Trying to get on the web with wvdial.

["Walt L. Williams" <waltwilliams@intergate.com>]

Greetings

I am trying to make the move the Etch. Before I can make the move I need to 
insure I can get on the internet. (Much of my college work is on the 
internet.) 

I am attempting to connect to my ISP with wvdial. The instructions I found 
states that I should run wvdialconf command. I did. It sets a few settings 
for you. The instructions state that I should now change the phone number in 
the wvdial.conf file to the appropriate settings. I did that. I then ran the 
wvdial command per instructions and the dude takes off and dial out and 
appears to establish a connection. I try to ping my college's server and 
nothing. I tried to view a web page with a browser and nothing. (I did all 
the above as root.) 

The ifconfig seems to show that I am connected. Running the route command 
shows that there is an entry for ppp0.

Now am I missing something? No messing around with the resolve.conf file of 
hosts file? Is there a default route that I am missing that needs to be 
changed?

Connecting to the internet is now the only barrier that keeps me from making 
the move to Etch, and removing the SuSE 10.3 (which has a slew of odd 
problems) from my system. Any information will be helpful. 

Best Regards
Walt L. Williams

I have a 1.2 GHZ AMD Athlon, with an external USR V-Everything modem.