# tail -f /var/log/messages
Then start, or restart PPP in the way you are used to, and in the meanwhile take a look to the output of the above command. You should see some lines with the string "ppp" somewhere. If you see, among these lines, something like "...IP address: X.Y.Z.W...", you should be actually connected to your ISP. Look also for a line like the previous one, but which explicitly refers to "DNS", or "Domain name service" or something like this.
Clearly, you could also examine /var/log/messages offline, instead of in real-time, if you prefer. Looking at it during a PPP session is more impressive, imho.
Good luck!
DAYE EMINE wrote:
Please can somebody Help-me: I have been able to download and Install Fedora Core2 Used KPPP to Configured my Intel-536ep-PCI-Modem. My ISP provider is MSN.
My Modem can dialup and connect to MSN fine, because a pop-up
window is now reporting the Baud-Rate, the time is also being updated.
That's all I get,
but if I click Mozilla for Web-browsing, Mozilla comes up and just sit there doing nothing for a long time.
Finally it will say the web address cannot be found or not correct
but this is not true because i use:
http://www.google.com http://www.mozilla.org http://www.msn.com
none of them works. Being a Linux novice, I wonder if there is any kind of configuration file that needs to be fine-tuned.
Daye
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