Just installed SUSE 11.2, and my internet is very slow

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before i start, let me say that i’ve googled this quite a bit, and one of the top results took me to this forum even. but so far nothing has worked. in fact it seems that anything to do with the console doesn’t work for me. im sure im doing something wrong, since im a linux newbie.

anywho i’ve disabled ipv6, and updated firefox but my connection speed is still equivalent to dial-up speeds. and of course when i run windows, it works normally for some reason. if someone could provide some solutions (and possibly a good site/book to learn linux :X) it would be of great help.

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I’d also like to add that i just installed konqueror and it works at a normal speed. so whatever it is, im pretty sure it’s something directly related to firefox. normally i’d just ditch firefox and use konqueror buttttt i dont have flash installed for konqueror and have no idea how to do that. firefox took me a straight day and in the end i got it form yast lol.

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Just a passing thought, so you real gurus out there, pitch in your ideas too. Here’s the thought: put this address in firefox:

about:config

and scroll to this line:

network.dns.disableipv6

and toggle it off.

Just a thought. Might help/might not

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yes!!! that did it! thank you very much. is there anyway you could tell me where konqueror is located (i isntalled it via yast). where are things typically installed anyhow? or a better question is how do you find them? i downloaded the “locate” command for my console but it doesnt work at all. the reason i ask is because i wanted to add flash to konqueror.

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Well, you don’t need Konquerers location for that. You can set Flash for Konqueror in its settings.

By the way: ‘locate’ needs a database from which it fetches informations, to set up this database, run

updatedb

as root, this will be repeated automatically every 34 hours then.

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bremes wrote:
> where are things typically installed anyhow?

-=welcome=-

you don’t say if you are running GNOME, XFCE, XLDE or which of many
other desktop environments are available so i can’t give you specific
instructions…but a general descriptions might be:

look down in the lower left corner and see if there is a gecko on a
green button…if so consider that a button to click to get to a menu…

then look around and see if maybe can find a category something like
“Internet”, and if so the seek “Browsers”…from there it ought to be
easy…

UNLESS something went bad wrong during you YaST install of Konqueror
because if it ran without errors it should have added Konqueror to the
list of internet browsers available on your system…

> i downloaded the “locate” command for my console

as a general statement: don’t download…that is the so last century
way of adding programs to a system (yes, i know the latest and
greatest Redmond does it that way)…here we have a HUGE repository
full of free software on a TRUSTED server accessible via YaST >
Software Management > Search for locate > click click done…

gropiuskalle is correct on what to get that going, except the db won’t
be automatically updated as he said…because its a typo…he meant
each 24 hours…

again, -=welcome=- let me urge you to now recognize that we don’t make
an effort here to mirror all the ways of other operating systems (for
example we try not to attract malware or charge Apple-high prices) so
you will find it beneficial (imho) to do some reading…might wanna
start here:

http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts

http://tinyurl.com/ybklh48

–
palladium

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thanks for the advice, however i logged in as root and typed “updatedb” in the console and got this message:

linux-gxby:/home/master/Desktop # updatedb
/usr/bin/find: /windows/C': Input/output error /usr/bin/find: /home/master/.gvfs’: Permission denied

any ideas?

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oh yeah sorry i forgot to mention, i am in fact running the gnome version of suse. im a life long windows user (since 3.1) so getting used to new concepts is a bit tough. i feel like im catching on pretty quickly but still, theres a long road ahead of me. learning how to unpack things, find installation directories and how to install those files that i unpacked are my major hang ups right now. but i digress. yeah im using gnome, and updatedb (like most console commands) doesnt work properly for me for whatever reason.

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> linux-gxby:/home/master/Desktop # updatedb
> /usr/bin/find: `/windows/C’: Input/output error

/usr/bin/find: `/home/master/.gvfs’: Permission denied
>
> any ideas?

do NOT log into Gnome as root! instead log in as yourself and “become
root” as needed to do admin duties…doing that is never required and
always dangerous…

it is really a lot easier than it might sound…

for example to run updatedb as root all you needed to do, WHILE signed
in as you the user, is:

-open a terminal
-type/enter su - (don’t forget the -)
-type/enter in your root password (you won’t see what you type)
-type/enter updatedb

