Internet Connection with Ubuntu

[hellcat]

Hello all,

I've installed the Netcomm NB5Plus4 Modem/Router with the aim of connecting a W2k PC and an Ubuntu PC to the Internet. I have configured the network card on the Ubuntu PC so that it has a dynamic IP allocated to it from the router. I am able to ping the router, the W2k PC and even managed to ping my ISP. My problem is that when I start up Firefox I cannot get the Internet.

Please note that I'm a newbie in the area of Linux so please refrain from slapping your forehead at my stupidity if I have done something really basic.

Cheers

Hellcat

[AlexK]

what does pinging google result in? i.e. what is result of this command:

ping -c 4 www.google.com

If it gives unknown host, launch ubuntu's network config utility and enter the addresses of your isp's dns servers or the ip address of your router in the nameserver field.

[hellcat]

Hello

Yes, I am able to ping google successfully.

[hellcat]

enter the addresses of your isp's dns servers or the ip address of your router in the nameserver field.

btw: I had already done this...

[hellcat]

Actually... managed to access some sites but then can't access others, I get time outs quite regularly.

Anyone know how I can do a traceroute?

[AlexK]

for traceroute, try:

man traceroute

i.e. essential syntax is traceroute host_name

[drtvasudevan]

type about:config in the addressbar of mozilla firefox.
scroll down to
network.dns.disableIPv6
right click on the value and set it to true.
close the tab.
restart firefox

this worked for me.

tv

[hellcat]

YAAAAAY! That was the trick! Thanks a heap, much appreciated!

[drtvasudevan]

YAAAAAY! That was the trick! Thanks a heap, much appreciated!

thanks!
this is a curious problem.
in windows the default remains the same at false and it runs well -no problems.
in some other lkinux distroes too it has the same setting but runs well.
in ubuntu and suse it does not run or runs slowly or partially (some time one connects some times not). one changes the value to true and yaaaii!
i just dont understand why this is so.
hope some moderator or geek throws some light on it!

tv

[Shaun Williamson]

This may throw some more light on it, maybe not. I installed Suse 10 with
Gnome and got my wireless card (DLink) working. I then tried all the 4
browsers that Suse installs. I could browse using Konquerer but Mozilla,
Firefox etc. all timed out when trying to connect to sites.
I tried the trick of entering the DNS nameservers directly into the resolv.conf
file but this just stopped all of the browsers working.
Then reading through some forums for other versions of Linux I came across
the suggestion that turning off ipv6 could solve internet problems and gave
a way of doing this in the /etc/modprobe.conf.local file. However this file
only exists if you can successfully do a modprobe on the network card
driver file. Then you can turn off ipv6 in the network cards driver by
entering two lines in the /etc/modprobe.conf.local file.
This seemed to work like a charm. Now all the browsers worked at an
acceptable speed. However I wasn't satisfied and decided to try the track
the problem down further. There were suggestions in some forum messages
that the problem was caused by some ISP's nameservers not supporting
ipv6 properly. The I read a post in an ubuntu linux forum that suggested
that turning off ipv6 was not a good idea and could cause problems for
other utilities that try to receive packages from the internet. This post
also suggested that the software on certain routers was the cause of the
problem and that updating the router firmware could be the answer.
So I updated the firmware on my DLink G604T wireless router and
reversed out the changes that turned off ipv6. Now all the browsers work
even faster than they did in Windows Xp.