[Novalug] Anyone else for whom Arlington County Public Schools website DOESN'T work in linux? was: Arlington County Public Schools website: Windows only? (2nd attempt)

[Julia Christianson]

I have Verizon FIOS in Arlington, using their router, and have no
problem with the site (Kubuntu 7.10, Firefox 2.0.0.12).

-- Julia

Sean Spurrier wrote:
> Craig,
>  
>    I am on verizon FIOS ..same router and triple play pack (so phone,
> internet and TV through verizon) and I am able to use Ubuntu 7.10 and
> Centos 5.1 on a x86_64 build to open the site using firefox and opera
> (latest versions available via apt/yum main repos)
>  
> Sean Spurrier
> 
> On Feb 5, 2008 2:47 PM, Duane C. Mallory <malloryd at themallorys.us
> <mailto:malloryd at themallorys.us>> wrote:
> 
>     This worked fine with my setup. I am on FIOS, but since I don't have
>     FIOS-TV (I'm so hooked on my DirecTivo that I am afraid to try
>     Verizon's DVR) I am not using the Verizon supplied router. I am
>     using a Linksys with DD-WRT installed on it.
> 
>     DCM
> 
> 
> 
>     Tom Rhodes wrote:
>>     On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 06:49:37 -0500
>>     "Craig Pennington" <cpenning at gmail.com> <mailto:cpenning at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>       
>>>     Thanks Tom,
>>>
>>>     I'm almost positive it has to do with my router at this point. My last
>>>     check will be to lug the old iBook down to the local free wifi hotspot
>>>     & try from there. I expect that to work. And I can try to drop in a
>>>     different router as a check (but I'm using FIOS TV which has a coax
>>>     connection into the MI424WR, so that can't be a permanent solution.) I
>>>     wonder if I can proxy the web connection through the vmware XP
>>>     instance? Darn this is frustrating.
>>>
>>>     Cheers,
>>>       Craig P
>>>         
>>     I'm not on FIOS.  So this may not be possible.  But I'd try to
>>     bypass the router and do a direct connection and/or try just
>>     resetting the router.  Those would be my first steps in debugging
>>     the issue.  Good luck,
>>
>>     [Context lost due to top posting, original messages below]
>>
>>
>>       
>>>     On Feb 5, 2008 6:37 AM, Tom Rhodes <trhodes at freebsd.org> <mailto:trhodes at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>         
>>>>     On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 05:45:06 -0500
>>>>     "Craig Pennington" <cpenning at gmail.com> <mailto:cpenning at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>           
>>>>>     Thanks. My problem is obviously more than just OS related (why is it a
>>>>>     site my wife cares about? I could live with vmware/XP work around.) Is
>>>>>     there anyone else for whom <http://www.apsva.us/aps/site/default.asp>
>>>>>     hangs in linux (or OSX?) If so, I'd like to compare notes:
>>>>>             
>>>>     Just adding to the trail.  Works fine here, firefox on FreeBSD
>>>>     8.0 CURRENT (development version).
>>>>
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