[SuSE Linux] internet problems
<PRE> 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 </PRE> <A HREF="bin00002.bin"> winmail.dat</A></P>
David Bellows 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 problem is most likely that you lost the configuration for the DNS servers I guess that Yast should have modified the /etc/resolve.conf . When you get connected, maximize the "connection window" and click on "Details" and you will see if your connection was succesful if both remote and local were asigned an IP number. Then open a terminal window and type : ping dns_server_number . ping 165.87.194.244 (put here your ISP's DNS server) and if it responds, the problem is the DNS configuration. In console mode, use wvdial (www.worldivisions.com) Gabriel - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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
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