Thanks to all those who offered suggestions. Unfortunately, I still haven't been able to get things to work correctly. At 08:05 PM 3/29/99 -0600, Allen Carpenter wrote:
Check your /etc/resolv.conf file. You should see something to the effect of
domain <isp domainname> nameserver <ip address of dns server>
That will be followed by any additional nameservers you have. Most ISPs supply two. If you don't see that there you can fill it in yourself.
This file is generally filled in by kppp but I am betting wasn't in your case. Probably due to an issue with permissions. KPPP likes to run setuid and cannot write to the /etc/resolv.conf without permission to do so.
I checked /etc/resolv.conf and it did indeed have the right entries. I also found that kppp was indeed able to write to it.
Sounds as if you have already discovered the next thing I'll mention but just in case: Edit the file /etc/ppp/options to remove the line containing "Lock". KPPP does its own locking and having the lock there will cause the connection to die on you.
I had indeed already commented out "Lock". Someone suggested to me that I try pinging numerical IP addresses, and I did so. Unfortunately the results were the same, but it was a good idea. To add a bit to my original problem report, I opened kppp's detail screen and after watching it while I tried a few pings and telnets I saw that apparently there were no packets going either out or in through the modem. I installed and attempted to use wvdial, but encountered basically the same problem. The modem connected and was able to get me logged in, but after that nothing. And on a side node, minicom seems to work perfectly well. Mike -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>