Hello,
That sounds suspiciously like a nameserver problem. Unlike Windows, Linux
requires you to specify your nameserver ips and will not automatically
recognize them. What you should do is try to ping an ip address.
204.71.200.243 and 204.71.200.245 are ip addresses for yahoo.com. You can
also try a traceroute. If this works, try pinging the domain name, ie
yahoo.com. If it fails, it's a nameserver problem. You will need to
contact your isp to get the nameserver or dns addresses. You will also need
to get the domain. You can then enter these in the kppp configuration box
or edit the file /etc/resolv.conf. The format of /etc/resolv.conf looks
something like this:
domain <ISP domain name>
nameserver <primary nameserver address>
nameserver <secondary nameserver address>
an example:
domain physics.ubc.ca
nameserver 137.82.43.9
nameserver 137.82.1.1
Also check out the webpage http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.txt
It has a ton of info about getting ppp to work.
I hope this helps you out.
Good luck,
JON
Oh yeah, don't worry about the /dev/modem thing. It's just a symbolic link
to the proper serial port. If you want it to point to the correct device,
delete the current /dev/modem
and type the command
ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem
That will point the link to the correct device.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 6:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Modem works (logs on) BUT *no* net, mail, etc.
Hi all,
I'm a self-confessed Linux newbie, and this is my first post to the
list; so TIA for any help. I'll try to stay in the parameters of the
List "rules" ... And, I'll apologize, upfront, for a long post ....
trying to add all the details...
Just installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 ... relatively few hitches. This is
on a PII 350 machine w/ a generic v90 modem, 128 MB memory, ATi video
card, etc.
Everything works wonderfully ('cept the SoundBlaster Gold 64 ... but
I'll save that for a different post. My big deal is that I want it to
get online). I've been doing most all my work in the KDE env. and have
tried various things as the admin. (root) and other logins.
MY BIG PROBLEM:
I can dial up but, *nothing* "works" online, i.e., Netscape starts fine,
with the local page on my HDD; but, if I click on anything, like the
link to the online Mandrake page, I get the following errors, in two
windows:
Netscape: Error <2>
Netscape is unable to locate the server
www.linux.mandrake.com.
Please check the server name and try again.
AND
Netscape: Error
Warning: the following hosts are unknown:
home.netscape.com
home6.netscape.com
internic.net
This means that some or all hosts will be unreachable.
Perhaps there is a problem with your name server?
<long paragraph here about, if my site must use a
non-root name server and the $SOCKS_NS environment
variable ... sounds too hard to be the problem -- grin>
I called my ISP, they can see that I'm validly on-line (logged in, etc),
but no external contact works! I tried mail [KMail v 1.0.28 (w/ all the
proper POP3 and SMTP settings)] and that errors out too. It can't find
my mailhost, even though the tech-help guy and I checked my POP3 and
SMTP settings (that was as far as he could go ... he wasn't familiar w/
Linux).
Kppp [v 1.6.22, I think] seems to be configured fine. I am worried that
the modem didn't work AT ALL ["modem busy"] at first and I had to use
the system utilities [DrakConf and "Lothar" (v 0.5.3)] to find it. The
modem is at "/dev/ttyS1" instead of "/dev/modem" is that a problem?
Telling the dial-up program to look for the modem there works well ...
do I need to tell Netscape and KMail that the modem is elsewhere (not in
the "expected" <?> "dev/modem" spot) too?
I tried a link from the Mandrake Linux page (from another computer) it
was somewhere in FAQ-land, but I've lost the link...
The sub-head:
"Connection establishes, holds, but you can't get anywhere"
had the advice that I try running "/sbin/route -n" as root, while
offline, and said I shouldn't* see any entry starting with '0.0.0.0' ...
I do see such an entry (output, from the command).
The FAQ recommended I run "/sbin/route del default" and, even logged in
as root, the file wasn't found.
I looked in '/etc/sysconfig/network' and there were NO lines starting
with
"GATEWAY or GATEWAYDEV" (something else the FAQ warned about).
I don't want to run a webserver, or even a LAN, with this computer right
now. All I want to do is gain some Linux experience and browse the
web/edit docs in a non-MicroSoft machine.
I haven't given up, but would love some help!
TIA, for any helpful input...
--tim
PS. I'm obviously not afraid to tinker and consider myself a DOS guru;
so any commands, etc. that find a parallel in the DOS world, would
help.....
