On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Elizabeth R. Chichester wrote:
> 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. I belive that the option 'usepeerdns' in the pppd options file configures your system for that session with the ISP's DNS. Greetz, Sebastiaan > > 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. > > TIA, > > Ron > ./. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
