Re: Modem Net Access.
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:42:13 +0800
"Telaman Consultancies" <davidpalmer@westnet.com.au> wrote:
> Greetings all.
>
> I feel that I'm missing something really obvious.
>
> I'm getting a connection, through a dial-up modem that is working.
> I know this, not just from modem lcd readouts, but because I'm
> sending this from the same computer with the same
> modem/connection/ISP, the only difference being that I have taken out
> the mobile rack with Etch AMD64 on it and put in another with MS XP.
> Email and browser both work.
>
> Etch connects just as efficiently through 'pon' in a root terminal,
> but konqueror, galeon, sylpheed-claws-gtk2 and icedove all fail in
> the access factor "No connection".
> Account config with all of them are correct.
> On etch, I removed the firewall completely.
> Same result-no access.
>
> So it's a config problem somewhere?
> All permissions seem to be valid.
What does 'ifconfig -a' show? Can you ping anything? dmesg and syslog
output? What type of modem (form factor, chipset, driver, etc)?
Celejar
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