Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-15 Thread Adolfo Bello
Let me describe briefly my home network set up: The XP machine has two NICs, one hooked to the ADSL modem/router and the other one, which ICS configure automatically as 192.168.0.1, connected to a 10 Mbps hub (I hope I'll get soon a cheap 100Mbps switch). The other two machines in the

Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:11, Adolfo Bello wrote: Stephen, This saga keeps going. Today, when receiving my emails (only Evolution was connected), the connection to the LAN was lost. For a couple of minutes I couldn't even ping the gateway. I tried a few times with the same outcome: I

Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-13 Thread Adolfo Bello
Set the Primary DNS to the XP machine, the secondary DNS to your ISP's primary DNS, put the IP of the XP machine in your /etc/hosts file, set Mozilla/Netscape (Under ADVANCED / HTTP NETWORKING) to Enable Keep-Alive and Enable Pipelining (under the Direct Connection Options). This saga keeps

Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday January 8 2003 07:40 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: append=idebus=66 ide0=ata66 ^ Just like that - then rerun lilo and reboot - this forces the pci bus to 66 (if it can do it) and forces the IDE interface to ata66/ata100 (if it can do it) which

[newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-08 Thread Adolfo Bello
I mostly use Mozilla (out of the box from Mandrake 9) to surf the net. Ocassionally, when using Mozilla, the machine locks up forcing me to turn the power off and on. Something that bugs me but I guessed I needed to do my homework to get it working the right way. However, everytime that I try to

Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 07:47, Adolfo Bello wrote: I mostly use Mozilla (out of the box from Mandrake 9) to surf the net. Ocassionally, when using Mozilla, the machine locks up forcing me to turn the power off and on. Something that bugs me but I guessed I needed to do my homework to get it

Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-08 Thread Adolfo Bello
Just out of curiosity - do you have APM enabled on the drive? No. Somewhere I read that I had to recompile the kernel, so no APM for the time being. Also, have you tried doing a re-installation of either Mozilla or Netscape? No. As it came from a fresh install. Right now, I don't have

Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 10:33, Adolfo Bello wrote: Just out of curiosity - do you have APM enabled on the drive? No. Somewhere I read that I had to recompile the kernel, so no APM for the time being. Also, have you tried doing a re-installation of either Mozilla or Netscape? No. As it

Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-08 Thread Adolfo Bello
Glad to see the computer guy in your sig again :-) Adolfo (Gracias!) (De nada) Meanwhile, it can't hurt to do a reinstall - something else strikes me as curious - being that Moz chokes on the downloads, does Galeon do the same? I know that they use the same engine, but just

Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 11:21, Adolfo Bello wrote: Glad to see the computer guy in your sig again :-) Adolfo (Gracias!) (De nada) I will try Galeon right now. After that, I will reinstall Mozilla. Muchas gracias, Adolfo You originally stated that this was on a

Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-08 Thread Adolfo Bello
Moz chokes on the downloads, does Galeon do the same? I know that they use the same engine, but just wondering if this might have something to do with the way the moz engine is utilised... I just tried Galeon and it doesn't lock the machine, but download stops after aprox. 1/2 Mb. The strange

Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-08 Thread Adolfo Bello
You originally stated that this was on a laptop, verdad? Right! Toshiba 5005-S504. 30Gb HD, 512Mb RAM. I'm wondering about mucking with the hdparm settings to see if it's a cache issue - because if the file(s) die at like 1.5mb, changing the drive's parameters might assist...but let's get

Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-08 Thread Adolfo Bello
Here's something to try as well - might help to tweak the IDE drive interface a bit (else it will just leave it as is): In your /etc/lilo.conf, add the following: prompt timeout=50 default=linux boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b message=/boot/message lba32 vga=1

Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 13:46, Adolfo Bello wrote: With this one, Mozilla is now behaving like Galeon, i.e, it stops downloading after a while (1.5 Mb) but at least it didn't lock the machine up. Just to throw in some more information: when downloading from a web site in localhost or other

Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-08 Thread Adolfo Bello
Just to throw in some more information: when downloading from a web site in localhost or other host in my home network, Mozilla does everything right. No matter the file size (I have tried up to 80 Mb downloads). The problem appears when downloading from the Internet, which I connect to

Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 14:19, Adolfo Bello wrote: Just to throw in some more information: when downloading from a web site in localhost or other host in my home network, Mozilla does everything right. No matter the file size (I have tried up to 80 Mb downloads). The problem appears when