On Sunday 03 February 2002 06:33 pm, Klaus Neumann wrote: [big snip] the fact that you can access the nameservers from your girlfriend's machine suggests that it is, indeed, a configuration problem on the linux box. as i said, it's all mighty weird. you still haven't given us a post of /etc/network/interfaces. even though that might not be the problem, just for the sake of ruling it out, post the contents of that.
that dpkg -C brings you back to the prompt means that everything that you have installed is properly configured as far as installation is concerned. what remains is the question of how what is installed that is user configurable is actually configured. the best i can do is to send you the configs that render my machine functional for net access, so here goes: [/etc/wvdial.conf] Modem = /dev/ttyS1 Baud = 57600 Init = ATZ Init2 = AT S11=50 Phone = ************ Username = benfoley Password = **************** Dial Command = ATDP [/etc/resolv.conf] search rcn.com (these ip numbers apply only to rcn.com) nameserver 207.172.3.9 nameserver 207.172.3.10 nameserver 207.172.3.11 [/etc/host.conf] order hosts,bind multi on [/etc/hosts] ### etherconf DEBCONF AREA. DO NOT EDIT THIS AREA OR INSERT TEXT BEFORE IT. 127.0.0.1 localhost ### END OF DEBCONF AREA. PLACE YOUR EDITS BELOW; THEY WILL BE PRESERVED. # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts these are, to the best of my knowledge, the only significant config files relative to hooking up to the web. the other possiblility is that your isp may have some quirky setup condition that you've forgotten to include. good luck.
