I have Debian potato on my laptop (Dell Latitude Cpt). I have 2 kernels, 2.0.36 and 2.2.13. For some reasons I had some problems with ppp, while connecting to my provider. Probably I made some mistake. Now the situation is quite strange (at least for me). Using kernel 2.0.36 the connection is OK, while using 2.2.13, the usual "pon" command does not return any error, but afterwards I cannot reach any server: ping something is unsuccesful. It seems the DNS is not reached, but why is it reached changing the kernel? Also sometimes worse thing happen: with 2.0.36 ppp starts and then stops immediately, or, with 2.2.13 the booting process hangs up, while loading the mouse server gmp. In both cases, rebooting makes things work (why?).
If you have any idea, I would be very happy to receive your advise. Thank you very much Alessandro