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Re: internet connection - was: solved: CS4236 ...



On Sunday 03 February 2002 06:33 pm, Klaus Neumann wrote:
[big snip]

the fact that you can access the nameservers from your girlfriend's machine 
suggests that it is, indeed, a configuration problem on the linux box. as i 
said, it's all mighty weird. you still haven't given us a post of 
/etc/network/interfaces. even though that might not be the problem, just for 
the sake of ruling it out, post the contents of that.

that dpkg -C brings you back to the prompt means that everything that you 
have installed is properly configured as far as installation is concerned. 
what remains is the question of how what is installed that is user 
configurable is actually configured. the best i can do is to send you the 
configs that render my machine functional for net access, so here goes:

[/etc/wvdial.conf]
Modem = /dev/ttyS1
Baud = 57600
Init = ATZ
Init2 = AT S11=50
Phone = ************
Username = benfoley
Password = ****************
Dial Command = ATDP

[/etc/resolv.conf]
search rcn.com
(these ip numbers apply only to rcn.com)
nameserver 207.172.3.9
nameserver 207.172.3.10
nameserver 207.172.3.11


[/etc/host.conf]
order hosts,bind
multi on

[/etc/hosts]
### etherconf DEBCONF AREA. DO NOT EDIT THIS AREA OR INSERT TEXT BEFORE IT.
127.0.0.1       localhost       
### END OF DEBCONF AREA.  PLACE YOUR EDITS BELOW; THEY WILL BE PRESERVED.


# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
# (added automatically by netbase upgrade)

::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

these are, to the best of my knowledge, the only significant config files 
relative to hooking up to the web. the other possiblility is that your isp 
may have some quirky setup condition that you've forgotten to include. 

good luck.



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