Re: ppp connection
On Wednesday 23 January 2002 11:16 am, Jason Majors wrote:
> I am trying to get a friend's Potato R3 install to connect to his ISP so we
> can download and install a version of X that will work.
> I ran pppconfig and entered the information correctly, but pppon fails to
> connect.
> I set up wvdial and ran it. It will connect and even get an IP address for
> the ppp connection, but I cannot reach any outside boxes.
> Unfortunately I've never set a Debian box up using a modem before, so I'm
> stumped about what to do next. Any ideas?
>
> The ISP is earthlink.
> The modem is a USR v.Everything Courrier External on ttyS0.
>
> Thanks.
have you set up /etc/resolv.conf? it should have a search statement for the
isp's domain and numeric ip nameserver statements for each of the isp's dns
servers.
search <domain name>
nameserver <ip address for nameserver>
nameserver
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