It's done!!!
OK, tried disabling the firewall and that's what I got:
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted. 
So I checked in groups.google and that was some hint the machine and it's
gateway are in different subnets. I should either make sure they are in the
same subnet or enable ip forwarding. And with your hint to enabling ip
forwarding in /etc/sysconfig/network plus the GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 now everything is
working!
Thanks a lot to all. I haven't used dial-up modems for quite a few years and
my parents were almost losing trust in me as the modem didn't work out of
the box.
Thanks again.
Marcio Cordero

> On Saturday 21 December 2002 09:29 am, you wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > I have a problem with my dial-up modem. It's just a plain old 56k modem
> > I've been using in a computer I had before with MDK 8.0 - 8.2. Since I
> > bought this new machine and installed MDK 9.0 for the first time, I am
> not
> > able to ping anything, not even my provider's nameserver or remote
> server.
> > I get a connection, yes, and that seems to work like it always has but
> > that's all. If I ping I domain I get ping: unknown host www.... and if I
> > ping an IP address I just get timeouts.
> > I checked and I don't have any default route with 0.0.0.0. I also don't
> > have GATEWAY entry in /etc/sysconfig/network and I put GATEWAY=ppp0 just
> to
> > make sure it's correct. There's no network card to blame on setting a
> > default route. Tried the most obvious options in /etc/ppp/options like
> > defaultroute and noipdefault. All to no avail. I wouldn't be upset if it
> > wasn't that it has always worked with MDK 8.2 and it still works under
> > Win98 (dual boot). Any help would be GREATLY appreciated :-)
> > TIA,
> > Marcio Cordero
> 
> Marcio - I have a network card and an external modem - I always have to go
> 
> into /etc/sysconfig/network and change a few things. Mine looks like this:
> 
> NETWORKING=yes
> FORWARD_IPV4=true
> HOSTNAME=darkforce.com
> DOMAINNAME=com
> GATEWAY=
> GATEWAYDEV=ppp0
> 
> 
> I hope this helps ya.... :-)
> 
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