Hello everyone, I have strange dialup internet problem. I run Debian unstable, I use wvdial, and my main browser is Firbird but I also use Dillo. I use a normal 56k external modem. I keep my computer running all the time and use wvdial to connect to the net when I need to.
The problem is that occasionally, maybe every 5th or 6th time that I connect, wvdial runs perfectly and establishes a connection to my ISP (Bigpond), but my browser won't access any sites. Dillo tells me "unable to resolve...", Firebird tells me "Trying to connect to..." I've tried turning my modem on and off, restarting wvdial, restarting the browsers, restarting X, even logging out completely and logging in again. The ONLY thing that solves the problem is to reboot. Is there a service or daemon that I can stop and restart to avoid rebooting? Here's the output of 'ps aux' after I've failed to connect, and I've shut down my browsers and wvdial: [mark]$ cat working/nonet.txt USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.1 1460 84 ? S Oct22 0:05 init [2] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Oct22 0:00 [kflushd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Oct22 0:00 [kupdate] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Oct22 0:05 [kswapd] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Oct22 0:00 [keventd] daemon 99 0.0 0.0 1572 0 ? SW Oct22 0:00 [portmap] root 189 0.0 0.5 1512 324 ? S Oct22 0:00 /sbin/syslogd root 192 0.0 0.2 1832 172 ? S Oct22 0:00 /sbin/klogd root 204 0.0 0.0 1500 0 ? SW Oct22 0:00 [inetd] root 208 0.0 0.0 1548 0 ? SW Oct22 0:00 [lpd] root 211 0.0 0.0 1512 0 ? SW Oct22 0:26 [lpd] root 241 0.0 0.0 2996 0 ? SW Oct22 0:02 [sshd] root 250 0.0 1.6 5372 1036 ? S Oct22 0:19 /usr/bin/X11/xfs -daemon root 309 0.0 0.0 2684 0 ? SW Oct22 0:00 [bash] root 312 0.0 0.1 4352 112 ? S Oct22 0:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xprt -ac -pn -nolisten tcp -audit 4 -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/f onts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc :64 root 313 0.0 0.0 1456 0 ? SW Oct22 0:00 [tee] root 314 0.0 0.0 1448 0 ? SW Oct22 0:00 [logger] root 324 0.0 0.0 1628 0 ? SW Oct22 0:00 [rpc.statd] root 329 0.0 0.1 1904 84 ? S Oct22 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd root 331 0.0 0.1 1904 84 ? S Oct22 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd daemon 334 0.0 0.0 1652 60 ? S Oct22 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd root 337 0.0 0.2 1716 176 ? S Oct22 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron mark 342 0.0 0.0 2620 0 tty1 SW Oct22 0:00 [bash] root 343 0.0 0.0 1456 0 tty2 SW Oct22 0:00 [getty] root 344 0.0 0.0 1456 0 tty3 SW Oct22 0:00 [getty] root 345 0.0 0.0 1456 0 tty4 SW Oct22 0:00 [getty] root 346 0.0 0.0 1456 0 tty5 SW Oct22 0:00 [getty] root 347 0.0 0.0 1456 0 tty6 SW Oct22 0:00 [getty] mark 350 0.0 0.0 2296 0 tty1 SW Oct22 0:00 [startx] mark 361 0.0 0.0 2260 0 tty1 SW Oct22 0:00 [xinit] root 362 0.4 7.8 11708 4896 ? S< Oct22 9:29 /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp mark 366 0.0 0.0 2284 0 tty1 SW Oct22 0:00 [sh] mark 370 0.0 2.0 5988 1272 tty1 S Oct22 0:19 icewm mark 398 0.0 0.9 2776 568 ? S Oct22 0:01 rxvt -ls -bg black -cr green -fg white -C -fn 9x15 -sl 500 mark 399 0.0 1.5 2640 960 pts/0 S Oct22 0:00 -bash mark 1324 0.0 1.3 2828 840 pts/0 R 06:45 0:00 ps aux Suggestions gratefully recieved, but I won't be able to test them until the problem reccurs. Also, as you can tell, I'm not a technical user. mark __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
