Configure Mozilla 1.6 for Web Browsing

[Edward]

Andrea Giuliano wrote:

> This could help you (and us): start a terminal and, as root, issue this 
> command:
> 
> # 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
>>
>>
>>

Just to add to that, also make sure in your dial-up options that you 
have set the "set default route". In the /etc/ppp/options files this 
would be simply 'defaultroute'.

Regards,
Ed.