Hello SLUG members I am new to SLUG and I hope that the following request for assistance is acceptable in this exhalted company.
I am a strong supporter of the open source philosophy and I have been attempting to use Linux exclusively, at home at least. I use it in my teaching whenever possible in the Windows site where I work. I have RedHat 6.1 running on a pentium 166 and on the weekend I installed Mandrake 9.0 onto an AMDK63 (a very easy installation, by the way) from the disks on the cover of this month's Australian Personal Computer magazine. I thought that I would try before buying the boxed set. My problem is Internet access. I can make a connection using ppp, evidenced by the route and ipcongig commands which show a connection. However, ftp attempts in an xterm get a "No route to host" error message, and the browser cannot find URLs or even IP addresses. I have checked the /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/host.conf files and they are the same as those on the (fully functional) RedHat machine. My question is: What other configuration files should I check and compare with the RedHat installation? I have tried just about every combination of parameters in the graphical kppp configuration tool, to no avail. Thank you, Bill Chivers --------------------------------------------- William J. Chivers Lecturer in Information Technology School of DCIT Faculty of Science and Information Technology University of Newcastle---Ourimbah Campus PO Box 127, Ourimbah, NSW 2259 Australia phone: +61 2 4349 4473 fax: +61 2 4348 4145 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
