[newbie] Help with internet connection -SOLVED THANKS

2002-02-21 Thread Paul Clyne
A bit thanks to all who replied. I have successfully got my connection working. Jeff Madore, I think yours was the final straw that broke the monsters back. Thought I will admit that I'm ot 100% certain. Erylon, the line you mentioned in /etc/sysconfig/network didn't actually

Re: [newbie] Help with internet connection.

2002-02-18 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Paul Clyne wrote: Hi all, You help would be VERY appreciated.. I'm running MDK8.1 and for the life of me can not get my Internet connection to work properly. I can dial, connect (all seems ok upto here) but can not connect to any named services. I can ping the remote address

Re: [newbie] Help with internet connection.

2002-02-18 Thread Paul Clyne
At 01:57 PM 18/02/02 +0530, Mario Michael da Costa wrote: [snip] you can ping to your ISP ip i.e. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx but cannot open a page like google.com ? Maybe I didn't make myself clear in my original email. I can ping both the local and remote IP address as reported by Kppp but thats it.

[newbie] Help with internet connection.

2002-02-17 Thread Paul Clyne
Hi all, You help would be VERY appreciated.. I'm running MDK8.1 and for the life of me can not get my Internet connection to work properly. I can dial, connect (all seems ok upto here) but can not connect to any named services. I can ping the remote address given in kppp but I can not ping

Re: [newbie] Help with internet connection.

2002-02-17 Thread Erylon Hines
Check this: In /etc/sysconfig/network The line for GATEWAYDEV=eth0 Comment it out to this: #GATEWAYDEV=eth0 If that doesn't work, we may need to adjust your /etc/resolv.conf to something like this: domain yourispname.com search yourlocalLANname If that doesn't do it, get back to the list