Jan Svitok wrote:
> On 10/4/06, bradphelan <bradphelan / gmail.com> wrote:
>> So it seems to be listening but neither firefox or wget can make a
>> connection ??
> 
> Right. The output seems fine. I don't have a clue what could be the
> problem. Some more tips:
> 
> 1. try running mongrel with specific address: -a 127.0.0.1
> 2. try using your outer address (-a 192.186.1.5)
I gave that a go but no joy
> 3. are you using some kind of firewall that could block the traffic?
> 4. try using webrick instead of mongrel
> 

It is very strange because here at work I have an ubuntu box running 
pretty much the same setup except it has ethernet instead of WIFI and
desktop instead of laptop. I had no troubles.

at home my firewall is at the wireless router, no clever software
firewall stuff installed by me.

However you give me one idea. I have installed vmware player and 
everytime I run apt-get the player tries to reconfigure it's network
connections. Perhapps the setup for vmware player has done some
ugly stuff to my settings. I am not running vmware player during
the typo tries but perhapps there are some daemons running anyways
causing havoc.

I will try the other suggestions too when I get home tonight.

Ta for the suggestions.

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Brad Phelan
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