From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 07:54:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E17E137B401 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 07:54:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from s-smtp-osl-01.bluecom.no (s-smtp-osl-01.bluecom.no [62.101.193.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 289F043F3F for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 07:54:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from list@jonepet.net) Received: from [10.53.4.3] (tromso-dhcp-235-56.bluecom.no [62.101.235.56]) by s-smtp-osl-01.bluecom.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 379691636DD for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:54:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Jon-Eirik Pettersen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1060181693.7093.9.camel@cirrus.jonepet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.0 Date: 06 Aug 2003 14:54:54 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: ppp woes!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 14:54:57 -0000 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