OKKK wooh it is fixed here is what I did.
I had already tried to run it from the command line using
/usr/bin/netscape I recieved You dont appear to have netscape
installed. So I then used your suggestion rpm -qa | grep netscape* to
see what was installed... the only one installed was
Yes I can dial out as a normal user using kppp and get a normal connection
but netscape doesnt work, it just reports that it is unable to find the site,
watching the lights on my modem... it doesnt even go look. It is just like I
am not connected. I did go and add my ip address's in resolv.conf
PART PROBLEM
I have gotten the modem to work with kppp, it will dial out but nothing
realizes it is connected to the internet, with kvwdial I can dial out
and everything realizes it is connected to the internet but kvwdial only
works while I am in root mode. I would like to be able to browse the
I hope you have better luck than I have... I am using 6.5 and the update
link works but I did notice that when I tried to update netscape that it
crashed twice before it worked... now however netscape doesnt work at
all, it just sits there like you didnt click the icon and if you run it
from the
Well I am able to dial out and connect using kppp as root or as a user,
however netscape doesnt recognize that I am connected so kppp isnt doing
me alot of good at this point. Now I can dial out as root using the
kwvdial and netscape works etc... but as a user when I dial out it goes
through the
I was running Linux Mandrake 6.1 with a dsl connection but since have moved
to a remote area and after changing my hard drive and removing the network
card, I have reinstalled mandrake 6.1 but when I set the /dev/modem using
modemtool and configure kppp netscape doesnt find it or something. I can
Well I am using an external usr 56k. I tried changing the /dev/modem to
ttys1 as suggested but that didnt seem to help, I went and looked in the
resolv.conf and it is there but there isnt anything in it. What is
supposed to be in there? When I was using a dsl connection through a
network card the
