On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Ray Rashif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No distro "tinkers" with an application's "settings" unless there's a level > of functional benefit to gain. Almost always the amount of "customisation" > or hack involved is as far as compiling (hence packaging) only. That's not true. d: Stable version of Debian involves a lot of code modification, mostly backporting of bugs and proper binary and config files placing, but it does have some other modification. Ubuntu definitely changes the original packages a lot to integrate them together as a desktop distro. For once, if I did not recall wrongly, their version of Firefox includes Ubuntu extensions, which somehow screws up my Firefox (it crashes often after adding some extensions repackaged by Ubuntu).
> > The very first method of troubleshooting cases like this is downloading and > installing the official binary build offered by Mozilla, that's right. > Before anything though, we should clear all cache. I have some questions of > my own too: > > 1) Why not use another browser to test the scenario? Candidates would be > Konqueror and Opera, though the state of flash isn't good. Heheh, was about to suggest that too. But that suggestion does not solve the root of the problem. Trying with a fresh binary from Mozilla will clearly demonstrate that it is the app level configuration (I'm betting that it is the app configuration that is wrong). > 2) Have you tried using open DNSs? > 3) How about connecting to the network manually? An example: > > sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 && \ > sudo route add -net default gw 192.168.0.1 I don't think that is a problem though. He seems to be able to ping and telnet to the router, indicating that the network is not the problem. Additionally he can resolve google.com correctly and ping it. Maybe he can provide results of `netstat -rn` and `ifconfig` just to double confirm. > > Ray Chris _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
