On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 14:01 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:15:39PM -0800, Michael M. wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 11:33 +0100, Cédric Lucantis wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > Hi all. > > > > > > > > On my laptop, konqueror takes, sometimes, tens seconds to access pages. > > > > Since character terminal 'links' web browser quickly navigates across > > > > the > > > > internet, network setting should be ok. > > > > Any hints? > > > > What to check for mis-configuration? > > > > > > I add the same problem and two things helped me a lot: > > > > > > - add the following in your /etc/environment (create the file if you > > > don't > > > have one) : KDE_NO_IPV6=TRUE > > > > So links doesn't use IPV6 by default? I had to completely disable IPV6 > > to get anywhere with Debian (same with Ubuntu). There's something funky > > about the way (at least some) Debian-based distros handle IPV6. > > > > With all due respect to your situation, this seems pretty rare. I > can't remember it coming up on this list, which is not to say it > hasn't. Are you using IPv6 in some other fashion that might cause it > to be a problem for konquerer? It certainly doesn't seem to be a > problem for the general debian population.
Well I'm not really using IPv6 at all. I disabled it. My ISP doesn't use IPv6. When it was enabled, everything IPv6-aware that used http:// would time-out, most of the time. This was some months ago and at that time Konquerer was not IPv6-aware, so it worked fine. But I'm not a KDE user, so that didn't really help me much. Besides, I got awfully tired of having to ping everything first in order to get a connection. I couldn't even issue an 'aptitude update' without first pinging the mirror -- 90% of the time it would time out before connecting. Likewise, the only way I could load a website in w3m was by using the no-IPv6 option; if I didn't specify that option, it would time-out and the website wouldn't load. Firefox and Thunderbird were also unusable, until I disabled IPv6 for each in "about:config." I had no trouble with IPv6-aware apps on my iMac, which was connected to the same router. At that time I was using Debian or Ubuntu PPC on my iMac (dual-booting), and everything -- including Firefox and Thunderbird -- just worked under OS X, but did not under Debian or Ubuntu. Then I tried Gentoo PPC on my iMac, and that worked fine too (no IPv6 issues). Then I got a PC, which came with Ubuntu pre-installed, and the problem was back. Same with Debian after I installed it on this PC. Meanwhile, Arch Linux, which I also had installed on this PC, had no IPv6 issues, and the same for FreeBSD. The only fix I could find for Debian was disabling IPv6 altogether. So that's why I think it's a problem specific to Debian (and probably those distros based on Debian). Do you know different? -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S. Jackson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
