To quote "Elizabeth R. Chichester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Okay, I made a mistake. When I set up Debian on my home machine, I was # thinking in terms of a home network and so set up networking (through # eth0). Unfortunately, I got ahead of myself and don't have everything # set up. Specifically, I didn't have internet access handled. # # I did set up wvdial during the installation process. It works. I'm # able to connect to the ISP. However, I can't get a DNS reading (i.e., I # can't ping anything successfully). The Gnome ppp dialer (where you can # specify the DNS addresses of the ISP) consistently gives an error # message. # # Does anyone know (or can you direct me) to where I should "disable" # networking so that I can get DNS through my ISP and otherwise get on the # 'net? Just a sample /etc/init.d/networking and /etc/resolv.conf (or # other files) might do the trick.
Sure :) /etc/resolv.conf should look something like: order hosts,bind nameserver ip.address.of.nameserver nameserver ip.address.of.2nd-nameserver That'll probably fix things, but no guarantees ;) Consider this a quick-fix :) David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)