Do you have DNS #'s for the isp listed in the settings of the ppp connection? I ran
into that problem myself today.
"Thomas J. Hamman" wrote:
> I'm trying to help someone else get Mandrake to work, and she is having a
> problem with her PPP connection.
>
> Basically, her modem seems to work fine, and apparently she can connect fine to
> her ISP without any trouble. However, she cannot connect to anything else (or
> at least not receive any transmitted data from anything else). For example if
> she tries to retrieve a webpage with Netscape, she gets to the 'contacted host,
> waiting for reply' (or something like that) message and then gets nothing else.
> Results are similar with other programs (like telnet).
>
> Does anyone know what would cause this, and how to fix it?
>
> Note: During the install LILO failed to install in her MBR, and the boot
> disk creation failed also, so I have her using loadlin to boot Linux... but
> otherwise her installation seems fine.
>
> -Tom
