Internet access problem

[r Page-Jones]

Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> R Page-Jones:
>
>   
>> When I enter the command line:
>>
>> gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
>> An empty box comes up with "aliases (/etc/modprobe.d) - gedit" as a title across the top, but the box itself is completely empty.
>>     
>
> Did you do what I suggested to disable IPv6 for Firefox? If so, does it
> improve things?
>   
I have done as you suggest below and on rebooting I had internet access. 
I checked it out by surfing a few web sites and all is well.

Again many thanks to you and the others who have contributed.

Rob
> As mention previously, to disable IPv6 add
> ipv6.disable=1
> to the boot options. To do that
> gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub
> search for the line containing GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, which should
> look like this:
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
> change it to
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash ipv6.disable=1"
> Save the file, quit gedit and do
> sudo update-grub
> and reboot.
>
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