A few MOL questions

David Paul BELANGER mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:01:02 -0500


On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:26:35AM -0700, Marcio Luis Teixeira wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 23 January 2003 04:27 pm, David Paul BELANGER wrote:
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> > I think this is normal.  It does the same thing on my computer.  I don't
> > know the reason.  The answer may be in the mail archives.
> 
> Thanks for your reply to my questions. As for the icon, I did eventually find 
> one reference to it and a suggestion to paste a custom icon.
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> 
> > I'm using the tun networking.  Basically it does a mini-network between
> > both OSes.  Linux is on both that mini-network and the outside network.
> 
> Can I ask you which version of MOL you are using? I'm having peculiar problems 
It's 0.9.65.
I'm using the one from the debian distribution but I compiled my own
kernel module.


> with MOL 0.9.65 and also 0.9.67. Here's the thing: I was able to successfully 
> set up networking using "tun" and from within Mac OS X, I am able to ping 
> other hosts, by name and by IP, and even telnet to them, but from within IE, 
> when I try to load pages, I always get error messages like this:
> 
>   The attempt to load 'Accessing URL: http://www.whatever.com/' failed.
> 
> The Apple Help browser also takes a very long time to start up. Oddly, from 
> the command line, I can use a telnet to port 80 to retrieve web pages from 
> the exact same servers that I was not able to reach from IE. So, apparently, 
> everything works from the command line, but not from within the web browser.
> 
> I'm rather stumped with this problem right now and haven't found a solution on 
> the archives.
> 
> Marcio Luis Teixeira
> 
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