On July 5, 2004 09:40 pm, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > Greetings: > > Guessing that the ethernet card may have been causing problems, I've tried > issuing the commands > # ifconfig > # ifconfig eth0 down > but with no apparent affect. > > Here's the result of > # ifconfig > # route -n > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric > Ref Use Iface > 63.191.222.9 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 > 0 ppp0 > 0.0.0.0 63.191.222.9 0.0.0.0 UG 0 > 0 0 ppp0 > > Strangely, some software loads fine while I'm online, while other software > hangs or doesn't load at all. I tried a few at random with the following > results. > > The following loaded successfully in normal amounts of time while I was > online and testing: > GIMP > Kasteroids (game) > Kjots (text editor) > Kate (text editor) > OpenOffice > > The following failed to launch at all: > Gedit (text editor) > Balsa (e-mail) > > I have previously launched Balsa successfully while online, but it took a > long time (more than 5 minutes) to finally load. > > Ximian Evolution launched a small opening screen, then took about 5 minutes > to launch a work window. Once launched, however, it downloaded e-mail OK. > > Mozilla mail asks for account password, but once that was entered it took 3 > to 5 minutes to load and retrieve mail. > > The e-mail programs have the worst problem, but what's going on with gedit? > What does this program have in common with the e-mail programs? > > By the way, a reminder that I must load ppp with > modprobe ppp_async > and unload with > modprobe -r ppp_async > > I can live with that hassle if I must, but I certainly need to fix this > problem of the e-mail programs taking so long to load. At least I'm making > progress. I've had to load a driver to get the winmodem to work, then use > modprobe to launch ppp, and now this. Related problems? Could this problem > somehow be caused by a problem with the driver or ppp itself? > > Any further suggestions are welcome. This newbie is in way over his head. > > Thanks, > > Elmer > Hi, I'm hoping someone with ppp experience may shed some light (if that has anything to do with the issue). You should bring the eth0 up, then connect via ppp, then post the results of 'route -n' >From what you posted, because eth0 is down, there may be a route issue that is not displayed. Have you looked at 'top' while these apps are choking? After the info about which apps hang, I'm less convinced it's routing because text editors shouldn't care about the network. -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
