Laptop networking problem with SiS 900 PCI adaptor

[philp]

Hi
I've recently bought a laptop that has a SiS 900-Based Fast Ethernet Adaptor. I installed Fedora 5 and it went on great :) . I am trying to use dhcp. Networking appears to start ok (The output of ifconfig looks good (what I would expect compared to other machines on the same network). I can successfully ping both in & out, but I cant browse the web (unreachable). I installed Fedora with no firewall. I noticed some web sites referencing problems with Fedora 4 and the SiS-900. I tried the fixes suggested, but they did not appear to work for me on Fedora 5. Are those Fedora 4 problems now fixed in Fedora-5? Any kind person out there got any ideas what I can try to get my network working for Fedora-5. My ultimate aim is to get wireless working, but thats another story.

[tomcat]

If you are using firefox, type
about:config
in the webbar, followed by
ipv6
in the filterbar and set "disable ipv6" from false to true. Then check if you get webpages displayed properly.

[philp]

Thank you for responding. I tried this and unfortunately it did not help. Initially I thought that I probably had a problem with my network card. After your suggestion I thought I'd better try some other things. ftp & rlogin both work in & out fine so I presume that means that my network card is fine. It seems that I can't get through my router to the outside world. My other machines on the same network work fine and as far as I can tell have exactly the same settings. However the other machines are running with Fedora 4 (and are not laptops). Its quite possible I have forgotten to do something else that I need to do?

I also thought that I would try a different browser and gave elinks (www browser) a go, but that also comes up with "host not found error".

It seems that I have some sort of problem with my DG834GT firewall router when using my laptop?

If everything else fails I might try and put Fedora 4 on my laptop and see if that works any better, but I would much prefer to use Fedora 5..

Thanks again for your help

[philp]

Its now fixed. I searched the web and found other references to ipV6 problems. I tryed the various fixes that was suggested, but to no avail. Eventually I tryed a suggestion to add the line

alias net-pf-10 off

to the end of the /etc/modprobe.conf file and re-boot.

For what ever reasons this worked fine for me?? I can now get browse the web.

Thanks for your help.