[Sussex] New & fairly incompetent Linux user

[Alan F]

I've only ever used wvdial (a while back too, I have an ADSL router
now), but it could be because of your disconnect after idle setting.
Try checking that. As for resolv.conf, it shouldn't cause a problem
unless KPPP is overwriting it with something incorrect, which is
unlikely because it'd be using the DNS servers provided by the ISP
during negotiation, check it before and after connecting to be sure...
You'd be able to ping IP addresses even if it was incorrect.

Others may have some better ideas,
Alan

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:43:31AM +0100, Paul Baines wrote:
> Hiya, I'm a new(ish) Linux user in Sussex & just signed up to the
> mailing list. Just to be slightly irritating my first post is a plea
> for help! I've been trying & trying to sort out my dial-up internet
> connection but I can't make it at all reliable. It generally takes
> about five attempts to connect and then it usually hangs after the
> first page is loaded. It will normally work if I perservere for long
> enough though so I don't understand why? I dial-up via KPPP and my ISP
> is UKLinux.net (I wouldn't have thought it was an ISP problem though),
> the DNS servers are manually configured & set to the correct addresses
> (i think!) but still no reliability. Sometimes it's fine though,
> somebody suggested that perhaps I need to lock /etc/resolv.conf and
> stop KPPP overwriting it each time. Does that sound plausible? Any
> suggestions greatly appreciated from all you knowldegable people!
> 
> Paul.
>