Re: Wireless network and Firefox

AmiDaniel wrote:
J.O. Aho wrote:
I suggest you disable that and set it to connect internet directly, this has
been how browsers in all distros I have used has been by default.

After I did this and rebooted, I was suddenly able to sort of navigate
in Firefox. I could load up google and a few other pages, but not
much. It seems almost as though I could load any page I'd navigated to
in Konqueror recently, almost as if Konqueror and Firefox were sharing
the same cache--could this be?

No, they don't share cache, the only way to get them to share one is to set up a proxy-cache and the both to use the proxy.


Test to disable the eth0 service (see in /etc/init.d) and then restart eth1, I
think that will get a better result.

I may try this in a minute, although I find I typically only screw
things up more when I "su" and start modifying config files :).

This isn't a config file, but a service script

/etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop
/etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart

of course your services may be named completely different than those I have on my distro, but they work in the same way.


In any case, when I'm home, I'll be able to plug-in directly and use
ff, and I suppose I can learn to live with Konqueror at other times.
It certainly isn't ideal though. Thanks for your help, and I'll let
you know how disabling eth0 goes.

You could install privoxy and use it as a proxy on the laptop, this will be a nice way to filter away a load of those nasty commercials that so many pages nowadays seems to have, and see if FF will work better that way.

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//Aho
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