There are two things that general happen in a situation like this.
1) The PPP connection is not connected.
2) Your nameserver is not set up.
For #1, make your connection, become root on a console, and run
"ifconfig". You whould see an entry that looks like the following:
ppp0 Link encap:P-T-P
inet addr:123.456.189.123 Bcast:123.456.189.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1182573 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:823065 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:5 carrier:0
collisions:23243 txqueuelen:100
If you don't have this, you have no ppp connection. Fixing that goes
into a little bit more depth.
For #2, if you have the right response from ifconfig, then you probably
have a name resolution problem. Try pinging a known IP (your ISP uses
204.214.110.225 as the primary DNS, so try that). If that works, try
pinging ns1.harborside.com. If you can't ping that one, then you do not
have a good nameserver set up. Write the following invormation verbatim
into /etc/resolv.conf (notice, no "e" after the "v"):
search harborside.com
nameserver 204.214.110.225
nameserver 192.135.191.1
nameserver 192.135.191.3
nameserver 204.71.127.2
Steve wrote:
> Sorry for the yelling but I am real frustrated. I just installed RH
> 6.1 on to a HD, set up my PPP dialer, But can not get my Netscape or
> chat to work, Please help me. BTW I live in Florence.
--
"I was on a Boston to New York shuttle flight that gets stuck on the runway for 3 hours
with no explanation. Worse, I'm sitting in front of three idiot consultants from
Razorfish
who spend the whole time talking loudly and incessantly. Remarkably, not one word of it
resembled any productive activity in the slightest. 'So, I conducted a series of group
discussion sessions to quantify how they establish their procedures.' 'But, Bianca, how
did you formulate the framework for evaluating their paradigms?'
My favorite line - Bianca is irate because a client asked her for some concrete
bit of information: 'Can you believe that? Hello? I'm an Information Architect, not a
Knowledge Engineer!'" --dump() on slashdot
