[KLUG Members] Internet speed

[Eric Beversluis]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Edward Durrett" <jed at shackman.com>
To: "The main KLUG mailing list." <members at kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Internet speed


> Eric Beversluis wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 11:41 -0400, Jason Edward Durrett wrote:
>>>> It takes a large amount of time to do anything. E.g., sending a simple
>>>> email from Evolution takes about 30 seconds and connecting to my mail
>>>> server takes about 20 seconds when there is no mail. This doesn't 
>>>> happen
>>>> when I'm using Windows (same machine). I get turnaround on send/receive
>>>> in about 5 seconds and a new email gets sent in 5 seconds.
>>>>
>>> Check what you have in /etc/resolv.conf . Sounds like it could be a name
>>> resolution problem.
>>
>> Here's the file:
>> ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
>> search domain.invalid
>> nameserver 192.168.254.254
>> nameserver 192.168.254.254
>>
>> The url is that of the DSL modem. Is that what it should be?
>
> No - unless your modem is also a name server.  Your ISP should provide
> you with the ip of a valid name server - check your windows network
> config because it sounds like that already is correct.
>
> I wonder, however, how your machine is resolving any names at all right 
> now.

[ Comin' at you from Windows land, as I've messed up my Linux connection.]

I thought I'd be smart and just delete the network connection and build a 
new one (using the Gnome gui network control). So I deleted eth0. When I 
started the new connection, I saw an option for an "xDSL" connection. So I 
tried that. Put in the info, saved, rebooted. No internect connection. 
OK--so that didn't work. Let's go back, delete that connection, and try to 
build a regular ethernet connection.

Problem: Now when I try to open that window (choosing the Desktop icon from 
the top bar, then System Settings, then Network), it won't open. Instead I 
get an error message about an unhandled error.  When I type in 'ifconfig' on 
the command line, eth0 does not show at all.  Here's the error message:


Component: system-config-network

Version: 1.3.26

Summary: TB40cc7661 ConfPAP.py:86:initvars:IndexError: list index out of 
range

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/sbin/system-config-network-gui", line 166, in main

window = mainDialog()

File 
"/usr/src/build/556832-noarch/install/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", 
line 262, in __init__

File 
"/usr/src/build/556832-noarch/install/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", 
line 294, in load

File 
"/usr/src/build/556832-noarch/install/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", 
line 302, in loadDevices

File 
"/usr/src/build/556832-noarch/install/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCDeviceList.py", 
line 294, in getDeviceList

File 
"/usr/src/build/556832-noarch/install/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCDeviceList.py", 
line 80, in load

File 
"/usr/src/build/556832-noarch/install/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/plugins/NCDevADSL.py", 
line 35, in load

File 
"/usr/src/build/556832-noarch/install/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCDialup.py", 
line 199, in load

File 
"/usr/src/build/556832-noarch/install/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCDialup.py", 
line 127, in load

File 
"/usr/src/build/556832-noarch/install/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NC_functions.py", 
line 297, in getPAPConf

File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhpl/ConfPAP.py", line 33, in 
__init__

Conf.Conf.__init__(self, filename, '#', ' \t', ' \t')

File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhpl/Conf.py", line 181, in __init__

self.read()

File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhpl/ConfPAP.py", line 38, in read

self.initvars()

File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhpl/ConfPAP.py", line 86, in 
initvars

self.vars[var[0]][var[1]] = var[2]

IndexError: list index out of range

Local variables in innermost frame:

var: ['']

self: <rhpl.ConfPAP.ConfPAP instance at 0xb7909eec>

[end error message]

What to do?
--can I set up eth0 manually, using the command line?
--can I rescue the gnome network settings option?

EB
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