On Friday 29 August 2003 04:33 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?
Mis-configured DNS server, probably (either no ip for the dns servers or ip is incorrect). In KPPP, under the DNS tab, be sure that the domain name and the IP address of the servers is correct (yes, you MUST have a DNS server IP). You may need a #service network restart or a reboot to get it going. (Yes, somethimes rebooting does fix problems in Linux, in spite of what you may have heard). If you have a samba network configured, an /etc/resolv.conf entry could be the problem (unlikely, but could be). Your ISP's domain should show up there as "domain whatever.com", along with an entry for it in the "search" line--search whatever.com. Another file that used to cause problems (but not in the 9.x series, as far as I know) is the /etc/sysconfig/network could have an invalid entry, but with the newer distros this is extremely unlikely. If nothing you try works, as a last resort, delete the ~/.kde directory, logout and then back into KDE, and remake the KPPP connection properly. I have seen KPPP get locked-in and simply not work due to some internal error during configuration, and this will fix that particular problem. External modems (except for some USB) will always work with Linux.
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