DSL Modems

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex White [mailto:prata at ghostlike.homelinux.org]
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 3:36 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: DSL Modems
> 
> 
> Does it actually connect to the service? Try running 
> adsl-start to see if it actually does connect you to the 
> internet. If you are connected to the net (pppd does not 
> error out) or adsl-start does not fail ( [FAILED] ) or some 
> such weird thing, then check your resolv.conf to see what dns 
> is bein' used.
> 
> You may want to check that you are usin' peer dns. If not, do 
> you know your dns names so that you can get those addresses 
> into /etc/resolv.conf? May want to look into being sure that 
> in the setup (the gui portion of what you've already done) 
> that you have xdsl setup as the default route as well.


One other thing.. Since I just tried out my DSL last night.. make sure that
your firewall's off or is configured 'right'. My shorewall config had to be
changed to accomodate it.