Not allowing to browse though dial-up connection in Red Hat 9 shows active
 

Hi,

I am a new user to linux and have got Red Hat 9 on my machine. I have set the modem up (its a Win Modem but i have manged somehow) and tried setting up the dial up connection.

Though it shows that the connection is active, it just doesnot let me browse the net.

Please give some advice/valuable suggestions. I need to get it up ASAP.

Thanks
A Newbie

When you activated your modem did you hear it dialing the internet ?

No.. I am not able to hear it dialling!!

I would then presume that your dial up connection in not active.

Check that you are not in fact activating your network card.

anway You will need to download drivers for your winmodem

follow this link

http://www.heby.de/ltmodem

download an RPM for RED HAT if you want or download the source

When I got mine working I downloaded the source code

ltmodem-8.26a9.tar.gz

unzip and untar with the following command

tar -zxf ltmodem-8.26a9

it will create a directory ltmodem-8.26a9

change into this directory and read the INSTALL file. It will give you instructions on how to install it. (I think there are three commands you have to use)

remember to use the ./mycommand (where mycommand is the filename)in the terminal as just the filename will not look in the current directory

once the drivers are installed correctly issue the command kppp

This is a GUI interface to the ppp daemon, go into options and set up your account there is also a button which allows you to query your modem, if this works your modem is up and going.

If this command does not work go into system tools --> network device control and set it up in there.

good luck !

Hi,

now my dial up connection is active - am able to hear it connect but still am not able to browse!. On picking up the phone, its giving me the noise when its connected to the net and the KPPP application is showing me time etc.. When i try opening any page, or ping any its giving me 'unkown host'. Is there any browser settings we need to put?

Thanks,
A newbie

I had the same problem when I installed my first SuSE Linux a week ago. (Though I was using kinternet as a connection tool instead of kppp and not a modem but an ISDN modem)

It turned out that the system wasn´t able to log on a suitable DNS-Server ("Domain-Name-Server") which is necessary to assign www web addresses to corresponding IP-numbers. If the settings of the connection tool aren´t set correctly (auto assign of a DNS-Server IP or manual setting of one or more suitable DNS-Server IPs) the browser can´t resolve URLs although there´s a physical intact connection to the internet.

To try if the problem is the DNS resolve, dial up the internet connection, open the browser and type

http://193.218.216.17/index3.htm

This is the IP address of the institute where I work. (Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Ökologie) I take this one because it´s the only one I know the IP address in addition to the URL (http://www.nloe.de) If you can load the site it´s clear that your problem is related to the DNS-Server settings.

Since I´m a newbie also and I don´t know anthing about RedHat I can´t give any closer advice where to tweak the settings in the setup GUI.

But perhaps it´s a hint where to take a closer look.

If you find out that you have to or want to manually assign DNS-Server IP-addresses, google with your provider´s name and "dns-server ip" and it should come up with something valuable.

Good luck.

i'm a newbie too, i have the same problem in rh9, i hear my connection but it says it can't resolve address., i ping the nameserver address and 0% of packets can be received, but in windows i can ping the same nameserver address successfully...

what can i do...