Quote Originally Posted by adamm
dial up to the internet and type in
Code:
route -n
and patse the output here

under "Flags" you should have one that reads UG which is your default gateway, this should be present or you won't be able to get to the internet
Can't paste -- can't connect to the internet I am on my old box (RH-6.2). The two are not yet connected., so I have to type in what's on the other monitor. Hope I get it right!

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface

66.81.235.197 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.254 .0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

Hope that helps.

However, in playing with wvdial ( a common between Knoppix and Red Hat -- RP3 is just a frontend for wvdial) I discovered what my feeling was all along: the password is not being forwarded correctly.

When invoking wvdial (after setting up /etc/wvdial.conf with wvdialconf) I get a failure with the message that "no valid passowrd" was found. It is in /etc/wvdial in plain sight and plain text.

What else leads me to suspect a password-forwarding problem is that although I can connect with XISP under RedHat using PAP/CHAP, RH's wvdial demands I connect with CHAP, which fails with a SIGHUP in Knoppix. I can get a pseudo connection with KPPP using PAP/CHAP under Knoppix' KPPP or pon apparently, but using CHAP gives a hangup to my password in both, although only wvdial warns me of not finding a password.

Stumps me.

Or I am not understanding something basic.