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Re: Unable to Browse Internet with Netscape

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From: jonkitchin
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 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


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