On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 08:19 -0700, Globe Trotter wrote: > Dear list, > > I have been using Redhat9 and Fedora Core1-4, with help from members on this > list. Two days ago, I installed Fedora Core 5 and everything came up smoothly. > Though the booting and shutting down is very slow. However, I have a serious > problem, which I can not figure out at all. > > I can not access most sites on the web, using firefox or wget. These sites > include mail.yahoo.com, and most importantly www.google.com, > www.fedora.redhat.com. Mauriat Miranda's installation notes, among the ones I > tried. stanton-finley.net is however accessible, but not all the sites he > mentioned. Can someone please tell me what is going on? Where to look? > > I am using a Dell Latitude C840, with 512MB RAM. I am on an ADSL modem (Qwest > Actiontec GT701-WG) which may be the problem, but am indeed very confused, > because things "worked fine" two days ago. The modem theoretically supports > linux, and my ISP does, I know that. Though they are not very learned, given > that they probably field very few commands from Linux customers. > > Anyway, I have SELinux enabled to enforcing, and my router firewall switched > off. I have had this setup for a while. > > I don't know what other information to provide, or where to look. Can someone > please help? > > (By the way, I am typing this e-mail on my old nemesis, Windoze XP, in case you > were wondering....) > > Many thanks and best wishes, > Trotter ---- SELinux issues will show up in /var/log/messages and in dmesg I would suggest that you try turning ipv6 off first... add the following to the bottom of /etc/modprobe.conf and reboot to see if it helps: alias net-pf-10 off Craig
