Sql*plus, instant client problems

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If I install the windows version and try the connection from a windows machine it works, so the oracle server is working, and there is no problem with the firewalls and so.
I have tried to execute fftrace (to have a kind of log of what programs does)fftrace ./sqlplus user/pass@conn and i saw a lot of lines I paste bellow. I think the last one is read from socket, but I'm not sure and i don't know what to do. I don't know if I can connect without the instant client. I will be very thankfull for any idea you can give me, i don't know what to try.
write(3, "[13-APR-2007 12:49:34:037] nspre"..., 36) = 36
write(3, "reading from transport...\n", 26) = 26
gettimeofday({1176461374, 37784}, NULL) = 0
llseek(3, 0, [63276], SEEKCUR) = 0
write(3, "[13-APR-2007 12:49:34:037] nttrd"..., 34) = 34
write(3, "entry\n", 6) = 6
read(5,

I thank you your help, but even with the trc file I don't know what can cause the problem, I don't understand what does it mean. I will thank more help. This is the last lines of the trace file related to my problem:
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nspsend: 00 2F 00 00 06 04 00 00 |./......|
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nspsend: 00 00 01 06 05 04 03 02 |........|
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nspsend: 01 00 4C 69 6E 75 78 69 |..Linuxi|
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nspsend: 33 38 36 2F 4C 69 6E 75 |386/Linu|
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nspsend: 78 2D 32 2E 30 2E 33 34 |x-2.0.34|
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nspsend: 2D 38 2E 31 2E 30 00 |-8.1.0. |
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nspsend: 47 bytes to transport
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nspsend: normal exit
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nsdofls: exit (0)
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nsdo: nsctxrnk=0
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nsdo: normal exit
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nsdo: entry
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nsdo: cid=0, opcode=85, bl=0, what=0, uflgs=0x0, cflgs=0x3
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nsdo: rank=64, nsctxrnk=0
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nsdo: nsctx: state=8, flg=0x100400d, mvd=0
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nsdo: gtn=127, gtc=127, ptn=10, ptc=2011
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nsdo: switching to application buffer
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nsrdr: entry
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:759] nsrdr: recving a packet
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:760] nsprecv: entry
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:760] nsprecv: reading from transport...
[24-APR-2007 09:18:37:760] nttrd: entry

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