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From: Grant Holliday
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 00:00

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>In article <36896cef.0@139.134.5.33>,
>  "Patrick D Phillips" <pdphillips@bigpond.com> wrote:
>> I am having some trouble trying to get my internet connection working. I
>> have been able to connect to my ISP O.K. and I get allocated a TCP address
>> but I am unable to use Netscape to do any browsing. I type in an URL and it
>> does nothing until timing out. I have looked in the message logs and I see a
>> regular message �No link beat on the MII interface, status then 7809 now
>> 7809.� I am using Red Hat 5.2 and Netscape 4.07 and I have checked that the
>> DNS is correct. My ISP does not use a proxy and they are unable to support
>> Linux. As I am new to Linux any ideas would be appreciated.
>>
>> Patrick
>> pdphillips@bigpond.com
>>
>>
>after you type in the URL do you press RETURN?
>nothing will happen until you do this little thing
>
>jon
>
>
It's timing out so obviously he IS pressing return :)

Sorry I cant help anyway.

-Grant

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Date: 1999/01/04
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