On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:34:36PM -0800, J Y wrote: > I spent some time reading pppd man8 and after experimenting with > /etc/ppp/options I found that commenting out the "connect" line gave > me > an appearance of kppp connecting. By-the-way I have checked permissions > and they seem to be ok. So kppp's statistics box shows activity both in > the bottom graph and in the virtual modem lights. When I open lynx > though and arrow down to google I get "Alert: unable to connect to > remote host" Mozilla's dialogue box just says whatever url I type or > click on in debians local page "...could not be found check the name and > try again." And yes I have tried to dialout many times. I'm getting a > little punchy with this problem. Sorry about the email foul ups. > Should I try to reinstall the dialout or whatever software group debian > calls it with taskel? .
Well, have you in fact connected, according to plog? And can you ping a numeric IP (try 'ping 195.40.1.36') ? If so, could be your DNS isn't working. With a dialup, chances are your ISP's giving you "dynamic DNS". Try sticking "usepeerdns" in the relevant file in /etc/ppp/peers (default /etc/ppp/peers/provider). -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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