When you pinged, did you ping the IP address or the host name? try to ping 64.58.76.224 (www.yahoo.com) If you can get to it with the IP address, then there is probably no nameservers set up in your /etc/resolv.conf You would get those IP address from your ISP.
>On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 06:59:24 -0500 Mitchell Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. >I spent a good chunk of this past weekend on the same problem. Following the >instructions detailed here: > >http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/how-to-connect.txt > >And using their software of course I was able to make it work. I had to >remove eth0 from the boot sequence - the instructions above ask you to do so >but do not say why. Worked for me... > >Cheers, > >Mitchell > >On 10/27/02 10:03 PM, "Mandy Koroniak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Crazy problem here... I installed Redhat 8.0 and everything went >> beautifully, including setting up my DSL connection. I was able to >> browse and everything was just fine, then one day I could no longer >> browse at all. I'm using Mozilla - but I don't think the problem is >> there. Tried a ping test and got "could not find host". I have tried >> reconfiguring the connection, nothing seems to work. I really don't >> know where to go from here. On the same system, I have no problems >> connecting when I boot into my XP partition, but I don't want to do that! >> >> The other unusual thing going on (I'm not certain that it's related) is >> that when I am booting into Redhat, the following line comes up: >> bringing up interface eth0 - FAILED >> The reason I don't think it's related is because it has always said this >> (I just installed 8.0 last week) and my DSL was working fine at the start. >> >> Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. >> >> >> > > > >-- >redhat-list mailing list >unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
