On Monday 23 February 2004 20:41, Örn Hansen wrote:
tisdag 24 februari 2004 01:27 skrev C Hamel:
That is what I was attempting to explain. I did exactly as you stated above --several times-- and each time I can get the modem to connect but there is absolutely no throughput until I put the IP addresses in the 'Host name & name server configuration' list. Then, and *only* then, I get modem throughput ...but then the network is dead. Ditto, if I change the dhcp to static address in 'Network Address Setup'... whether or not I have any IP addresses in the 'Host name...' list.
First, to see what's causing this... find some nice IP address, that's located on the internet and write it down. Then use kppp to dial up your ISP, and send one ping to that IP address. I have set up kppp for my ISP w/the information supplied by said ISP.
$ ping -c 1 <IP>
You should get an echo reply.
No problem pinging and otherwise e-mailing, surfing, listening to streaming audio ...the works.
The problem, is most likely related to that DNS doesn't get updated after kppp has started. Check to see if kppp is SUID, that is it must be running as root. Don't you get a message, first time you start kppp telling you this? I do.
I did, as well, until I listed pppd in the permissions.local file giving permissions to the user. Since I did that, I've not seen that over many uses & reboots (I certainly wish they'd get ACPI working :-\). Many thanks to the user on this list who pointed me to that file. :-) ...CH