-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/28/08 06:25, Walt L. Williams wrote: > Greetings > > I am trying to make the move the Etch. Before I can make the move I need to > insure I can get on the internet. (Much of my college work is on the > internet.) > > I am attempting to connect to my ISP with wvdial. The instructions I found > states that I should run wvdialconf command. I did. It sets a few settings > for you. The instructions state that I should now change the phone number in > the wvdial.conf file to the appropriate settings. I did that. I then ran the > wvdial command per instructions and the dude takes off and dial out and > appears to establish a connection. I try to ping my college's server and > nothing. I tried to view a web page with a browser and nothing. (I did all > the above as root.) > > The ifconfig seems to show that I am connected. Running the route command > shows that there is an entry for ppp0.
What IP address does it give you? > Now am I missing something? No messing around with the resolve.conf file of > hosts file? Is there a default route that I am missing that needs to be > changed? > > Connecting to the internet is now the only barrier that keeps me from making > the move to Etch, and removing the SuSE 10.3 (which has a slew of odd > problems) from my system. Any information will be helpful. > > Best Regards > Walt L. Williams > > I have a 1.2 GHZ AMD Athlon, with an external USR V-Everything modem. dhcpcd is installed and configured correctly? I'd run "# tail -f /var/log/syslog" in a separate window while running wvdial, to see what happens. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate vegetables!" unknown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHnc1uS9HxQb37XmcRAmqeAJ9192b6H9Tn4fswxoNByln1LtdSZACg7A8p cwBB5K9T+T/m9OPuE7QA1Ps= =mqU3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
