Re: strange problem - computer works in one place, but not in another- SOLVED \o/ - THANK YOU!
Resending because original went to author only. Sorry everyone - and gn. On Monday 22 June 2009 11:39:44 gn643202 wrote: Lisi Reisz wrote: I then moved the computer to its owner's house,having done the installation at my house. And everything internet-related has gone mad!! Now: Konqueror connects immediately to any site I have tried. Iceweasel connects intermittently: i.e. sometimes connects,sometimes doesn't. Just a guess. I had a problem like that and it was DNS. Took me a while to get it right without having to reset the DNS after ever boot. Unfortunately I tried a lot of things and do not know which change fixed the problem. That was it. My router can handle static DNS, his can't. I had already edited etc/network/interfaces and changed it from DHCP to static, and entered the DNS IPs. But that appeared not to have helped. After your email came, I thought a bit and realised that I had not checked etc/resolv.conf. Bingo! I looked and it was wrong. A careful read of the relevant part of the man entry later, I edited resolv.conf using kwrite, saved and It Worked! Browsing is fast and accurate. In all software. It has even survived two reboots. So thank you very, very much for your help. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
strange problem - computer works in one place, but not in another
I installed Lenny on a computer without problems. I did a net install and checked the various applications that were likely to be heavily used. All were working. Desktop: KDE. Hardware: Pentium III Coppermine, 256MB RAM. I then moved the computer to its owner's house,having done the installation at my house. And everything internet-related has gone mad!! Now: Konqueror connects immediately to any site I have tried. Iceweasel connects intermittently: i.e. sometimes connects,sometimes doesn't. Icedove (which was fine at my house) won't connect at all. Ping works for some sites, not for others. aptitude can't connect at all. So I cannot update/upgrade or install new applications. (I could at home.) On the same connection, and using the same cables, my laptop connects well, except that ping is still erratic. I have: reset the router to factory defaults; tried another router. There is a good fast connection, and I updated Jaunty on my laptop without a problem. And the DVD RW drive is playing up in spite of being brand new so I cannot just try reinstalling. :-( Help! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: strange problem - computer works in one place, but not in another
Lisi Reisz wrote: I then moved the computer to its owner's house,having done the installation at my house. And everything internet-related has gone mad!! Now: Konqueror connects immediately to any site I have tried. Iceweasel connects intermittently: i.e. sometimes connects,sometimes doesn't. Just a guess. I had a problem like that and it was DNS. Took me a while to get it right without having to reset the DNS after ever boot. Unfortunately I tried a lot of things and do not know which change fixed the problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
