From: Vincent Cunniffe (vincent at domain cunniffe.net)
Date: Mon 15 May 2000 - 10:48:55 IST
Conor Lennon wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've been dialing into Esat/IOL SurfNoLimits using wvdial since the
> beginning of the year from SuSE linux.
> No problem there.
>
> A week ago I trying to install koffice. There were some rpm conflicts,
> so I was removing and installing different packages.
>
> Now I can't dial up to the internet.
> I've reinstalled wvdial and pppd - no joy there.
>
> When I start wvdial, it goes ahead and dials up successfully, and pppd
> is started. (ps -A |grep pppd shows pppd is running)
> However netscape, ping, ftp, etc. don't think there's a connection to
> the internet.
>
> I've set up a second installation of SuSE linux, and I can dial up with
> that.
>
> Has anyone any ideas what files I should compare between the two
> installations?
Show us the output of :
ifconfig
and
netstat -nr
both before and after you've made a connection.
I suspect that you are making a connection, but the routing isn't being
correctly updated so that packets aren't getting out from the ppp0 interface,
Regards,
Vin
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