On Thursday 19 Dec 2002 2:11 pm, Milos Prudek wrote: > Gil Katz wrote: > > If I'm using the Ethernet card I can ping the gateway but when I use the > > modem I cannot. > > Are you using IP address of the gateway, or hostname? > > If IP address ping does not work: you may have incorrect route. Check > with the "route" command. > > If hostname ping does not work, but IP address ping works: your route is > OK, but you have DNS problems. Check /etc/resolv.conf.
Open a shell, su yourself as root and then type [without quotes] `vi /etc/sysconfig/network` there is a line in there: GATEWAY=eth0 change it to: GATEWAY=ppp0 This tells it to use your modem and not the ethernet port as your internet input device. Also worth changing the following lines: FORWARD_IPV4=true NETWORKING=yes Happy surfing :)) regards magnet
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