On Wednesday 23 January 2002 11:16 am, Jason Majors wrote: > I am trying to get a friend's Potato R3 install to connect to his ISP so we > can download and install a version of X that will work. > I ran pppconfig and entered the information correctly, but pppon fails to > connect. > I set up wvdial and ran it. It will connect and even get an IP address for > the ppp connection, but I cannot reach any outside boxes. > Unfortunately I've never set a Debian box up using a modem before, so I'm > stumped about what to do next. Any ideas? > > The ISP is earthlink. > The modem is a USR v.Everything Courrier External on ttyS0. > > Thanks.
have you set up /etc/resolv.conf? it should have a search statement for the isp's domain and numeric ip nameserver statements for each of the isp's dns servers. search <domain name> nameserver <ip address for nameserver> nameserver
