Ubuntu 9.04 and Windows Mobile ICS

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Hey guys

Hopefully someone can assist me here, I'm just about ready to loose my mind.

I just installed 9.04, and think it's pretty good, but I just can't get this working.

I have a Sony Ericsson X1 which runs Windows Mobile 6.1. I activate the ICS on the phone, plug in the USB cable, and I get a network connection on Ubuntu. I can browse to Google and News24 and a few other sites, but things like MyADSL and Ubuntu.com never load. They never show a time out screen either, just seem to sit on the loading screen. Any ideas??? I don't get why some sites would load and others not. The sites are definitely up.
 
Hmm lets see. First identify if its a dns issue.

Ping the addresses and see if it resolves to an IP address. If not use opendns addresses as your dns ip addies.
 
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Ok, I can ping the address, but it seems to take forever between responses, but says about 300ms. I'm going to try a trace, just give me a couple mins to get the laptop up and going again.

Thanks for the idea Peon
 
But also ping websites you can access. And see if you can find a pattern.
 
Ok, I can ping anything and it comes out fine. I tried to use the opendns address just to see, and then I can see it tries to load a page block.opendns.com and just sits there again. The traces are really weird. I'm trying to copy them to my cell so I can post them. I'm on MTN, just for info
 
Here are two traces. From what I can see neither page should load, but Google loads and MyADSL does not.

Google

Hop Hostname IP Time 1 Time 2
1 ubuntu.local 192.168.0.103 0.211ms
1 no reply *

2 10.211.32.98 10.211.32.98 321.953ms

3 10.211.32.97 10.211.32.97 354.022ms

4 10.211.32.141 10.211.32.141 299.346ms

5 196-13-231-220.mtn.co.za 196.13.231.220 224.921ms

6 10.195.11.214 10.195.11.214 138.981ms

7 10.90.211.21 10.90.211.21 273.839ms

8 10.90.211.13 10.90.211.13 214.113ms

9 10.90.1.38 10.90.1.38 274.190ms

10 10.90.204.2 10.90.204.2 273.629ms
11 10.90.204.18 10.90.204.18 265.471ms

12 mtn-nlgprs-1.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net 196.44.8.77 244.103ms

13 rb-dca-1.za--mtn-nlgprs-1.za-a.mtnns.net 196.44.8.76 138.239ms

14 rb-cr-1.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net 196.44.0.146 348.886ms

15 lt-cr-1.za--rb-cr-1.uk-a.mtn.net 196.44.31.1 427.714ms

16 lt-tpr-1--lt-cr-1-a.uk.mtnns.net 209.212.111.129 458.853ms

17 no reply *

MyADSL

Hop Hostname IP Time 1 Time 2
1 ubuntu.local 192.168.0.103 0.201ms
1 no reply *

2 10.211.32.98 10.211.32.98 788.131ms
3 10.211.32.97 10.211.32.97 256.513ms

4 10.211.32.141 10.211.32.141 256.550ms

5 196-13-231-220.mtn.co.za 196.13.231.220 256.560ms

6 10.195.11.214 10.195.11.214 119.298ms
7 10.90.211.21 10.90.211.21 248.440ms
8 10.90.211.13 10.90.211.13 266.323ms

9 10.90.1.38 10.90.1.38 276.474ms

10 10.90.204.2 10.90.204.2 256.708ms

11 10.90.204.18 10.90.204.18 266.284ms

12 mtn-nlgprs-1.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net 196.44.8.77 266.581ms

13 rb-dca-1.za--mtn-nlgprs-1.za-a.mtnns.net 196.44.8.76 79.692ms

14 rb-cr-1.za--rb-dca-1.za-a.mtnns.net 196.44.0.146 79.166ms

15 196.44.31.97 196.44.31.97 79.068ms

16 196.30.213.108 196.30.213.108 265.562ms
17 firewall2b.your-server.co.za 196.31.215.69 256.706ms

18 firewall1.jnb2.host-h.net 196.7.216.173 88.821ms

19 no reply *


I can successfully ping both sites, and can run searches on Google, but on the traces everything onwards from the last entry I have made gives a no reply
 
NP, you can't really rely on tracert these days it does time out like that depending on how those routers are configured to block icmp or not.

Is there no way to just use the phone as a modem with that model instead of ICS ?
 
Drake2007 said:
NP, you can't really rely on tracert these days it does time out like that depending on how those routers are configured to block icmp or not.

Is there no way to just use the phone as a modem with that model instead of ICS ?
Click to expand...

I don't think so, at least I have not found a way to do it.

The main question is why would certain sites load and others just stay at "waiting for site"? It's just weird.
 
Could be those sites that are working you have visited from your phone therefore it has the IP in its cache.
 
I have ubuntu server working fine with these settings also through ICS (on vista though).

cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.0.1


cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.250
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway 192.168.0.1
# dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
# dns-search mshome
 
Hi Drake

Checked all that stuff. I'm using a DHCP address, so most of the stuff is auto configured, but it looks right.

I just loaded WireShark to check that out, and even that looks right. Does anyone have a good understanding of this app? Perhaps I could email you guys the output file and you could give it a once over to see if I am missing something??
 
ok note the #dns-search means it is commented out and hard configured in the resolv.conf file

my concern is relying on a phone to do dhcp.
 
Will try the suggestions above. In Vista it works like a dream over USB and Bluetooth, and in Ubuntu I am getting the correct settings, but something is just a bit off and I can't put my finger on it. I know it's going to be something daft and I'll feel like a right tool, but hey, next time I'll know :D:D

On another note I managed to authenticate to my office domain today, so when I can sort out this weird net thing I'm going to try and use Ubuntu as much as possible.
 
i know the feeling, also had some wierd k@k going on with Vista's ICS end up fixing it but no idea what exactly...
did disable ipv6 and for some reason my dialup was netbios enabled, I swear I never enabled this to begin with.
 
Well guys, I'm sorry to say I'm giving up on this. Been struggling for days now to get a reliable internet connection up, but just not coming right. I love the OS and it does everything else I need it to, but as I work mostly on the road without a net connection its not much use to me. I just can't pinpoint where the problem is...
 
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