Date: 06 Aug 2003 14:54:54 +0000 From: Jon-Eirik Pettersen <list@jonepet.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp woes!! Message-ID: <1060181693.7093.9.camel@cirrus.jonepet.net> In-Reply-To: <BAY8-F112PmkJTDpdLV000346d2@hotmail.com> References: <BAY8-F112PmkJTDpdLV000346d2@hotmail.com>
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On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:36, Jiger Java wrote: > Hi FreeBSD Gurus and users, > This is my first mail to the list and am a complete stranger to FreeBSD > so forgive my newbie question. I have just taken the bold step towards > installing FreeBSD on my machine. I have 1.7GHZ Pentium with 512 MB RAM, > NVidia TNT2. I did a default install with no kernel customisation etc. > Now I am trying to connect to Internet. Since it is still time for me to > growup to console mode connecting, I start KDE and use KPPP to connect to > the internet. BUT..... > PPP dies unexpectedly as soon as I type in a URL in say Konqueror. > Sometimes it dies in a second of connecting. It exists with error code 1. > Then after some thought, I finally made /etc/resolv.conf since it used to > give me this warning when I stat kppp. This file is currently empty. > Now PPP "seems to" connect but still it is not confirmed but it did not > exit after I created this file. BUT when I type in any url in browser, it > simplly say Host not found etc. Why? > Also how do I enable "Get DNS Server Automatically" as in Windows. Please > help me I am really stuck. > > Awaiting your replies, > Jiger Are you running KDE as root? You can add DNS-servers manually to /etc/resolv.conf like: nameserver 62.101.193.44 nameserver 217.118.32.13 Try this if you dont get KPPP to work: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/userppp.html
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