I have just installed Slack and everything went well. Now am trying to connect to Internet but am having some problems. I have an Intel 563ep modem. Got the driver for Linux and installed it without a problem, so now my modem works and it can connect to ISP but the problem is that when i search for a web page nothing happens, i am still connected but it seems that is taking ages to open a page. Is there anything else that i need to configure?

Perhaps you've not configured some domain nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf? It should be a plain text file with two numbers, the addresses of you ISP's DNS

How do i get the ISP addresse since i dont know it? Is there a way of getting it when i connect.

In your ISP web site, probably some help page, should have the IP addresses. usually they are the Primary DNS and the Secondary DNS.

Or phone them up.

I got the DNS address and edit my resolv.conf file. So now the file looks like this:

#ukonline.co.uk
nameserver 212.135.1.36
nameserver 195.40.1.36

where the first is the primary DNS and the second is the secondary DNS. However am having the same problem. I can connect but cant browse any pages. Any other suggestions?
Thanks

I'm not 100% sure but you have to copy the /etc/resolv.conf to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf .
Tell us if its works.

I followed your advice by copying resolv.conf to /etc/ppp but still am having the same problem. It seems that every time I connect the resolv.conf in /etc/ppp is overwriten by some other DNS address and also at the bottom of resol.conf in /etc I see some new DNS numbers added which are the same to what I see in the /etc/ppp. Do I need to configure Kppp in a special way so that this does not to happen. If yes what exactly? Please help since this problem is getting quite frustrating.

You didn't added your distro in your profile, but i think you're using slackware, so try to use pppsetup. I don't use modem, so i can't help you much more. Hope u'll solve this soon

yes indeed, pppsetup is the easiest and fastest way to get it right... still your issue sounds very much like a DNS issue. Can't help you any further.

succes,
elluva

thanks for your suggestions. Tried pppsetup, but still am having the same problem. I can connect, but cant browse any page. What i notice tho is that everytime that i connect i get a different Local and remote IP address from what i have typed in the setup for the DNS of my ISP. Am not sure whether thats how is supposed to be or not. Sometimes i can ping the number that appears in my remote IP address, sometimes i can even ping www.yahoo.com, but when i tried for the second time i cant do it. It does look like a DNS problem but i have no idea how to solve it. PLEASE HELP

I'm just guessing as I've never had this problem, but it sounds to me like you've got some server (maybe BIND or some such DNS) starting at boot that is overwriting your /etc/resolv.conf Try switching off some of the services that start at boot. I've not used Slack enough to know how to do that. When I installed it the only services I enabled at boot were the printing ones. I'm sorry I don't know how to help you. I don't like to broadcast the extent of my ignorance but there you go.

I think the same. Try to type this command: top
Then you'll see if you have some kind of dhcp server or daemon running. You can move the terminal with alt and the mouse in order to enlarge the window. If you see this daemon, so try to kill name or killall name this little b*****d.
Another way: connect to internet and change the values of the resolv.conf's. This file is dynamic, so you don't need to restart anything. Assuming, of course, that you have the correct DNS to put in .
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
I think this line is facultative, so try to comment it: #search azerty.az

Do you by any chance use proxy, and if so make sure youv'e configured it

kppp uses the usepeerdns option anyway so i dont think its a dns problem. If you can ping yahoo.com that would also mean its not a dns problem. What browser are you using, have you tried any others? also try typing in an ip address rather than the name eg 66.102.7.99 thats googles ip btw.