KNOPPIX, dial but no surf

evernew · 10-04-2005, 11:09 AM

hi

this is my first post

have been struggling with knoppix (3.7) for 10 months.
after winmodem did not dial
i installed a borrowed old USR 28.8 k external modem, sportster

now i can dial
(judging by the dazzling display of LEDs on the modem
and hte shrieking handshake off the spealer.)

problem is
(in Quonquerer and Mozilla browsers, alikie
i cannot browse

the same wide brown popup :
google.com is not found
(or some such message)

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of ignorance
i am logged as root

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help !
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evernew

Emerson · 10-04-2005, 03:51 PM

Welcome to LQ.
Can you access google by IP address http://216.239.57.99/ ?
If yes, then your DNS server is not configured. There is a file /etc/resolv.conf, it should contain your nameserver IP address.

zigomatix · 10-04-2005, 05:47 PM

Hi,

most often this kind of problem comes from the /etc/resolve.conf file which has not been configured. Check if this file has a DNS server declared. Here is an example of the content :

nameserver 212.27.39.135
nameserver 212.27.32.176

Those figures should work.

Hope this helps.

bigrigdriver · 10-04-2005, 10:57 PM

I have the same problem with Knoppix 3.8. Kppp is configured the same as my SuSE partition (no problems there). I've used setserial to set the base_baud and speed.

However, the box communicates with the modem at 49666 baud, but communicates with the outside world at less that 1 kb/s !

I can't ping or traceroute my ISP (both commands work in SuSE).

What else is there to control the modem speed at which it communicates with the outside world?