Still couldn't fix Freddie's machine. Earlier today I took the wifi card out and stuck in a wifi dongle instead, and it reports this connection firewalled as well. It's strange because it could see the router.
Anyway, it's happily running Edubuntu instead of Windows now and apart from needing the dongle because there were no Linux Broadcom drivers all is well. Installing Ubuntu was easier than f*ck about trying to sort it out and keep Windows...
Freddie likes Tuxpaint, so double bonus.
Is it just the cynic in me that's wondering why a service pack for what was an otherwise pretty robust and well sorted, but ultimately super-seded OS is causing problems like this?
Abo gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
You want the connection to be firewalled. It should be firewalled. It just means the Windows firewall is on, and protecting the machine against naughty inbound traffic.
It's preventing all traffic. Switching it off made no difference. There is a thread further down; installing SP3 broke it, and I've never seen it do this before (it didn't do it on the machine I'm using now), but it did it three times on a fresh install on two machines. The best I could do was make it see the router after SP3 but still no internet.
Anyway, Windows is gone, Ubuntu is working, PC is connected to the internet and the kids are happy...
Abo gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
Which merely proves that it's not the firewall that's the issue.
I'd suspect driver issues. What's the NIC?
Good man. I've been using Ubuntu on my daily machine for damn near 18mo.
Yeah I know. Here's what happened: started with bare PC, installed XP SP1 from my original disk, installed wifi drivers and everything worked. Ran Windows update and installed SP2. Everything fine so far. Ran update and installed SP3. Everything appeared to work; following a restart the internet was gone. Network Connections reported the connection as firewalled; disabling it made no difference. Reinstalled the wifi card, no difference. Physically removed the card from the machine and replaced with a dongle; again no difference. I then completely tore the machine down and rebuilt it with the dongle attached, exactly the same problem as above. Tore it down again and installed Ubuntu; no problems at all...
Tried two different wifi cards with the latest drivers for them
Yeah, I'd be using it on this machine but I can't get my iPod working with it for some reason. I use Ubuntu on my laptop though.
Ah yeah, the card is a BT Voyager 1040 which came in the machine when I was given it. No Linux drivers for this either :(
The dongle is some £10 TP-Link thing which works fine, it even mentions Linux in the list of supported OS on the back of the box.
Abo gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
libgpod installed?
Something strange certainly happens with SP3 - but since it's mainly about stopping viruses etc it's not surprising. I have a RISC OS machine networked to a PC running XP (just for file sharing where appropriate) and after installing SP3 this stopped working. Regardless of the state of firewalls, etc. But only on DiscC. F continues to share ok.
Recently changed to a new-ish PC (with a fresh install of XP Pro on it) and after whacking in the hard drive I keep all files, copies of installation CDs etc on, I set about setting everything up. Ended up updating to SP3 as a result of "Windows Installer" not being the latest version that was required to install the latest version of MSN Messenger (sorry, Windows Live). As a result everything worked fine apart from my scanner, which refused point blank to work. In the end removing SP3 sorted everything out.
Yeah, all done. I've tried it with Amarok and Rhythmbox; there was a problem where Ubuntu reported the iPod to be mounted but neither bit of software would recognise this. After much fiddling about in the terminal Rhythmbox saw the iPod, but would freeze when transferring files across.
I'll probably give it another try sometime, I'd prefer to be using Ubuntu and the iPod is the only thing stopping from switching over completely.
Hmm, I might try getting it to work with the laptop. Then I'll just copy all my music over to there if it works.
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