[olpc-help] Ping but no browsing?

[Tom Stewart]

You drive on the left "down" there?! That probably explains *a lot* of  
problems I've been having! ;-)

--Tom

Quoting Eleanor <community-support at lists.laptop.org>:

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> Based on a post I found at
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> http://www.olpchelp.org/forums/showthread.php?t=121&highlight=cannot+browse ,
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> I disabled ipv6 in the browser, and it's now getting through. So   
> there it is --- anyone else with these effects, maybe give that a   
> shot.
>
> Eleanor
>
> [ For the record, what I believe is going on is that early last year  
>  (07) I disabled an ipv6-enabling setting in the Airport wireless   
> base station --- it's apparently a security issue. Then left for six  
>  months, moved temporarily to Boston, and used of course a different  
>  base station for which everything XO worked. Arrived back home  
> today  (Sydney Australia) and suddenly the XO browsing is not  
> working. The  usual story --- so many things have changed you don't  
> know where to  start thinking. Could it be, for example, that it's  
> because we drive  on the left? Trouble is the Airport utility for  
> Leopard (latest Mac  OS) does not seem to have an option for  
> changing the ipv6 setting,  so I can't turn it back on to test.  
> Tiger (previous OS) did, which  is how I turned it off. Still, it's  
> working now (with WPA2!) and so  I'm happy :-) ]
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