Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet (RESEND)

2003-12-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Alexey, Thanks for your advice. (Remark: - I made another clean installation of Debian 3.0 on another PC with net-installer (sarge). It went through smoothly. The same problem occurred, unable to connect to Internet, ISP connected - The Debian box is connected to ISP via ADSL Modem - Dynami

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet (run out of tricks)

2003-12-16 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Robert, Thanks for your advice. On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 03:44, Robert Storey wrote: > Dear Stephen, > > It's very odd that you can't change this file as root. The only thing I > know of that would cause this is if the immutable flag is set. The way > to find out is with the lsattr command: > >

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-15 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:44:33PM +0100, Robert Storey wrote: > It's very odd that you can't change this file as root. The only thing I > know of that would cause this is if the immutable flag is set. The way > to find out is with the lsattr command: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc> lsattr resolv.co

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-15 Thread Robert Storey
Dear Stephen, It's very odd that you can't change this file as root. The only thing I know of that would cause this is if the immutable flag is set. The way to find out is with the lsattr command: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc> lsattr resolv.conf s---c resolv.conf As you don't see an "i" th

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Paul, Thanks for your advice. On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 04:13, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:54:22PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > # cat /etc/resolv.conf > > search domain.com\000 > > nameserver 192.168.2.1 > > Ah ha! You might try adding a nameserver on the outside or mak

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:54:22PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > # cat /etc/resolv.conf > search domain.com\000 > nameserver 192.168.2.1 Ah ha! You might try adding a nameserver on the outside or make sure that nameserver is able to get a connection

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Stephen Liu: > [somebody:] > > Similarly to kill the connection: > > > > poff dsl-provider > > # poff 202.123.68.108 > /usr/bin/poff: I could not find a pppd process for provider Close, but no cigar. Use (literally!): poff dsl-provider# not IP address -- Any technolo

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Paul, Thanks for your advice. - snip - > > What happens if you try pinging 66.218.71.86 (w7.scd.yahoo.com, one of > the servers that listens to www.yahoo.com)? # ping -c 3 66.218.71.86 PING 66.218.71.86 (66.218.71.86): 56 data bytes --- 66.218.71.86 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitt

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Robert, Thanks for your advice. - snip - Before starting test as per your advice, following discoveries were found 1) # pppoe pppoe: Timeout waiting for PADO packets (pppoe could not start. It can be started at time of configuring network card after installation of Debian 3.0)

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-14 Thread David Baron
Yup! This is what started the sholw "consumers" threat. A common enough problem. Maybe a hundred messages so far on this and related ADSL problems since I got my Debian/Gnu/KDE installed. Still ... no ADSL. A few things you might check though: What type of modem are you using? USB ones need speci

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn your line wraps on and set them to about 72 columns and consider http://learn.to/quote/ On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 02:41:55PM +0100, Robert Storey wrote: > You didn't say what kind of broadband you want to connect to. There > would be a diffe

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:29:33AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Kindly advise how to fix the problem. Wow! Thank you! That's a good start, thanks for giving lots of detail. What happens if you try pinging 66.218.71.86 (w7.scd.yahoo.com, one of the s

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-13 Thread Robert Storey
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:02:16 +0800 Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Stephen, I told pppoeconf that I didn't want to start the network at boot. To start it anytime: Open an xterm, su to root. Then try this: pon dsl-provider You can use the "plog" command to see what effect this had,

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-13 Thread Stephen Liu
web sites are blocking the ping command > (or am I wrong about this?). I'm using Guarddog as a firewall, and I've also got > ping blocked. > > regards, > Robert > > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 00:29:33 +0800 > Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &g

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-13 Thread Robert Storey
s, Robert On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 00:29:33 +0800 Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > My Debian box can't connect Internet, Broadband connected. > > # ifconfig > showed connecting ISP > > I played around with following files without a soluti

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-12 Thread Michael Will
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen Liu wrote: > My Debian box can't connect Internet, Broadband connected. 1. What provider? 2. Broadband means cable rather than DSL, right? I use comcast at home, connected a debian sarge machine to a cable modem. To allow anything from

My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-12 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, My Debian box can't connect Internet, Broadband connected. # ifconfig showed connecting ISP I played around with following files without a solution; # cat /etc/network/ifstate lo=lo eth0=eth0 # cat /etc/network/interfaces # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for