Hi: My daughter recently switched to SuSE 9.2. She connects to the internet via a dialup line. She can receive mail, and send short mails. If mails are more than 10 lines or so, then Kmail gives a timeout error. Surfing the net is possible, except when following links, like when going to www.ml.com and selecting "benefits on line". Konqueror will just hang forever. At first she thought it was her ISP, since she had sporadic similar problems when using MSW, so she switched ISP's but the problem persists. Bringing the firewall down has no effect, and she has tried Mozilla with the same results. I can access those pages from where I live, using a cable connection. Maybe somebody could tell me where to start looking. Thank you and regards. -- Alfredo J. Cole Grupo ACyC
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 12:37, Alfredo Cole wrote:
My daughter recently switched to SuSE 9.2. She connects to the internet
SuSE 9.3 and KDE 3.4 have been released, maybe she wishes to upgrade. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.2 If you go to "Yast=>Software=>Source=>Add the address above=>Install or Remove=>Packages=>Z_All=>Right-click on the list=>All in this List=>Update if newer" then you can upgrade freely (but I think it is unsupported by suse, not sure). You may also want to try GNOME. Although I prefer KDE and Konqueror, maybe her KDE installation has some problem.
are more than 10 lines or so, then Kmail gives a timeout error. Surfing
I receive many kmail timeout errors too. I found that I get timeout errors if any of the following happens: a) I heavily use my 384/128 ADSL line at the same time I receive mail. b) I have many mail accounts on the same mail server and I check all of them at the same tine. The solution I implemented was to click and hold the Check button until I see all accounts, then check all of them one-by-one.
www.ml.com and selecting "benefits on line". Konqueror will just hang forever. At first she thought it was her ISP, since she had sporadic
I don't have this problem, but if I visit a page with buggy stupid JavaScript my Konqueror will hang until it displays me a message "this page has a script loop which hangs me, do you want me to continue executing it?", so I press No and it is ok.
similar problems when using MSW, so she switched ISP's but the problem persists. Bringing the firewall down has no effect, and she has tried Mozilla with the same results.
Try wget from the command line. Try this: 1. in KDE: press ALT+F2 2. type konsole and press Enter 5. Download some file with wget. For example : wget http://nsk.wikinerds.org/ngwp/ngwp-0.2.23-gpl2.tar.bz2 6. if it is downloading (20777 bytes) then your connection works ok! (the file is just some of my open-source software on my server, you may delete it or test your connection with any other file). 7. another test would be to try this: links http://www.ml.com 8. or this: lynx http://www.ml.com 9. if you can follow all links with a text browser, then the dialup connection is ok
I can access those pages from where I live, using a cable connection. Maybe somebody could tell me where to start looking.
Maybe your modem is overheating. I had this problem with my ADSL router: It was disconnecting or breaking connections due to heat! -- NSK http://portal.wikinerds.org
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 05:37 am, Alfredo Cole wrote:
Hi:
My daughter recently switched to SuSE 9.2. She connects to the internet via a dialup line. She can receive mail, and send short mails. If mails are more than 10 lines or so, then Kmail gives a timeout error. Surfing the net is possible, except when following links, like when going to www.ml.com and selecting "benefits on line". Konqueror will just hang forever. At first she thought it was her ISP, since she had sporadic similar problems when using MSW, so she switched ISP's but the problem persists. Bringing the firewall down has no effect, and she has tried Mozilla with the same results.
I can access those pages from where I live, using a cable connection. Maybe somebody could tell me where to start looking.
Thank you and regards.
-- Alfredo J. Cole Grupo ACyC =============
Alfredo, This problem almost sounds like she is getting a timeout on the modem. When setting up her modem, did she set the timeout to "0", so that it would not timeout or try to hangup until she is ready? That would be the first thing I would check. I don't think I've ever heard of just kmail or Konq timing out like that and to the best of my knowledge, I've not heard of anyone experiencing such "restrictions" from an ISP. regards, Lee -- --- KMail v1.8 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! ...Calvin & Hobbes
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