According to Burak Serdar: While burning my CPU.
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> Stephen Newey wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having trouble getting on-line with my ISP. I'm using an internal modem
> > (a regular one, not a Winmodem fortunatly), and it's COM(3) port comes up
> > when the kernel boots as being on IRQ3 along with COM1. Now, the board isn't
> > P'n'P and I've jumpered it to use IRQ5, and Win98 handles it OK. But this
> > may not be an issue anyway, I can communicate with the modem and dial up,
> > though response on Minicom is really slow even though the rate is set to
> > 115,200.
> >
> > I'm using SuSE Linux 5.2 with kernel 2.0.34, which was recently given away
> > with Linux, and I really like it. I've dabbled before, but with downloads,
> > and I never got around to getting everything. Anyway, back to the
> > problem....
> >
> > I'm using the YaST tool with SuSE, which is fairly handy, and I've set the
> > dialup from within it.
>
> I don't know YaST. It's better manually.
>
> > I've set 'tail -f /var/log/messages' to keep an eye
> > on any messages, and I begin dialing. It connects successfully and PPP goes
> > ahead fine, I get the local and remote IPs confirmed in the tail terminal.
> > However, nothing works beyond that, no name resolution (which I've entered
> > into YaST and also attempted to enter it into resolv.conf),
>
> Did you check whether /etc/resolv.conf is correct? And readable by everyone?The
> first time I installed my Linux, I had resolv.conf not readable by regular
> users, when I changed it, everything worked.
> resolv.conf will be something like:
>
> domain something.com
> nameserver ip.of.dns
> nameserver ip.of.second.dns
> ...
>
> And in my system,
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73 Aug 31 19:59 resolv.conf
>
>
> > I can't even
> > ping the IP of the machine I've connected to, it just freezes "sending 56
> > bytes of data" or whatever. any other IP which I know to be valid shows as
> > "network unreachable". Any insight?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
No route to host.
Check your routes.
> >
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> BS
>
>
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Regards Richard.
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