Hello everyone, I’m a first time poster and new to openSUSE. I’ve had a small amount of linux experience and even studied UNIX a few years ago - unfortunately, to paraphrase Homer Simpson, “as something new enters my brain something old has to leave”. In this case nearly everything I learned about UNIX
Anyhow, ms problem is this. I’ve installed 11.2 with KDE desktop. Using either Firefox or Konqueror browsers, I am finding it impossible to display any webpages, other than Google. All google websites, such as gmail, calendar and searches work perfectly. Unfortunately, I can’t directly enter a url into the address bar nor can I link from a google search.
I’ve hunted high and low for a solution but have failed to find one. I am utterly perplexed.
I will be eternally grateful if anyone can help with this.
I don’t know what’s wrong but I’ve seen this sort of advice for your sort of problem: suggest adding the IP addresses of the name servers provided by your ISP into the configuration for the NIC, and define the IP of the gateway, and maybe turn off IPv6 in Yast.
ExiledWool wrote:
> Thanks swerdna. I should have also included that connections to
> downloads.suse also don’t happen. Does that make any bells ring
have you tried disabling IPv6?
-disable it by adding ipv6.disable=1 as a boot
if that doesn’t help then also disable it in firefox: type
about:config in the address bar, press enter then search for “disable
ipv6” Double click to set value to true if currently set to false.)
if none of that helps and you have set up your networking using your
providers DNS servers and etc as specified by swerdna, then:
are you connecting from home, or maybe a school, business or
public/commercial place where some destinations might be blocked?
or though a proxy which might limit your ability to connect on certain
ports or to selected places?
have you done anything to change the setup of either AppArmor or local
security?
paul@BIGPC:~> ping Google
PING www-tmmdi.l.google.com (66.102.9.103) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from lm-in-f103.1e100.net (66.102.9.103): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=37.4 ms
64 bytes from lm-in-f103.1e100.net (66.102.9.103): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=37.5 ms
64 bytes from lm-in-f103.1e100.net (66.102.9.103): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=37.9 ms
64 bytes from lm-in-f103.1e100.net (66.102.9.103): icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=37.5 ms
64 bytes from lm-in-f103.1e100.net (66.102.9.103): icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=35.5 ms
64 bytes from lm-in-f103.1e100.net (66.102.9.103): icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 time=35.4 ms
64 bytes from lm-in-f103.1e100.net (66.102.9.103): icmp_seq=7 ttl=56 time=37.2 ms
64 bytes from lm-in-f103.1e100.net (66.102.9.103): icmp_seq=8 ttl=56 time=38.2 ms
64 bytes from lm-in-f103.1e100.net (66.102.9.103): icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=37.9 ms
64 bytes from lm-in-f103.1e100.net (66.102.9.103): icmp_seq=10 ttl=56 time=37.6 ms
64 bytes from lm-in-f103.1e100.net (66.102.9.103): icmp_seq=11 ttl=56 time=37.2 ms
64 bytes from lm-in-f103.1e100.net (66.102.9.103): icmp_seq=12 ttl=56 time=40.9 ms
64 bytes from lm-in-f103.1e100.net (66.102.9.103): icmp_seq=13 ttl=56 time=37.8 ms
64 bytes from lm-in-f103.1e100.net (66.102.9.103): icmp_seq=14 ttl=56 time=35.7 ms
64 bytes from lm-in-f103.1e100.net (66.102.9.103): icmp_seq=15 ttl=56 time=38.7 ms
64 bytes from lm-in-f103.1e100.net (66.102.9.103): icmp_seq=16 ttl=56 time=34.8 ms
ipv6 is disabled (did it in yast and also confirmed this in firefox auto:config)
have you done anything to change the setup of either AppArmor or local security?
Not that I know of
Can you tell us some more?:
Are you behind a router?
How did you configure the network settings in Yast?
Thomson router
By following swerdna’s guide. This was after already connecting to Google.
If it’s any help, I also installed Ubuntu a few weeks ago and had the same problem. I uninstalled Ubuntu and tried openSUSE thinking it might have been a problem with Ubuntu.
I don’t know. I followed all the steps suggested above, rebooted yesterday and still nothing. I booted up tonight and clicked Firefox in blind hope and lo and behold, openSuse home page opened up immediately.
Hi
i am using wireless network(adhoc) to connect to the internet. sometimes pages will open instantly in firefox…but at other times “server not found” error message will be displayed. If i try reloading the page 4-6 times, the page will open. I have tried disabling ipv6 in both firefox and network settings and even manually configuring the default gateway and DNS servers using Knetwork manager in the wireless connection specific settings. I am using dual boot(windows 7 and opensuse 11.4). Everything is ok while using windows even with ipv6.
