A kppp connection has been established but no apps; mozilla, gaim, konquorer etc all cannot access the net.

its like they're not seeing the dial up present. I've specified direct connection everywhere and looked really hard. HELP!

I have the same problem. My modem is working, kppp connects to the internet but mozilla and konqueror can not find web pages. Before updating from Fedora1 to Fedora2 my internet connection worked just fine (i.e. mozilla could find web pages). It sounds like it's somehow related to FC2.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this??

Thomas

Check /etc/resolv.conf for nameserver entry. Maybe it got clobbered. Mine reads

nameserver 207.170.199.4

Get the URL from your ISP if its missing and you don't know what it is.

there is no entry in /etc/resolv.conf

doing a tracert in windows of my isp (www.tstt.co.tt)


C:\>tracert www.tstt.co.tt

Tracing route to tstt.co.tt [196.3.132.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1307 ms 1365 ms 1359 ms thompson-ras-2.tstt.net.tt [209.94.196.131]
2 1688 ms 645 ms 131 ms thompson.tstt.net.tt [209.94.196.129]
3 131 ms 113 ms 126 ms cuscon16242.tstt.net.tt [196.3.140.33]
4 127 ms 214 ms 290 ms 209.94.205.65
5 180 ms 126 ms 115 ms ns8.tstt.net.tt [196.3.132.8]

Trace complete.

which ip do I use.

Why I ask because I'm on a dial up and would this be relevant??

In Linux, try tracert 196.3.132.8 or pine 196.3.132.8. If this works, your Internet connection is fine. The nameserver entry in /etc/resolv.conf tells Linux which computer on the 'net translates site names (www.tstt.co.uk) into their address (196.3.132.8). The 'net only understands numeric addresses. URL's like www.tstt.co.uk have to be translated before your computer can connect to them.

Contact your ISP and ask them what nameserver to use. Put that into your /etc/resolv.conf file.

now I can't even establish a connection; it just keeps redialing....

Look thanks for the help, but fc2 looks like one giant bug and I'm going suse.

Check the file /etc/ppp/resolv.conf

if it's getting setup on connect then replace it with a link to /etc/resolv.conf or make /etc/resolv.conf a link to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf

well there was no '/etc/ppp/resolv.conf' and created the link.
Now its reaching the point 'logging on to network' and then it starts to redial again and again.

Sigh...

<flamebait>You are already running Slack, why do you need anything else?</flamebait>

not on my notebook.
I don't have support for my radeon card.
I like an rpm based distro for 'desktop use'

for the redialing problem you need to add debug to your ppp options and look at your log file.


/var/log/messages

Well I got it working! Many thanks to those who posted here. Here's a summary of what I did:

/etc/resolv.conf was a totally empty file

I opened my browser and typed a numeric url (i.e. 216.52.245.130 which happens to be my isp) and that worked. I tried pine and tracert as suggested but bash wouldn't recognize either command. At this point written urls still didn't work.

I called my isp and asked what to use for my nameserver. Interestingly when I told the tech support I was using Linux the guy left the phone and found someone who knew what he was talking about to help me. He gave me 2 numbers for primary and secondary.

I opened /etc/resolv.conf and entered:
nameserver 216.52.254.1

The number above was the primary number. I just disregarded the secondary number.

And that was it. Now my browsers are finding web pages.

Thomas

well I did use my primary ip, however I still have the issue with as soon as you reach the point of logging on to network, kppp appears to have hung and it begins to redial.
I can't establish a connection now....

You need to set debug in the options and look at the log file to see the problem.

Maybe it's timing out.

I reinstalled the driver, and now its working. Thanks.