file index.html. When you open it up, you should see > google's home page but if this doesn't work then theres some > connectivity issue. Try disconnecting the USB wire all together from > the modem. > > > Hi Dinesh and everyone. I visited the place again and the problem is with the Debian distro as it was re-loaded again the last time ( With no mirrors selected ). What happens is that the system has a problem with http connections. Dig, ping as well as ftp works flawlessly in the gui terminal. The client FTP'd into his US university site and even downloaded a file. However even with lynx, I cannot open any site. In Firefox, google does open but after a painfully long time. Then I clicked on the news link and that too opened too late. Beyond that it did not open anything.
Next, the latest Kubuntu 8.04 + KDE4 live CD was tried and net was running like 'makkhan'. So Etch was knocked out and in went Kubuntu 8.04. This is a serious bug with Etch and I will look it up in the bug reports. If it does not exist, I will report it. Thanks everybody for your inputs. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
