[sclug] SUSE 9.3

[Tim]

Thanks Alex.
You are completely right about swapping from distro to distro, I am 
trying to stop doing that its just a case of finding the one with the 
least quirks to start with. I will have to change my info search 
procedure as well as my main use is deja.com - yes I know it google 
groups now. My only excuse is that I was using a 26k link and the net 
was not my favoured source of info.
Thanks for all the info below, it will certainly give me a good start.

Tim

Alex Butcher wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Tim wrote:
>
>> I am attempting again to move whollu over to Linux. So far it has 
>> gone pretty well. After several attempts with SUSe9.3 I then tried 
>> Fedora 4 only to find that support of NTFS was non existent unless I 
>> compilied it into the kernel at least that is the impression that I 
>> got with my investigations.
>
>
> You didn't look very hard! ;-)
>
> Googling for 'fedora ntfs' finds <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/>
> as the first hit. It has installable RPMs to provide NTFS kernel modules.
>
> This is exactly why I recommend that people don't switch from distro to
> distro trying to find the 'perfect' one. Stick with what you've got
> (assuming you have some people you can ask for help) and learn how to fix
> its quirks. Switching from one distro to another will just swap one 
> set of
> quirks for another, and you'll learn nothing along the way.
>
>> The problem I have is that while with Windows I can go to any web 
>> site I choose using the broadband connection I currently have, with 
>> the SUSE setup I seem to be limited to a few sites. Mozilla just 
>> reports a timeout on attempts to connect to Google, Yahoo, 
>> download.mozilla.org. And the YAST update tool also locks.
>> Any ideas ? and does anyone know why this might be happening ?
>
>
> I suspect you either you have Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) 
> enabled
> (set 'net.ipv4.tcp_ecn=0' in /etc/sysctl.conf to disable), or your DNS 
> server
> isn't handling IPv6-style AAAA DNS queries (add 'alias net-pf-10 off' in
> /etc/modprobe.conf' to disable). You could make do without a reboot after
> these changes if I a) knew my way around SuSE's boot process b) I 
> could care
> to describe how, but it's probably easiest if you just reboot. Make 
> backups
> of the files before you modify them, in case you make a mistake.
>
>> Tim
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Alex.