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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

dial-up connection freezes programs

I am having a strange problem. :? When I am connected with my dial-up modem, some programs won't start (e.g. kuickshow) or will freeze when I try to open a dialog window such as open/save file (e.g. kedit, kdiff3, firefox).  If I am not connected or if I am connected with my network card, everything works fine. I think the problem started a few weeks ago when there was problems with firefox.

I am using kppp, KDE  3.3.2, the ltmodem drivers and the stock kernel 2.6.10

Any idea about what might be the problem?

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: dial-up connection freezes programs

Well... Yesterday, I notice that if my network is running

/etc/rc.d/network start

,  everything is fine.  However if I stop it,

etc/rc.d/network stop

I have the same problem when my dial-up connection is running.  :?  I think that it is a problem with my network setup in rc.conf.  A month ago or so, I changed my network setting from dhcp to static.  It might be related to my problem.  I still need to check that out.