At 01:21 PM 4/14/04 -0600, you wrote:
Incoming from Phil:> I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP, I pon and get BSD compression> messages and the like, the modem lights all go on and seem to be > functioning properly, the data transmit lights seem to send the the data > necessary to logon but browsers don't work in KDE or Gnome. > > How can I test this situation in terminal mode to see if this PPP > connection is really working. why are the browsers not accessing the web??
ifconfig shows the PPP0 interface but I can't ping anything!!someone on this list said to use pppstatus to check the connection but I have no such command on my machine.
any ideas??