Greetings

I am trying to make the move the Etch. Before I can make the move I need to
insure I can get on the internet. (Much of my college work is on the
internet.)

I am attempting to connect to my ISP with wvdial. The instructions I found
states that I should run wvdialconf command. I did. It sets a few settings
for you. The instructions state that I should now change the phone number in
the wvdial.conf file to the appropriate settings. I did that. I then ran the
wvdial command per instructions and the dude takes off and dial out and
appears to establish a connection. I try to ping my college's server and
nothing. I tried to view a web page with a browser and nothing. (I did all
the above as root.)

The ifconfig seems to show that I am connected. Running the route command
shows that there is an entry for ppp0.

Now am I missing something? No messing around with the resolve.conf file of
hosts file? Is there a default route that I am missing that needs to be
changed?

Connecting to the internet is now the only barrier that keeps me from making
the move to Etch, and removing the SuSE 10.3 (which has a slew of odd
problems) from my system. Any information will be ful.

Best Regards
Walt L. Williams

I have a 1.2 GHZ AMD Athlon, with an external USR V-Everything modem.


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On 01/28/08 06:25, Walt L. Williams wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I am trying to make the move the Etch. Before I can make the move I need to
> insure I can get on the internet. (Much of my college work is on the
> internet.)
>
> I am attempting to connect to my ISP with wvdial. The instructions I found
> states that I should run wvdialconf command. I did. It sets a few settings
> for you. The instructions state that I should now change the phone number in
> the wvdial.conf file to the appropriate settings. I did that. I then ran the
> wvdial command per instructions and the dude takes off and dial out and
> appears to establish a connection. I try to ping my college's server and
> nothing. I tried to view a web page with a browser and nothing. (I did all
> the above as root.)
>
> The ifconfig seems to show that I am connected. Running the route command
> shows that there is an entry for ppp0.

What IP address does it give you?

> Now am I missing something? No messing around with the resolve.conf file of
> hosts file? Is there a default route that I am missing that needs to be
> changed?
>
> Connecting to the internet is now the only barrier that keeps me from making
> the move to Etch, and removing the SuSE 10.3 (which has a slew of odd
> problems) from my system. Any information will be ful.
>
> Best Regards
> Walt L. Williams
>
> I have a 1.2 GHZ AMD Athlon, with an external USR V-Everything modem.

dhcpcd is installed and configured correctly?

I'd run "# tail -f /var/log/syslog" in a separate window while
running wvdial, to see what happens.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian
because I hate vegetables!"
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 05:25:47AM -0700, Walt L. Williams wrote:
> I am attempting to connect to my ISP with wvdial. The instructions I found
> states that I should run wvdialconf command. I did. It sets a few settings
> for you. The instructions state that I should now change the phone number in
> the wvdial.conf file to the appropriate settings. I did that. I then ran the
> wvdial command per instructions and the dude takes off and dial out and
> appears to establish a connection. I try to ping my college's server and
> nothing. I tried to view a web page with a browser and nothing. (I did all
> the above as root.)
>

Just to confirm, this is ppp via dial-up not ppp-over-ethernet?

>
> Now am I missing something? No messing around with the resolve.conf file of
> hosts file? Is there a default route that I am missing that needs to be
> changed?

Did you ping by IP number or DNS name?

If you enter:

$/sbin/ifconfig

you should see the IP address of both ends of the link; one you're, the
other the ISP. You should be able to ping both of those IP numbers.

There should be something in /etc/resolv.conf that points to the
nameservers provided by your ISP.

I'm not much with vwdial since I use pppconf and the resolvconf
package.

Since you're running SuSE, I don't know where they put what
networking-related configs e.g. nameservers, routes, etc.

Good luck,

Doug.


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Install pppconfig. Run it as root and answer the questions. You can add
yourself as a ppp user in the "Advanced" menu. You will then be able to
start ppp with "pon" and stop it with "poff".
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Ron Johnson writes:
> dhcpcd is installed and configured correctly?

He neither needs nor wants dhcp for dialup.
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On 01/28/08 07:47, John Hasler wrote:
> Ron Johnson writes:
>> dhcpcd is installed and configured correctly?
>
> He neither needs nor wants dhcp for dialup.

How else does the machine get it's IP address?

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Jefferson LA USA

"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian
because I hate vegetables!"
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I wrote:
> He neither needs nor wants dhcp for dialup.

Ron Johnson writes:
> How else does the machine get it's IP address?

It gets the gateway IP (and its own IP) via scripts run by pppd when it
brings up the connection.
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John Hasler wrote:
> Install pppconfig. Run it as root and answer the questions. You can add
> yourself as a ppp user in the "Advanced" menu. You will then be able to
> start ppp with "pon" and stop it with "poff".
>
That's what I usually do, but for a newbie, wvdial is a handy app.

I think it needs ppp installed though.
Does it drag it in as a dependency, or is it a separate install scenario.
Regards,

David Palmer.


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