Re: Problems with serial mouse and network

From: Bas Keur (viper_at_dmrt.net)
Date: 03/21/04

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    Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:51:29 +0100

    | > The mouse is a normal 3 buttons serial mouse, i have also tryed with an
    other
    | > 3 buttons serial mouse made by logitech.
    | you're supposed to configure X11 with /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86cfg device
    | probe. It creates the X configuration file with the values it discovers.

    As in

    # X -configure
    # mv /root/XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config

    | > An other problem is that if connect to some site by lynx the machine try
    | > to query the dns server sending out the packet but the dns server
    | > seems doesnt answer ... after about 30 or 40 seconds the server answer
    and
    | > then lynx connects to the server. I see the entire process with tcpdump.
    | > But the strange thing is that if i resolve the site with the host
    command
    | > the server answer to me without problems a quickly. Also with ping
    everything
    | > works fine but with other app (lynx telnet tin etc) there was these
    problems.
    | > The box was been installed since few hours. And is 3.4 version.

    You are SURE the firewall is flushed/down right ?

    Have a look at the traffic
    # tcpdump -n -t

    | you need a valid nameserver in /etc/resoolv.conf

    I'll put my money on * /etc/resolv.conf * instead :) 

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