[Damonw]

I dual boot my home system with XP home & Mandrake Linux 9.1. I normally use Windows more than Linux simply because of all my Windows-only compatible software.

My problem is this: I have been able to successfully connect to the internet through Linux ever since I installed it (I'm not using a 'winmodem') but I recently decided to go on the internet through Linux again. However Linux had different ideas.


The system connects to the internet without any problems at all, it just won't communicate with the server to let me do anything once it's connected.


I have disabled the firewall, recreated the connection, I have checked all the settings for the internet, all of which appear to be correct. I can still get online using the same modem through Windows, and I have no problems at all, so I know that it is a software problem with linux not a hardware problem.

It was just onetime the connetion worked, then the next time I went to use it I got this problem..


Any suggestions? Or would it just be easier and a whole lot faster to reload linux?

(if it makes any difference I use KDE)

[lynch]

Dont re-load Mandrake yet.This almost always a DNS-related issue:
Are you using kppp?
Did you set it to automatic on the DNS tab?
Try getting the IP addresses for the DNS nameservers of your ISP.
Look at your /etc/resolv.conf file and copy and paste it here so we can have a look at it.It should look like this:

search server.net  local(or localhost)
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 192.168.1.1
nameserver 192.168.1.2

The above example lists 3 nameservers(2 are plenty)which includes your own computer(localhost=127.0.0.1)and the IPs of the ISP's nameservers.
The "search" line includes local or localhost and in my case the local DHCP/authentication server for my cable provider.
Get those nameserver addresses and enter them into DNS page of kppp setup and see if that helps.
Linux looks to /etc/resolv.conf for nameservers wether it's cable/dsl or dial-up.
HTH
lynch

[Damonw]

Yeah I'm using KPPP, yes it is set to automatic in the DNS section, I had a look at the resolv.conf file and its only got:

nameserver 192.168.1.1 which I changed to 127.0.0.1 then re-dialed but it made no difference.

I don't think I mentioned this the first time around, but it seems that 99% of the time the connection does this, but then that other 1% it works no problems..

[codejockey]

Try replacing your 192.168.1.1 entry with the IP address of the nameserver used by your ISP. Using the 127.0.0.1 entry is effectively the same thing as using the IP address of the local machine, which is why you didn't notice any change. You should have at least one (often two) nameserver entries in /etc/resolv.conf, and these should be the IP addresses of the servers used by your ISP.

Hope this helps.