I have setup ppp and my connection works perfectly ie: dials up and does everything its suppossed to.
But the problem comes when i try to use my browser, it just doesnt work, no data gets sent through my modem and nothing gets received (the lights on my modem dont flicker the way they should)
so somehow my browser isnt sending its requests to the right place. I have used netscape, konqueror and neither work.

this is a bit of a mistery to me! whats the catch?

cheers

can you ping outside sites? say, now (ur at LQ) ping www.yahoo.com and get the IP address. then go/boot to the system with the browsing problem and ping both (www.yahoo.com and the IP address).

if you can ping the host - it should be ok. might be a browser setup problem

if u can't ping the hostname but you can ping the IP address - that's a resolv.conf problem (u need to manually add the DNS servers of your ISP)

if u can't ping both - check your route:

route -n

yeah doesnt seem anything is working dns and just ip ping.

i cant ping anything if i try it just sits there looking like its doing nothing. doesnt send any data to my modem, nothing!

its a bit unfortuante but i am using the net on my winbloze install at the moment

well i have about the same problem, i have an Eicon Diva ADSL USB modem, and I just recently found drivers for it. So i get the little thing going and it says the modem is running (and yes 2 lights are burning), but when i try to connect to the internet or when i type: ping www.microsoft.com is doesn't do anything, but i can see in my term window that it gets the right dns servers from my host, so my modem did connect to the server... i just can't surf, or use irc.. anyone who can help me too?

restless bro, you and i seem to be progressing with our slack setup at the same speed! funny
anyway if you solve this little issue please let me know!
i will make sure i tell you if i sort it

ah that reminds me, i don't know how you connect to the internet but maybe you're using PPPoE (point to point protocol over ethernet) and then you can give roaring pengiun a try... i think it's a very easy tool if you're using an ethernet to connect... i'm not using ethernet so i can't use it, but maybe you can...

www.roaringpenguin.com

Have you tried setting it up through kppp? It has a bit easier interface. Also check out /etc/ppp/pppsetup.txt.

yeah i set it up using both the gui and the console (ppp)
nothing works!

i am maybe guessing that my ping program and browser and soforth are not sending their requests to the right interface? i mean when i ping it tells me it has sent out packets but no reply, so im guessing it is trying to send the requests via my ethernet card rather than my com port to my externel modem? coz i can ping 127.0.0.1 and get a reply same with my internally configured ip address of 192.168.0.4 set on my ethernet card.

how can i see what interface the requests are going to?

i had the same problem when running mandy9 with kde, so its not just a slack specific problem i dont think.

Are you sure its not a dns issue, the same thing happened to me and I put in my dns numbers and it worked. Try http://www.linuxnewbie.org/

i put in my dns server address' during ppp setup: 202.27.184.3

so i they are all there, it just doesnt seem to send the request to the correct device

Check this section of /etc/rc.d/rc.modules. Mine's set for an external modem.

## Load PPP:
## Check kernel version to determine module names to use
#if [ "`uname -r | cut -f 1,2 -d .`" = "2.2" ]; then
# # This module is for PPP support:
# /sbin/modprobe ppp
#else # assume 2.4 or newer
# # This module is for PPP support:
/sbin/modprobe ppp_generic
# # This PPP plugin supports PPP over serial lines:
/sbin/modprobe ppp_async
# # Use this plugin instead for HDLC (used for high-speed leased lines like T1/E1)
# # /sbin/modprobe ppp_synctty
#fi
## This module provides compression for PPP (optional):
##/sbin/modprobe ppp_deflate

I checked it all out and it seems to be ok.

I also did another: ping 202.27.184.3 which is my isps dns server
and at the same time i had a look at my ethernet card's lights and the transmit light is flicking away sending the packets.

it seems when i am pinging, the request is going to my ethernet card instead of to my modem (via the com port which it should be doing!)

any ideas?

I may be reaching here, but have you tried running ifconfig after you dial in. Do you have a listing for ppp0 as well as lo and eth0? If you do, can you ping the address after init addr: on the second line.