Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1587 mails)

[jlboers@xxxxxxx (J-L Boers)]

I ran into the same problem. For me it turned out that I needed to add the
dns entries via Yast.
Once I did this , I restarted and my dial up worked fine ever since.

(Yes I know I am writing this on windoze/eudora but I am now fooling around
with ip masquerading.) 
TTYL

J-L
At 12:38 AM 11/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>hello all,
>
>i'm using SuSE 5.3.  i used to have my internet connection running
>wonderfully through kppp.  but then i decided to configure an internet
>connection through YaST so that i could log on while in the console.  well i
>went through all this and it didn't work.  no big deal i thought i'll just
>go back into KDE and log on like i've always done in the past.  so i changed
>the /etc/ppp/options (i think) back to #lock (as per kppp instructions) and
>logged on.  so far so good, it looks like i logged on fine, everything went
>as it should.  but when i tried to call up netscape it gave me the error
>``unable to locate server foo.com server does not have a DNS entry".  all
>the other browsers i tried gave similar errors.  ok, so i went back into
>YaST and erased all that i had done in network configuration (it shows no
>device, no ip addresses, etc. just like you expect after a fresh install).
>i deleted the suseppp package and diald (for good measure).  i jumped into
>/etc/rc.config to change it back as well as i could figure (i had to set the
>modem device to cua 3 - ttys3 doesn't recognize the proper IRQ whereas cua3
>does; i'm going to fix this at some point).  i changed every file i could to
>make sure it used dynamic addressing (change to "" or "0.0.0.0").  all of
>this to no avail.  does anyone have any ideas of what i can do to get it all
>working again?  it would seem like there is something that YaST changed when
>i attempted to use it to configure my internet connection, but i can't find
>what it might be.
>
>on another note my modem is currently pnp at cua3 IRQ 10.  this works fine
>even w/o isapnp configured in Linux.  i've thought about going in and
>disabling pnp on the modem and setting the jumpers to cua3/ttys3 IRQ10.  ok
>at some point i managed to tell Linux that cua3 no longer looks at the
>default (IRQ 3 i believe) but could never get ttys3 see the IRQ at 10.  if i
>manually configured the modem as i've stated, will Linux recognize the ttys3
>at the new IRQ 10?  if so then i can probably get an internet connection
>going through YaST in this manner, but i'd rather first get it working as i
>had it before.
>
>thanks,
>
>dave
>
> 
TTYL
J-L Boers
jlboers@xxxxxxx

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