🚀 go-pugleaf

In aus.computers.linux on 10 Aug 1998 13:06:04 +1000
Wayne Fallen <wfallen@cai-mail.tpgi.com.au> wrote:
>
>What happens is I dial into the ISP, and connect ok using either Minicom or
>PPP-ON.  I fire up either Lynx or Netscape 4.04 but get an error message
>indicating 'Unable to connect ot remote host' (Lynx), and 'unable to locate
>server' 'this server does not have a DNS entry'  (Netscape).

OK.. first off, minicom knows nothing about ppp...  

the PPP-Howto has a section on "connecting manually".

Follow that, which is basically dialling up with minicom, then
quitting via alt-Q (quit without reset) then running the pppd daemon.

You will need to be root to do this, or else have set pppd to be setuid
root (chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/pppd  - or wherever your pppd is)

so give the steps in the PPP howto a go.

TO determine if your ppp connection is up, you can use ifconfig
	ifconfig -a
as root or
	/sbin/ifconfig -a
as a normal user.
You should see a l0 device which is loopback, and a ppp0 device
which is your ppp.

You can also look in /var/log/messages which shoul dhave something
telling you that you have a PPP connection, and what your IP
address is.

Once you can see a ppp0 device in ifconfig, you test your
link.

first, try to ping an IP address.  your ISP's web server is
203.12.160.70 so try pinging that.
	ping 203.12.160.70

If you get a ping back, then try it by name
	ping www.tpgi.com.au

If that doesn't work, then you need to redo your resolv.conf

So, give all that a go, and then come back when you have a working
manual connection, and we'll do the next bit :)

Zebee
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