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Re: internet connection



On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 07:05:56AM +0000, 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?
> Also, while I'm at it, I get nothing with the man command.  Has more
> replaced that or am I doing something wrong?
> Any assistance would be most appreciated.
> Michael Missett
What do the logs say?! /etc/resolv.conf?

cheers.

Eamon Roque



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