Jesse Ross | jesseross.com

I had been struggling with this issue for months on my other Linux boxes, and finally discovered the solution.

If you install Ubuntu, and everything goes smoothly, but then you try to load google.com or yahoo.com or some of the other big sites in Firefox and nothing works, here’s the fix:

try disabling ipv6 if it is not already done by doing this:

gedit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases

find the line:

alias net-pf-10 ipv6

and replace with:

alias net-pf-10 off #ipv6

Oh yeah, and you’ll have to be root, so you may want to preface those gedits with sudo.

Went awesome. It picked up everything I’ve tested so far. I had issues with the Live CD not seeing my wireless card, but the installation did, so I’m golden. I’ve been quite impressed by this system. I’m totally loving the monitor resolution (1400×1050) and big screen (14″), and, like I said earlier, this is just a really responsive system. Call me a satisfied customer.

About the only things still driving me crazy are the whole “clickable trackpad” issue and the strangeness I’ve been having with Firefox. Apparently there is some kind of issue with Firestarter, the firewall software, and there are a bunch of sites that I can’t hit at all, Google being one of them. It’s very irregular — every so often I can get through, but most of the time it just times out. Pretty annoying, so I’m upgrading to the latest version of Ubuntu, which hasn’t been officially released yet, to see if that clears up this issue. It might make everything go totally to hell. We’ll find out soon, I guess.