<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Eric,<DIV><DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On 11/4/06, Mike Hore <<A href="mailto:mike_hore@aapt.net.au">mike_hore@aapt.net.au</A>> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This is rather strange.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I'm on broadband with an ADSL modem, and the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">network configuration seems OK (automatic DHCP).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">But when I run Firefox, it seems to get lost in the weeds.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Usually fhe</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">first site I look up will load with no problems, but when I follow a link,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">nothing happens.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The status message says "connecting to ...", but the modem</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">lights show no network activity, and everything just sits there till it</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">times out.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>However if I ping the site, this works.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Then after pinging, if</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I manually enter the URL into Firefox, lo and behold it works.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Till I click</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">on another link...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Any bright ideas, anyone?</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">No :-) A couple of questions though: were you running another Linux</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">distro on that box? <BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>No -- it's a standard iMac G5 and I also run Mac OSX on it (not at the same time -- I dual-boot). I have no problems at all on the OSX side, and also run Firefox there. </DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If so did you also have the problem? I'm trying to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">understand whether it's an ubuntu-specific problem or not... <BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>I'm not sure. A few months ago I played with Gentoo and hit a very similar problem which prevented me downloading updates to complete installation. Nobody there seemed able to help, so I gave up.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Also what</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">is your network card? sungem?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Who knows? Whatever Apple use in their Rev-A iMac G5s for built-in Ethernet.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers, Mike.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>---------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV> Mike Hore <A href="mailto:mike_hore@aapt.net.au">mike_hore@aapt.net.au</A></DIV><DIV>---------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>