Incoming from Phil: > I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP, I pon and get BSD compression > messages and the like, the modem lights all go on and seem to be > functioning properly, the data transmit lights seem to send the the data > necessary to logon but browsers don't work in KDE or Gnome. > > How can I test this situation in terminal mode to see if this PPP > connection is really working. why are the browsers not accessing the web??
ping -c 2 64.233.167.104 ping -c 2 www.google.com If the latter says something like "unknown host" or "cannot resolve www.google.com", you've a dns problem. What's in /etc/resolv.conf? If neither of them say anything intelligible, then you haven't actually created a connection. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
