On Saturday 21 December 2002 09:29 am, you wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I have a problem with my dial-up modem. It's just a plain old 56k modem
> I've been using in a computer I had before with MDK 8.0 - 8.2. Since I
> bought this new machine and installed MDK 9.0 for the first time, I am not
> able to ping anything, not even my provider's nameserver or remote server.
> I get a connection, yes, and that seems to work like it always has but
> that's all. If I ping I domain I get ping: unknown host www.... and if I
> ping an IP address I just get timeouts.
> I checked and I don't have any default route with 0.0.0.0. I also don't
> have GATEWAY entry in /etc/sysconfig/network and I put GATEWAY=ppp0 just to
> make sure it's correct. There's no network card to blame on setting a
> default route. Tried the most obvious options in /etc/ppp/options like
> defaultroute and noipdefault. All to no avail. I wouldn't be upset if it
> wasn't that it has always worked with MDK 8.2 and it still works under
> Win98 (dual boot). Any help would be GREATLY appreciated :-)
> TIA,
> Marcio Cordero
Marcio - I have a network card and an external modem - I always have to go
into /etc/sysconfig/network and change a few things. Mine looks like this:
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4=true
HOSTNAME=darkforce.com
DOMAINNAME=com
GATEWAY=
GATEWAYDEV=ppp0
I hope this helps ya.... :-)
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