sympatico DSL connection and Mandrake 9.2

[David J Patrick]

Fraser Campbell wrote:

>On January 11, 2004 04:05 pm, David J Patrick wrote:
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>>Umm .. that's right Joe, if you have /anything/ lying around it' free ..
>>but we don't.  what I might have lying around is an Alcatel 1meg modem,
>>perhaps I try that ?
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>David,
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>Before ripping out hardware try to understand what is wrong?  Is your computer 
>being assigned an ip address?  Issue the command ifconfig, see what ip 
>address appears next to the device ppp0 (or possible ppp1, ppp2, etc.).
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I'll try that.

>If no ip address is being assigned then you need to look at the logs to see 
>why rp-pppoe (or Mandrake's control centre) is failing.
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specific logs ?

>If you  are getting assigned an ip address but cannot connect to the Internet 
>then the problems that I can immediately think of are dns or firewalling.  
>What does /etc/resolv.conf contain after you connect (hopefully at least one 
>nameserver line)?  If there is a nameserver can you query it ("host localhost 
>name.server.ip.address")?  For firewall problems look for iptables log 
>messages somewhere under /var/log ... ls -ltr will list files with most 
>recently modified last ... look in those files.
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nice ls tip.
I see I've got a few more logs to look in and a few more man files to 
climb, thanks.
    ooo that learning curve ..
djp



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