I send this email from Windows because I have not managed to get my internet
connection to work on Mandrake 7.0. I suspect that "provider" may not be
installed, because when I enter "man provider" at a command line, i get "No
manual entry for provider" (I do have manual entries for all other stuff I
tried). How can I test whether that is installed, and in what package would
it be? A search for a file named provider through my entire system turned up
zilch, but I found a program provideIP.
I can establish a connection with my ISP through kppp, but that's about it.
Obviously my DNS service does not work. When, from a command line, I do
"ping whitehouse.gov", nothing happens (I can see the outgoing packets in
kpp-details, but none come in, and there is no output in the console. When I
try "ping 198.137.241.30" (this is the address of whitehouse gov), I see
pings going in and out in kppp-details, but from the command line I get
messages returned like "46 packets transmitted, 0 packets received". In kpp
statistics, packets out and non-vj have the same number in them (I don't
know what non-vj means), whereas packets in has a nice high number, but all
three numbers under it are 0 (vjcomp.in , vjunc.in , vjerr). Finally, when I
ping the remote address things work well, I get as many packets in as out
reported on the command line.
Running Netscape I got the warning that Netscape could not locate
internic.net, and the suggestion I should set the environment variable
$SOCKS_NS to my name server, which i tried, but which did not change things.
On my system log I found the following debug messages which may be relevant:
Connect ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
LCP: timeout sending config-requests
Connection terminated
Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
I read through the entire help system of kpp and worked for hours trying to
fix this, but I am at my wit's end. Any help from you guys would be greatly
appreciated.
Peter Henningsen
alifegames.com
