I had been able to connect to the net via Netscape and kppp. Then when I was in NJ recently, I connected one day, then the next I couldn't. I've gone thru the kppp setup ( I had to create another entry for the new number to connect to there - I've got several so if I go back to these places it's just a pulldown) even deleting the newly created one and copying a known good one, but no go. Now that I'm home, the regular one doesn't work. In fact it behaves the same way my main machine does. That is, the dial up works fine, then starting netscape, it just barely gets the outline drawn, no icons or anything else, just the looking for ... at the bottom and the watch. This is absolutely driving me crazy! I have yet to look at the stuff that Randy Meyer suggested, but that's next. In the meantime, if any of you out there have figured this out, please let me know! For the record: Laptop - Dell latidude, mandrake 7.1 with ppp-2.4 upgrade; 3com 556 pcmcia and the corresponding upgrade for that to; as I said, had been ok 'til last week. main sys: Hardware: AMD K6 500; 128MB; 30GB; FIC 1st Mainboard w/ VIA 503+ chipset; Aceex DM-56V14 modem, specific chipset unknown. Software: Mandrake 7.2 ISO I downloaded onto CD - both discs hosts.deny: ALL: ALL hosts.allow: #list of my machines at home when I'm all there! ipaddr full.name alias /etc/resolv.conf: search 207.217.126.81 (that's my earthlink acct) nameserver 207.217.77.82 (ditto) /etc/ppp/options: (default) lock noauth noipdefault (also tried w/o the last 2) usepeerdns
