[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> List,
>
> I have had a problem trying to upgrade kernel, using
> MandrakeUpdate. I did the initscripts, kernel and kernel
> source in one hit. All downloaded ok, and seemed to install
> ok. modified /etc/lilo.conf and re-ran lilo so it now looks
> at the new /boot/kernelblhblah22mdk.
>
> Once in, all seems to go ok except that kppp now has some
> difficulty with resolving dns names (or something along
> those lines). Connects ok, despite an error dialogue that
> says ppp support is not in the current kernel.
> /var/log/messages shows that the connection to ISP is made,
> and a local and remote IP are listed, so I assume that the
> login and connection are negotiated ok at some level.
>
> >From there on the problem is that I can not see anything on
> the dial-up network beyond being able to ping to the remote
> IP address. No name resolution happens, so no mail, no web,
> no news etc. e.g. if I ping to the DNS name for the ISP I
> get no response.
>
> I had a look around /etc and files like resolv.conf seem to
> be intact. Any pointers to where I should look next please?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bruce Moffatt
Axalon,
Note the same error dialogue in kppp as I reported. Maybe there is a
kernel problem not a kppp test problem?
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