[WBEL-users] New install - Firefox complains "This document contains no data."

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 14:19 -0400, Eric Trepanier wrote:
> John Morris wrote: 
> > On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 12:13, Eric Trepanier wrote:
> >   
> > > When using Firefox, I can browse intranet sites with no problems, but
> > > when I attempt to browse Internet sites, I keep getting “This document
> > > contains no data.” errors and only get partial/incomplete web
> > > responses.
> > >     
> > First step is to isolate the problem.  From the info you provide it is
> > impossible to determine where things are going wrong.
> > 
> > 1.  Isolate whether it is Firefox or a general networking issue.  Try
> > elinks, ping, etc. to determine whether the box is getting past your
> > outbound router.  If it is just FF, it would  have to be picking up a
> > bogus proxy config from somewhere.  Remember that besides the panel in
> > FF, GNOME has a proxy config control panel.  I know Nautilus uses it,
> > but I haven't dug into RedHat's customizations to FF enough to say for
> > certain whether it looks at it or not.
> >   
> I have installed lynx and I have similar problems, i.e. connection
> failures when browsing the Internet (no problems when browsing
> intranet sites).
> Same thing with wget so it doesn't appear to be a Firefox issue.
> > 2.  Use the route command to see if it is picking up your default router
> > via dhcp.
> >   
> The route command's output appears to be correct (from what I was told
> - I am not a networking guru!):
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref
> Use Iface
> 10.16.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.255.192.0   U     0      0
> 0 eth0
> 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0
> 0 eth0
> 0.0.0.0         10.16.0.1       0.0.0.0         UG    0      0
> 0 eth0
> > 3.  Is your dhcp server handing out addresses based on the mac address? 
> > If so the fact Windows gets out would clear the question of some rule on
> > your firewall/outbound router being the problem.  Otherwise each
> > partition could be getting a different IP assignment so you may need to
> > look at the outbound router's configuration.
> >   
> I get the same IP address, regardless whether I dual-boot to WinXP or
> to WBL so it seems that the dhcp server is handing out addresses based
> on the mac address.
> 
> In the mean time, I have installed White Box 3 Respin 1 on both
> machines.
> 
> On a Dell Dimension 4600, WB3 installs fine, detects all networking
> hardware and gives a fully functional dhcp-managed connection. From
> there, I can browse intranet or Internet with no difficulty.
> 
> On a Dell XPS Gen 5, WB3 installs but does not detect the networking
> hardware (it is a Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit adapter) so it is
> pretty much useless.
> 
> So what is it about WB4 that is different? Why does WB3 give me a
> functional connection on the Dell Dimension and WB4 does not?
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on WBEL 3.x

cat /etc/modules.conf

on WBEL 4.x

cat /etc/modprobe.conf

see which modules are loading - you might be able to use a different
module for the broadcom.

Craig


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