When you say :
> But the connection works....
what makes you think it is working?
> When i then click on the connect button it says it is connecting again, and comes
>with the same message (failed)
> and,,, yes the web browsers are not working..
This means it is not working ( or at least not doing what you want. )
> How can i know for sure if my computer is connected or not?
> It can be rather expensive to be online all day..
if you start an xconsole up and then type
ifconfig ( then press the enter key )
you should get information about the interfaces.
I have not used an ISDN modem but you should get at least 2 interfaces
my PC is on a network so I get :
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A7:10:D4:79
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4508 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5006 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:57 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2566221 (2.4 Mb) TX bytes:563387 (550.1 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xff00
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:484 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:484 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:33880 (33.0 Kb) TX bytes:33880 (33.0 Kb)
You should get the lo one and probably one for ppp0 ( or similar )
If you are also on a network you will get the eth0 one as well.
If you only get lo then you have not got your internet connection set up.
and your dialup connection will also need configuring.
Did you have the ISDN modem and switched on when you installed Mandrake?
I would have expected it to offer to set it up at that time if you did.
hth
norm
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