Internet connection
 

I have finally installed Debian 3.0 and have it working. Except that I cannot get an internet connection.

My modem is on IRQ5 and COM 5, so I generated ttyS4 by ./MAKEDEV ttyS4

I can now access the modem and get it to connect to an ISP. However, I cannot get netscape to utilize that connection.

How can I get netscape to use that connection?

thank you;
dd

sounds to me like maybe it's dns

try an ip address instead of a name to see if that's what it is.

look at /etc/resolv.conf

if there are no valid nameservers, or ones you can reach then you need to correct that.

the other thing that comes to mind is firewall

Thank you, but this next question is even more inane..

What program am I supposed to run to do the dial-up....
WvDial, pon, or what?

Do I start it from User? I am using Debain 3.0

thank you

not sure on that distro

if you have wvdial then I would say use it.

if you need a gui then check what you have on it.

kppp, gnome-ppp, whatever


or you could make your own ppp scripts