Hi What modem are you using?? Did you use the mandrake internet connection wizard?? Please give us some more information so we can help.
Aaron On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 08:09, Margot wrote: > I'm a very newbie running Mandrake 9 and I can't get it to connect to the > internet. > > My ISP is eurobell. I've set up the connection in MCC, and that bit seems to > work OK - it dials, verifies my username and password, and is clocking up a > penny a minute for the connection when I test it - but I can't get any > further than that. > > I've tried setting up my details (username, password, server names as > supplied by eurobell), but when I use the various applications to try to > access www, usenet, email accounts I just get error messages - message > wording varies depending on the application, but amounting to "host eurobell > unknown". > > I've checked the documentation on the machine and printed out several trees > worth, but still can't crack this. The only documentation I found that seems > relevant told me that the host name should be in the /etc/hosts file. This > is what my /etc/hosts file contains: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > 192.168.0.50 home > > No mention of eurobell in the file. Should I add something here and, if so, > what? > > I've been reading this list for a couple of weeks and picked up some useful > tips, but nobody seems to have exactly the same problem as me. Luckily I > still have the old Win 98 machine running so I can access the mailing list - > but it is annoying to have to unplug the modem and keep moving it from one > machine to the other as they are in different rooms! > > I tried eurobell's tech support, but their first question was "which version > of Windows do you have?" and the conversation went downhill from there..... > > Can anyone help? TIA > Margot Lawrence > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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