On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:14:12PM -0400 or thereabouts, Chad Miller wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:50:13PM -0400, Kevin Carney wrote: > > Recently I tried installing Debian 2.2r3 on my 2000 Powerbook (Pismo). This > > laptop is used in two different places, at work (with a LAN internet > > connection) and at home (with dialup service). At work there is no problem > > using lynx to browse the web or using ping. However (this is the problem) > > at home, with dialup service, I can connect to my ISP using wvdial or pon > > but I cannot do anything else. At home, lynx cannot resolve hosts and ping > > does nothing. I have another machine running linux at home (an intel box) > > and I can wvdial every time with no problems. What gives? Any help would > > be greatly appreciated. > > If you haven't turned down the ethernet interface, you may still have a > route set up for the local network and (through that) to the internet. > > Run 'route -n'. Where's your default route?
I am having the same problem with a Debian distribution on a PC laptop. There is a default route set and God only knows where it's coming from. (grepping through the /etc directory didn't show anything.) > > Having your powerbook use dhcp and request an ip address every time it's > booted/resumed will make your life easier. Don't hard-code addresses (and > routes) -- get them from the environment and release them when going to > sleep. Yeah that's fine for you but not everyone can run the "preferred" setup. I seems like Debian is getting sort of a Windows attitude.:) I have a small network at my home where I network various PCs, Amigas and Macs and I use static IP addresses there. Some times I like to connect the computers individually to my ISP for various reasons. Fred
