On 2004.03.06 22:13, beneboy wrote:
I installed woody last week, and have just gotten round to compiling the 2.4.22 kernel. All was well until I tried to access the net. I can connect OK (using wvdial) but I can't get my mail and moz just times out when trying to load pages. I've tried pinging IP addresses with no luck so It's not my nameservers being wrong or anything. I'm guessing that something is stopping the packets from leaving my 'puter. The lack of blinking lights on my modem would suggest ths, anyhow.
Without seeing other aspects of you set up it is hard to diagnose this.
Do you have PPP configured as a module or compiled into the kernel. If it is compiled as a module is is loaded - check with lsmod.
Check /var/log/syslog for lines regarding the statup of the PPP session. Also check the kernel routing table (as printed with the route command) and if iptables has been set up as a firewall, i.e. check the output of iptables -L.
If the above doesn't result in an answer then you could post the above info to the list to see if anyone else can see anything incorrectly configured.
Steve.