maxalbert writes: > Since receiving your message, I tried "ping debian.org." It > responded... > Once again, however, I'm only able to do this from within pon-poff.
Yes, of course. You are only connected to the Net after running pon and before running poff. > I haven't tried adding a default route as yet,... You don't need to. pppd is doing it. > ...but obviously, something's missing here. No, it looks like you have ppp working correctly. > Even though I've configured exim, it doesn't by itself arouse pppd,... To have it do so you would need to install diald. I think that would be too much for you to attempt now, as it does not have a friendly configuration program. > ...and so it doesn't actually send the messages. You have to run it while connected to the Net. Type 'runq' as root, or put runq in a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d. To get your mail from your isp you must install fetchmail. > Neither does elm+me. Nor should it. It just hands it to exim. > All commands run outside of pon-poff (even to my ISP) result in "hostname > unknown,"... Normal. > ...except for wvdial, which connects me with the ISP, but gives me no > prompt. You can go to another virtual console. However, wvdial is not doing anything pon is not already doing for you. > I've looked at the host.conf file, the hostname file, chatscripts, > chat-secrets, pap-secrets, ppp, and resolv.conf, and they all apparently > match what's recommended. They do. That's why ppp is working just fine. > I'm looking to find a site from which I might download *nix Netscape by > ftp, if that's possible. That's doing it the hard way. Just install navigator-smotif-45 (or communicator if you prefer) from non-free. -- John Hasler This posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.