READ more on that here:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Login_as_root

http://tinyurl.com/6ry6yd
http://tinyurl.com/ydbwssh

okay…now, i just looked your answer to my previous and see you are
still struggling to FORCE openSUSE to do it Redmond’s way…that is
just not going to work…i see above you have already installed WINE,
which is okay, except i wonder how you did that if you have not yet
‘discovered’ YaST and see that it is just one search and one click to
install WINE correctly and there is NO pain to “find installation
directories and how to install those files that i unpacked” because
all of that unpacking and moving of files is done AUTOMATICALLY by
YaST…

i’m gonna be really surprised if you have not already murdered your
fresh install by wandering around depending on you 20 year history
with Redmond to carry you through…in the end, you will probably find
it a LOT faster to read more and experiment less…but, it is your
machine…

and, i read “im a life long windows user (since 3.1) so getting
used to new concepts is a bit tough” and offer a little free advice
(from one who left Win3.11 in 1995 and have had VERY little contact
with Redmond since): the more you try to follow what you know, the
more difficulty you will have and the more often you will have to just
start over with a fresh install…in the long run you will spend more
time fiddling trying to fix it than you would have spent seeking and
reading the hows…

-=welcome=- there is a LOT to learn (and unlearn)…
the hurrier i go the behinder i get, applies here too…

–
palladium

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… there definitely lots to learn. … I’ve been at this for years and I’m still learning a lot all the time. … For some basic concepts, here is a top level guide: Concepts - openSUSE

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im familiar with the su command. i never actually login as root, just temporarily. i just want to know why ‘updatedb’ doesnt work for me. is there a library of commands or something i need to get from yast to get up to date?

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bremes wrote:
> just want to know why ‘updatedb’ doesnt work for me. is there a
> library of commands or something i need to get from yast to get up
> to date?

i’ve never seen updatedb throw an error like you got…WAIT, i think
updatedb ran ok, it just couldn’t index those two directories…the
…gvfs because it is some kind of magic to work with directories on
other machines, and the windows because (well) it is windows and
locate has no business looking there…

so, you should be able to just pop open a terminal and type something
like say

locate log

and get a LONG list of file/directory names with “log” in there
somewhere…

–
palladium

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Regarding this error message:

/usr/bin/find: `/home/master/.gvfs’: Permission denied

The hidden directory .gvfs has permissions dr-x------, which means it’s generally not available, deliberately so. So it’s not an error message. It’s a statement that it’s not available. To cut a long story short: just ignore it because it’s inconsequential anyway.

Regarding this error message:

/usr/bin/find: `/windows/C’: Input/output error

That might be a problem. To check it out, can you open a console (window) and run these two commands and report the responses/dialogues back here:

  1. ls -l /windows
  2. ls -l /windows/C

Then we can see why (I hope).

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lol! …

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output was as follows:

master@linux-gxby:~/Desktop> ls -l /windows
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 16384 2010-02-22 16:49 C
drwxrwxr-x 2 root users 16384 1969-12-31 19:00 D
master@linux-gxby:~/Desktop> ls -l /windows/C
ls: reading directory /windows/C: Input/output error
total 0

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This is a bit of a guess: I think the system has attempted to mount an NTFS partition into the directory /windows/C and has failed. Can you tell us three things:

  1. whether you have an NTFS partition in your computer?
  2. and whether you want to be able to access it from openSUSE?
  3. and please run this command and report the results back here:
sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
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Sorry, I forgot, please run this command too and report the result here:

cat /etc/fstab | grep ntfs
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swerdna wrote:
> Regarding this error message: > /usr/bin/find: `/windows/C’: Input/output error
> That might be a problem.

but, WINE not working is a security feature, not a problem.

actually i write to ask: is it normal for WINE to build a “/windows/C”
in /usr/bin/

well, there is none in my machine…and, never will be…you don’t miss
what you don’t know (like buying AV software–don’t miss it at all)…

–
palladium

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The message is: /usr/bin/find: `/windows/C’: Input/output error
It means that the app “find” (located at /usr/bin/find) is encountering a problem when exploring directory /windows/C. There’s no directory /usr/bin/windows/C, just a directory /windows/C.

Wine doesn’t create the dir /windows/C. It’s created by the openSUSE installation program if the program senses an NTFS partition. The openSUSE installer then adds a line to fstab so that the NTFS partition will be automounted each tiime the computer boots.

I suspect that in this case all of that went ahead but the NTFS partition is failing to mount properly, which is why I asked for the particular data designed to look further into that possibility.

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swerdna wrote:
> It’s created by the openSUSE
> installation program if the program senses an NTFS partition. The
> openSUSE installer then adds a line to fstab so that the NTFS partition
> will be automounted each tiime the computer boots.

cool!!
and thoughtful of openSUSE…

wouldn’t it be nice if there were a button on the W7 desktop which
would setup the local disk structure and install the Linux distro of
choice, and everything just worked and played swell together…

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palladium