[Techtalk] LinkedIn Ubuntu connection weirdness

[Anne Wainwright]

Hello, Meryll,

Have you checked your browser settings? Maybe you have disabled pop ups
or accidentally set the appropriate pages as non-allowable?

Anne


On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:41:25 -0800
"Meryll Larkin" <mll at alwanza.com> wrote:

> Tech problem:  internet connection to LinkedIn on Ubuntu from
> Coffeeshop.
> 
> I have a Ubuntu (EeePC, Easy Peasy) laptop.  I can connect to every
> LinkedIn page in my account when I am at home on my home wireless.  
> 
> There is a coffeeshop where I go regularly for tech meetings.  All
> the other members use Windows laptops.  I CAN connect fine to EVERY
> www site I have tried on the internet except LinkedIn.  I can get to
> the first page of my account, but any link I click inside LinkedIn
> (like my Inbox, or Profile) will just keep trying to access and never
> get there.  The members with Windows laptops aren't having this
> problem.  I can't accept or send invitations to "join my network"
> from the coffeeshop.
> 
> I have tried Chrome and Firefox.  In each I have tried emptying my
> internet cache and my cookies.  I have tried changing the MTU to
> 1000, 1200, 1360, in /etc/network/interfaces (and restarting my
> network services, finally thinking there must be something I missed,
> restarting my laptop) because this is what I found recommended
> online.  I have tried installing nscd and flushing my dns.
> 
> I am totally baffled as to why my follow members who have Windows
> laptops can access LinkedIn from this coffeeshop and I cannot.  Any
> ideas?
> 
> TIA,
> Meryll
> 
> 
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