Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:36:40 +0530 From: Shantanoo Mahajan <freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net> To: nil ban <trumvect@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I can't connect to internet. Plz help me Message-ID: <20031211130640.GA910@dhumketu.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <20031210211122.86663.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031210211122.86663.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
+++ nil ban [freebsd] [10-12-03 13:11 -0800]: | Hello, | I'm a novice linux user currently switched over to freebsd | when many linux users told me that freebsd is real unix | and only slackware is somehow matched with it. So I installed | feeebsd 4.8 but I am getting few problems I can't handle. | Kindly tell me how to do the following ; | I can't connect to internet. | Plz let me explain that. | I have a username and password which my isp gave me to | use for having mail and surfing internet like | trumvect@myispname.net and my mail servers | names are mail.myisp.com(pop3)and smtp.mail.com. | I tried using kpp and I could connect to my isp ( I am telling this | because pppd does run ) but whenever I try to | visit a website it doesn't work, browser says unknown host. | I even tried xchat, it says something like "have u missspelled your host name ?". I also don't know what my host name is. Whenever | I type the command "hostname" in console it displays nothing and only cursor reappears. I installed it as it is describe in the handbook. Only thing I have done is place this entry "firewall_type=open" in rc.conf. I haven't changed anything in any configuration file apart from that. I have written this because it seemed the default firewall has got something to do with it but I ain't sure. | Please tell me in a step by step procedure so I will be able | to fix it.. I am gradually being depressed for that. | Here telephone charge is very costly and for that I can't stay | connected and experiment for long. | | Please help me. | | P.S I also can't send & receive mail using kmail inspite of giving all the | required parameters. what's the o/p of # ipfw list Shantanoo
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20031211130640.GA910>