Re: Internet Dial-up Connection Setting
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 23:20 -0800, Khurram Pirzada wrote: Hi everyone, I have somewhat different problem. I use Lucent Dual Chipset modem which is on PCI slot 1 (under XP) at COM3. Additionally I have Realtek RTL8139 family PCI Fast Ethernet at NIC #1 2. Last night I installed Debian and skipped to configure internet setting later. Later when I tried, it gave error message /etc/resolv.conf is missing. Create with appropriate read and write permission. I dont know what this means, as I am new, and what should I do to configure and use internet. I tried man resolv.conf and from there I got the impression that either in the proporlly configured systems does not need it, or there are certain human readable params that might need fixing with proper values. I did vi resolv.conf and there was nothing - completely empty. Could anyone tell me in little detail what exactly I should be doing. Unable to get local expertise ont his matter made me to turn to this community. Thanks for understanding. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com It is to be created in /etc. If you don't have any, create one in /etc/ppp, and a symlink in /etc pointing to it. Basically it consists of two lines - the two nameservers you will use and your ISP should have provided. So it will look like: nameserver aaa.bbb.ccc.dd1 nameserver aaa.bbb.ccc.dd2 If you don't have these details, check your network connection settings in XP, and use the nameservers from there. -- Szia: Nyizsa. -- Click to receive help removing your credit card debt http://tags.bluebottle.com/fc/CAaCMPJkiZqwhcTtiHIKQC7WvRTCQNql/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet Dial-up Connection Setting
Khurram Pirzada wrote: Hi everyone, I have somewhat different problem. I use Lucent Dual Chipset modem which is on PCI slot 1 (under XP) at COM3. Additionally I have Realtek RTL8139 family PCI Fast Ethernet at NIC #1 2. Last night I installed Debian and skipped to configure internet setting later. Later when I tried, it gave error message /etc/resolv.conf is missing. Create with appropriate read and write permission. I dont know what this means, as I am new, and what should I do to configure and use internet. I tried man resolv.conf and from there I got the impression that either in the proporlly configured systems does not need it, or there are certain human readable params that might need fixing with proper values. I did vi resolv.conf and there was nothing - completely empty. Could anyone tell me in little detail what exactly I should be doing. Unable to get local expertise ont his matter made me to turn to this community. Have a look at sections 4 in http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Broadband_-_setting_up_an_ethernet_ADSL_modem/router#Configure_nameservers -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet Dial-up Connection Setting
Nyizsnyik Ferenc writes: It is to be created in /etc. Yes. If you don't have any, create one in /etc/ppp, and a symlink in /etc pointing to it. No. Don't do that. Just do 'touch /etc/resolv.conf' as root. Basically it consists of two lines - the two nameservers you will use and your ISP should have provided. So it will look like: nameserver aaa.bbb.ccc.dd1 nameserver aaa.bbb.ccc.dd2 Yes. If you don't have these details, check your network connection settings in XP, and use the nameservers from there. Run pppconfig. It will install scripts that will take care of this automatically. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Internet Dial-up Connection Setting
Hi everyone, I have somewhat different problem. I use Lucent Dual Chipset modem which is on PCI slot 1 (under XP) at COM3. Additionally I have Realtek RTL8139 family PCI Fast Ethernet at NIC #1 2. Last night I installed Debian and skipped to configure internet setting later. Later when I tried, it gave error message /etc/resolv.conf is missing. Create with appropriate read and write permission. I dont know what this means, as I am new, and what should I do to configure and use internet. I tried man resolv.conf and from there I got the impression that either in the proporlly configured systems does not need it, or there are certain human readable params that might need fixing with proper values. I did vi resolv.conf and there was nothing - completely empty. Could anyone tell me in little detail what exactly I should be doing. Unable to get local expertise ont his matter made me to turn to this community. Thanks for understanding. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
