Hi,
I'm having a problem with KDE 2.1 when my network
connection is not working. I have Ameritech DSL, and
therefore have decent amount of downtime, maybe
10%-20% of the time. My computer's network card is
plugged into a LinkSys 4-port router, which is plugged
into the DSL modem. When I boot into Linux, KDE takes
several minutes to come up and be usable. If I try to
start an application, like Konqueror, it will be a
couple of minutes before it shows up. At this same
time, the lights on the LinkSys router flicker on and
off, almost like any KDE application is trying to talk
to some server on the internet.
If I try to start a program like xterm, or xcalc, they
come up immediatly, which leads me to believe that it
may be KDE specific. KDE and KDE applications run
fine when the network connection is alive and well.
Also, getting to the console login takes the same
amount of time.
Does anyone know of this being a known issue, or if
there is a setting I have turned on that causes this
to happen? Has anyone else seen something like this?
I looked in the list of changes from 2.1 to 2.1.1, and
it didn't look like there was anything that would
solve this problem.
Here is my system configuration:
PII450, 128 MB RAM, Linksys 10/100 network card.
Mandrake 7.2
2.2.17 Kernel
X-Windows 4.0.3
QT 2.2
KDE 2.1
Thanks in advance for your help.
-Kevin
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