On 26/10/2009 20:54, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > 2009/10/26 John Levin<[email protected]>: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying out karmic, and the networking seems to be broken on both my >> Lenovo N500 laptop and VMWare Fusion virtual machine atop of OS X Snow >> Leopard. >> >> It claims to be connected, and I can log into my router, but cannot get >> anything through firefox, thunderbird, synaptic etc. The hardware test >> claims to be able to touch the net. >> >> Can anyone help with diagnosing these problems? >> >> TIA >> >> John >> > > Reboot, press ESC to bring up the GRUB menu, press "e" to edit the > kernel line, add "ipv6.disable=1" (no quotes) to the end of the line > that ends "quiet splash". Press Ctrl-X to boot. > > Congrats, you've just disabled IPV6 globally - is that any better? >
Many thanks for that. I can now get on the web with firefox, but synaptic is still not finding any repositories. Do I have to disable ipv6 somewhere else as well? TIA John -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
