ADSL Connection is fine, but can't browse the internet.
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ADSL Connection is fine, but can't browse the internet.
Hi....
I'm using an Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem to connect my Mandrake Linux 9.1 OS to my ISP.
The connection seems to be fine.... I can ping the local and remote IP addresses that pppd gives back in /var/log/messages.
All my configuration seems to be correct, from what I've read in various HOWTOs and other forums.
However I can't browse the internet with any of the internet browsers, e.g. Konqueror. I do not have a firewall installed.
Any ideas?
JustOne
And by the way. I can browse the internet through my home ethernet network, from an internet connection that is shared from another PC. I just can't browse when I'm trying to connect directly with my ADSL USB modem.
to my resolv.config file, where the two nameservers for my isp also sit. But everytime I tried to ping it by its name I get the following message:
From 192.168.0.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
It seems to successfully translate the isp's domain name into a decimal dot IP address.
The resolv.config file is also altered after I do this. It changes my nameservers to 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.0.1???? These are both local.
I think it's getting confused about how I get to the internet. Sometimes I connect through a home network, where the gateway to the www is 192.168.0.1, and I can do this successfully, but I won't be able to do this all the time... and I'll sometimes need to connect with my USB adsl modem (which I believe is working fine at the moment)
You said that you could connect through you internal net work. How is that setup? Do you have MS connection sharing or do you run sometype of proxy server?
You said that you could connect through you internal net work. How is that setup? Do you have MS connection sharing or do you run sometype of proxy server?
A desktop running Windows ME is set up to share an internet connection with my laptop which is running Mandrake Linux 9.1.
The internet sharing connection is provided by Microsoft Internet Connection Sharing through Windows ME.
The Windows ME desktop is assigned IP 192.168.0.1 and is the gateway to the web for the laptop, whch is assigned IP 192.168.0.2.
They communicate over ethernet, using a crossover ethernet cable, and should be connected at 100Mbps but I haven't actually verified this.
The modem connected to my desktop is a Speedtouch USB modem providing a 1/2 Mbps connection. This is what I'll use to connect directly from my laptop from time to time when I can't use my shared connection.
OK, the last version of Mandrake I used was 8.2. There was a Control Center or something like that. In that there is a place to setup the internet. I is a wizard and it will walk you through. I would use that and put the DSL modem as the device that connects to the internet. This is the easiest way to do it.
Here latley I have used Slackware and have got away from Mandrake almost all together (have one MD box left). So if you wanted to manually edit the config files there should be a directory /etc/sysconfig. In it there are some scripts that that are named after network devices. I am not sure about which one you need to edit, but I would guess it is named ppoe.conf or something like that. They are usually named as the name of you network device. In the file the is a place that says "gateway =", this is where you want to put 127.0.0.1(I think).
If you wanted to share that connection you could do it through the control center too. Other than that I am out of ideas since I am not infront of the PC.
The solution is to unplug the network cable from the laptop.
This works because this way you ensure that the internet connection sharing on the Windows ME computer doesn't keep changing the /etc/resolv.conf file (due to DHCP). It will do this even if you disable internet connection sharing in Windows ME.
By unplugging the cable, the system checks the peer on the ADSL connection instead and /etc/resolv.conf will be modified to contain your ISP's nameservers.
It's as simple as that!
The Moral of the Story: Make sure you don't have too many peers supplying your machine with a DNS, because /etc/resolv.conf is usually overwritten and not appended to in my experience.
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