Yes. I can ping IP addresses by number but not by name.
/etc/resolv.conf didn't exist.
So I got a copy from a working installation of SuSE.
Apart from commented lines, this is all that it contained:
nameserver YAST_ASK
/etc/rc.config contained the following lines (as well as a lot more):
CREATE_RESOLVCONF=yes
NAMESERVER="YAST_ASK"
Copying these two files and restarting wvdial didn't fix the problem.
Niall wrote:
>>> Perhaps you've got name server problems. Can you ping an external IP address
> by number, rather than by name ? If that is the case, then you should check
> /etc/resolv.conf - suseconfig has a nasty habit of overwriting that, based
> on the values of the following lines in /etc/rc.config:
>> CREATE_RESOLVCONF=
> NAMESERVER=
>> Regards,
>> Niall O Broin
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