Hey, I've been having some brain-busting problems recently that I thought I'd air out for you to read.
Just this weekend on my RH9 box at home I updated to the latest Fedora packages. Once I verified that everything was working again (almost everything, my PS/2 mouse didn't work) I decided to give the 2.6 kernel test-class rpms from arjanv a try. I got the 2.6-test8 kernel rpm and installed it/booted from it and immediately saw how much quicker it made my GUI (Seriously, I NEED to use it. Oh and my PS/2 mouse started working). Anyway, where I need help is this: My network access isn't working. I have a 3Com card. It's kernel module is being inserted, it IS getting an IP on my internal network (192.168.0.7), and I can ping any IP address on the internet. I can even ping www.google.com (DNS seems to be working). The problem comes when I try to make any other type of connection (HTTP FTP Gaim) It just doesn't ever connect. The browser will just wait forever. I'm pretty stumped. Has anyone ever seen this happen? You can ping like usual but no other connection works? To make things even stranger I can still get to the configuration of my Actiontec DSL router in a browser by typing BOTH 192.168.0.1 and it's external IP (from the same computer, however). Isn't that an http connection? Is my 2.6 kernel doing something funky to the TCP packets that is affecting the NATing my router is doing such that packets aren't getting out or back in? Is it because 2.6 does ipv4 inside ipv6 and my router freaks? Does 2.6 actually do that? lsmod shows an ipv6 module inserted. and ifconfig shows that I have an inet address AND an inet6 address. Those are just some thoughts I've had. How would one turn off IPv6 if that is the case? I figure there's either just a bug in 2.6-test8 or my DSL router sucks. What do y'all think? Appreciate it, Greg Felix ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
