ISP dial up problem

[Paul Greene]

Hello;   I just installed Redhat 7.0, using Gnome. I don't seem to be able to connect to my ISP using the regular Gnome dial up tool.   Here's the specifics.   I filled in all the info in the dial up properties box about DNS ip addresses and such, and also put the ISP's domain name and nameserver/dns IP addresses in "resolv.conf", i.e.   hostname     isp.net nameserver    xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver    xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx   The dial up tool actually does dial the ISP and seemingly makes a connection, I can ping the dynamically assigned IP address it gives me, as well as the IP of the dial up server on the ISP end (I got both IP addresses from "ifconfig"), but I can't ping anywhere beyond that, and can't ping anywhere by hostname at all (i.e. www.cnn.com or whatever).   The weird part is that if I run the debug tool within the dial up configuration, it DOES connect and I can go anywhere (CNN, Redhat.com, etc etc), and ping anywhere by hostname or IP address, even though it says "not connected".   A second minor problem, my phone doesn't give a dial tone immediately; it gives a series of 5-6 short beeps, which leads the modem to think there's no dial tone and it refuses to dial. I get around it by picking up the phone receiver by hand, letting it do it's beeping until the dial tone kicks in, then clicking the "connect" (or the "debug") button in Gnome. Surely there must be a more elegant way to get around this?   Thanks in advance.   Paul Greene