Internet Connection Issues

[Joel Oliver]

J. Michael Morse wrote:
>  Any idea why Konqueror and connect but not FF & TB?  I am using Linux
>  Mint (basically, ubuntu 8.04) and KDE 3.5.10 if that information
>  helps.
>
>  Mike
>
>   
The only thing I can think of is accidentally setting a proxy in firefox 
or in Gnome.  In Firefox navigate to:

Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Network>Settings and set it to the third 
option "Use system proxy settings"

and if you have Gnome installed, load it up and go to 
System>Preferences>Network Proxy and set to "Direct Connection to Internet"

I don't see smb.conf mods screwing the internet connection up, but maybe 
jacking up the /etc/resolv.conf file would break name resolution and 
maybe KDE has it's own nameserver listings so only konqueror will work. 
Try in a terminal:

ping -c 5 twit.tv

If this fails (does nothing and you need to CTRL-C to break out of it) and:

ping -c 5 75.126.6.188

works.  Then it's a DNS issue and you need to fix the /etc/resolv.conf file.

Your resolv.conf file should look like:

nameserver *208.67.222.222*
nameserver *208.67.220.220*

Or similar (These addresses are for OpenDNS and WILL work with any ISP)

Hope this helps.