On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 09:37:50AM -0700, Simmons-Davis wrote: > Dear Debian Group, > > I am unable to run lynx on the Debian 2.2r2 system I recently installed. > After I run "wvdial", connect to my ISP, hit "cntrl z" and then type the > command "lynx" at the command prompt (all as root) I get the following > errors (I have also set http://www.debian.org as my start page for lynx > during the initial configuration, is it incorrect to have a remote host as > my startpage?): > > debian:~# lynx > > Looking up www.debian.org > Unable to locate remote host www.debian.org. > Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. > > lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.debian.org/ > debian:~# > > Please advise me as to how to get lynx working. Thank you very much for your > time and energy. >
I've never used wvdial but there is no reason to be running lynx as root to surf. Try - $ lynx 198.186.203.20 This should get you to the debian site. If it does then you don't have an entry to your dns server in - /etc/resolv.conf Otherwise you probably aren't connected to the net. Can you 'ping' out? kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke