Re: PPP dial-up in HAMM
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Larry Panzer wrote:
> Dear Debian (Linux) users,
>
> I installed Hamm today from my Win 95 partiton (hda1) onto my Linux
> partitions (hda2 /, and hda3 /usr, hda4 swap). I beleved that I set-up PPP
> correctly, following the procedure to not configure a network hook-up in
> the initial install and then followed the PPP setup utility once it
> rebooted (using the custom boot disk because I kept the DOS/Win95 boot
> sector). I selected no PAP or CHAP (my ISP says they don't use them) and
> setup my modem correctly typed in my username and password. Said yup
> everything looks okay. It started dialing to my surprise (hey this is
> better than win95) but it said it couldn't find ftp.debian.org (the ftp
> site that I told it to goto in dselect). I then tried using ping to see if
> I could ping my name server (the only decimal-quad string I knew) and no
> packets got through. I then realized that I never had to input the address
> of the nameserver or my provider (excel.net). I decided to try a reinstall
> (it only took me 15 min) and setup PPP with PAP the default choice (maybe
> my ISP tech help was wrong?) but it still didn't work. Can anyone help me
> with this delema, what set-up do I have to do? I am hoping to install Hamm
> completely by FTP (perferibly without copying all the .deb files to my
> win95 partition). Thanks for any help you can give me.
You need to create a /etc/resolv.conf file with one or more lines like
(replace the xxx with your nameserver's ip address):
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
You don't need to reinstall anything. If you need to reconfigure ppp, use
pppconfig (as root).
Bob
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