[CLUG] Internet conection with Linux

[Kevin Bartlett]

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie>
To: Kevin Bartlett <kevinbartlett at eircom.net>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [CLUG] Internet conection with Linux


> On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Kevin Bartlett wrote:
> > HELP!
> >
> > Can someone tellme in plian English how on earth I connectup to the
> > internet?
> > I have installed Red Hat 6.1,
>
> What desktop are you running, Gnome or KDE?
>
> > and I have a 3Com  external modem. the modem
> > is working and I have managed to get it to dialout to the Eircom.net
server,
>
> Using what? The KDE dialler is called kppp; I don't know what Gnome
> uses. How do you know you have made a connection to Eircom? If you set
> your internet-connection program (kppp or whatever Gnome uses) to
> "debug" then it will log its activities in /var/log/messages, so you
> can use tail in a command window to see what's happening. Eg right now
> if I do this, it says:
>
> $ tail /var/log/messages
> Apr 24 22:07:18 pentacle pppd[536]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> Apr 24 22:07:18 pentacle pppd[536]: Modem hangup
> Apr 24 22:07:18 pentacle pppd[536]: Connection terminated.
> Apr 24 22:07:19 pentacle pppd[536]: Exit.
> Apr 24 22:07:51 pentacle pppd[552]: pppd 2.3.5 started by peter, uid 500
> Apr 24 22:07:52 pentacle pppd[552]: Using interface ppp0
> Apr 24 22:07:52 pentacle pppd[552]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cua1
> Apr 24 22:08:02 pentacle pppd[552]: Remote message:
> Apr 24 22:08:02 pentacle pppd[552]: local  IP address 194.165.168.108
> Apr 24 22:08:02 pentacle pppd[552]: remote IP address 194.145.128.235
> $
>
> which means my connection died (actually it timed out, I was away
> having coffee) and auto-redialled at 22.07.51 and it shows the IP
> address assigned to me by Esat's server.
>
> I can walk you through kppp (and through netcfg or linuxconf, which is
> what the old RH5 used to use) but I don't use Gnome  so I don't know
> what their internet-connection program is called.
>
> > BUT! I can not get Netscape to work.
>
> What error message does it give you?
>
> ///Peter
>
Did I for get to mention that I am using the KDE desktop? Sorry! And the
error message was posted to CLUG around 20 minutes ago. (What that means is
I can't be botherd to type it all out again!)

As for all of the above,???????

So if you want to walk me through setting up my internet conection, then I
would Gladly take you up on that offer.

Thanks for the help so far,

Kevin B ;-)