Thanks to all those who offered suggestions. Unfortunately, I
still haven't been able to get things to work correctly.
At 08:05 PM 3/29/99 -0600, Allen Carpenter wrote:
>Check your /etc/resolv.conf file. You should see something to
>the effect of
>
>domain <isp domainname>
>nameserver <ip address of dns server>
>
>That will be followed by any additional nameservers you have.
>Most ISPs supply two.
>If you don't see that there you can fill it in yourself.
>
>This file is generally filled in by kppp but I am betting
>wasn't in your case. Probably
>due to an issue with permissions. KPPP likes to run setuid
>and cannot write to the
>/etc/resolv.conf without permission to do so.
I checked /etc/resolv.conf and it did indeed have the right
entries. I also found that kppp was indeed able to write to it.
>Sounds as if you have already discovered the next thing I'll
>mention but just in case:
>Edit the file /etc/ppp/options to remove the line containing "Lock".
>KPPP does its own locking and having the lock there will cause
>the connection to die on you.
I had indeed already commented out "Lock".
Someone suggested to me that I try pinging numerical IP addresses,
and I did so. Unfortunately the results were the same, but it was a
good idea.
To add a bit to my original problem report, I opened kppp's detail
screen and after watching it while I tried a few pings and telnets I
saw that apparently there were no packets going either out or in through
the modem.
I installed and attempted to use wvdial, but encountered basically
the same problem. The modem connected and was able to get me logged in,
but after that nothing.
And on a side node, minicom seems to work perfectly well.
Mike
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