check your dns settings
Jeffrey Morse wrote:
>
> Hello, all! maybe someone out there can help me with my problem, I recently
> installed an external modem to gain access to the internet with Linux, all that
> went great, I have configured kppp and Usernet to get connected, here's where my
> problem starts: I can connect with Kppp just fine (it appears that I'm
> connected, the detail of my bar graph on Kppp shows I'm connected with small
> spikes in the beginning and then goes flat-line until I launch a browser and
> then I get several spikes of incoming and outgoing data) the reason I have my
> doubts is because everytime I launch Netscape, Kfm, Gftp or anything that needs
> to gain access to the web they lock up ( Netscape ) and then they say that the
> Url that I am trying to connect with is unavailable or cannot be reached. It's
> like I'm connected to my isp but everything stops there. When I use "usernet" to
> connect I get connected but then get booted off with in 2 seconds and it will
> continue trying to get on until I reboot. This is driving me bonkers, why can't
> any of the web
> browers get connected? Any help on these 2 problems would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks, Jeff
