>> "D" == Dylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: D> i ran pppconfig, and wvdial config when i installed... when i do 'pon' D> it dials, connects, and i stay connected, but i try to test the connection D> by pinging several hosts, but it always says: 'yahoo.com: unknown host'.
Looks like a routing or name resolving problem. After you are connected, run "route -n". You should have a line like: [...] 0.0.0.0 194.8.216.203 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 1 ppp0 The first 0.0.0.0 is important. It is the defaultroute all traffic, which can't be routed by the other lines in the route -n output, goes through. If the line is missing, you need to add the defaultroute option to the pppd options. Maybe routing is OK, but you can't resolve names. Can you do a ping 204.71.177.35 (this is www6.yahoo.com) ? /etc/resolv.conf should read: nameserver ip.of.your.DNSserver /etc/host.conf: order hosts, bind multi on Ciao, Martin PS: Your ! key is stuck. And you don't have to explicitly ask for help in the subject line. That's why we are here. <shameless plug> If you have X running, you could give xisp a try. A very nice pppd frontend with multiple ISP configuration and phonecost accounting. Brought to you by your fearless and extremely good looking maintainer into the slink distribution :-) http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/xisp.html </shameless plug>