wget finds pages but konqueror doesn't

[gromituk]

I've just set up a machine with a Sagem USB ADSL modem using ueagle-atm. The pon command makes the connection successfully and sets up the following interface, as reported by ifconfig:

ppp0   Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol 
     inet addr:79.66.222.50 P-t-P:212.74.102.6 Mask:255.255.255.255
     UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
     RX packets:31 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:35 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 
     RX bytes:5968 (5.8 KB) TX bytes:1885 (1.8 KB)

Now, I can ping internet hosts, and I can download pages using wget. But konqueror can't find anything:

An error occurred while loading [url]http://google.co.uk/:[/url]
Could not connect to host [url]http://google.co.uk/[/url].

I tried running it from the command line but it didn't report anything. I don't think the package manager can get to the net either.

Any ideas what I'm missing, please?

[lmilano]

Re: wget finds pages but konqueror doesn't

There have been many reports of problems with ipv6 in Gutsy. You may search here and in ubuntuforums.org.

Something you may want to try is to blacklist ipv6. You need to add this line (as root) /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist:

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
(add this line)
blacklist ipv6

Then restart the computer and see if it helps. Good luck!

[gromituk]

Re: wget finds pages but konqueror doesn't

Thank you very much - I shall try it and report back.

[gromituk]

Re: wget finds pages but konqueror doesn't

It wasn't a problem with ipv6 in the end - it was a problem with knetworkmanager, which doesn't know about ppp0 and I believe therefore prevents K apps connecting to the internet because it thinks no connection is available. Quitting it immediately solves the problem - as reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ger/+bug/86680.

[lmilano]

Re: wget finds pages but konqueror doesn't

Cool, thanks for reporting back. Best!