on Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 08:30:12AM -0500, Shawn Garbett (shawn.garbett@thetausa.com) wrote:
> I got my first Debian system up and running. Now for the tasking of
> configuring it for my needs.
'Grats.
> Now when I upgraded to KDE 2.1.1 it overwrote some of my ppp
> configuration stuff somewhere in the process. I probably said, Y when I
> should have said N somewhere. wvdial dials and connects. I can ping
> numerical IP addresses, but I can't ping named addresses.
You need to get your ISP's DNS server addresses and add them as
nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf like:
nameserver 207.69.188.185
nameserver 207.69.188.186
(the above are Mindspring's DNS servers, they may or may not work for
you, you should get values from your ISP).
> I found the DNS info I had given it earlier as provided by my ISP in
> the /etc directory, but the static gateway info was missing.
I don't believe you need static gateway info.
> It seems it should be in the /etc/gateways file, but I can't figure
> out the syntax. I know the IP address, I know it's a static gateway
> and I know the name of the site, but I don't know how to fill out the
> gateways file. Is there some automated tool I could run? Under RedHat
> I just used kppp and it worked fine. Can't download kppp now that my
> connection is broken.
>
> Also, what's the best options for reading email
Mutt. Plain and simple. Mutt. Nothing else comes close. It's a
"console mode" application, but runs fine under a console window.
> under X and browsing. I was figuring on trying kmail and konqueror at
> first. I hear bad remarks about Netscape and Mozilla all the time.
> What else is there?
If you're already using KDE, Konqueror's pretty nice. I mostly use w3m
and Mozilla on new boxen, though I'm holding out hope for Skipstone and
Galeon. I've reviewed a number of browsers at
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html
Netscape *is* pretty bad, but (surprise) it's one of the lighter
browsers out there. I've still got the old (3.0*) versions installed on
one of my systems, just to try them out from time to time. Mozilla's
definitely usable, and improving rapidly.
--
Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal
http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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