[plug] netscape stalling

[Evan Lau]

Hi there,

Thanks for the reply. I am using a modem to connect to the internet yes. But
I don't think it is a conflict with any IRQs. This is because my Linux
machine (which I use to connect to the internet) also allows other machines
on my internal network to access the internet, ie. IP Masquerading.

So when I run Netscape on the Linux machine (directly connected to the
internet), it stalls no matter what. HOWEVER, when I run Internet Explorer
from the internal machine (running Windows 98SE), everything is fine and
things do not stall but load up rather quickly.

Hence I do not think it is something wrong with the modem link or network
link between the machines, but more likely something to do with Netscape or
Linux (or both maybe).

But thanks David for your contribution. That at least gives me some things
to think about when I continue exploring Linux. Hopefully others out there
would let me know their thoughts; or, if they've come across it, how they've
fixed the problem.

Cheers,
Evan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Campbell, David (Ex AS17)" <david.j.campbell at honeywell.com>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 6:45 AM
Subject: RE: [plug] netscape stalling


> Evan,
>
> > Everything seems to be working fine until i use netscape. when loading
> > pages that are....say more than 50k large....very often it would just
> > stall (it says "36K read (stalled)") and never recovers. why is this so?
>
> Are you using a modem or network card? (presumably a modem)
>
> I had a "similar" problem which could be traced to the network
> card having a phantom IRQ conflict (it was using IRQ 5 which was not
> being used by other devices) which would cause the packet queue
> on the network card to drop packets. NT would BSOD attempting to
> save to a network drive...
>
> Suggest trying lynx or wget for downloading files from a http server.
> In a terminal (either xterm or a virtual console) try:
>
> $ wget
>
http://kernel.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/linux-2.2.18.tar.gz
> [The above should be one line]
>
> That file is 18MB so it should be a good test, hopefully wget should
> download to the current directory (I am not familar with wget,
> comments on the list suggest it is the best command line
> http file grabber). Use another terminal/console and use "ls -l"
> to view the file size, it should increase as the download
> progresses. Hopefully we can issolate whether the problem
> is Netscape or "other" (including your system or ISP).
>
> David Campbell
>