On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 08:33, Anarky wrote: > I'm asking this for a friend: > she installed Mandrake 9.1, and dial-up worked ... well .. pretty much > (I was suprsied because I have never seen a dialup modem working with > linux) ... thing is: it connects to the isp ... but any website one > tries to browse to ... it says 'could not reach host' .. or something > like htat .. so it actually connects, uses the password ... logs in ... > but then everythign is like if it were offline. Ideas please?
In MCC (Mandrake Control Center) > Network & Internet > DrakConnect run the wizard and tell it to use the modem as the internet connection. Alternatively I think you can just edit /etc/sysconfig/drakconnect and change the type to modem: type=modem and then restart the network with: # service network restart Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today
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