Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On 5/5/08, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
Here the net is the simple triband modem. However during install, since I had all the DVDs I chose to not use any mirror and the entire installation was off-net. Does that lock up the OS from the net in any way. It should not, at least in theory.
No it shouldn't. I'm not a big fan of Debian though but try this:
It should save a file index.html. When you open it up, you should see google's home page but if this doesn't work then theres some connectivity issue. Try disconnecting the USB wire all together from the modem.
Hi Dinesh and everyone. I visited the place again and the problem is with the Debian distro as it was re-loaded again the last time ( With no mirrors selected ). What happens is that the system has a problem with http connections. Dig, ping as well as ftp works flawlessly in the gui terminal. The client FTP'd into his US university site and even downloaded a file. However even with lynx, I cannot open any site. In Firefox, google does open but after a painfully long time. Then I clicked on the news link and that too opened too late. Beyond that it did not open anything.
Next, the latest Kubuntu 8.04 + KDE4 live CD was tried and net was running like 'makkhan'. So Etch was knocked out and in went Kubuntu 8.04.
This is a serious bug with Etch and I will look it up in the bug reports. If it does not exist, I will report it.
Thanks everybody for your inputs.