shinka
May 12th, 2008, 04:30 PM
Hi there. First some background.
I use an IBM thinkpad laptop, connected with an embedded wireless connector to a BT Voyager network router.
I use Ubuntu 8.04
I tried to Dual boot with windows BUT:
Windows XP doesn't like me being able to run ubuntu upon demand
Windows XP doesn't come with a wireless driver, so I can't do anything.
So I had to reinstall Ubuntu
Now, the problem is this:
I have tried to access the following MMORPG gaming sites
http://www.silkroadonline.net
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com
and all the variations, plus cache pages through google.
Basically, it (firefox) tells me that these sites are unreachable. Now, meanwhile I am talking to an American friend on XP who is accessing these sites at the same time. So it must be a problem at my end.
When I downloaded Silkonline offi1 and offi8, neither works thru wine. They come up with messages saying that the client is for use after a certain patch. (Legend 2). So onto a torrent site again, but it is wayyy too slow (11kb/s - meh, average when there are only a couple of seeds) and my guess is that they are out of date anyway, and I need the real site to get the official clients.
So is there a way for me to be able to access the real mmo sites? I can't find it elsewhere, and it only seems to be these and other MMORPG websites that I can't access (eg Yahoo, google, msn, microsoft.com, ubuntuforums, miniclip, torrent websites ALL WORK - Its only these MMORPG sites.)
I have flash installed, so it isn't that.
Thanks for your help.
The wireless net card is I think an intel pro model.
To a certain extent, I wish I had stuck with XP, cos it worked originally, and now I can't get MMORPGs, this PC is basically a work pc! Oh no! :p
I use an IBM thinkpad laptop, connected with an embedded wireless connector to a BT Voyager network router.
I use Ubuntu 8.04
I tried to Dual boot with windows BUT:
Windows XP doesn't like me being able to run ubuntu upon demand
Windows XP doesn't come with a wireless driver, so I can't do anything.
So I had to reinstall Ubuntu
Now, the problem is this:
I have tried to access the following MMORPG gaming sites
http://www.silkroadonline.net
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com
and all the variations, plus cache pages through google.
Basically, it (firefox) tells me that these sites are unreachable. Now, meanwhile I am talking to an American friend on XP who is accessing these sites at the same time. So it must be a problem at my end.
When I downloaded Silkonline offi1 and offi8, neither works thru wine. They come up with messages saying that the client is for use after a certain patch. (Legend 2). So onto a torrent site again, but it is wayyy too slow (11kb/s - meh, average when there are only a couple of seeds) and my guess is that they are out of date anyway, and I need the real site to get the official clients.
So is there a way for me to be able to access the real mmo sites? I can't find it elsewhere, and it only seems to be these and other MMORPG websites that I can't access (eg Yahoo, google, msn, microsoft.com, ubuntuforums, miniclip, torrent websites ALL WORK - Its only these MMORPG sites.)
I have flash installed, so it isn't that.
Thanks for your help.
The wireless net card is I think an intel pro model.
To a certain extent, I wish I had stuck with XP, cos it worked originally, and now I can't get MMORPGs, this PC is basically a work pc! Oh no! :p