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connecting to internet with linux

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yngtm27

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Just upgrade to SuSE 8.0 and seems like a nice distro so far. I'm having problems connecting to the internet though. I'm using Kppp and have configured /etc/resolv.conf with the proper domain name and name servers (to the best of my knowledge). Communication with the modem works fine. Dials up and it appears that I'm connected but I can't open any websites (giving me the impression that perhaps the nameservers are wrong). Anyone know the nameservers for MSN? Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong? And please don't say it's not possible to connect to MSN with a Linux box. That shoudn't be the case considering they use the same protocols as everyone else (blocking browsers is another story).
 
How do you know it connects successfully? Did you check that there's a ppp0 network interface? Verify that IP routing works?

IIRC, the MSN username (aka login) is slightly special. For example, let's say your MSN username is yngtm27. To connect with PPP, the login is not exactly that, but something like yngtm27@msn for example (I don't recall exactly what).

Secondly, SuSE should be able to setup the nameservers automagically for you (although it wouldn't hurt to set them up manually). Since you have a dual-boot system, just connect to MSN in Winblows and write down the DNS servers (i.e. by running winipcfg).

Finally, to establish that you have basic connectivity, once connected, first try to ping the gateway (trivial for PPP but this is the base case). Then ping other hosts on the Internet. If that works but you can't use regular Net applications, then your DNS is the likely culprit. Otherwise, you haven't established basic connectivity yet.

Some useful commands (look up usage):
/sbin/ifconfig
/sbin/route

Some Internet hosts for you:
> nslookup www.yahoo.com

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.yahoo.akadns.net
Addresses: 66.218.71.87, 66.218.71.83, 66.218.71.84, 66.218.71.88
66.218.71.86, 66.218.71.81, 66.218.71.80, 66.218.71.89
Aliases: www.yahoo.com
 
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