Internet Connection not working

Hi all...

i recently installed Fedora over RH9. In RH my internet was fine. I just set it up with the internet wizard.

Now in fedora i can't anymore. The connection PPP is activated but I can neither ping nor browse nor do anything else regarding internet.

I tried creating my own PPP conection since the wizard doesnt work in Fedora.

Plz help out.

[mhelios]

When you say the wizard doesn't work, what exactly goes wrong? If you manually created your ppp config file, you may have inadvertently added a misconfiguration. Check your logs for any useful messages.

[Ug]

I've never bothered with the red hat internet connection wizard, instead I use KPPP with my serial modem to connect to the net. Just load KPPP from the Internet menu.

Click Configure, then go into the settings and under the modem tab select the modem thats attached. If your using Com 1, then it will be /dev/ttsy0.

Go to another of the tabs and click Query Modem. This will check if the modem is where you say it is and whether or not it is responding. If it is responding then click OK, and go back to the main settings screen. From here you can set up your ISPs details.

Go back to the main page, insert your username and password and click connect. This should open up your connection. (This is all from memory, so bear with me, most of what I say is true. If you've still got problems then I'll be able to explain you through KPPP at about 17:00 GMT).

Hope it helps.

[ywoly]

Do the following (as root):
cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
ls -l ifcfg*

Depending on how you configured your system, you should have a 'ifcfg-ppp' or something close. Try 'ifup ppp' or the name of your configuration.

If this works, then you can edit the ifup-ppp file and modify the ONBOOT=no to ONBOOT=yes if you would like the connection to start on boot.

Good Luck.

[mhelios]

If you prefer a GUI approach to configuring the modem to activate on boot:
System Settings -> Network

Then highlight the ppp card entry and click edit then check "Activate device when computer starts"

[Ug]

I find that KPPP is the laziest and easiest option.

[robatino]

There is a bug in Fedora where PPP doesn't automatically acquire the DNS addresses, so they have to be manually entered in System Settings/Network under the DNS tab. I'm still affected by this even though I've applied all updates. You can check whether this is the case by going online, and then checking whether your DNS addresses are in /etc/ppp/resolv.conf (they should be there automatically) and in /etc/resolv.conf (they won't be unless you do what I described).