Re: internet connection (sent incorrectly, repeated here)

[Timeboy <timohart@gmx.at>]

On Tuesday Sep 18 09:18 Mike Missett wrote:
> ** 
> ** I have just installed the base system on a 68040 Mac with MacOS8 (I am
> ** very new to this).  The installation went well and is up and running,
> ** but I can't seem to get anywhere on the internet.  ppp is dialing the
> ** modem and making the appropriate noises, but the other programs insist
> ** that nothing is happening.  Telnet says no connection, Apt-get and
> ** dselect say things like Failed to get, could not resolve, no such file
> ** or directory, host name lookup failure, error exit status 1, etc.  Can
> ** somebody point me in the right direction here?

Don't know if you have done all neccessary things. Do you have the file
/etc/resolv.conf? This is sometimes missing and you have to create it.
This is my resolv.conf:

domain		http://www.msn.de
nameserver	193.101.111.20

This file is very important to gett access to your ISP.

Timo

--
Nothing is impossible!

You only need to know the way.

 :-)