sreevirus
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Ok guys...help me out here...
I'm really frustrated with what's happening...
I'm using MTNL Triband here. Earlier I had installed openSuSE 10.3, and i had some really bad problems with it. Firefox wouldn't open any site other than Novell.com; google, wikipedia, etc would not open in FF, but they would in Konqueror (but not all the time).... I got really fed up and decided to install Ubuntu. But the problem remains... I just can't open any sites. I just did a reinstallation (thinking that something might go right by fluke). But nothing.
When I ping the sites using Network Tools, it shows success, but the sites wont open in FF...
I was just about to give up, when I decided to just try out thinkdigit.com..and it worked... (What luck, eh?)
I had earlier tried to go by the instructions given by desertwind (here), but then, after I set it to the static IP address, nothing would work further. (BTW, typing system-config-network-gui in the terminal isn't working either - it says command not recognized; I did it through System>Administration>Network). As I was saying, even pinging would fail. (also, my router is a D-Link 502T, so I had a hard time there too). By default, the Network shows something like Roaming Enabled. But if I select Automatic Configuration (DHCP), or Static IP, all net activities stop.
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Apt-get isnt working. Nor can I do anything with the Synaptic Package Manager.
The sound is horrible. It's really really small; you'd have to listen very carefully to hear it. (Atleast SuSE was better in this aspect. It also played mp3s)
What could be wrong guys? This thing is driving me up the wall...
Ubuntu doesn't pack much of a punch without an active net connection. This is not a fault of the LAN card driver I presume, coz I can ping. (well...I cant ping microsoft.com)
Anyway....here's my config that you may need to know:
Asus P5K-VM m/b (intel g33 chipset) with an intel core 2 quad q6600
Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Realtec ALC883 sound card
2 gb ram
And its an x86_64 version of Ubuntu, but yesterday, I had installed the 32 bit version from the Digit DVD.
I really miss the days when net worked on Linux on my old PC. I loved it when SuSE automatically configured the connections with kinternet, when I was using raspppoe on Windows. I just needed to click on the plug icon to get going.
Please help.
(PS: I was composing this post in Ubuntu, but even as I was typing, the sites would not open sometimes. Google had opened once, not again. Right now, I'm posting it through windows, coz the net completely stopped working. Luckily I had made a backup of the post on a txt file)
I'm really frustrated with what's happening...
I'm using MTNL Triband here. Earlier I had installed openSuSE 10.3, and i had some really bad problems with it. Firefox wouldn't open any site other than Novell.com; google, wikipedia, etc would not open in FF, but they would in Konqueror (but not all the time).... I got really fed up and decided to install Ubuntu. But the problem remains... I just can't open any sites. I just did a reinstallation (thinking that something might go right by fluke). But nothing.
When I ping the sites using Network Tools, it shows success, but the sites wont open in FF...
I was just about to give up, when I decided to just try out thinkdigit.com..and it worked... (What luck, eh?)
I had earlier tried to go by the instructions given by desertwind (here), but then, after I set it to the static IP address, nothing would work further. (BTW, typing system-config-network-gui in the terminal isn't working either - it says command not recognized; I did it through System>Administration>Network). As I was saying, even pinging would fail. (also, my router is a D-Link 502T, so I had a hard time there too). By default, the Network shows something like Roaming Enabled. But if I select Automatic Configuration (DHCP), or Static IP, all net activities stop.
*img505.imageshack.us/img505/7873/screenshot1rx4.th.png
Apt-get isnt working. Nor can I do anything with the Synaptic Package Manager.
The sound is horrible. It's really really small; you'd have to listen very carefully to hear it. (Atleast SuSE was better in this aspect. It also played mp3s)
What could be wrong guys? This thing is driving me up the wall...
Ubuntu doesn't pack much of a punch without an active net connection. This is not a fault of the LAN card driver I presume, coz I can ping. (well...I cant ping microsoft.com)
Anyway....here's my config that you may need to know:
Asus P5K-VM m/b (intel g33 chipset) with an intel core 2 quad q6600
Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Realtec ALC883 sound card
2 gb ram
And its an x86_64 version of Ubuntu, but yesterday, I had installed the 32 bit version from the Digit DVD.
I really miss the days when net worked on Linux on my old PC. I loved it when SuSE automatically configured the connections with kinternet, when I was using raspppoe on Windows. I just needed to click on the plug icon to get going.
Please help.
(PS: I was composing this post in Ubuntu, but even as I was typing, the sites would not open sometimes. Google had opened once, not again. Right now, I'm posting it through windows, coz the net completely stopped working. Luckily I had made a backup of the post on a txt file)
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