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'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), 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?
I hope to get it working soon, because I'm about to get an new m/board and
processor, and if I buy just a case I can build a second system out of my
old bits and some spares I've got lying around here. I plan to setup dial on
demand with diald, and I've got a nodename from my ISP, so I'll use Linux as
a mail server, and then also use Apache and mySQL/PostgreSQL (any preference
here?) to work on learning Intranets on UNIX based systems, because writing
ASPs for a continualy crashing NT server at work is getting to me!
Thanks for any help,
Stephen.
