[Sheflug] connections

[Barrie Bremner <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Pete" == Pete Smith <pjsmith [at] zetnet.co.uk> writes:

    Pete> I havbe installed Suse 7.2 and seems well, except internet
    Pete> connection. In wvdial it will dial seem to conect give the
    Pete> message carrier received waiting for prompt and then
    Pete> disconnect? in the internet conection, is this kppp? it
    Pete> gives all the signs of having connected including telling me
    Pete> how long on line and yet when I try to connect to internet
    Pete> or mail or news it gives the message, server not found.  Any
    Pete> help?  Pleeze Pete

Do you have DNS configured?

Check /var/log/messages to see if it shows a successful connection
attempt.

Baz.

-- 
Barrie J. Bremner		OpenPGP public key ID: 5164F553
baz [at] barriebremner.com	http://barriebremner.com/


___________________________________________________________________

Sheffield Linux User's Group - http://www.sheflug.co.uk . 
To unsubscribe from this list send mail to 
shef-lug-request@list.sheflug.org.uk with the word
"unsubscribe" in the body of the message. 

  GNU the choice of a complete generation.