On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:09:12PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > I have written a couple of times about my two problems, namely that Debian > will not recognize that I have a printer connected and that I can connect > to my ISP but can't get on to the internet. Here is some more information.
You may have your conenction to your ISP working OK, but do you have valid values in your /etc/resolv.conf? Can you ping specific IP addresses, but not hostnames? (For instance, can you ping 216.136.171.205, but not www.linux.com?) That was something that goofed me up the first time I tried to get connected. IF there are no nameservers in your resolv.conf, you'll need to add one or more. Tom