[TAG] Opera dead in the water

[bob van der Poel]

Brian Bilbrey wrote:
> 

> 
> Now: In Firefox (which you say is working), Select from the menu Edit ->
> Preferences. On the General tab, click the connection settings button.
> What does it say there? Of the 4 options (Direct connection, Auto-detect
> proxy, Manual proxy, Automatic proxy), which radio button is enabled? If

Yup, "Direct Connection"

> it says that Direct Connection is the way, well then. I'm confused. If.

I'm confused as well :)

CHecking (again) opera under Tools->Preferences->Advanced->Network it 
says to click for setting proxies if not connected directly to the 
internet. Double checking that, these fields are all empty.

> OTOH, one of the others is selected, and you can translate those
> settings to Opera's Tools -> Preferences: Advanced Tab, Network, click
> on Proxy Servers dialog, then maybe this will have been some help.
> 
> Odd that lynx works, if proxying is on. What does
> 
> echo $http_proxy
> 
> yield, from the commmand line?

Nothing. Nor does "set | grep -i htt"


Just to summarize some things:

- this all worked just fine before I upgraded from dialup to my new 
connection. I had a 8.x version installed (which worked fine). When that 
didn't work with the new connection I dl'd 9.0 beta ... but the results 
are identical.

- every other net aware program I've used so far (Thunderbird, Firefox, 
Bittorrent, gtk-gnutella, ntpd ...) all work just fine.

- the only things I did when the new "modem" was installed was to use 
the Mandriva wizard to set up the ethernet. As soon as the connection 
was established, everything worked. The only thing I didn't need to do 
was to dial in.

My only other GUESS is that it is something to do with my connection. 
The broadband connection is Ka satellite. I did check with the provider, 
but they had nothing on the help system for Opera problems.

Also, I've checked a number of web references and did find some stuff 
similar, but they appear to be of the windows + proxy type.

Getting ready to erase opera ...

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