On Friday 29 August 2003 08:33 pm, Anarky wrote: > I'm asking this for a friend: > she installed Mandrake 9.1, and dial-up worked ... well .. > pretty much (I was suprsied because I have never seen a dialup > modem working with linux) ... thing is: it connects to the isp > ... but any website one tries to browse to ... it says 'could > not reach host' .. or something like htat .. so it actually > connects, uses the password ... logs in ... but then > everythign is like if it were offline. Ideas please?
I vaguely remember this problem from my modem days. It seems that you can connect, but can't resolve hostnames. What dialer do you use ? - If it's the KDE one (Internet Dialer),open the settings dialog and make sure to set the correct DNS servers (you've got them from your ISP). HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk Sent to you from a 100 % Micro$oft-free computer.
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