Hi all. After about 2 weeks of compiling kernals and drivers, I have finally got my winmodem to work on my laptop Well, sort of anyway. I can run wvdial and my computer dials and connects to the net, but when I start mozilla or try to get my emails, I cant get them to work. So my question is, with wvdial, and a connection running, is that connection open to all programs? I've tried to configure my connection with the wizard, but when I try to connect I get errors (error 2). Also how do I tell if the connection is still open as the terminal window doesnt say anything once the connection is established. And also how can I get my modem to load at start up. It is a slmodem 2.9.7. Thanks.

I had exactly this problem with my RH9.

I spent weeks getting my winmodem to work, then played with wvdial and finally it connected.... but non of my programs recognized that it was working!

However, once this was working, I used the pppd program that comes with redhat, and it worked. Until I had got wvdial to be work, it wouldn't..

Does your pppd program work?

What is my pppd program and how do I start it?

Have you change your /etc/resolv.conf properly?

if you are running KDE you can run kppp

type

kppp

in a terminal. It is a GUI for the pppd. If you are running gnome you can activate it in "network device control" in "system tools"

What is the output of
/sbin/ifconfig -a

Just got a chance to get on a lan and I cant even get mozilla to work. I think it may be iptables. Anyone know how to check that?